Since the beginning of the presidency of Donald trump, NBA champions are no longer traveling to the White House. Before this disruption in the Force, having a drink with POTUS was a tradition in the NBA. Except for some, who did not hesitate to cut it to make something more interesting in their eyes. Like Michael Jordan, for example … In 1991, after the first title of his career, MJ was thus absent subscribers at the petit fours and champagne meeting with George Bush Sr. Shortly after, he explained that a family event long-planned had prevented him from going to Washington that day. The reality is a little different, as Yahoo tells us this week.
While Phil Jackson, Scottie Pippen and their comrades were toasting with Bill Clinton’s predecessor, Michael Jordan was on a golf course. Nothing too bad, except that he was in the company of James “Slim” Bouler, a drug dealer convicted a few years later for money laundering. The two men obviously bet big, since during his testimony at the Bouler trial, Jordan admitted having given a check for $ 57,000 to the accused as part of a bet on this same round of golf …
Michael Jordan had not been worried in the end and had defended himself thus:
“To tell the truth, I play golf with people all the time. If they want to bet money, we bet money. As for the personality of these individuals, I don’t find out who they are really only after playing with them … I learned the lesson. But the fact of having bet money? I did nothing wrong “.
This was unfortunately a little harbinger of the problems that Michael Jordan encountered a little later in his career and on which we still do not know the truth …
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