Michael Jordan’s competitiveness is sort of as legendary as his stellar basketball skills, and it was on full show in episodes 5 and 6 of “The Last Dance,” which aired on Sunday night. Jordan addressed his playing points, admitting that his aggressive nature led to betting huge sums of cash of golf, playing cards and different random actions.

A part of the documentary additionally appeared on the e book, “The Jordan Guidelines,” which contained data that described Jordan as being demeaning and borderline abusive towards teammates. Jordan stated he thought former teammate Horace Grant was liable for offering the author, Sam Smith, with data, however Grant vehemently denied it.

Among the many revelations within the e book was the rumor that Jordan as soon as punched teammate Will Perdue throughout apply. Perdue joined CBS Sports HQ on Sunday evening and confirmed the story, however stated it wasn’t an enormous deal as a result of fights had been commonplace at Bulls practices (Video above). 

“He did, and I wasn’t the one one,” Perdue stated. “That is how aggressive our practices had been. That wasn’t the one combat, that was one in every of quite a few. However as a result of it concerned Michael Jordan, and it leaked out, that it turned an enormous deal. And the humorous factor was, in that apply that it occurred, we principally separated, regrouped and saved working towards — it wasn’t like that was the top of apply. Stuff like that was frequent, as a result of that is how aggressive our practices had been.

This is not a lot of a shock, as Warriors coach Steve Kerr has said multiple times that Jordan punched him in the face during a Bulls practice, and Perdue’s feedback recommend others suffered an analogous destiny when going at His Airness. The perfect half is that the workforce merely saved working towards afterward as if nothing occurred.

Perdue was Jordan’s teammate from 1988-1995, profitable three titles within the course of, so the in-practice spats are most likely water below the bridge at this level. It is simply one more story that exhibits Jordan’s legendarily aggressive nature and willingness to take it out on others.