This week's discourse has officially passed the point of parody.
The Bulls' rivalry with the Bad Boy Pistons has become a point of national discussion with the recent airing of Episodes 3 and 4 of "The Last Dance," which delved into the tensions between the teams in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Those tensions culminated in the Pistons walking off their home floor without shaking hands after being swept by the Bulls in the 1991 Eastern Conference finals - a series that marked the passing of the Eastern Conference and NBA torch to Michael Jordan and the Bulls.
Barbs traded in Episode 4 (mainly, Jordan saying, "There's no way you can convince he wasn't an a**hole" when showed a video of Isiah Thomas explaining the walk off; and Horace Grant calling the Pistons "straight up b**ches") have extended through the week. Bill Laimbeer called the Bulls "whiners." Bill Cartwright and Will Perdue brushed off the handshake snub as an innocuous gesture by a soundly beaten squad.
Thomas added his voice to the fray in a recent interview with Bill Reiter of CBS Sports. In it, he ranked the "five best players he's ever played against" and listed Jordan… Fourth.
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Don't forget Kareem.
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