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I'm West Goldberg, host of lockdown warriors here with David Rummel, host of

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We have a great show today.

We're going to talk about if the NBA should just scrap the season altogether and how the last dance has treated

Scotty Pippin so far. But let's start with this quote from Sunday night, with Michael Jordan defending

his trash talking, his punching of teammates by saying, Winning a price leadership has a price I pulled

people along when they didn't want to be pulled I challenged people when they

didn't want to be challenged I earned that right my teammates who came after me didn't endure all the things I endured. Once you

join the team you live with a certain standard of how I played that game. I wasn't going to take anything

less if that means I have to get in your ass a little bit then I did that

David these last episodes gave Michael Jordan a chance to defend his reputation as a teammate who was hard to deal with.

Having heard from him now, do you agree with his reasoning for just him being a jerk?

It's hard to do that and it's a layered question and even a layered

quote from him like there's so much to unpack in just that one quote and I feel like it was a pivotal

one like the response immediately after it aired in the documentary

sent everybody on basketball Twitter kind of just commenting on it and it seemed like

it was a pretty divisive one because so many people think of him as being the greatest and

defending like it feels like the fans are kind of brainwashed into believing that this mentality

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