“I think I’m cursed,” Jordan told CBS Sunday Morning’s Gayle King.
Michael Jordan may have officially retired from basketball in 2003, but being away from playing on the court hasn’t decreased his competitive gene at all, he claims. Jordan has notably remained in the sports world through the business side of things.
He was a majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets for 13 years before selling his stake in 2023. He still owns a minority stake in the team. In 2021, Jordan established 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. Through racing, he’s been able to exert some of his competitiveness.this week in an interview with Gayle King. She interviewed Jordan while on the race track for part of the segment. King asked Jordan if he wanted a “quiet life,” and if so, why he remains so present in professional sports like NASCAR. Jordan was brutally honest about how competition seems to rule his life, even in his 60s.“I think I’m cursed,” Jordan told King. “I’m cursed with this competitive gene that anything that I do, if it’s getting dressed, I gotta get dressed before my wife gets dressed, or I gotta get dressed, you know, those types of things. I’m cursed.”sits down with the basketball legend to talk about his passion for winning, his legal fight to change the sport, and how he channels his drive into new…This would explain why Jordan continues to get involved in groundbreaking sports spaces at his age. It doesn’t sound like he’ll ever live the “quiet life” King brought up. He has to release that competitive energy somehow.Jordan hasn’t shied away from giving his thoughts on the infamous G.O.A.T. debate in the NBA. Fans typically like to choose between calling Jordan or LeBron James the league’s “Greatest of All-Time.” But, Jordan’s previously explained that he doesn’t believe in there being a G.O.A.T. because you can never compare every single basketball player to one another if they don’t get to play on the same court. For instance, Jordan never got to play with legends like Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain, nor does he get to compete against modern legends like James and Kobe Bryant . It seems like an impossible argument, in his opinion.“There’s no such thing as a G.O.A.T. to me. Not to me,” Jordan said. “It’s only because I think we are transcended from other people, other athletes. We learn from other athletes, we progress the game as we move further. To say that one is better than the other is not really right.”"The 'G.O.A.T.’ term is never gonna be something that I ever will get high or low about. It just doesn’t exist with me. I never played against Oscar Robertson or Jerry West. Would've loved to," Jordan said. "And I actually learned from them. And we paved the way for the Kobes and the LeBrons, right? And to me, that's the beauty of the game of basketball that a player, after a previous player, has evolved the game further. But don’t then ... now use that against the players that actually taught you the game or that you learned from. That's why I have a tough time . Look, I would have loved to play against LeBron and Kobe in my prime. ... But we’ll never be able to know that."Madison Williams is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, where she specializes in tennis but covers a wide range of sports from a national perspective. Before joining SI in 2022, Williams worked at The Sporting News. Having graduated from Augustana College, she completed a master’s in sports media at Northwestern University.
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