that that's uh that stuff's very impressive watching you do that what if it's fun doing
it yeah it looks like you're having fun i got one thing to say yeah what's up i see adidas
shoes yeah why well now we can't talk about this because the last time we started talking about
shoes there was a huge deal and they had to run up to the legal department and wake up the attorneys
uh so we can't we can't talk about shoes oh okay i thought it was patrick ewing he was wearing adidas
now i know you got a huge contract with the company put put your feet down
now how how much do you no stop that i see now they won't let any of this
on okay now how much do you get paid just to wear these shoes a lot a whole lot a lot now
like is it more than we would guess uh it's about that some people have guessed on it
but go back and read all the yeah all right well we'll come back to the shoes and stuff
congratulations you just uh is this tree just graduated from college well i have two classes
during the summer but i went through ceremonies they let me go through ceremony well that's nice
and you finish up as soon as you can five weeks what kind of degree did you get geography yeah
and and what are you going to do with this degree i travel a whole lot you're going to travel
well i think that's nice you're going to finish up but not that you would need that degree but well
my mother wants me yeah well that's nice that's a that's good yeah that was great influence yeah
uh and how's your injury what was it your ankle i broke my foot broke your foot doing well and
and what was the deal where they didn't want you to come back the bulls management didn't want you
playing and you came back and played anyway well uh it was just a confusion in the sense a lot
of people said i must have been crazy for coming back and you know i stand the risk of re-entering
the foot but yeah i love the game so i had to fight my way back was there anything uh to the
story that they were hoping you'd stay out so they could have a better shot at the uh draft lottery
by finishing lower in the division i hope not right i don't know did anybody discuss that at all
not that my knowledge a lot of people ask me but you know i kind of i had to downplay
i didn't know for sure yeah no it wasn't your decision but you came back and played anyway
now when you have a game like 63 points after a game where you've had 49 points are you just
beat silly are you worn out completely tired yeah but yeah i'm ready for the next game you're ready
to go i'm ready to go yeah uh playing what is it 82 games well i only played 25 i was
hurt i missed 20 weeks so i kind of missed out on a lot yeah i came back in the heat of the
playoff race and we made the playoffs were there any time uh was there any time during
the 25 games that you did play that you thought to yourself well what am i doing just traveling
and running up and down when i first came back we lost five games in a row and i had to think hey
did that do the right thing or not we losing yeah i'm supposed to come back and help him
win but we're losing yeah so i need to go back on injury reserve or something and speaking of losing
you uh didn't you lose a coach the last couple of days yeah we did yeah stan all back i hate to see
that happen yeah it's like a yeah i knew him for a little a little time but you know we got
the chance to know each other very well but i'm gonna miss him next year now do they know who are
they gonna bring in yet no you want to i mean yeah you can do that that's right i'll be i'll take you
i'll be there let's see we get now we got all of this stuff it looks like a sporting goods
company back here all of the stuff that this man endorses can i read the list of the mr jordan's
endorsements or will the uh have the attorneys gone back to sleep uh mcdonald's ronald mcdonald
spokesman for mcdonald's yeah uh coca-cola nike wilson wilson basketballs chicagoland chevrolet
chicagoland chevrolet you don't look like a chevy man i drive a chevy you don't drive a chevy what
are you doing i'm a corvette um cervette's next john johnson hair care products you want some yeah
you got an audience i don't have it in my pocket i got it backstage and is this ghee or
guy larouche watchers d larouche are you wearing uh nah no you're not wearing nose yeah okay uh
we'll talk about uh whatever michael wants to talk about we gotta do a commercial probably
for one of these products right after right after okay who uh who do you like in the uh finals this
year boston is in already who do you think win it all boston i think boston now what what about la
and houston is that going to happen you think so i've they got the momentum yeah yeah so that'll
be interesting to see all right now michael is this the shoe now you of course we can't show
what kind of shoe this is that's okay the color stamp but is this the shoe that the nba wouldn't
let you wear yeah now why wouldn't they let you wear it just just cause it's ugly for starters
hey i agree with you they are ugly now wait a minute didn't you help design these
is the shoe not the color oh not the color anything to do okay so but what's wrong with the
coloring they what what what rule do we violate here well it doesn't have any white in it huh
well neither does the nba now
it's a joke it's just a joke you know what i mean it's just a joke and uh
and uh and here we have the the new improved air jordan yeah we're white yeah with some wine in it
now you get you get a little something for each of these soul don't you yeah you're working at it
what a deal what a deal you're uh mr operator now here's a basketball you're on the wilson advisory
staff too wilson advisory board now what do you guys do we come up with different types
of balls some for smaller people some for bigger people some with big hands some with small hands
the wilson advisory board made the decision for big people a big ball for small people
we work hard on it uh my gosh listen uh what do you do in the off season
for fun play golf play a lot of golf you're pretty good golfer aren't you yeah my my pro
back at finley golf course in chapel hill i cannot say his last name i just said a.d.i
eddie i and uh is it true that you were thinking maybe playing pro golf is that him
really quit at the age of 32 and try to get him to p.j well that's tough that's tough but if if
anybody could do it i guess you could well i had to i mean i got to go out and earn some money
first because you're gonna lose a lot of mcgovern yeah now you you're 23 now 23. so you play like
nine more years and you're gonna switch to golf well jeez that's uh good luck nice to meet you
mike i hope you have a great year next year thanks for coming by michael jordan we'll be right back
okay folks we're done here my thanks to michael jordan michael nice to meet you
come back anytime as always sir and uh also to lou reed and alan alda tomorrow on the program
molly ringwald danny sullivan and who else oh emo phillips have a nice night folks good night