#340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

#340迈克尔·乔丹和科比·布莱恩特

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2024-03-01

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What I learned from reading Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover and Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness by Tim Grover.

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  • On the night that the Chicago Bulls were eliminated from the 1995 NBA playoffs by the Orlando Magic, I sat with Michael in the darkened arena until 03:00 a.m.

  • he had just returned to basketball two months earlier, following his first retirement and brief baseball career.

  • So much had happened in the last year.

  • Dressed in a suit and tie, he looked around the brand new arena that had replaced the legendary Chicago stadium earlier that season and said, I hate this fucking building.

  • You built this fucking building.

  • I said.

  • During that series, some of the Orlando Magic players said that he didn't look like the old number 23, which he didn't.

  • He was wearing number 45, and he wasn't ready.

  • And I knew it better than anyone else.

  • His endurance, his shot.

  • There just hadn't been enough time to get him back to the level of excellence that people had grown accustomed to.

  • Predictably, there was plenty of talk about how his baseball career had failed.

  • His basketball comeback had failed.

  • He had failed.

  • Michael Jordan was done, they said.

  • And as usual, they were wrong.

  • Michael Jordan is done when he says hes done, not when you say hes done.

  • In fact, you saying it usually ensures the opposite.

  • At the end of that game, he had a message for the Orlando Magic as all the players shook hands and left the court.

  • Enjoy this win.