I won NBA title with Michael Jordan at Chicago Bulls – he was so competitive I couldn't leave the pool table for an hour

MICHAEL Jordan had such a fierce competitive drive, he once refused to let one of his Chicago Bulls team-mates leave a pool table for an hour.

During the 1992-93 NBA season, Jordan tried to constantly prove he was the best pool player on the Bulls roster.

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But he met his match in rookie point guard Corey Williams.

The Oklahoma State guard played in just half the games of that championship-winning season, and averaged just seven minutes in the games he did play.

But he made his mark off the court as the Bulls' pool king.

“We had a pool table in our practice facility,” Williams told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

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“Mike was pretty good but didn’t understand how good I was.

"He kept saying, ‘One more game, one more, one more.’ I kept beating him. Finally an hour later, I got to leave."

Williams says he actually wanted to leave the contest with Jordan even though he kept winning but MJ refused to let him go.

“When you look back at it, I’m playing pool with the greatest player of all time, and I’m trying to get out of there," he added. 

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"But he wouldn’t let me leave. You’d think I’d want to keep playing because I was winning money. 

"It was about $1,500, I think. He was saying, ‘Another hundred, another hundred, another hundred'."

After the mammoth pool session, Jordan asked Williams if he wanted to go shopping with him. 

But the rookie turned him down, something he now regrets.

“I’m pretty sure it was in December, before Christmas,” he said. 

“After we were finally done playing pool he said, ‘They’re closing the mall down so I can go shopping. You want to go with me?’ 

"One of the regrets I have was that I didn’t go with him to the mall. Can you imagine that shopping trip? 

"But I never wanted to be a fan, I wanted to be his team-mate. But that one is one of my regrets in life.”

Williams played just one season with the Bulls before moving onto the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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After returning to Oklahoma States as an assistant coach, he finished his playing career in Taiwan in 2008.

He went on to have a long coaching career in the college ranks and is currently an assistant at Auburn.

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