Michael Jordan once shattered a backboard in Italy

Every hoops-head remembers Shaquille O'Neal breaking backboards across America throughout the 1990s, but few basketball fanatics are aware of Michael Jordan doing the same in Italy a decade earlier.

Here's the story of that magical, glass-shattering Italian jam from His Airness.

"The game of basketball became a virus - an intended virus. We were happy to be sick."