@mattbarnes: Kenny Smith sits down and makes one of the more refreshingly honest and genuinely fascinating admissions about his time as Michael Jordan's teammate at North Carolina revealing that while it was abundantly clear to everyone around Jordan in Chapel Hill that they were sharing a court with someone who was going to have a significant professional career the specific ceiling of what he would ultimately become was simply beyond what anyone in that program could have fully anticipated or predicted even with a daily front row seat to everything that made him so special from the very beginning. He reflects on the gap between recognizing genuine talent and understanding that you are in the presence of someone who will redefine what is possible at the highest level of the sport and what that distinction says about the almost impossible standard Jordan ultimately set for himself and for the entire game of basketball over the course of a career that went so far beyond what even his closest teammates ever imagined was coming. Smith delivers his admission with the candor and self awareness of someone who genuinely appreciates the historical significance of what he was part of at UNC even as he acknowledges that truly seeing the full scope of what Jordan would become was simply beyond what any reasonable person could have foreseen regardless of how close their vantage point happened to be.

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Saturday 06 June 2026 16:22:38 GMT