Q: Did Michael Jordan send shots at you during the 2010 Celebrity Basketball? What happened? Common: I don't know, man. He's just, you know, he’s Mike, man. I mean, Melo knows, Mike is a winner, and he ain't going to let you like feel like you can do something that when you really ain't doing it. I thought I was doing something, cuz I played in the Celebrity Game, and I got off in that game. And then I saw him at this party that night, the Jordan Brand party, and he was like, "Man, stick to rapping and acting." He crushed me, man. I thought he was about to give me some love, like, "Yo." He was like, "Man, stick to rapping and acting, man." I said, "Damn, Mike!” But I love, you know, when he talked sh*t, like, it's love. And you’re getting it from
the GOAT, man. It's all good. Chicago, that's what it is. Cats was talking crazy, you know, it make you better in many ways.
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As great as Myles Garret is, even he has idols he looks up to. Garrett appeared as a guest on “Boardroom Talks,” and listed former Los Angeles Lakers Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant as someone he constantly studies. “You get to see the duality of it,” Garrett said. “You have [Lawrence Taylor], you have Kobe, you have [Michael Jordan], who have a killer instinct. It exudes from them. They want to kill you, want to take you out the game.” — 8/28/2026 New York Post
Stephen Jackson on LeBron James signing with Sixers: I was one of those guys that thought he would go somewhere he was familiar to, even go to Cleveland. I thought for me that made the most sense because all the talk you hear about the GOATs and him comparing him to Jordan and Kobe, for me, if he was thinking about it, which he probably never did, but Cleveland was the only thing that made sense for me to keep him in that conversation, because you go back home, you bring another championship there with the team they have there, I think that's bigger than winning the championship with any other team that's already built to win the championship. You’re the best player in the league as you say. So going to a team that's already championship ready, that's not what I would look at as the best player in the league challenging himself. You know what I'm saying? He's done it before and he has the right to make his own decision, just like I have the right to my opinion. I don't think that was a best-player-in-the-league move of what a guy that I respect as being the best player in the league would do. — 8/28/2026 YouTube
A Ferrari once owned by Michael Jordan, which later disappeared from public view for more than two decades before being rediscovered earlier this year, will sell at auction this September. Purchased in 1997, the Ferrari made its most notable cameo with Jordan behind the wheel following Game 6 of the 1997 NBA Finals, where Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls dynasty secured their fifth championship. The 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello, which has a pre-sale estimate of $700,000-$1.3 million, is being brought to auction through a partnership between marketplace Joopiter and Curated, the supercar dealership responsible for rediscovering the vehicle. — 8/26/2026 New York Times
Michael Jordan is not expected to return to NBC Sports’s NBA coverage, Front Office Sports has learned. NBC scored a major coup when it landed His Airness as a “special on-air contributor” before the 2025–26 season. It was the first time Air Jordan really talked basketball on TV since 2020’s The Last Dance documentary, which focused on his Bulls dynasty. NBC aired all six of Jordan’s NBA titles during the network’s golden era of 1990s basketball coverage. — 8/26/2026 Front Office Sports
A piece of NBA history donned by Michael Jordan in the 1998 Finals against the Utah Jazz is set to hit auction next month. A game-worn jersey sported by Jordan in game three at the United Center is expected to reach an eight-figure price tag while on auction from September 15 to September 29. — 8/26/2026 sports.ksl.com
There may be no bigger fan of Scottie Barnes than Darko Rajakovic. The Toronto Raptors head coach recently sat down for an interview in his native Serbia, during which he likened the franchise star to one of the all-time greats. "I think there is no coach and there is no success for a coach without players," the bench boss — about to enter his fourth season holding the clipboard in Toronto — began explaining in Serbian. "You look at all our greatest coaches, who are fantastic ... they all became great coaches by taking care of the players, and I think that's on every level ... there's no Phil Jackson without Michael Jordan. My Michael Jordan is Scottie Barnes." — 8/23/2026 SportsNet
Gough, 42, never found out who the original owner was and had to sign an NDA in the deal, so is unable to disclose how much he paid for jersey — which he displayed at his house in Puerto Rico for two years before he put it in a vault to keep it safe. “It’s interesting, because I have a lot of great art. And when people come to the house, they skip right over the art and go right to the jersey,” he said. “That’s when I realized that this stuff is the new modern art.” — 8/23/2026 New York Post
The owner of Michael Jordan’s Game 3 1998 NBA Finals jersey has predicted it could fetch a jaw-dropping $100 million — shattering the record for the most expensive piece of game-worn sports memorabilia ever sold. Sports investor and actor Rob Gough is selling the one-of-a-kind white, game-winning jersey four years after he purchased it, The Post can exclusively reveal. “I think this will be the first jersey to hit $100 million,” he said. — 8/23/2026 New York Post
Can a league restrict opportunities for a business to engage in sponsorship and endorsement negotiations with a team and a player on that team? This is a dicey topic, because there are businesses that enter into contracts with teams and players on those teams, and the inability to continue doing so could raise antitrust law, labor law, intellectual property law, freedom-of-contract and other legal problems. Forget the Clippers and Leonard for a moment. Consider when Michael Jordan owned the Charlotte Hornets. Several Hornets players, including Kemba Walker and Cody Zeller, had endorsement deals with Jordan Brand, the Nike-owned company closely associated with Jordan. That might have seemed like a conflict of interest, but it broke no NBA rules. — 8/21/2026 Sportico
During a recent episode of "The Pat Bev Show," former NBA player Patrick Beverley boldly claimed he would pick Ja Morant ahead of NBA legend and arguably the greatest pure point guard of all time, John Stockton. Although such a statement could be deemed blasphemous, Beverley justified it by stating: "Some people go John Stockton. I'm going Ja Morant. Some people go John Stockton because he's an actual point guard. He's going to get the ball where it needs to be. He's going to be heavy on the pocket pass. He's going to be a great leader. That's cool. Ja Morant is running circles around John Stockton's a–. Straight up. He's going to be jumping over John Stockton's a–.""I'm talking about the Stockton with the little shorts that was playing against Michael Jordan and them. I'm a huge Stockton fan. He played against the greatest ever. He did compete. I'm not taking that away from him. As a better player, a lot of people would take John Stockton. I'm taking Ja Morant." — 8/20/2026 Yahoo! Sports
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