NBA News: Video of Michael Jordan vs. OJ Mayo One-on-One Surfaces; MJ Dominated Bucks Star
NBA News - Michael Jordan spoke about his one-on-one domination against high school star O.J Mayo during an interview with 2K sports producers last Monday. Just two days later, the evidence has finally surfaced after Larry Brown Sports posted the video of his Airness teaching the young blood a 'lesson' on the hardcourt.
When Jordan speaks, everybody listens.
The basketball legend proved this once again in an exclusive interview with 2K Sports, which by the way has just released its next generation video game NBA 2K14.
In the one-on-one conversation with the man hailed as the greatest basketball player of all time, Jordan talked about the ruggedness of his era as he compared it to today's very sensitive or should I say soft brand of basketball.
"Physically, it was a much more physical game than what it is today. You couldn't walk across the lane without getting checked. Or the screens, illegal screens, holding, you always had to pay a price. If you were aggressive and you were a gung-ho guy, you would go in, you would go in with the understanding that, 'I'm gonna get hit, I'm gonna pay the price.' But, you know, that's part of the game. I'm not going to be afraid to go inside.
"Those are the types of things that these kids don't even have a clue of how we had to grow up and how we had to play."
Of course, everybody got pumped up when Jordan enumerated the list of players he would have liked to play one-on-one, starting from Los Angeles Lakers Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Julius Erving, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant and four-time NBA MVP LeBron James.
Still, MJ believed no one would ever touch him in the game of one-on-one, well except Bryant for some laughable reason.
"I don't think I would lose," Jordan said in the video, before smiling and adding, "Other than to Kobe Bryant because he steals all of my moves."
But the talk of the basketball world as of late is his hardcourt exploit of now Milwaukee Bucks star OJ Mayo. Jordan said a high school prospect named OJ Mayo talked thrash at him during his camp and even challenged then 45-year old Jordan to play with him one-on-one.
"In front of my camp, he starts this thing 'You can't guard me, you can't do this,'" Jordan said. "I've got my campers here, so obviously I can't really go where I want to go because of my camp, so I stop the camp, send the kids to bed, and we go back to playing and he starts this whole thing that 'You can't guard me, you can't do this' and finally I said 'Look, you may be the best high school player, but I'm the best player in the world. From this point on it's a lesson' and from that point on it was a lesson."
Well guys, it was indeed a lesson as Jordan literally taught Mayo the ABC of basketball. He did post-up moves, reverse layups, and his killer turnaround fadeaway jumper to put the icing on the cake.