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.
