As we all know, one of Jordan's great hobbies is cigars. We Chinese a cigarette after a meal, happy like a fairy. The old hooligan is a cigarette after the game, and he is full of energy for half a day.
I believe many people have seen Jordan's late 1993 matches, in those games Jordan's right index finger is generally bandaged, the bandaged finger should affect the feel, but had to do this, because his right index finger is very strangely injured. Many cigar drinkers know the story that Jordan broke his tendon in a mistake on his right index finger by a cigar.
This matter reveals a weird atmosphere from beginning to end. Cigar customers familiar with cigar clippers know that when cutting cigars, it is almost impossible for the cigar clipper to mistakenly cut into the middle of the finger. Whether using single-edged, double-edged cigar scissors or scissor cigar scissors, to cut the tendon in the middle of the index finger, you need to put the entire finger into the edge of the cigar scissor and cut it off. I can't imagine what posture is required to put your fingers into the cigar clipper when cutting a cigar normally.
Jordan mistakenly cut off the tendon of his index finger when cutting his cigar, which Jordan himself said. John Hoverton, the Bulls' team doctor at the time, performed a finger tendon repair surgery for Jordan. Jordan himself admitted that while traveling in the Bahamas, he mistakenly cut the tendon of his index finger while cutting a cigar, and upon returning to Chicago, Jordan asked former Bull doctor John Hoverton for repair surgery. When Hoverton underwent surgery, he saw that Jordan had damage to all the ligaments in the middle of his right index finger, so the only thing he could do was reattach the tendon. And tell Jordan that your right index finger will lose some mobility, and there is nothing I can do. No one has commented on the matter since.
The whole thing is really weird, missing all the details and no logical explanation. It happened in a hotel in the Bahamas, and neither the hotel, nor the team doctor, nor the companions of the day sent any message. Under normal circumstances, Jordan cuts his finger in his hotel, and it is always normal for the hotel to come out to express regret and condolences. Later, someone analyzed that the biggest possibility was that Jordan should have been in a casino in the Bahamas at that time (Bahamas casinos are famous, Jordan likes to play two is also known), drinking a lot, put a double-edged cigar clipper on the right index finger to rotate, the edge of the cigar scissors cut off all the tendons of the index finger in the rotation. This may be the closest judgment to the truth.
Jordan's cutting of his finger was later selected as one of the 50 most bizarre injuries in the history of sports. There is no final answer.
Since then, Jordan's index finger has been crippled and unable to bend.
It was after that Jordan hit below 50% for the first time ever.
At that time, after Jordan was sent to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed that the nerve of the index finger was injured and the blood vessels of the index finger were cut off, in fact, including the tendon of the index finger to be cut off, and it may be necessary to cut off the finger, as we all know, the index finger is one of the fingers that shoot the force, if the index finger is cut off, it is equivalent to burying his career.
Of course, Jordan would never allow this to happen, not because he was afraid, but because of the spirit of not admitting defeat that sustained him, and the doctor barely saved this finger under the repeated requests of the gang leader.
However, it did not achieve the desired effect, and this index finger not only often hurt, but also could no longer bend.
But the reason why Jordan is Jordan will never give up lightly, he endured the pain and desperately exercised the index finger of his right hand, and constantly tried to shoot and dribble with his almost crippled hand until he fully adapted.
Finally, Jordan once again stood on the NBA and won his second trifecta with his crippled weapon.
That's why great players like Kobe, Wade, and James look to Jordan as an example.
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