has anyone ever called out Jordan?

[Gundress]

no way. why would someone want to poke the bear?

NBA players were afraid of Jordan, most were anyway.

You totally forgot about the Bad Boys (Detroit Pistons).

[Kobe24Clutch]

How about during the same game? In game 3 of the 1992 first round, Brian Shaw and Willie Burton started taunting Jordan after he scored zero points in the first quarter. They said "we've got your number tonight Mike! We're shutting you down!" Bad move. Jordan proceeded to score 56 points in quarters 2-4 to eliminate the Heat. Here are the highlights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVcwa99dBB4

56 points on 20-30

[DeronMillsap]

All those stories of the Greatest of All-times.

[chris2010]

I guarantee Reggie Miller did. in fact i think i recall jordan playing horribly and right before halftime miller came up to him and was like "and you are supposed to be the greatest of all time". Then in the 2nd half scored like 30 points or so.

[Theoo's Daddy]

You totally forgot about the Bad Boys (Detroit Pistons).

Pistons bad boys could handle their own though. They never respected him, until they got eliminated by the bulls on their way to their 1st ring.

[Gundress]

There were times, and Jordan always delivered.

Van Gundy learned the hard way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBkgwZqtCs

Edit: You meant called out for the way he was playing. I have no memory of that.

Edit: In this game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ3ud...&feature=feedu
one of the players talked shit to Michael, in the final minutes, and Jordan scored 19 points to win the game.

On 2nd Link, marked at 1:00....this mfer Jordan knows how mfer, only him...shit is not lucky.....MJ is unbelievable. I feel sorry for anyone who ain't born in 80's-90's and missed out on greatest MJ.

[Fatal9]

My personal favorite is when Starks talks trash to him in the '92 series (game 2 I think). God damn, he got just destroyed after that and Jordan let him know every shot.

[Kobe24Clutch]

What year was it that they started calling him the GOAT?

[catch24]

JVG calls Michael Jordan a "con man" and this proceeded to happen

George Karl, Barkley, Maxwell, New York... a lot of players have trash talked him during games and he ended up piling it on later that game.

[Samurai Swoosh]

Didn't a news reporter from cleveland say that Ehlo was an elite defender and could shut down jordan before he dropped 69 on them?

No ... Jordan decided to drop 69 on the "great" state of Ohio because he rolled his ankle during the game and while he was on the ground, classy Clevelanders were cheering his injury.

He didn't go into the game trying to score a lot. But after the cherring of his injury, he went off.

Thats why I when Kobe fans act like Jordan couldn't have dropped 81.

Jordan always proved a point scoring the ball, but did it in a way that after he made his point, there was no reason to go to excess with it at the expense of the team game. Jordan on multiple occassions could've eclipsed 70 given his blistering shooting on some nights ... but chilled out after he made his statement.

[Samurai Swoosh]

What year was it that they started calling him the GOAT?

1985 lol ...

But seriously, it started getting attention by 1989 / 1990 ...

Solidified almost for certain after his 2nd ring.

[Ne 1]

Van Gundy learned the hard way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBkgwZqtCs

Gundy wasn't lying though.

The day before game 4 of the Bulls-Suns Finals with the Bulls leading the series 2-1. Michael and Charles Barkley went golfing. They played 48 holes of golf. And Michael bought Charles a $20,000 diamond earring. Johnny Bach asked MJ, “what did you do all that for?” Michael responded, “he won’t get in my way the rest of the series, what’s $20,000 to me? Charles thinks we’re great friends. I hate that fat fu[FONT="Arial"]c[/FONT]k.” Jordan dropped 55 in game 4 and Barkley never touched him once.

[Samurai Swoosh]

My personal favorite is when Starks talks trash to him in the '92 series (game 2 I think). God damn, he got just destroyed after that and Jordan let him know every shot.

THATS the game. I just asked Loki what game it was. And Doug Collins was commentating (per Michael Jordan Air Time) ... and I remember him saying ... "Jordan looks for someone to get him in this frame of mind competitively, and if you don't stand up to him mentally, he will TORMENT you."

[Kobe24Clutch]

1985 lol ...

But seriously, it started getting attention by 1989 / 1990 ...

Solidified almost for certain after his 2nd ring.

So basically by his 4-5th year?

[Samurai Swoosh]

Pistons bad boys could handle their own though. They never respected him, until they got eliminated by the bulls on their way to their 1st ring.

Ummm they respected him. They didn't respect his supporting cast. The goal was to tear MJ away from the team concept and get him and his known competitive spirit to try and beat them 1 v.s. 5. Sometimes it almost seemed Jordan could be successful at it for a game or two. But not over the course of a series. Not until his teammates manned up mentally (Paxson and Cartwright were always tough) and earned his trust, thats when the Bulls finally spanked the,.