Life story of basketball legend: Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan has won six NBA titles, and his gambling addiction has often been written about throughout his career.
One of the best basketball players of all time, Michael Jordan, is celebrating his 59th birthday. Jordan won six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls during the '90s. He became a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015, and after finishing his playing career, he became the owner of the Charlotte Hornets club. He is still attracting a lot of interest from the world public, and two years ago, according to his last season in the Bulls, the documentary 'The Last Dance ' was filmed.
In addition to an amazing playing career, Jordan also became famous for his love for gambling, which he openly admitted. Before the finals at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, he gambled all night, and journalist Jack McCallum wrote about it in his book 'Dream Team'.
In his spare time, he also played golf, betting large sums. Richard Esquinas, who played golf with him, wrote the book ‘Michael and I: Our Gambling Addiction’ in which he wrote that Michael owed him $ 1.25 million and that he repaid the debt by paying him in installments of $ 300,000.
On the eve of the start of the East Finals in New York in 1993, Jordan spent the night at a casino in Atlantic City. He had previously admitted to losing $ 57,000 in gambling. The death of his father James in 1993 is linked to gambling debts. Namely, it was written that his father was killed because of that, but this has never been proven.
Also, that same year, he briefly retired from basketball and tried his hand at baseball. He claimed that he did it because of his father's death, and it was widely rumored that he was suspended for gambling because he bet on sports, which is forbidden to professional athletes.
Adam Jones, a former American football star, has confirmed that Jordan gambled five million dollars in his company in Las Vegas, and he also appeared at the trial of dealer James Slim Bouler, because his check for 57,000 dollars was found at James. It was later revealed that it was a debt that Jordan repaid him for one weekend of gambling in South Carolina, where gambling is prohibited by law.
It was also rumored that the Bulls knew to hire card players during their visit so that Jordan would not get stuck in the casino. From one such story came that he was extremely stingy in tips, so he gave the waitress who served him all night only five dollars. The basketball player loved to bet on bizarre things with his teammates, like whose bag will be the first to come out on the strip at the airport.
The documentary 'The Last Dance' even shows how he bets with his guards before the game whose coin will end up closer to the wall.
Although he was first in everything, in one thing he failed, to beat teammate Scottie Pippen. Namely, it was rumored that the singer Madonna preferred to go to bed with Pippen, rather than Jordan. Apparently, every time the Bulls visited Los Angeles, she sent a limousine for Pippen, which bothered Michael a lot.
