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NBA icon Michael Jordan says he hasn’t touched a basketball ‘in years’

dramabreakBy dramabreakOctober 23, 2025No Comments4 Mins Read
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Michael Jordan was nervous.

All he needed to do was sink a free throw, however loads was driving on that one shot.

It had nothing to do with a championship or a scoring title or the result of any significant recreation.

It had all the things to do with being Michael Jordan, the person thought-about by many to be the best basketball participant of all time.

In his new position as a particular contributor to NBC’s protection of the NBA — which returned to the community Tuesday evening after a 23-year absence — Jordan was interviewed by Mike Tirico in a section known as “MJ: Insights to Excellence.”

In it, the six-time NBA champion who remains to be the league’s all-time chief in factors per recreation made a considerably startling admission.

“I haven’t picked up a ball in years,” Jordan stated.

Pressed on the matter by a surprised Tirico, Jordan stated he was final persuaded to shoot a ball when he was renting a home throughout the Ryder Cup (he didn’t specify that it was the latest version of the biennial occasion that befell final month in Farmingdale, N.Y.).

The home had a basketball court docket, and the house owner wished his grandchildren to see the legendary participant in motion. Jordan agreed to try one free throw.

“Once I stepped as much as shoot your free throw, it’s probably the most nervous I’ve been in years,” Jordan stated. “The reason is is these youngsters heard the tales of the mother and father about what I did 30 years in the past. So the expectation is 30 years prior, and I haven’t touched the basketball.”

However that is Air Jordan we’re speaking about.

He swished it, proper?

Proper???

“Completely,” Jordan stated. “Probably the most gratifying occasion that made my entire week is that I used to be in a position to please that child, not realizing if I may.”

Jordan retired as a participant for the third and last time in 2003. Since then, he has develop into a extremely profitable businessman — he was the controlling proprietor of the Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets from 2010-2023 (he nonetheless retains a minority possession within the workforce) and is the controlling proprietor of the NASCAR Cup Collection workforce 23XI Racing — with a web price of near $4 billion.

Along with his enterprise pursuits, Jordan instructed Tirico, he strives to spend as a lot time as potential together with his household.

“You by no means actually know if you find yourself within the prime of your profession how a lot time you actually do not need for household,” Jordan stated. “That’s what I’ve time to do now. I imply, probably the most beneficial asset I’ve is time. In order that’s most likely why you don’t see sufficient of me, as a result of that point I’m attempting to spend with relations and issues that I’ve been lacking out on for such a very long time.”

All that stated, nonetheless, Jordan admits he nonetheless loves basketball and does want he might be on the market on the court docket taking part in at his peak.

“In all honesty, I want I may take a magic capsule, placed on shorts and exit and play the sport of basketball right now,” Jordan stated. “As a result of that’s who I’m. That kind of competitors, that kind of competitiveness is what I dwell for, and I miss it. I miss that facet of taking part in the sport of basketball, with the ability to problem myself in opposition to what folks see as nice basketball.

“However it’s higher for me to be sitting right here speaking to you, versus popping my Achilles and I’m in a wheelchair for some time, but it surely’s good to have the ability to share the issues that may nonetheless make the sport nice going ahead.”

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