{"id":99821,"date":"2015-03-27T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=99821"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:14:00","slug":"storytime-space-jam-extra-talks-about-michael-jordan-trash-talking-telling-him-to-get-the-f-off-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/storytime-space-jam-extra-talks-about-michael-jordan-trash-talking-telling-him-to-get-the-f-off-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytime: Space Jam Extra Talks About Michael Jordan Trash Talking & Telling Him To \"Get The F*@# Off The Court\""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever heard of actor Keith Gibbs?  Probably not, but he's the white guy in the pic above and he's played with everybody from Shaq to Michael Jordan to a bunch of skinheads.  Gibbs is the go-to actor in Hollywood when it comes to basketball movies and Grantland recently did a great interview<\/a> with him about his resume which includes everything from Blue Chips to American History X to Rebound to BASEketball to Space Jam.  But it's his work with MJ in Space Jam that produced the greatest story.<\/p>\n

Did Jordan trash-talk you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah, nonstop. [Laughs.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t give a shit who you were. When I was doing Space Jam<\/em>, we played three days. I thought it was over. I had to go out of town. I get a phone call, they\u2019re like, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t you here?\u201d I was like, \u201cOh, they\u2019re still playing?\u201d I had no idea.<\/p>\n

I walk in, and it\u2019s Reggie Miller, Charles Barkley, Alonzo Mourning, Charles Oakley. Grant Hill shows up. Jerry Stackhouse shows up. Now, all of a sudden it\u2019s an NBA All-Star pickup game. Every night. I did that for about a month and a half, two months. Then the UCLA kids came in, and they had just won a national title \u2014 Ed O\u2019Bannon and those guys. Just phenomenal. Best pickup games I\u2019ve ever been a part of. It was unreal.<\/p>\n

Yeah, so Jordan \u2026 I had to guard Reggie Miller and Michael Jordan in back-to-back games. It was so bad. I was friends with Chris Mills and Tracy Murray \u2014 we had been to some camps together. One play, I got switched onto Jordan, because Chris was like, \u201cKeith, you take him.\u201d Jordan hit a 35-footer on me. I mean, it was ridiculous: leg out, tongue out, all that stuff \u2026 hit a 35-footer on me and goes, \u201cGET THE FUCK OFF THE COURT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Space Jam is loved by many hoop fans and rumors of a sequel with LeBron keep popping up, Michael Jordan actually hated making the movie<\/a>. Thankfully it only took up 8 weeks of Summer and was a box office success. It's $230 million gross is almost 100 million more than any other film starring a basketball player and it made more on opening day than Kevin Durant's Thunderstruck made ($587k) during it's entire theatrical run.<\/p>\n