OT: Jordan was actually poisoned before the flu game????

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  1. Natebishop3

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    http://www.wgci.com/pages/ubblog.html?article=11200919

    Has anyone ever heard this before???

    Apparently the night before the game MJ, Tim Grover, and some other guys ordered a pizza. Grover said that five guys delivered the pizza, and he actually told Mike that he had a bad feeling about it. He thinks they deliberately gave Jordan food poisoning.

    Skip to the 3:30 mark in the video. They said 2:26 but they're wrong.
     
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    Umm old news. Of course he was poisoned.
     
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    I thought Five Guys only did burgers.
     
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    No, you misunderstood. It was just 5 random guys in Utah who made a pizza.
     
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    David Stern took part in the act.
     
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    Where did you hear this, KingSpeed?
     
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    Not five guys and a cup.
     
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    It was common knowledge back then. Not the only time it's happened either. Be careful what you eat on the road in key playoff games.
     
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    Yeah it's a good rule of thumb to live by: Don't eat anything when more than 4 guys deliver it.
     
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    I don't know how Grover can say with '100% certainty' that MJ was poisoned.

    Jordan being the only one to eat the pizza doesn't prove that the pizza made him sick. It sure as HELL doesn't prove that someone purposely put salmonella or botulism onto his pizza to make him sick.

    I've never worked for a pizza joint. Do they keep those bugs handy to serve to people they don't like?

    If someone else ate the pizza and both of them got sick, that would be pretty strong evidence that they were poisoned, but it still wouldn't prove that it was intentional.

    Go Blazers
     
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    Why was Jordan ordering a pizza? Not condoning, but use some common sense MJ.
     
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    Bet they circle jerked on it.
     
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    i think this happened in sacramento a few years bback with the L*kers

    only real way for small market teams to even the odds against the crooked refs
     
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    DUDE!
     
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    Mr. Clean would do it.
     
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    I guess MJ might not notice Mr. Clean if he ordered a pine cone pizza.

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    Only need a little bit. The idea was to get him sick, not kill him.

    However, I don't know if he was poisoned or not.
     
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    It could have been an accidental poisoning. Maybe they were so excited to please him and deliver it fast, they picked one that had been room temperature for hours and undercooked it.

    That mundane theory doesn't make for a sexy sensationalistic story.
     
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