There weren’t too many players who could cover Michael Jordan. It usually took a team to try to keep him from going off. We know the Pistons had their own system, aka, The Jordan Rules, but now we’re hearing from Vernon Maxwell what it was like trying to guard the Greatest to ever do it. Maxwell appeared on the Ringer’s Real Ones podcast with Raja Bell and Logan Murdock, and he explained what it was like to guard Michael Jordan.
Maxwell made sure to drop plenty expletives.
Listen to the NSFW rant below:
“When you play against that muhf*cka, you gotta be a little different. That muhf*cka, he can sense a muhf*cka if you scared. You can’t be none of that shit. When he elbows you in your shit, if you don’t do nothing, if you don’t elbow that muhf*cka back in his shit, he know he got a bitch out here tonight.
I’m just being 1,000. He’s a killer out there. He’s a dirty muhf*cka. You have to be to be that great, man. Night in and night out. You have to be a dawg, and have that grit, that dirty shit.”
“When you play against that muhfucka, you gotta be a lil different.”
Vernon Maxwell with an epic rant on what it’s like to guard Michael Jordan pic.twitter.com/riIBpvAolB
— Logan Murdock (@loganmmurdock) March 29, 2021
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Maxwell was definitely one of those guys who enjoyed the challenge of trying to guard MJ:
I loved going up against Mike. He was the best. There is no disputing that. But unlike most people who went up against him I wasn’t going allow myself to be intimidated. He might’ve been the best but he was going to have to prove it each and every time we faced off. #TheLastDance pic.twitter.com/2deYxuMzY1
— Vernon Maxwell (@VernonMaxwell11) April 22, 2020
(1993) The Rockets face the 2-time Champion Bulls.
Vernon Maxwell gets in Jordan’s head as Jordan goes 12-27 from the field.
Happy Birthday Maxwell!@VernonMaxwell11 @Ballislife pic.twitter.com/q6LfMj02se— Old-Time Buckets (@oldtimebuckets) September 12, 2018
Mad Max was/is crazy.
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