In his prime!!!!!!!
Say it ain't so! Did a boys high school basketball player really say that he would beat Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one?
He couldn't have.
Well, apparently not one, not two, but three – yes, count 'em three – of the eight players polled by USA TODAY prior to the Jordan Brand Classic at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., last Saturday said that M.J. in his prime (you know the guy that's an NBA Hall of Famer, has 10 scoring titles, six NBA championships, five league MVPs and is an international icon) would have met his match.
So who are these three that feel they'd get the better of arguably the greatest basketball player ever?
That dubious distinction belongs to Duke signee Matt Jones and Kentucky signees Andrew Harrison and Dakari Johnson.
Jones said he'd defeat "His Airness" 11-5, Harrison said 11-7 and Johnson said 11-10.
The trio explained their answers here. http://www.usatodayhss.com/news/article/players-predict-one-on-one-game-with-michael-jordan
Maybe they didn't know that just days before Jordan -- now the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats -- turned 50 in February, he defeated his 19-year-old rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist in a game of one-on-one.
Just youthful exuberates or just plain stupidity?
Say it ain't so! Did a boys high school basketball player really say that he would beat Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one?
He couldn't have.
Well, apparently not one, not two, but three – yes, count 'em three – of the eight players polled by USA TODAY prior to the Jordan Brand Classic at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., last Saturday said that M.J. in his prime (you know the guy that's an NBA Hall of Famer, has 10 scoring titles, six NBA championships, five league MVPs and is an international icon) would have met his match.
So who are these three that feel they'd get the better of arguably the greatest basketball player ever?
That dubious distinction belongs to Duke signee Matt Jones and Kentucky signees Andrew Harrison and Dakari Johnson.
Jones said he'd defeat "His Airness" 11-5, Harrison said 11-7 and Johnson said 11-10.
The trio explained their answers here. http://www.usatodayhss.com/news/article/players-predict-one-on-one-game-with-michael-jordan
Maybe they didn't know that just days before Jordan -- now the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats -- turned 50 in February, he defeated his 19-year-old rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist in a game of one-on-one.
Just youthful exuberates or just plain stupidity?