Michael Jordan once got inside Jerry Stackhouse's head by singing Anita Baker

By foxsports
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It's a well-known fact that Michael Jordan is Top-1 trash talkers, all-time. There's plenty of evidence to support it. 

There was the time he zapped all of Muggsy Bogues' confidence and rendered his jumper permanently broken by calling him a midget mid-pull-up. There was time he paid Clyde Drexler the most backhanded of compliments by saying Drexler was a better 3-point shooter than Jordan chose to be. And of course, there's the time he walked into the Washington Bullets' locker room with a lit cigar and asked who was checking him before the final game of an inevitable Bulls sweep in the 1997 playoffs. 

The list goes on and on. You can measure Jordan's trash-talking prowess in razed careers, tormented psyches, and hinky jumpshots. 

On Monday, former NBA small forward Roshown McLeod went on the Scoop and Brown podcast and added to the Michael Jordan Trash Talk Stories canon with a tale about him singing Anita Baker to Jerry Stackhouse in the middle of a game:

The sums I would pay for Jordan to have been mic'ed up while this was happening. It'd be exactly like the torture scene in "Reservoir Dogs."

Jordan backs Stackhouse down: Yes I tell you now, that I made a vow-- then he freezes Stackhouse with the Dream Shake, flushes a 10-footer, and sashays back down the court: I'm givin' you the best that I got, HONEY.

(Thanks to Sporting News for sharing.)