Michael Jordan once made Kobe Bryant so mad he didn't speak to his teammates for two weeks

Michael Jordan once made Kobe Bryant so mad that he didn’t speak to his teammates for two weeks.

Jordan is often regarded as the NBA’s greatest player of all time.

During an illustrious career, Jordan won six NBA championships whilst playing for the Chicago Bulls.

After his retirement, Jordan continued to be one of the biggest sportspersons in the world due to his work with Nike.

Back in his playing days, it was revealed that Jordan once made Bryant so mad that he didn’t speak to his teammates for two weeks.

According to former Washington Wizards player Gilbert Arenas, Jordan annoyed Bryant after a match in which Jordan won whilst Kobe was wearing ‘Jordan 8’s’.

It is believed that Jordan said to Bryant after the match: “You can wear the shoes but you’ll never fill them.”

Arenas said, as per Essentially Sports: “So what happened next is, during that time after Kobe got, so Kobe didn’t say anything to anybody. So, for like two weeks they said, Kobe was just mute.

“Like, he didn’t talk to his players, didn’t talk to his teammates. Just, they said he was in a, like, focus mode. Like it was straight. Like practice was just so intense. Right? So, the players were like, ‘yo is he mad at us? Did we do something to him?’”

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Arenas added: “And then Phil(Jackson) was like, ‘no, no, no, no, no. Jordan told him, you can wear the shoes but you can never fill them.’ And they were like, ‘oh sh*t, when do we play them again?’ They were like, ‘yeah we play them in a few days.’ And that’s the game when Kobe had like 55.”

During his career, Bryant played only for the Los Angeles Lakers and won five NBA championships.

He was also named the NBA Finals MVP on two occasions and NBA Most Valuable Player once in 2008.

Bryant was also named as an NBA All-Star 18 times throughout his wonderful career.