On March 19, 1993, the Washington Bullets came to Chicago Stadium for a late-season matchup with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. And he kinda was hoping that they would kind of brush it aside and be like, ‘Aw, heck, I got lucky.’, “But they wanted to make a big deal about, 'Yo, man, you scored a career high on Michael Jordan.'”. And things like that don’t sit well with MJ. Armstrong that Michael Jordan was gunning for him. LaBradford Smith, a former star at Louisville, was in his second season in the NBA and had the game of his life that night, scoring 37 points shooting 15-for-20 from the field and perfect 7-for-7 from the free-throw line. Smith jokingly made sure to point out that Jordan didn’t have 37 at the half and said that he was going to turn his phone off on Sunday night while The Last Dance was airing. What came out later was that LaBradford Smith never said “Nice game, Mike” to Michael Jordan after that first game. Jordan finished with 47 on 16-for-27 shooting, Smith with 15 on 5-for-12, and the Bulls won 126-101. What The Last Dance didn’t tell you is that Smith had just four points in the fourth quarter and none of them came in the final five minutes. He then went on to tell the story of how he was warned ahead of the second game by another former Louisville star, Rodney McCray, and B.J. On March 19, 1993, the Washington Bullets came to Chicago Stadium for a late-season matchup with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. “Yeah, I’m going to turn my phone off, and me and my wife will watch it later on.
Listen here or via the embedded player below: Click here to download the new MyTeams App by NBC Sports! But Jordan’s target had been acquired. “We were talking in the locker room about just, when Michael gets the ball, just get the hell out of the way,” Perdue continued. “Yeah, you had to bring up that second game.”.
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Meanwhile, Michael Jordan did not have his best shooting night, making just nine of his 27 shots on his way to 25 points. He knows exactly how many points LaBradford scored, and he wants to get that many or more in the first half. Following the game, reporters were all over LaBradford Smith. Even though the Bulls won the game, a little-known player had outplayed Michael Jordan for the majority of the game. Jordan, according to Michael Wilbon in “The Last Dance,” admitted that much, himself — the Smith story was merely a self-created ruse to motivate him to torch the second-year Bullets forward in the two teams’ matchup the very next night. If you didn’t know the name LaBradford Smith before last night’s episode of The Last Dance, you’re probably not alone. B.J. LaBradford Smith, a former star at Louisville, was in his second season in the NBA and had the game of his life that night, scoring 37 points shooting 15-for-20 from the field and perfect 7-for-7 from the free-throw line. The Bullets were not a good team that year and they didn’t have much to celebrate so this was about as good as it was going to get. © Copyright 2020 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved.