"I am the Mike Jordan of recordin' you might wanna fall back off record-ing"

I am blogging about you know who's speech once more.

Former LA times writer, former coworker of my boy Marvin "REAL LAKER FAN" Lee, and current ESPN sports writer JA Adande has his take on Jordan's speech.

He basically wrote what I already wrote--that the venom and the vengeance is what made MJ MJ and we shouldn't have expected anything less.

Only JA is a much superior writer so he crafts it in a package that flows. I especially love his opening, which manage to relate Jordan's speech to Kanye and Serena's metldown. It makes sense: people have been saying that Kanye and Serena "set black people back" with their antics and Jordan's speech---to people outside of sports--was probably immature and obnoxious as hell.

Jordan's venomous, ultimate I-told-y'all-so-and-you-will-forever-be-reminded-how-stupid-you-are-for-doubting-me attitude, Kanye's ridculous over the top antics (although what he was speaking was the truth), Serena's stupidity, and Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's Chinglish-like "YOOUUUU LIEEEEE" scream at Obama, all happened in the span of days.

Haha! Outspoken-ness. I love it.

Anyway, Adande's piece here

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/halloffame09/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=JordanSpeech-090914

I didn't even give MJ a proper tribute on my blog.

So here are my five favorite Jordan moments... I'm gonna list LEGIT TRUE FAN stuff, not the generic crap that's been overhyped and played out to the casual basketball fans such as that overrated switch hand layup on the Lakers, "The Shot" over Craig Ehlo, or Jordan's dunking, which was overrated.

Top five favorite Jordan moment/games.

Flu Game --playing with the flu. Dropping 38 points including the game winner in a crucial game 5 of 97 finals. Iconic image of Jordan walking back to the bench holding Pippen. First, and only time ever, Jordan had to depend on Pip for anything. Cause Pippen is weak.

The Stackhouse Game --Basically, as a rookie Stackhouse talked smack and said he could lock up Jordan. This happened when Jordan was retired. Jordan came out and this is the first meeting. Jordan not only scores all over the Sixers but locked up Stackhouse and limited him to like 2 for 13. Stack never opened his mouth again.

The final minute of game 6, 98 Finals --the most legendary minute in professional sports of my generation. A quick bucket, the steal on Malone, followed by the game winner over Russell, all in the final what, 40 seconds?

The entire crowd in Utah knew their hearts was gonna be shattered the minute Jordan took the ball off Malone and had the clock run down.

The entire 92 Knicks series

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WIuJHX5onk

--Basically, this Knicks team was rough and physical and Pippen was punked like a little bitch the entire series. Jordan took it upon himself to get physical with Xavier McDaniels and Anthony Mason. My favorite moment is this

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWzVYEQDaA He gets fouled hard by the Knicks, finishes the bucket anyways, and then gives Ewing a tongue lashing because that was a unnecessary rough foul. And one.

This dunk on Ewing

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxG6F8qKsoQ He basically beats a double team out of a corner trap, takes two steps and dunks on a 7 footer.

98 All Star Game I can't find it on youtube, but I have footage of his on VHS tape at my house in LA. Jordan destroys Kobe in the all star game.

Kobe fans will say "Kobe was only 19!"

Yeah but Jordan wasn't in his prime either, dude was like, 34.

I think I'd rather be 19 than 34 when it comes to a sports duel.