A European Basketball Coach Says MJ Would Be An Ordinary Player If He Played In Europe .... So How Quick Does MJ Start Playing Again?

[Source] - In Jeff Pearlman’s book “Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty,” Salley noted that Maljkovic’s controversial opinion about Jordan was one reason why his international career ended in quick fashion.

“Salley tells that as soon as they were introduced, Maljkovic told him that Michael Jordan (with whom the power forward had just been champion) was ‘an ordinary player’ and that ‘in Europe, he would average 16 points per game.’ At that time, according to this book, Salley had it clear: ‘There I saw that it would last a short time there.’ It was, finally, seven weeks.

I actually like European basketball. It's a different game than college and the NBA. Plus, have they awesome players like Milos Teodosic. Seriously, this dude is still one of the best passers I've seen

Also love that he looks like he smokes a pack at halftime and then comes out and drops 15 assists. But there might not be a group that thinks higher of themselves than European basketball. Imagine thinking after MJ won his 4th title that he would be an average player in Europe. MICHAEL. FUCKING. JORDAN. The best basketball player of all time, would average 16 and be an ordinary player in Europe. Yeah, sure. He'd snag every MVP over Arvydas Sabonis, who was the best player in Europe. 

When I first read this I assumed he was talking about MJ right now. I wouldn't rule out that 57-year old MJ could go get 16 in Europe. When I read that this was a quote from the 90s that's just surfacing now? Well I assume 57-year old MJ is already calling overseas. I don't want, I need MJ to get to Europe and play like 20-25 games. Someone get FC Barcelona on the phone. If you don't think that MJ read this quote and immediately got fucking pissed, you're too young to remember MJ. The dude's Hall of Fame speech was basically calling every single person out. The man refuses to let anyone say something perceived as negative let alone just disrespectful like this. Shit, you know he went ahead with the release of The Last Dance so people would stop talking about LeBron. 

Ordinary player. Fucking unreal.