The four-time MVP a free agent again in 49 weeks and will look for the best place to win another NBA title. At the moment, that place isn’t Cleveland
The matter of LeBron James v Michael Jordan has been debated once or twice before. This column will not be another entry into that genre. That’s a promise. But maybe we can all briefly agree on just one thing about those two esteemed basketball gentlemen before moving on: Michael Jordan is much better than LeBron James at holding a grudge.
Twenty-three years ago, when Tim Tebow was just a six-year-old attending homsechool in Florida, Michael Jordan tried his hand at baseball. It didn’t go too well. Sports Illustrated wrote about his foray into the game and tagged the piece with the dismissive cover headline: “Bag It, Michael”. To this day, Jordan does not grant interviews to Sports Illustrated. Yes, 23 years of salt to the world’s biggest sports magazine, the publication’s staff at the time long since turned over multiple times. All because of a flippant headline that ran before a baseball season in which he hit .202. So just imagine the great vengeance and furious anger that Jordan would have rained down on an NBA owner who dared to mock and belittle him as a basketball player and a man in a public letter, as Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert did to James post-Decision in July of 2010. Regardless of the font, Jordan’s reaction would have been sans comedy.
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