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BY BRAD GALBREATH

ANCHOR CHRISTY LEWIS

Michael Jordan is back in the spotlight. But it’s not for making a game-winning shot. ESPN’s Chris Broussard fills us in on what the Charlotte Bobcats owner is up to now.

“Michael Jordan, I’ve been told by sources, is right there leading the push with other small market owners… Jordan wants a great deal for the owners, and what they see at 50/50, with the current system issues as they’ve been negotiating, is just not enough for Jordan and some other owners.”

Some are calling it a betrayal, like Fox Sports writer Jason Whitlock.

“A league filled mostly with African-American young men who grew up wanting to be like Mike is finally getting to see just who Michael Jordan is. He’s a cheap, stingy, mean-spirited, cut-throat, greedy, uncaring, disloyal slave to his own bottom line.”

And one Washington Post writer points Jordan is hurting more than his reputation. Rather than making late-game heroics, he could be making a season-killing move.

“Fifty players, including several NBA all-stars, already have threatened to seek to dissolve the union if they don’t receive a satisfactory deal or no deal is produced this weekend.”

ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon say Jordan has changed since his playing days.

“It’s ironic, isn’t it? Jordan once famously in 1998 I believe – 1999 – yelled at Abe Pollin, who owned the Wizards, or the Bullets at the time, where Jordan would later work by the way, and said, if you can’t make any money in this league, sell your team, get out. Jordan now can’t make any money in his league.”

“It’s understandable. It's logical turnabout. When you’re on this side of the aisle, you act as those on that side of the aisle do. You cross over and you own the team, you're an owner now. You're not a player anymore.”

But is MJ the owner really that different from MJ the player? Matt Moore of NBC Sports doesn’t think so.

“Many people have rightfully pointed out, he was for himself then, and he’s for himself now. He wanted more money as a player, and more money as an owner. He’s not inconsistent, he’s just consistently self-centered.”

Apparently not everyone in the Bobcats organization plans to ride out the lockout like MJ. The New York Daily News is reporting a minority stake in the team has been out up for sale.

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