Charlotte News Observer: Why Jordan has become a hard-liner

Simple ... context. Those remarks were made within a specific context--when MJ was still a player and just concerned about his salary.

Now MJ's circumstances (and the NBA's) are different. As an owner, he has to watch out for his bottom line. We would do the same thing if we were in his shoes.

So let's cut MJ some slack, okay? Not as if we have never gone back on anything we have said.

 

i read an interesting article somewhere saying that players have leverage in publically saying that they wont sign with hardline owners. It's basically about players not wanting to join teams or giving teams a disadvantage because they went againstthe players in the lockout

It is possible that by jordan doing this, he is negatively portraying his organization and possibly better players (who have choices) may be deterred from playing for him

 

exactly, guys like these are a major problem. bunch of whiny no-name brats that sit on the bench and expect to earn 5+ million. thinking they are owed it rather than earning it. so many inflated salaries out there.

 

hurray for rational posts!

 

Jordan should never have owned a team.

 

The guy who began his HOF speech by belittling his own kids and then upbraiding his imaginary enemies having a bitter attitude to younger faster and stronger? No way...

I predict Jordan's going to spend the rest of his waking years in basketball as the charter member of "Back-in-the-day" ism club, crapping on today's players, becuase he had to play 163 games a year uphill, both ways, in the snow traveling on broken down buses and staying at Motel 6's.

 

Dang! No credit for growth?

Ya'll suck. No reason to hate on MJ.

 

I think most hard-line owners won't get frozen out too much when free agency starts (maybe one offseason, if that), but MJ will. You expect other owners to stick it to the players, but players will feel betrayed by MJ because he used to be one of them and everybody looked up to him. It's much easier to hold a grudge against a traitor. It also helps that Jordan's team sucks, his front office sucks, and his market sucks.

Did you cut and paste that from the dictionary's definition of hypocrisy?

I usually avoid calling people hypocrites (it seems hypocritical of me to do so), but I don't know if you can get any more textbook than this.