Didn't have to shake his hand, but the organized walk off before the game ended was clown move.
The year before, Bulls lost in 7 and Jordan looked like he was holding back tears as he forced himself to dap up Zeke and the Pistons.
1990 ECF
The year Jordan came back mid year and lost to the Magic in the playoffs, he went looking to shake Horace Grant's hand right after the game.
The most competitive athlete ever, swallowed his pride to try to congratulate the opponent who just beat him.
Ducking and running is not it.
So MJ was still emotionally scarred from being beat down and sonned by the pistons until he was damn near 30 filed and understood
"ITS BEEN 30 YRS.
WHY MJ STILL MAD AT THE PISTONS
FOR WALKING OUT THE GYM
BEFORE THE GAME ENDED?"
They aren't friends never were lol let them beef.These brothas in they 60s. Both on the back 9 of life. Time to resolve this silly shyt
These dudes are so beyond weird how much they idolize that man.MJ got kids younger than that series. It was 30 years ago. MJ could've dodged the insult altogether in the retelling of it, but he was full sassy MJ and leaned into his fan brigade to drown out dissent.
If we wanna be real MJ got his payback by keeping Zeke off of the Dream Team so Zeke would have even more of a right to be salty at him. Zeke's coach was on the squad and they chose Laettner over him because MJ had a tantrum about it. That's some real hoe ass shyt much worse than not shaking someone hand after a playoff game.
The common denominator is that the pistons didn't get the respect they deserved as a powerhouse team of the era, when they went thru the celtics and the bulls repeatedly. Not unlike the 04 pistons for the record.