During a recent appearance on Barstool Sports' "Pardon My Take" podcast, Michael Jordan's longtime trainer Tim Grover set the record straight on one of the legendary basketball player’s most discussed games.
The "Flu Game" is remembered by most as the match-up in which Jordan put up 38 points against the Utah Jazz, despite suffering from flu-like symptoms before and during the game.
“An enduring moment from Jordan's career is the snapshot of him being helped off the court afterward by teammate Scottie Pippen,” CBS reporter Colin Ward-Henninger writes.
Ward-Henninger adds, “Over the years, however, the real reason for Jordan's suffering has come into question. Rather than the flu, some have speculated that Jordan was feeling the after-effects of a particularly eventful evening (translation: he was hungover), while others think it was a bad case of food poisoning.”
Grover claims Jordan ordered some late-night pizza “from a place in Park City, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City, the evening before the game.”
Grover recalls that he answered the hotel door and saw five delivery people waiting, “which he found suspicious.” Jordan reportedly ate the pizza anyway and later on that evening, things took a turn for the worse.
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