The image of an ill Michael Jordan being carried to the bench by his Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen after serving up the Utah Jazz in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA finals is forever embedded in our minds. But now it appears that instead of Jordan having the flu as we all once believed, it looks as if MJ actually had food poisoning.
Jordan’s former trainer Tim Grover recently revealed what happened the night before that famous “flu game” and what he believes the real situation was:
Yikes, I wonder if it was done on purpose or if Utah is just the wrong city for pizza.