In the NBA, it appears like everyone’s first meeting with the greatest player of all time, Michael Jordan is memorable. Jalen Green who is a rising star playing for the Houston Rockets revealed how it was meeting His Airness. In his appearance on Paul George’s Podcast P, Green narrated the crazy story.
Green was in Michael Jordan camp in San Diego when he first MJ. He narrated how he was going to his dorm after practice when he was stopped by Jordan. What came next was something unexpected but considering Jordan’s loyalty to Nike all these years it wasn’t shocking.
After spotting the Rockets‘ star in Adidas slides, Jordan was not only quick to point out but also asked Green to change them. In Green’s own words, “I got a crazy story. I was young. Like, a kid. I went to Michael Jordan camp in San Diego. I’m walking to practice from the dorm, and I got high socks on up to my knees, and baggy shorts. Like, my swag was terrible.”
Michael Jordan told Jalen Green to “take off those weak as* Adidas slides.” 😂
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He continued, “I got Adidas slides on and he just walked over to me and was like, ‘You need to take them weak-a** Adidas slides off.’ I look back like, ‘What you mean?’ [He was] like, ‘You need to get some Jordan slides'”. Notably, Michael Jordan signed Nike over Adidas in 1984 and revolutionized the sneakers game worldwide.
Jordan was loyal to Nike even in the 1992 Olympics. He covered the Adidas logo on his Team USA dream team jacket which was sold for $1,500,000 this year. So it only made sense for him to show his loyalty and love for the Jordan brand at his camp.
Jalen Green revealed how Michael Jordan made him remove Adidas slides
Jalen Green revisited his first meeting with Michael Jordan on the podcast. After revealing how Jordan asked him to change into Jordan slides, he also spoke about what he responded, “I said, ‘Give me some.’ So he brought me some Jordan slides”. Furthermore, Green stated, “I’m a little-ass kid, though, and he talking about get rid of them weak-a** slides”.
This incident was indeed crazy as Green himself mentioned before digging deep into what happened at the camp. Further in the podcast, he also sheds light on how he was excited about the fact that he got the chance to meet Jordan. Green also spoke about how his mother reacted to him telling her about this.
He said, “I was hella excited after the fact. My mom was in the stands. The family comes just to watch, you stay on campus. I ran up to my mom and said ‘I just talked to Michael Jordan’, and she was taking a picture the whole time.” Green continued, “At the age that I was, I was like ‘damn, that’s Michael Jordan'”. Green made his debut in the NBA in 2021 after being picked second overall by the Houston Rockets.
Interestingly, he went ahead to sign a shoe deal with Adidas despite being called out by the legendary figure. The Rockets star so far has proved to be a promising star, and with such crazy stories, he remains in the headlines too.