Michael Jordan to serve as a "Special Contributor" for the NBA on NBC
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Mark Gassed-A-Heaux
NBC should lean all the way into the "NBA old guard hates on NBA new school" angle that NBA media and the fanbase love so much and have MJ become their version of 60 Minutes' Andy Rooney.
Just have him delivering a crotchety old man sermon in his whiniest voice about why the current NBA just isn't doing it for him at all during the last 5 minutes of the studio show before they sign off for the night.
Vic Damone. Jr
Don't support the phonies, support the real
BK The Great
Veteran
I’m a Jordan fan so and grew up with the NBA On NBC so 
BK The Great
Veteran
I agree we need more details but I think it was left vague intentionally. I think its gonna be more in line the (un) bolded
He will probably come through to comment on big time matchups and the ASG and Finals (they gettin that? Cant remember).
JesusFOREVER
Superstar
Great move- Jordan’s still face of the NBA
Bleedin Gums Murphy
All Star
This is a story from 2013, and he was crotchety then
OVER THE NEXT seven hours, all of it spent watching one basketball game after another, he's again pulled inward, on a Tilt-a-Whirl of emotion, mostly shades of anger, from active screaming to a slow, silent burn. He transforms from a businessman returning from the office -- Honey, I'm home! -- to a man on fire. The first sparks come from a "SportsCenter" debate, one of those impossible, vaguely ridiculous arguments that can, of course, never be won: Who's a better quarterback, Joe Montana or Tom Brady?
"I can't wait to hear this conversation," he says.
He stretches his legs out on the ottoman, wearing sweats and socks, and as one of the guys on television argues for Brady, Jordan laughs.
"They're gonna say Brady because they don't remember Montana," he says. "Isn't that amazing?"
[…]
The debaters announce the results of an Internet poll, and 925,000 people voted. There was a tie: 50 percent said Montana and 50 percent said Brady. It doesn't matter that Montana never lost a Super Bowl or that, unlike Brady, he never faded on the biggest stage. Questions of legacy, of greatness, are weighted in favor of youth. Time itself is on Brady's side, for now.
Jordan shakes his head.
"That doesn't make any sense," he says.
[…]
JORDAN PLAYS his new favorite trivia game, asking which current players could be nearly as successful in his era. "Our era," he says over and over again, calling modern players soft, coddled and ill-prepared for the highest level of the game. This is personal to him, since he'll be compared to this generation, and since he has to build a franchise with this generation's players.
"I'll give you a hint," he says. "I can only come up with four."
He lists them: LeBron, Kobe, Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki. As he's making his point, Yvette walks into the living room area and, in a tone of voice familiar to every husband who argues sports with his buddies, asks, "You guys need anything?"
When someone on TV compares LeBron to Oscar Robertson, Jordan fumes. He rolls his eyes, stretches his neck, frustrated. "It's absolutely … " he says, catching himself. "The point is, no one is critiquing the personnel that he's playing against. Their knowledge of how to play the game … that's not a fair comparison. That's not right … Could LeBron be successful in our era? Yes. Would he be as successful? No."
[…]
The announcers gush about LeBron, mentioning him in the same sentence with Jordan, who hears every word. Those words have an effect on him. He stares at the TV and points out a flaw in LeBron's game.
"I study him," he says.
When LeBron goes right, he usually drives; when he goes left, he usually shoots a jumper. It has to do with his mechanics and how he loads the ball for release. "So if I have to guard him," Jordan says, "I'm gonna push him left so nine times out of 10, he's gonna shoot a jump shot. If he goes right, he's going to the hole and I can't stop him. So I ain't letting him go right."
For the rest of the game, when LeBron gets the ball and starts his move, Jordan will call out some variation of "drive" or "shoot." It's not just LeBron. He sees fouls the officials miss, and the replays prove him right. When someone shoots, he knows immediately whether it's going in. He calls out what guys are going to do before they do it, more plugged into the flow of the game than some of the players on the court. He's answering texts, buried in his phone, when the play-by-play guy announces a LeBron jump shot. Without looking up, Jordan says, "Left?"
ESPN/ABC
Have him do sideline for Home Knick and Bulls(?) Games so we know that it's Real
) from 1984 forward, even decades after he retired. The campaign can’t stop.
THATS NOT EVEN MJ STYLE.
HE NEVER PUBLICLY TRASHES NBA PLAYERS
