Rashad McCants Claims UNC Coaches Couldn’t Stand Michael Jordan

Rashad McCants claims UNC coaches couldn’t stand NBA legend Michael Jordan. 

McCants and Jordan played college basketball at UNC.

Jordan was at UNC from 1981-82 to 1983-84, while McCants was at Chapel Hill from 2002-03 to 2004-05. 

“Coach (Roy) Williams wanted to minimize. The whole thing with them is gatekeeping and controlling the flock. You got to control your players. Matt Doherty scolded me in a meeting. I had a good game. I won the game for us and he pulled me in the motherfu**ing meeting and he was like, ‘I don’t know why you remind me of Michael Jordan so much, but we couldn’t stand him. And you come into the gym, walk past your teammates and think you’re the sh*t.’ When I’m thinking he going to tell me good game and he’s telling me about how he doesn’t like, that I remind him of Mike and he didn’t like Mike, and everybody knew it and he would never let me average over 20 points a game because Dean Smith never let Mike do it,” McCants said on Out The Mud podcast. 

Jordan spent three years at UNC. He averaged 17.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 101 games.

The Chicago Bulls drafted Jordan with the third overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft.

The rest, as they say, is history. 

Jordan had two stints with the Bulls. He won one Defensive Player of the Year Award, three steals titles, 10 scoring titles, five MVPs, six championships and six Finals and made 12 All-Star teams, 11 All-NBA teams and nine All-Defensive teams. 

In 930 games with the Bulls, Jordan averaged 31.5 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 2.5 steals and 0.9 blocks. He guided the franchise to two three-peats and went undefeated in the NBA Finals. 

Jordan came out of retirement for a second time in 2001 and played two seasons with the Washington Wizards. He averaged 21.2 points, 5.9 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 1.5 steals and 0.5 blocks in 142 games with the Wizards. 

Arguably the greatest player in NBA history, Jordan was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. He was also named to the 75th Anniversary Team in 2022. 

Jordan is first in NBA history in points per game in the regular season and postseason. He averaged 30.1 points in the regular season and 33.4 points in the playoffs.