I'm relentless. Can you feel this? I'm going all in. It's time to cash in. One moment in time. Let's get at this. Be tremendous.

Relentless.

I'm relentless.

Here we go. This is the Skip Baylor show. Episode 23 in honor of God.

Well, as Larry Bird once said,

God disguised as Michael Jordan.

Today's episode is going to be rare

just as his airness always was in such rare air.

Unfortunately, I must save all of your great probing questions until next week's episode 24 because this week

I'm just going to have to start with something that is intensely personal to me.

But I will end this episode 23 by giving you the backstory of why I wear Jordans every single day on undisputed.

And I will then rank my all-time favorite Jordans and then I will tell you a few of my favorite behind the scenes off-camera Michael Jordan stories as I came to

know him and them in that last dance year that I covered the Bulls in 1998 in Chicago.

If you're not interested in what I'm about to start with, please feel free to just fast forward to Michael Jordan.

But first up, as always, it is not to be skipped.

Before I say what I'm about to say about Stephen A Smith, please know this.

He has been more of a brother to me than my actual brother ever was to me. I love the man and no matter what happens from this point forward, I will always love the man.

But brothers do fight. We definitely have fought before have we.

And maybe we're about to fight again.

All I know for sure at this point in time is that Stephen A Smith made some statements on J.J. Reddick's podcast last week that flat-out blindsided me that stung me to the core that ultimately made me angry and made my wife

Ernestine even angrier and she knows Stephen A very well, maybe even better than I do in some ways.

But Stephen A made some statements on J.J. Reddick's podcast that made several people I worked with at

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