Perhaps you remember the video from earlier this week in which Michael Jordan explains to the world, "I'm not a Twitterer, I'm not a twerker." But that revelation is actually only the clip's second-most interesting peek inside MJ's mind.
He also recounted a story from his summer camp several year back. It went something like this.
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Current NBA player O.J. Mayo came to the camp when he was a high school phenom. He talked a whole bunch of smack to Jordan — who would have been retired and a couple years over 40 at the time — telling the greatest player of all-time he couldn't hang. Jordan then told Mayo, "Look, you may be the best high school player but I'm the best player in the world." Then Jordan proceeded to school Mayo at basketball, putting the cocky youngster back in his place.
That clip hit the web on Tuesday, triggering a minor round of hoots and hollers on the basketball Internet. Then on Wednesday, a short video mysteriously emerged showing part of Jordan and Mayo's summer camp matchup (embedded above). It's been a massive hit on YouTube, racking up well over 600,000 views in its first two days up. As you can see at the top of this post, a past-his-prime Jordan abuses Mayo with a variety of drives and fadeaway jumpers.
You'll also notice, however, that the heavily edited clip is only about a minute and a half long. What does it leave out? Mayo says plenty, and on Twitter offered $10,000 to anyone who could come up with the extended cut:
Put it like this whoever can get the full tape of the match up I got 10k!!!!! #onmyMOMMA
— OJ Mayo (@JuiceMayo32) October 3, 2013
That's on his momma, dear reader, if you didn't catch the last hashtag.
To be fair, though, Mayo has kept a good sense of humor about the entire thing. Here's a longer interview about it that his NBA team, the Milwaukee Bucks, posted to their YouTube channel:
Funny stuff, but ancient beef between a past-his-prime Hall of Famer and a high school kid brings up a simple question: How long until the real games start?
Homepage image: Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational
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