Michael Jordan Said His Infamous ‘Flu Game’ Was Actually Food Poisoning From Eating A Whole Pizza
The final episodes of the documentary The Last Dance aired last night on HBO and though the whole series has given us tons of interesting insight on Michael Jordan and the 1997 Chicago Bulls, perhaps nothing got people talking more than a revelation about...pizza.
In the two-part finale, the doc covered what would come to be known as Michael's "Flu Game," AKA game five of the 1997 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz. He performed well but looked ill and was said to be suffering from "flu-like symptoms." But in last night's episodes, Michael's trainer Tim Grover and his friend George Koehler explained that the night before the game, Michael had ordered a pizza that was delivered by five delivery men and the whole thing seemed pretty sketchy.
“They’re all trying to look in, and everybody knew it was Michael. So I take the pizza, I pay them, and I put this pizza down and I say ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this,'" Grover said in the doc.
Apparently he was right because Michael said he was the only one to eat the pizza (he apparently scarfed down a whole pizza???) and later that night was "throwing up left and right."
“So it really wasn’t the flu game. It was food poisoning," he said.
This actually isn't a brand new revelation—in fact, Grover shared almost an identical quote back in 2013. Still, this the first time it's been shared at this scale and it absolutely blew the internet's mind.
So there you have it! Everything we know is a lie and only trust your pizza if there are less than four delivery guys at your door!
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