Kevin McHale is now chiming in on the whole issue surrounding Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls and their beef with the Detroit Pistons’ “Bad Boys” from the late 80’s and early 90’s.
ESPN’s acclaimed series “The Last Dance” dove head first into the rivalry and how the Bulls were beaten up by them so much year after year until they finally overcame them to win their first title.
The Boston Celtics legend clearly drew his line in the sand when he called out the Bulls for being complainers.
“First of all, you can see why the Pistons didn’t like the Bulls,” McHale told Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald. “The Bulls complained all the time. That’s one thing that came across (in the documentary). Like, ‘This is not basketball. This is thuggery.’ All that stuff. I thought the Bulls really disrespected what the Pistons were able to do.
“But, hey, when you kill the king, you can talk (expletive).”
The Hall of Famer also shared his thoughts on the controversy of the Pistons walking out without congratulating the Bulls in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals.
“I’m going to tell you this: of all the series that I played in all through the ’80s, after a close-out game, unless you were walking with somebody you knew, you almost never said anything. You might congratulate them if you saw them later, but there wasn’t a lot of talk, I mean, congratulatory or (expletive)-talking or anything,” McHale said. “You just kind of went in the locker room. Ninety percent of the series we won, I didn’t talk to anybody. They didn’t come up to me, and I didn’t think they should.”
