The beef between Jordan and Thomas started in 1991, when the Pistons point guard, Thomas Isiah, and his teammates walked off the court with 7.9 seconds remaining on the clock without shaking any of Michael Jordan led Chicago Bulls’ hands.
The move was widely criticized among NBA fanatics.
In Michael Jordon’s documentary, he was asked about US Dream team of which Isiah was left out.
Jordan said that if Thomas were on the 1992 Olympics US ‘Dream Team’, the mutuality and cohesion on the group would have been different due to Thomas’ poor sportsmanship from a year earlier.
This didn’t sit out well with Isiah Thomas after watching the documentary, then hit hard on Jordan.
“When I was watching The Last Dance, I’m sitting there and I’m watching it with my family and I’m thinking everything is good”, he said.
“And then this guy comes on television and he says that he hates me and then he calls me an assh–e.
And then I proceed to watch a whole documentary about him being an assh–e. I’m like wait a minute, time out.
Until I get a public apology, this beef is gonna go on for a long long time, ’cause I’m from the west side of Chicago.”
-Michael Jordan
Author-Isaac Papa Nketsiah
