Thursday night’s airing of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Reggie Miller was a guest star. Miller, was asked about his reputation as a trash talker. Reggie Miller said “When you’re getting beat down by your sister, who’s the greatest womens basketball player of all time,you learn to talk because I was getting beat down by her and all my boys were laughing because I was getting beat down by her but she was beating down them.” Later in the interview, Reggie Miller was eager to tell a story about the one time he trash talked Michael Jordan.
You can watch a clip of the interview here:
Reggie Miller says,
My rookie year we were playing the Chicago Bulls, and this is Michael Jordan’s third or fourth year in. And we were playing an exhibition game…most veterans do not like to play in exhibition games, they want to get to the real thing. I’m a wide-eyed, energetic rookie and…Michael’s going through the motions. And Chuck Person—who’s on my team—who is a trash-talker as well, is like, “Can you believe Michael Jordan, the guy everyone’s talking about, who’s supposed to be able to walk on water? You’re out here killing him, Reg! … You should be talking to him!” And I was like, “You know what, you’re right!” “Michael…who do you think you are? The great Michael Jordan? That’s right, there’s a new kid on town!” He kind of looks at me and starts shaking his head. So at half I have 10, and he has four points…end of the game, the second half, he ended up with 44 and I ended up with 12. So he outscored me 40-2. And as he’s walking off, he’s like, “Be sure, and be careful, you never talk to Black Jesus like that.”
