What Michael Jordan had to say about George Gervin

The beloved Iceman shows up rather randomly this week, and for action-starved Spurs fans, this is the water we needed

In my daily quest in the offseason to find any edifying Spurs material before the pre-season games commence in 40+ days, two random works of beauty showed up on the timeline to help the cause:

• An X user simply quoted “Probably my favorite edit I’ve seen” and the ensuing 40 second video takes you rapidly from a George Gervin halftime interview whereby (a favorite Iceman-ism) he had just dropped 35 points — on the way to 45 points and 7 rebounds with ZERO threes — on the host Dallas Mavericks. From there, three standout components make this snippet repeat-worthy: a) Michael Jordan’s current day testimony in amazement of an older Iceman detonating on a middling Mavs squad interspersed with b) “Ice” coolly telling MJ “Ay, I’m was just showin’ you how I used to be,” and c) a slower-than-usual version of Alphaville’s “Forever Young” laying the soundtrack of the video in the background through some of Gervin’s career highlights. It’s worth at least a dozen rewatches, only if but to lend some credence to Gervin’s “Best Spur of All Time candidacy.”

• Also, if you haven’t been following social platforms in the last couple of weeks, there was a recent quote from Olympian and Timberwolf Anthony Edwards commenting rather ignorantly that Michael Jordan was the only NBA player ‘with skill.’ The nice thing is that NBA fans of age, have been clapping back with their own responses towards Edwards’ shall-we-say youthfulness. One done by a Hubie Brown parody account called ‘Hubie Talks Hoops’ shared a 90-second admiration video of Gervin, and well, you just have to watch it with the volume as high as you can tolerate it.

Pounders, 44 (Gervin’s uniform number!) more days until the start of the pre-season!