ESPN and Netflix’s “The Last Dance” docuseries had some crazy moments throughout, but everybody couldn’t wait to hear the back story on why Michael Jordan ultimately punched teammate Steve Kerr in the face during a practice in the 1990s.
As it turns out, that infamous incident had multiple witnesses on hand and a few of them were friends with former Chicago Bulls big man Luc Longley.
After the fight, Jordan approached them and sent a stern warning to them to keep quiet about what they just saw.
“We were in this tiny little opera setting way above the training basketball courts, we were watching it and filming it,” said Gerard Neesham, an Australian national and eye-witness, via Eammon Tiernan of 7News.com.au.
“There was an incident and then Michael Jordan came over to us and said: ‘You two Aussies’. We looked at him and he said: ‘You didn’t see anything’.
“So I’m sort of bound by the fact that 22 years ago he said to me we didn’t see anything.
“As it’s turned out it (the incident) was pretty extraordinary but we were given the opportunity to spend four or five days there thanks to Luc Longley.”
It’s such a shame that there wasn’t actually any video of that moment to share with the world.
