Michael Jordan’s “Coach” Had to Face Failure Despite Magic Johnson Team-Up

Imagine having Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson on the same team and still losing. And that too, despite putting up a humongous score of 200+ points. As hard as it may sound to believe, the incident is as real as it could be. The instance goes back to the time MJ and Johnson teamed up for the first time in their careers.

Appearing on Jimmy Fallon’s ‘The Tonight Show’ recently was Rob Lowe, recalling the time he became the ‘first coach to coach Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan on the same team’. As stated by Lowe, the game was for the LA Lakers icon’s one of the annual charity events. “Magic and Michael played for the first time ever on this charity team. They scored 200 points and lost,” he added.

The reason that led to the circumstances of loss, as revealed by Lowe, was that nobody was playing any defense. Even the 60YO actor was himself not coaching-coaching back then. He once stated there were other players like Karl Malone and Clyde Drexler as well on his team. Chilled out in his zone and not caring about the outcome, Rowe recalled calling a 20-second timeout just for the sake of it, the Pat Riley way, because he liked it.

Further on ‘The Tonight Show’, the 60-year-old actor stated he could see a shark in Michael Jordan’s eyes while all the other players were in a light mood. And thus came the popular instance when Mike got annoyed with Magic. “And he’s like, looking at all these guys laughing. He says ‘Guys, are we gonna win this? Really?’” Rowe recalled. The actor further mentioned this was the first instance that the 6x NBA champ shot free throws with his eyes closed. However, the Johnson and MJ team-up still suffered a narrow 203-202 defeat.

This is a developing story.