If you ever go to Michael Jordan‘s house, do not wear a pair of someone else’s signature shoes, especially if they aren’t Jordans or Nikes. This is the lesson we learned from Shad Moss aka Bow Wow aka Lil Bow Wow on his recent appearance on Desus & Mero. In a discussion about his early career and the movie Like Mike, Bow Wow explained how he used to stay at Jordan’s house when he would go to Chicago because he was friends with his son Marcus.
One time, he made the mistake of wearing his Allen Iverson sneakers to Jordan’s house and was woken up by His Airness holding his shoes up and asking who they belonged to. Bow Wow reluctantly said they were his, and Jordan promptly threw them in the garbage and made him wear some Jumpmans.
We talk to @smoss about the Bow Wow name, having multiple hustles, and the time Michael Jordan threw away his Iversons. pic.twitter.com/bkEDwspA5P
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“Michael Jordan threw away my Allen Iverson sneakers when I stayed at his house,” Bow Wow said. “Every time my tour came through the Chi I just stayed at their house. I remember Marcus was like, ‘Yo, I know how you are with A.I.’ … I went over there with my A.I.’s on and I woke up and they was gone. Mr. Jordan came in there, I was sleeping on the floor in Marcus’ room, Marcus was on the bed, kicked me up, ‘Hey, all y’all wake up.’ Swear to god, [mimics holding shoes up] ‘Whose is these and who has Duke shorts on in my house?’ … I love Duke. I said, ‘Oh, those are mine Mr. Jordan.’ He said, ‘Yeah, I figured.’ Threw them out, and said, ‘Hey, John Michael, get him some Jumpmans now.’ And that was the story.”
At this present moment, Bow Wow’s credibility with telling stories is at an all-time low, but I am inclined to believe this one mainly because it’s just too funny and I believe with all of my heart that if you were to wear a pair of Iversons into Michael Jordan’s house that he would promptly throw them away. I, personally, would’ve used this to my advantage if he was swapping out other basketball shoes for new Jordans and just constantly showed up in other, cheaper shoes and leveled up to some new Jordans each time I visited.
