Sam Smith has dismissed Jordan's claims Scottie Pippen and Phil Jackson would have returned for the 1998-98 season and that MJ had food poisoning before 'The Flu Game.'
Phil Jackson, Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen would have been happy to return for the 1998-99 seasonThe Bulls began the 1997-98 season knowing the team will be broken apart, after Bulls general manager Jerry Krause had told Jackson he would be replaced at the end of the season even if he"went 82-0.
" Chicago clinched a third consecutive title, their sixth in eight years, and Jordan believes the players had earned their right to be given the chance to defend their title the following season. "If you asked all the guys who won in '98 ... 'We'll give you a one-year contract to try for a seventh,' you think they would've signed? Yes, they would've signed,""Would I have signed for one year? Yes, I would've signed for one year. I've been signing one-year contracts up to that." The statement came a surprise, given it had been widely accepted that Jordan and his teammates had accepted an era had come to an end in Chicago.Bonta, Steiny & Guru show."There were several things in the documentary that I saw, I would know, that he made up or he lied about. They weren't major things, but it was like when a TV movie comes on and they say, 'this is based on a true story.'food poisoning after eating pizzaFor years the accepted version was that Jordan had suffered from a serious bout of flu, which had left him looking distinctly feverish and debilitated ahead of what has become known as"The Flu Game." Against all odds, Jordan finished with 38 points, seven rebounds and five assists as the Bulls defeated the Jazz 90-88 to take a crucial 3-2 lead., Jordan revealed he had not been left worse for wear by the flu, but by a pizza he had ordered at 10:30 p.m. the previous night while in his hotel room with trainer Tim Glover and personal assistant George Koehler. "I ate the pizza," Jordan said in the documentary."All by myself. Nobody else ate the pizza. I wake up about 2:30 throwing up left and right."Smith, however, said the story was inaccurate. "The pizza thing—the poison—that was complete nonsense," he said."There were a couple of other things like that I won't go into. They weren't major. ... I know what happened." As the author of arguably the most explosive book ever written about Jordan, Smith featured prominently throughout the documentary.sent shockwaves that reverberated well beyond the NBA borders when it hit the shelves in November 1991. The book revealed a new side of Jordan, a million miles away from the phenomenal player that had developed into an NBA superstar and commercial icon. In the book, Jordan emerged as a man so consumed by his determination to win that he could barely tolerate his teammates falling short of the incredibly high standards he set for himself.
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