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" It&amp;#039;s the most storied basketball game in history. Game five of the &amp;#039;97 NBA Finals, to break a series tie with the Utah Jazz; Michael Jordan versus the flu. It&amp;#039;s one of the great true legends. Jordan said he felt &amp;quot;partially paralyzed the night before&amp;quot; and was so sick with &amp;quot;flu-like symptoms&amp;quot; that he spent most of the day of the game in bed. Scottie Pippen said that before the game, &amp;quot;The way he looked, there&amp;#039;s no way I thought he could even put on his uniform.&amp;quot; But then it all happened. That 17-point second quarter, 38 overall. Crumbling in Scottie Pippen&amp;#039;s arms. That god-blessed three in the final minute. The win. But the popular narrative of the Flu Game is wrong, at least according to a new interview with the one man whose very job it was to be Jordan&amp;#039;s health whisperer. No, says that man, Tim Grover, Jordan&amp;#039;s personal trainer for a decade and a half. Michael was poisoned:  Everyone called it a flu game, but we sat there, we were in the room. We were in Park City, Utah, up in a hotel. Room service stopped at like nine o&amp;#039;clock. And [Michael] got hungry, and we really couldn&amp;#039;t find any other place to eat. So we said, &amp;quot;Hey, the only thing I can find is a pizza place.&amp;quot; So he says, &amp;quot;Alright, order pizza.&amp;quot; We had been there for a while, so everybody knew what hotel \u2014 Park City was not many hotels back then, so everyone kind of knew where we were staying. So we order a pizza. They come to deliver it \u2014 five guys come to deliver this pizza. I take the pizza and I tell him, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got a bad feeling about this. I&amp;#039;ve just got a bad feeling about this.&amp;quot; So out of everybody in the room, he was the only one that ate. Nobody else had it. And then 2 o&amp;#039;clock in the morning I get a call to my room. &amp;quot;Come to the room.&amp;quot; He&amp;#039;s curled up in the fetal position. We&amp;#039;re looking at him, finding the team physician at that time. Immediately I told him, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s food poisoning. Guaranteed.&amp;quot; Not the flu.  Grover did not say whether the &amp;quot;five guys&amp;quot; who delivered the pizza were actually the starting lineup of the Jazz in disguise. Not that they or food poisoning could stop Michael Jordan, who is apparently an even greater Immortal than we&amp;#039;d thought. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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