There seems to be a lot of hypotheticals going around these days about who would win in match-ups between players who've long since retired (or even died). The most recent example came last week when Shaq and Scottie Pippen got into a very public Instagram feud after Shaq said the best five Lakers could beat the best five Bulls "by 50." Today we got a more recent-erexample when Dan Patrick asked Larry Bird who would win in a one-on-one matchup between he and Michael Jordan. The catch is that this contest could actually exist because Patrick was asking Bird who'd win now. The question was almost certainly inspired by MJ saying he could beat any of his current Hornets in a solo game.
Bird differed from his playing days by answering humbly that he "hates to admit it" but Jordan would "kill" him, citing that Michael has stayed closer to playing shape than he has (Bird's added 40 lbs. since then), and Larry just doesn't have "the fight" he once had. But then he said, seconds later without explanation, that "it'd be a pretty close game."
It certainly makes ya wonder. Or it doesn't. One of the two.
In all honesty we're not losing sleep thinking about who'd win a game between a 58-year-old Bird and a 52-year-old Jordan. Instead, to us, the real question is: Which of the two is the better trash talker?
[via The Dan Patrick Show]
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