Looks like there's no hope for a Bulls homecoming for Michael Jordan
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What insights did Michael Jordan share about his career in the recent interview?
Rahimi Harrison-Groovy, Midday's Kittle 2, on Chicago Sports Radio 1240.
This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score. And remember that time we all got excited about Michael Jordan going to be on NBC, on the NBA on NBC? All those insights. And we thought it was going to be some sort of regular contributor role, and instead it was just an interview in one room where we got micro-dosed to the same interview for several weeks. And then pretty quickly it became not as topical because... You want the biggest name in the history of your sport to talk about the biggest issues in your sport, and then that didn't happen the same?
It's more insights to his excellence and his time than it was to anything going on currently.
And I, because I observed the Raiders for years, keep thinking it's commitment to excellence, but that's an entirely different thing. But I don't mind that I make the joke. So I say all of that to say this. It would appear that Michael Jordan is talking to other networks with a little more candor than he did the commitment to excellence. So here he is with Gayle King on CBS Sunday Morning saying the part that we all wondered out loud. Are you ever, are you ever coming back?
Michael?
When I say I wanted to retire and get to a quieter life, I wanted to get away from basketball in terms of what I represented in that arena and how big I've gotten. And it was such a huge burden for me. Here, I'm not in that same realm. Still not the same as me playing in Chicago and those types of things. But it's something that I think keeps me alive when you say burden what do you mean burden the burden of living a certain way trying to maintain whatever everybody's perspective is for you that is a burden then at some point in time you say i'm tired of you know i'm tired of doing that nothing left to prove nothing at all is there a teeny tiny part of you that misses basketball that misses oh yeah oh 100 it's not just a teeny it's a huge piece but i've compensated that that that feeling through nascar but
That urge to dream that if I wish I can still pick up a basketball. You would. I would love to do that. You would? Believe me. My competitive juices have said, yeah, I would definitely love to do that.
Gayle King is all of us. As she's asking the question, hearing the answer, it's like, but we love that version of Michael Jordan. And the reality hits that he's never coming back, Mark.
Honestly. I'm just like anybody. I want more Michael all the time. I would love some United Center moments that he just won't give us. But I hear him. Like when he says it's a huge burden, that is a man being dead honest. And that's always what I suspected, that the love that he gets is, and it sounds crazy, right, is overwhelming. It reminds me of the analogy I am going to make here, kids, is one Eddie Vedder from the lead singer of Pearl Jam said, and how he couldn't handle, hated being the voice of a generation, which he was dubbed in the middle 90s, and they hated, hated Pearl Jam, mostly Eddie Vedder, hated their fame because it got to be too much, and it was a huge burden. So while I hate the answer because it means that we're not going to get as much, Michael, I love the answer, and I accept the answer from MJ.
There was a part of me that wanted to make a joke about how he's gotten soft. But realistically, there is no joke to be made here. The problem is he exceeded expectations for so long that then that became the expectation. It's his own success. And I think we don't understand how much he actually pushed himself, even though we saw glimpses in the last dance. I don't even think we scratched the surface of what he must have done to himself mentally every single day to do what he did on the court every single day. We saw some of the victims, you know, the Scott Burrells of the world, things like that. We saw some. But we didn't see all of what that took out of him every day. And when he tries to allude to it, it's almost with an air of trauma.
And when he talks about how he had to redirect it with Gayle King just now, Gayle was all of us asking those questions.
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