Michael Jordan Doesn’t Care If People Say He Wasn’t A ‘Nice Guy’ With Bulls After Watching ‘The Last Dance’ Documentary: ‘Well That’s You Because You Never Won Anything’

NBA legend Michael Jordan doesn’t care if people say he’s not a “nice guy” after watching “The Last Dance” docuseries. 

The Chicago Bulls icon understood that winning and leadership had a price. 

“I pulled people along when they didn’t wanna be pulled,” Jordan said. “I challenged people when they didn’t wanna be challenged and I earned that right because my teammates came after me. They didn’t endure all the things that I endured. Once you join the team, you live at a certain standard that I play the game and I wasn’t gonna take anything less.

“Now, if that means I had to go in and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. You ask all my teammates, the one thing about Michael Jordan was he never asked me to do something that he didn’t f—ing do. When people see this, they gonna say, ‘Well, he wasn’t really a nice guy. He may have been a tyrant.’ Well, that’s you because you never won anything. I wanted to win, but I wanted them to win and be a part of that as well.

“Look, I don’t have to do this. I’m only doing it because it is who I am. That’s how I played the game. That was my mentality. If you don’t wanna play that way, don’t play that way.”

Jordan got emotional while saying that last line in “The Last Dance.” He cried and asked the camera crew for a “break.”

The Bulls won six championships, three-peated twice and went undefeated in the Jordan era.

Sure, Jordan may have been harsh on his teammates when they made mistakes, but his leadership style worked. 

During an interview with Mike McGraw of The Daily Herald in 2021, Scott Williams said Jordan wasn’t difficult to work with if you came ready to work hard every day.

“He wasn’t a challenging teammate,” Williams said. “I played with challenging teammates. They didn’t want to come to practice and work and weren’t professional. Those were challenges. I thought if you were professional around MJ and you came to bring it every day and work hard and not back down in games and give it your all — you wouldn’t have any problems with Mike. You just wouldn’t. I think guys that just wanted to live the NBA lifestyle wanted the fame and the money and the cars and the clothes and the women. You were going to have a problem with Mike, absolutely 100%. He wasn’t going to stand for that.”

With the Bulls, Jordan won six championships, six Finals MVPs, five regular-season MVPs, 10 scoring titles, three steals titles and one Defensive Player of the Year Award. He’s arguably the greatest player in NBA history. 

Jordan has career averages of 30.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 2.3 steals and 0.8 blocks with the Bulls and Washington Wizards. He’s first in NBA history in points per game, fourth in steals, fifth in field goals and second in player efficiency rating.