Dan Patrick: Mike — and a lot of great players, former players — have a hard time assessing other players because their standards are so high. Gilbert Arenas: It’s the standard, but it’s also the delusion of what makes you great, right? Someone like Jordan, he thinks he’s great — or he was great — because of his fundamentals of the game, right? He doesn’t consider the raw athleticism that he had: the big hands, the 40-something-inch vertical, the fast twitch. He doesn’t consider that. So he looks at what made him the greatest of all time — not what he came into the environment with. You already had a Bugatti engine, and then you tweaked it for every terrain. He’s buying Hondas — drafting Hondas — thinking he can turn them into Bugattis. Like, no. It’s a little bit of the delusion — that he came into the world with the Bugatti already.” -via YouTube / April 1, 2025
