Michael Jordan, who was known for clutch performances in the Playoffs during his NBA career, witnessed Tyler Reddick, who drives for his 23XI Racing team, flash a clutch performance of his own at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
As an NBA Player, Michael Jordan had ice coursing through his veins. Time after time, when his Chicago Bulls team needed Jordan to close out an important Playoff game, No. 23 took the ball into his hands and sunk a shot at the buzzer, which would serve as the proverbial dagger stabbing through the heart of his competition.
"He was just really proud, the fight that we had, never giving up, fighting through the adversity," Reddick explained in his post-race press conference. "Just really, really proud of the effort we put forth. "Little kid drove his ass off. I'm proud of him," Jordan said of Reddick in a jubilent interview on the NBC Sports broadcast.
Now, in just four seasons, his team has gone from a startup to a true championship contender. But while they're nearly at the mountain top in the NASCAR Cup Series, 23XI Racing still faces choppy waters ahead. Following a two-plus-year negotiation surrounding the Team Charter Agreement, which had developed into a stalemate NASCAR allegedly forced the feet of the NASCAR Cup Series team owners to the fire with what 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have described in their antitrust lawsuit, filed by all-star antitrust attorney Jeffrey Kessler, as a last-minute take it or leave it deal.
Without Charters, the teams will earn some money as an "Open" team, but it'll be a much smaller chunk of the overall pie as NASCAR issues a percentage of the Media Rights Agreement money back into the weekly race purse, which is distributed among the 36 Chartered entries. The non-chartered entries in NASCAR compete for a much smaller pile of cash, which is partly why no Open team has competed in a full season in recent years.
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