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Sleepy Floyd on the game that almost ended Michael Jordan’s career: ‘You didn’t know the significance of the injury.’

Sleepy Floyd doesn’t remember much about the specific moment Michael Jordan broke his foot, just that, all of a sudden, the Golden State Warriors had a better chance of beating the Chicago Bulls that October night in 1985.

“A lot of that game I can’t recollect, other than the fact that I remember him injuring himself,” Floyd, 60, said in a phone interview this week. “It didn’t change anything that we did on the court, but obviously it made the game against the Bulls a lot less challenging once he went out.

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“You didn’t know if he was returning to the game.