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“Old, Dry, Snitching, Lying Mike”: Analyst Rips Apart Michael Jordan for His Words Against Isiah Thomas

Published 05/27/2020, 1:45 PM EDT

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After ‘The Last Dance’ brought forward all these controversies surrounding Michael Jordan, one would think they’d die down. Maybe some will, with due time. However, the one controversy that doesn’t look like it will blow over anytime soon, is the Isiah ThomasMichael Jordan Dream Team controversy.

Shannon Sharpe calls Michael Jordan out

Shannon Sharpe, the former NFL icon, recently vented out about the Dream Team controversy on his show ‘Undisputed’. The controversy revolves around Michael Jordan and accusations that he was the reason Detroit Pistons star Isiah Thomas never went to Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics.

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Recently, a new audio evidence of MJ came about, which almost proves the injustice done to Thomas was, in fact, MJ’s fault. In the video, Jordan says,

Rod Thorn called me. I said, ‘Rod, I won’t play if Isiah Thomas is on the team.’ He assured me. He said, ‘You know what? Chuck doesn’t want Isiah. So, Isiah is not going to be part of the team.’”

On Undisputed, co-host Jenny Taft said that Jordan always denied that he was why the Dream Team did not have Thomas. And yet now, there is evidence that he was, in fact the one at fault. This seemed to trigger Shannon, as he vented out about how wrong MJ actually was.

 

 

As if talking to MJ, Sharpe said,

” You lied. And I told Skip Bayless that you lied. And I told Skip Bayless that Rod Thorn sat up there and told a boldfaced lie. If he (MJ) didn’t explicitly say, he implicitly implied it. Come to find out, he said it!”

The 51-year-old sports analyst quoted MJ from the audio and continued,

“They said, ‘did you ( keep Thomas off the team)?’ He said, ‘no’. Come to find out he lied! Michael Jordan was the only guy that mattered. You know that. So in other words he did (keep Thomas off the team).”

 

Why MJ’s hatred towards Isiah Thomas is invalid

Sharpe also highlighted that it should be Isiah Thomas with hatred for Jordan, and not the way round, as is the reality. Explaining why he felt so, Shannon said that because the US boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Thomas didn’t have an Olympic gold.

 

 

Had he been on the Dream Team, Isiah Thomas would already have a gold medal. Hence it comes as a surprise that MJ publically announced his hatred for the Pistons star.

Again, Shannon lashed out at an imaginary MJ saying,

” You kept this man with a blank on his resume. You kept this man off that team, Mike!”

Then Sharpe revealed that because of all these lies, one one could believe MJ. The very pumped up analyst finished his monologue by calling Jordan an “old, dry snitching, lying Mike.”

 

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Shannon Sharpe, we don’t think anyone could have called MJ out better.

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Maitreyee Joshi

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