According to Associated Press, basketball deity Michael Jordan is making it known that he is interested in purchasing the rest of the Charlotte Bobcats if and when current owner Bob Johnson decides to sell his controlling interest in the team.
Jordan bought a minority stake in the Bobcats in 2006 and Johnson gave him total control over the team’s basketball operations.
“When Bob wants to step aside, I have no problem stepping in and saying, ‘Hey, look, I’d love to take control of this franchise,’” Jordan said in a story on the newspaper’s website. “But Bob, he’s not at that point now. He still enjoys owning the basketball team.”
Listen…as an athlete, Michael Jordan can do little wrong in our eyes. If you lived in Chicago during the 90’s, you obviously know of what we write.
MJ simply is basketball.
HOWEVER, His Airness (like the rest of us do at a much earlier age) needs to do a little self-examination and learn his limitations. Trying to pretend he’s a basketball executive is most definitely one of his downfalls. His ultra-competiveness does not translate to the subdued tone of a front office. Plus, he’s just never there. The same complaints about his seemingly part-time tenure with the Washington Wizards are now popping up in Charlotte. You can’t run your franchise from Chicago, Mike.
There is also another factor prohibiting Jordan’s success as a high level team exec…he’s a single guy once again. He’s out on the prowl for tail every night of the week and his ‘employees’ know it. It’s hard to have real respect for your boss when he’s outpulling you on the nightly trim hunt. Plus, jet setting to Vegas every weekend, only to then have salacious (yet fun) pictures splashed across the blogosphere, doesn’t really help MJ’s credibility.
If and when Mike settles down and acts like the responsible business man he wants the world to see, instead of the typical dumb jock stereotype he is currently portraying…he might have a chance at real success. Until then, Jordan should let Bob Johnson keep the struggling Charlotte franchise.
Here’s why we’ll always worship Michael, though. We chide because we love. He did it to himself. If he wasn’t just so fucking good on the hardwood, we might overlook his liabilities as a businessman. (Like we do ‘No Tippin’ Pippen’)
