:42:02
and his sixth MVP in the NBA finals.
Michael Jordan!
:42:16
Michael Jordan's legacy
is authenticity.
:42:20
if you removed all the hype,
:42:22
all the marketing,
all the show-time glitz,
:42:25
he would be as 100% genuine as anybody
who ever played in a gym...
:42:31
or an armory
anywhere, anytime.
:42:36
There's never been a player...
:42:37
that's had that ability
that Michael Jordan's had...
:42:39
in the kind of way he did it
in this game of basketball.
:42:44
His legacy is a newborn child
ten years from now...
:42:48
and a father says,"I wish you
could have seen Michael Jordan."
:42:51
Thank you.
:42:51
The dignity and grace...
:42:53
with which you conduct yourself
off the court...
:42:55
those are important things,
:42:57
and I believe
those are enduring things.
:42:59
You figure there've been,
I don't know, 25,000 years.
:43:02
I don't know how you do
the math of that,
:43:05
but that's like out of all 50,000
top athletes...
:43:09
since, you know,
prehistoric times...
:43:12
brontosaurus and
pterodactyls included...
:43:15
he's right there.
:43:16
Ten years from now,
20 years from now...
:43:19
what I hear people saying,
:43:20
or I would want people to say,
and it's simple...
:43:23
that if Michael Jordan was still
playing the game of basketball,
:43:26
he would dominate.
:43:28
Welcome to my world
:43:32
No matter what happens
in this business of basketball,
:43:36
If we didn't get paid a dime,
:43:37
you still would play the game
of basketball somewhere.
:43:45
Welcome to my world
:43:47
Somewhere there's a kid working.
:43:51
He won't skip any steps.
:43:54
He will learn from my example,
:43:56
just as I have learned
from others.