Critical assessments of Jordan seemed to be off-limits. And why was it that only Time magazine and one Milwaukee newspaper ran a story about a woman who filed a paternity suit against Jordan last year?
Admittedly, Jordan has taken his lumps in the media, most notably when stories emerged several years ago about his gambling habits. He may have illuminated our understanding of the sport with deeds, but never with words. Jordan was, undoubtedly, polite to the media and his fans, graceful and composed in public. His Airness is also a famously thin-skinned fellow. Criticism is often cause for massive retaliation, as Sports Illustrated learned after it published a article mocking his ill-fated stint as a baseball player.
But it was often excessive by any standards. Never famous for sportsmanship, Jordan was one of the nastiest trash-talkers of his day, and he loved to humiliate his rivals.
Halberstam writes that in college Jordan frigidly refused to speak to an assistant coach who had beaten him repeatedly in pool and even cheated at golf. A penitent Jordan admitted betting with the man but said the figures had been exaggerated. Yet even his father wondered about this side of Jordan.
D espite his ever-growing wealth and influence, Jordan has never shown much interest in shaping the world that lies at his feet. He carefully dodged any political issue that might have jeopardized his family-friendly image.
That statement is quintessential Jordan. Jordan has remained devoutly apolitical. This is, of course, precisely how the corporations he endorses want it. Informed punditry may be too much to expect of pro athletes.
Yet Jordan has also dodged matters over which he has a more direct influence. Yes, he has done his share of good works. Jordan has donated millions to charity and to his alma mater, the University of North Carolina. Every year he visits with dozens of dying children whose last wish it is to meet him. But there are still places of hell on Earth and much more Jordan could do with his money and power. Yet he has made no deeper effort to take advantage of his unique cultural pedestal.
Several well-known pro athletes—including such black champions as Arthur Ashe, Jim Brown and Hank Aaron—have knocked Jordan for being politically aloof. Jordan might, as Brown has, insist on more blacks in sports management. Or, as Jesse Jackson does, he could press for more corporate hiring and investment in black communities. Or he could sponsor ads reminding kids that school is a safer route to success than basketball. Or he could speak out against handguns with the moral authority of a man whose father was killed by one.
It was shaved off shortly afterwards, but Ali says he would punch Jordan's face hard enough to have an unappealing feature on him. Jordan's father, James R. Jordan, Sr. Ali states he feels sympathetic for the event. During this time, Jordan batted. While Jordan showed improvement in the Arizona Fall League, batting.
Jordan returned to the NBA for the season, abandoning baseball. It was also his father's earlier wish that Jordan would play baseball. Ali simply states the obvious here, to egg Jordan on that his attempts to play baseball were more tragic than the death of his father. The day before Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz, Jordan awoke with a stomach virus or food poisoning, and the Bulls' team doctor said that there was no way he could play the next day.
Jordan did play and scored 38 points, along with grabbing 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals as he led the Bulls to victory. This game was known as "The Flu Game". Jordan uses this in the context that Ali bringing up his father's death would make him fall ill, but he says that getting sick would just give him an advantage like the aforementioned game.
Jordan says that he is a fresh rapper, meaning that he is very good. The "swish" onomatopoeia shows that the basketball is shot and goes through the hoop without touching the rim and flies through the net. Another allusion to how Jordan rarely passed the ball to his teammates, the ball here being the mic. Jordan and Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen were an unstoppable pair during the Bulls' six championship runs, with the two men frequently passing the ball between themselves to make plays.
They were the duo to beat in all the NBA. Here, Jordan would pass control of the battle to Pippen, but Jordan is not yet done trashing Ali. George Foreman, a boxer beaten by Ali, markets a grease-draining portable grill under his own name. When fighting for the heavyweight championship, Foreman spent almost the entire time being close and face-to-face with Ali.
After Ali's next verse, Jordan actually does get up in Ali's face. This line refers to Jordan's fisticuffs with Reggie Miller. Miller attacked Jordan unprovoked during a Bulls-Pacers match, to which Jordan retaliated. Both teams engaged in an all-out fight following their stars' lead. Ali calls out Nike for using sweatshop labor and using little girls as the source of said labor, along with insulting Jordan by saying that he fights like a little girl.
Even post-retirement, Jordan still holds endorsement deals with McDonald's restaurants and Hanes underwear. Ritz is a brand of cracker marketed by Kraft Food. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company owns several high-profile hotels.
Jordan was once seen playing beer pong at a Ritz. Cracker is a racial slur for a white person, so Ali says Jordan leads a charmed life because he betrayed the black people and sold out to white people, and now he stays at their hotels.
Jordan sees a case of the pot calling the kettle black, or hypocrisy. I'll school you through your bug spray, off your Broadway play, over the Japanese dude sitting on your face!
A reference to the friendly duels Jordan often acted out with rival Larry Bird in various television spots. The two would trade obstacles for the ball to hit before actually passing through the basket.
These duels became a running gag and a template for similar duels between more current players. Ali's "bug spray" was a rather humorous commercial [1] for a d-CON roach fogger. Ali also briefly starred in the Broadway play, Buck White. The "Japanese dude" refers to Antonio Inoki, a Japanese professional wrestler who faced Ali in a "boxer vs wrestler" bout with extremely unorthodox rules.
Continuation: the aforementioned duels would end each line with "nothing but net", meaning that the ball would sink through the hoop without hitting the rim. Ali has yet to hear the end of Jordan's disses on him. Ali needs to have a bowel movement—or take a dump—to get rid of the crap that he is full of. It might also refer to the Muhammad Ali Movement Disorders Clinic, a recognized top center for treatment of movement disorders, or the fact that Ali was a Civil Rights Movement activist.
Ali was third, behind Jordan and Babe Ruth. Jordan states that not only is he more talented at his sport than Ali is, but he also is better at rapping than he is. Jordan is confident that if Ali were to face him twice after this battle, he would win both of those fights as he seems to be winning this one, making a three-peat. The Bulls secured a 3-time NBA championship and a second instance three years later with the help of Jordan.
Ali thinks Jordan exaggerated his credentials, so he wants Jordan to either prove it or go back and rethink what he had said, both being ways to "back it up".
Large vehicles like garbage haulers are required to make a noise when they back up. In America, this is often a slowed "beep". The beep could also imitate the bell-ringing that signals a new round at a boxing match.
In , Ali had his second of two bouts with Sonny Liston. During the fight, he had successfully knocked Liston down on his back, prancing around the ring in victory. Liston actually threw this fight having injured his shoulder, but he would not concede that Ali was the better fighter. Ali says that he'll knock Jordan down as he did with Liston and win the battle. Jordan was raised in North Carolina. However, Ali thinks Jordan should just return home. Jordan was the star of Space Jam , a basketball movie featuring the Looney Tunes cast.
The movie was met with mixed reception due to Jordan's lack of skill as an actor. If not for the cartoons and support from veteran actors including Danny DeVito, Bill Murray, and Wayne Knight, the film would have bombed. Ali says that while the movie was terrible, Jordan's rapping is worse.
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