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What ‘The Last Dance’ didn’t tell you: Michael Jordan destroyed the Warriors before comeback

Here’s something you didn’t hear about on “The Last Dance.”

Before Michael Jordan made his celebrated return to basketball in 1995, he secretly worked out with the Golden State Warriors as sort of a litmus test to see if he was NBA-ready.

The outcome? After engaging in a little trash talk with Warriors stars Tim Hardaway and Latrell Sprewell, Jordan basically went out and dominated.

“We knew he was coming back then,” Hardaway says in a new podcast. “He just took over our practice … It was like he never left.