Ok quick summary/back story:
Part one – These DREAM TEAM practices are when many players said the league was turned over to Jordan and the games played in the practices were referred to as some of the most fun, intense environments for Basketball during that time. My person favorite part is when Chris Mullins talks about Larry Bird watching from the sideline and realizing Jordan has taken over lol.
As far as the Corey Benjamin segment of this video, I am going to share a description of the incident from the article written by Andrew Miller written in February below:
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Just a year after his second retirement from the Bulls, MJ took on their first round pick from the 1998 NBA Draft, guard Corey Benjamin.
MJ took on Benjamin one-on-one in 1999, and the legendary shooting guard absolutely burned him.
An old report from Skip Bayless when he was with the Chicago Tribune showed that Benjamin sent an “ill-advised” challenge MJ’s way and got roasted because of it.
Jordan grinned and grimaced as I approached. Busted. “Oh, man, I knew we might see you here sooner or later,” he said, shaking his head. Or was it that Michael wanted to be seen? It wasn’t as if he and Grover had slipped in after hours.
“So,” I kidded, “you’re trying to get in shape for another big one-on-one game with Corey Benjamin?”
“Please,” he said, rolling his eyes, “I don’t have to do nothin’ to get ready for Corey Benjamin.”
Jordan, of course, stopped the presses on Nov. 10 when he dropped by Bulls practice to take up Benjamin on an ill-advised challenge. Benjamin and his game could have used some Michael Jordan cologne after Jordan got through with him. So now No. 23 is getting ready for some real basketball?
No, no, he protested, he’s just trying to lose “some of this fat”–what fat?–and win a bet with his wife. “She says I can’t get up to 235, cut,” Jordan said, meaning add 15 to 20 pounds of muscle. He’s so obsessed with winning the bet, he claimed, that “it’s killing my golf. I haven’t even played.”
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Sorry for the formatting issues if you are viewing this on something other than a computer but I had to highlight the part of the text that was explained in the article.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video. If I am sticking to the plan, I am only producing one more of these videos in the series (number 10) before putting it to an end. I plan on releasing that either tomorrow (Saturday or Sunday 05/17/2020) or the actual date of the final episodes (9 & 10).
Thanks again for all the support! #MJ #MichaelJordan #TheLastDance
