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Actor Narrates How Michael Jordan Was Shocked To Meet Michael Jackson: “You Still Owe Me A Favor”

Actor Dawan Scott reveals how Michael Jordan almost refused to believe that Michael Jackson knew who he was and wanted to meet him.

Chaitanya Dadhwal
Jul 23, 2025
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Michael Jordan has almost had everything he wanted in his career. He reached the pinnacle of basketball and played like one of the greatest players of all time in his career. 

Having achieved so much, there wasn’t a lot that you could do for the six-time NBA champion. It was a rare thing to have Jordan owe you a favor. But actor Dawan Scott reveals how he became one of those people during Jordan’s career by making him meet the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. This was before he became a six-time champion. 

In a recent interview with Mike Torchia, Scott revealed how he made Michael Jordan meet Michael Jackson during a TV production back in his day in 1992. He claims Jordan was so surprised that he almost did not believe Scott could pull it off.

“I’m on set meeting Jordan, and a grip walks by and says, ‘Michael Jackson’s over here on set doing something,’ and Michael Jordan goes, ‘I never met Michael Jackson.’ I go, in my naivety, ‘Do you want to meet him?’ Not knowing  I was going to shut down two productions. Jordan looks at me like, ‘Yeah buddy. Go ahead.’”

Scott went over to Michael Jackson after smooth-talking his way through his security. Jackson was also in disbelief that a global star like Michael Jordan wanted to meet him. Despite being a global icon himself, Jackson humbly welcomed a chance to meet Jordan. 

“I walk in there and he goes, ‘Harry! It’s Harry, everybody!’ He was on one. I said, ‘Michael Jordan wants to meet you.’ ‘He wants to meet me?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ ‘Well, who is the bigger star?’ I swim with sharks and I do it quite well, but I stay in my lane,” he stated.

“‘See if he’ll come meet me.’ So I go over to Jordan’s set and I said, ‘He said Come over.’” 

“As soon as we opened the sound stage door, Michael Jackson had a camera; he was filming it all. We walk over, and we walk on the sound stage, and he’s got more cameras, and I go, ‘Michael, meet Michael.’ And that’s how the music video Jam came about. So Jordan, you still owe me a favor.”

Jordan and Jackson ended up featuring together in an iconic video for Jackson’s song “Jam” in 1992. 

The collaboration happened only due to the relationship Jordan and Jackson were able to build on after their first meeting. So if anything, Jordan fans must thank Scott for making one of his biggest wishes come true at the time.

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ByChaitanya Dadhwal
Chaitanya Dadhwal is an NBA Analyst and Columnist at Fadeaway World from New Delhi, India. He fell in love with basketball in 2018 after seeing James Harden in his prime. He joined the sports journalism world in 2021, one year before finishing his law school in 2022. He attended Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat, India, where his favorite subject was also Sports Law.He transitioned from law to journalism after realizing his true passion for sports and basketball in particular. Even though his journalism is driven by his desire to understand both sides of an argument and give a neutral perspective, he openly admits he is biased towards the Houston Rockets and Arsenal. But that intersection of in-depth analysis and passion helps him simplify the fine print and complex language for his readers.His goal in life is to open his own sports management agency one day and represent athletes. He wants to ensure he can help bridge the gap in equal opportunity for athletes across various sports and different genders playing the same sport.
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