Hall of Fame Speech

The basketball hall of fame induction is a ceremony that happens once every year where the greatest basketball players of their time get the greatest individual honor in their sport. During the ceremony the inductees give a speech thanking people, and reflecting on their career. However this year’s basketball hall of fame class and one individual speech has been causing a national buzz around sports analyst and fans.
Sports analyst and fans regard the 2009 basketball hall of fame class as the best ever. “This is the best basketball hall of fame class of my lifetime, and it has my all time favorite player in it” said Jordan Ambers a basketball player from California. This year’s class boosts the likes of Michael Jordan, David Robinson, Vivan Stringer, and Jerry Sloan. “The is a great class but it starts and ends with Michael Jordan, no offense to the other great players and coaches but Michael Jordan is the best of all time” said basketball fan Jerome Best from Virginia. It seems as though everyone agrees with Best claim, even the national media is focused the spotlight on Jordan. However Jordan’s induction speech has also got national attention, and a lot of it has been negative.
Many view Michael Jordan speech as arrogant, and biased. Others say he talked about people that had a part of his career negatively. “Jordan was a great player but he shouldn’t have talked negative about anybody, there wasn’t a need for that” said Jade Cosby. The speech came of wrong for a lot of people, “Jordan seemed arrogant, I mean he’s the best but it’s good to be humble” said Omar Leshaun from Virginia. During his speech Jordan talked about how former Utah Jazz guard Bryon Russell motivated him, and he made sure he got the best of him each time they played. He called out his high coach who cut him, and talked about the player who made it over him. Lastly he took a shot at former Bulls general manager Jerry Krause for saying that” organizations win championships”. Jordan believed he was wrong, saying that, “the players win championships”, and implying that it was his fault that the Chicago Bulls broke up in 1998.
The national media has a split view of Jordan’s speech some believe it was good, and some believe it was on called for. This is also the case with the people around the country that were interviewed for the story. “I liked his speech, he was just talking about what motivated him and there’s nothing wrong with that” said Richard Thistle a student from California. A lot of people view his speech as different but ok. “Michael Jordan is the best player of all time he can say anything he wants, whatever happened to freedom of speech?” said Chicago Bulls fan Brandon Walton.
Fans and all media outlets seem to be split whether they liked Jordan’s speech or not. Some say it was arrogant, biased, and unethical. Other says it was good, unique, and the best hall of fame speech ever. There’s obviously a disagreement about Michael Jordan’s speech, but there isn’t a disagreement that Michael Jordan was the best basketball player of all time, and if anybody dissevered to be inducted into the hall of fame it’s Michael Jordan.