MJ sells out players with hard-line stance

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MJ sells out players with hard-line stance
By Jason Whitlock
November 5, 2011

Now that NBA superstars have decided to fully engage in the lockout negotiations and threaten union decertification, David Stern and ownership have decided to unleash their token minority owner from the house to play hardball. According to The New York Times, Michael Jeffrey Jordan, the greatest player of all time, is the owner most determined to bury the union financially. Jordan allegedly wants current players to take a 10- to 20-point basketball-related-income pay cut.

This is the ultimate betrayal. A league filled mostly with African-American young men who grew up wanting to be like Mike is finally getting to see just who Michael Jordan is. He’s a cheap, stingy, mean-spirited, cut-throat, greedy, uncaring, disloyal slave to his own bottom line.

And now Jordan, as the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, wants to be the face of ownership greed and vindictiveness.

Why would basketball players and black people continue to shower adoration on a man who has never once stood up for anything that doesn’t positively impact his financial bottom line, particularly when it’s a man who has made billions off the love of inner-city kids?

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In 1998, just 13 years ago, Jordan famously told Abe Pollin, then owner of the Washington Wizards, that he should sell his team if he can't make a profit, rather than take a "hard stand" against the players. Fourteen years later, with the situation reversed, Jordan now so embodies hard-line ownership that he has become the group's public face.

[lefty]

Well, thats what those kids deserve to try to be like Mike

There is only 1 MJ

[mingus]

He didn't sell anyone out. He's an owner now and was a player then. He never changed his stance if his stance was to always make as much as he could for himself. That seems to be his main drive. I don't think he gives a about principle in a world like the NBA.

[Halberto]

Wasn't he pushing for a hard cap?

[cheguevara]

LOL he retired idiots

[Wild Cobra]

What a bunch of crybabies.