ESPN commentator Michael Wilbon has inside knowledge about some of the biggest names in the NBA. He shared an interesting conversation he had with Michael Jordan which reveals MJ’s true attitude towards LeBron James. Wilbon told a story of how the Chicago Bulls legend called him once and told him to not take a shot at the current Los Angeles Lakers superstar.
Via Orlando Silva of Fadeaway World:
“I’d answer the phone, and this is what I’d hear on the other end. ‘Hey, don’t take a shot at LeBron, that’s just garbage. This kid is great. There’s no need to take a shot at him.’ That conversation is playing out with him knowing it’s not going to be repeated — it’s not going to be told on PTI, it’s not going to be written about in the Washington Post, or on ESPN.com.”
Michael Wilbon
While Wilbon did not specify when the conversation took place, it appears to have occurred in the early years of LeBron’s NBA career as he went on to explain that MJ would defend other young players ‘somewhere between occasionally and frequently’.
