Warriors star shooting guard Klay Thompson idolized the late legend Kobe Bryant while growing up.
Kobe, of course, drew inspiration from -- and modeled his game after -- the one and only Michael Jordan.
And MJ wanted to be just like ...
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... Klay's dad, Mychal?
Well, not exactly.
But over the weekend, ESPN's Ramona Shelburne tweeted an interesting anecdote: "Andy Thompson, NBAE Producer who shot Bulls 98, first met MJ in 91. Apparently MJ loved that Andy’s brother, Mychal Thompson, changed the spelling of his name. MJ was 10 & tried writing his name that way. Mychal Jordan! Until his mom put the kibosh on it."
Here is how Mychal responded when sports broadcaster Spero Dedes tweeted a message at him relating to the above story:
Mychal wasn't done having fun:
Good stuff.
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But we need to quickly circle back to more important matters.
What if Jordan's mother, Deloris, allowed her son to go by "Mychal?!" That's got to be the biggest what-if in NBA history, right?
Just kidding, of course. But it's very safe to assume there would be way more Mychal's walking around in the world if 10-year old Michael got his wish.
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One final tangent -- when Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won the 1991 NBA title, Mychal was a backup big man on the Los Angeles Lakers.
The No. 1 overall pick in the 1978 NBA Draft played a total of 10 minutes in the five-game NBA Finals series -- all in Game 2.
Those were the final minutes of his career as the 36-year-old retired that summer when Klay was about a year-and-a-half old.
One final final tangent -- Klay's older brother is Mychel (same sound as "Michael" and "Mychal"), and he played for the G League's Santa Cruz Warriors from 2013 to 2017.
OK. No more tangents.