The Old Conspiracy: Was Jordan's first retirement a COVERUP?

[Im Still Ballin]

Atlantic City
Gambling debts
The Mafia
Assasinated Dad
A billion dollar icon
A disguised suspension
A covert baseball cover story

What do YOU think?

[TheWinningFam]

You also forgot the Clutch city rockets incomming..

Jordan knew that hakeem would destroy the bulls in the finals as they had noone to guard him, so he decided to collude with the white sox to avoid a suspension and losing to the rockets all in 1 year.. all of which would have knocked him out of the top 10..

[poido123]

You also forgot the Clutch city rockets incomming..

Jordan knew that hakeem would destroy the bulls in the finals as they had noone to guard him, so he decided to collude with the white sox to avoid a suspension and losing to the rockets all in 1 year.. all of which would have knocked him out of the top 10..



Go get a rope and do something useful

[poido123]

He fulfiiled his dad's wish to be a baseball player, plus he lost the drive to play basketball stating that he had accomplished everything in the sport up til that point and he felt deflated.

[Sarcastic]

Still more honorable than having your mom banged by Delonte West.

[SexSymbol]

who gives a sh it.
A man's father died, nothin else matters in this situation. It was tragic and it still is.

[poido123]

Still more honorable than having your mom banged by Delonte West.



:lol

[keep-itreal]

Still more honorable than having your mom banged by Delonte West.
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[Spurs5Rings2014]

Still more honorable than having your mom banged by Delonte West.

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[Stringer Bell]

I don't think David Stern would suspend his biggest star for gambling.

I'm more inclined to believe it was a mixture of being burnt out/emotionally drained and also being depressed from his father's murder.

He was noticeably bitter towards the media in his retirement speech.

Makes you wonder how crazy the media attention would have been if he played in today's game.

[scandisk_]

Still more honorable than having your mom banged by Delonte West.


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that should shut him up

[dreamwarrior]

I believe he himself wanted to get rid of his gambling problem, the problem which is probably what lead to his father getting killed. I didn't think it back then, but the fact that he was able to hit .200 in the minor leagues (double A) is actually quite impressive. There are 1st round picks who werent able to hit .200 in single A baseball. I was a better ball player than Jordan in HS but I doubt I could've hit .200.

[dazzer87]

Still more honorable than having your mom banged by Delonte West.
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[Goldrush25]

This was in MJ's first retirement speech.


Five years down the road, if the urge comes back, if the Bulls will have me, if David Stern lets me back in the league, I may come back

It's fair to wonder what he meant by this. "If David Stern lets me back in the league?" Why would that even be an issue?

[Hey Yo]

I don't think David Stern would suspend his biggest star for gambling.

I'm more inclined to believe it was a mixture of being burnt out/emotionally drained and also being depressed from his father's murder.

He was noticeably bitter towards the media in his retirement speech.

Makes you wonder how crazy the media attention would have been if he played in today's game.
If he played today with the intense media and social media, we would see him coming out of casino's at 4am and learn of him being addicted to gambling. Learn of him punching 3 different teammates.

Would NIKE even go with the "Be Like Mike" campaign to prop up a known compulsive gambler with a short fuse?

[Doranku]

Still more honorable than having your mom banged by Delonte West.

lmao

[Stringer Bell]

This was in MJ's first retirement speech.



It's fair to wonder what he meant by this. "If David Stern lets me back in the league?" Why would that even be an issue?

It was indeed a strange choice of words, even back then, people were wondering why he said that.

My guess is that if the NBA found any evidence that Michael Friggin Jordan of all people was gambling on NBA games, they would try to cover it up. Jordan was the Golden Boy who earned them lots and lots of money.

The NBA finals ratings went down big time when Jordan wasn't in it.

[fourkicks44]

Such an inappropriate titled thread.

Should be "The New Conspiracy".

-Cooked up by a Lebron fan and his many alts all posting in this thread.

You mofos make me laugh, I will give you that.

[MiseryCityTexas]

You also forgot the Clutch city rockets incomming..

Jordan knew that hakeem would destroy the bulls in the finals as they had noone to guard him, so he decided to collude with the white sox to avoid a suspension and losing to the rockets all in 1 year.. all of which would have knocked him out of the top 10..

Even diehard Rockets fans will tell you that Jordan's Bulls woulda probably won against the Rockets if he woulda never retired.

[hateraid]

I don't think David Stern would suspend his biggest star for gambling.

I'm more inclined to believe it was a mixture of being burnt out/emotionally drained and also being depressed from his father's murder.

He was noticeably bitter towards the media in his retirement speech.

Makes you wonder how crazy the media attention would have been if he played in today's game.
People today are less understanding and more critical. Jordan would have been murked in all media platforms. He'd be seen as a quitter. It would be just as scrutinized as he decision

[Im Still Ballin]

People today are less understanding and more critical. Jordan would have been murked in all media platforms. He'd be seen as a quitter. It would be just as scrutinized as he decision
There's a lot more information and people with opinions these days

[Dragonyeuw]

Not sure how MJ would be viewed as a 'quitter' coming off a 3peat, maybe if he lost, but anyway.....

It's hard to say how MJ would react in this era, the same thing may not have happened as it did. In Jordan's era, the type of media attention he was receiving was pretty much unheard of at the time. Every move, every time he was seen on the golf course before a game, was a national headline and a topic of pre-game chat, and particularly became a big deal if MJ had a bad game to boot.

Nowadays, players have come along in the social media age, used to their lives blasted all over facbook and twitter, or Stephen A and Skip debating their every move for an hour on first take. Athletes have had to grow thick skin the past decade. Considering how MJ was known for taking slights personally, maybe all that fuels him even more. Imagine MJ's reaction to Skip criticizing him after a subpar game or something to that effect.

He probably adapts to the era just as modern eras have adapted, but whose really to say? How many athletes have dealt with their father murdered in cold blood during a year when he was already tiring of all the intense media coverage? The stories about MJ being 'mean' to teammates had come out a year or two earlier....all of that built to what happened. Court-wise, he was coming off a 32ppg season, championship and FMVP playing the game at an extremely high level in the finals. There certainly weren't 'basketball' reasons for him to just up and quit.