Just in time for the NBA draft, the Charlotte Bobcats have a new part-owner named Michael Jordan. His official title will be “managing member of basketball operations,” which is great news for any young 6’11″ power forward draft prospects out there who have incredible workout skills, no basketball sense, and moist vaginas. Bob Johnson, who will remain the majority owner of the Bobcats, had this to say:
“Ever since I acquired the Bobcats franchise, one of my goals has been to get Michael Jordan to become my partner in operating the team,” Johnson said. “I don’t think I have to make the case for Michael’s basketball expertise, his knowledge or his competitiveness as a player. He will be the point guy for every decision to be made about player personnel.”
Well, no, you don’t. But I’d like to hear you make the case that there is evidence in existence that Michael Jordan is good at making NBA personnel decisions. The Wizards have just now recovered from the Jordan era. At the very least, he certainly didn’t do anything to help the Wizards.
So I guess MJ won’t be a part of any effort to buy the Trailblazers. I was kinda holding out a little bit of hope that he, Magic, and Charles Barkley would come together with that three-way ownership deal they were talking about. Guess not… it’s too bad, that would have been fun.
chris
KWAME BROWN
June 16, 2006 at 10:50 am
max power
In the opinion of one Bullets fan: Michael Jordan = douche bag. Oh I forgot Kwame, Jordan = retarded douche bag
June 16, 2006 at 11:53 am
Doug
I beg to differ. I might be wrong, but I’m pretty sure MJ was the man responsible for ridding the Wizards of Juwan Howard and that in itself was huge. They might not have gotten great players in return, but that move freed up a ton of cap space. I think he got rid of a shitty Mitch Richmond as well, and maybe Rod Strickland.
Regardless, he walked into a shitty situation, and did what he could to give them chance. Moving those terrible contracts helped.
June 16, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Moose Bigelow
His first move should be hiring Ric Flair as Head Coach.
June 16, 2006 at 4:34 pm
chuckdaddy2000
I wonder how (and if) this will effect the Bobcat’s draft.
June 16, 2006 at 7:37 pm
chuckdaddy2000
Oops, just read he’ll have complete control over basketball decisiona. So forget the if.
June 16, 2006 at 7:39 pm
The Big Picture
pull in Kwame is a player coach.
June 16, 2006 at 9:35 pm