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One of the things I’ve always wanted to do for a while now has been to do a deep dive on Michael Jordan’s legacy as an executive. Let’s just say it hasn’t gone anywhere near as well as his time as a player. In fact, it’s been outright terrible. The Hornets are merely the victims of such a man’s ambition.
Come on an adventure of hubris, cronyism, and godawful move after godawful move. Only could one of the greatest players of all time be capable of such misery. Perhaps it will end soon? Okay, that’s optimistic.
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lebron is the goat because im a hornets fan
"That man should never go on camera again" had me laughing like a mfker lol, nice one to sneak in
I love when my Miami Heat play there in Charlotte heat nation absolutely dominate that arena you hear let’s go heat for most of the game! 🏀🏀🌴🌴🌴Hopefully we hear a lot those chants all over the country not just in Miami this we coming for our 4th championship this year!!! This time we running it back💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
And now the Kwame-Stephen A feud keeps going, 2 huge lowcows fighting each other time and time again
With the Vonleh pick, they also passed on Nurkic again AND Nikola Jokic
Dwight Howard was also cut by the Nets shortly after and now has a goddamn ring
Yet he got LaMelo, the ROTY that got injured in the middle of the season
And then Batum has his renaissance with the Clippers and becomes a great role player again, sometimes even as a starter
Poor Kemba, he only got injured later and then Rozier has his redemption arc in NC, damn
And now Devonte' went to the Pelicans to replace, ironically, Lonzo, someone please save LaMelo and send LaVar to Neptune
Edit: Wait, he went to the Spurs so we could tank like hell?
To me, this makes more sense than you might think. Jordan is a stellar ballplayer. Easily GOAT contender if not walked off with the trophy before anyone else got in the door. But the one, really big complaint you could level at the Bulls teams was that Jordan was defined by hero ball. The Bulls were not good, Jordan was good and the Bulls as a team existed secondary to Jordan. Now, I'm not saying Jordan's teammates were scrubs, but that this was their strategy. You got Jordan the ball and he did the work. I've seen people factor in a prime Jordan in an old school vs. new school matchup and consistently hand it off to the old school team because while Jordan could outscore everyone on the other team individually, the rest of the old school team had the teamwork to negate Jordan as much as possible. Oscar Robertson muscles Jordan around and is going to know from the outset to get in Jordan's face to quash hero ball antics, Magic gets the whole team involved on every play and forces comparatively much weaker players to make plays on their own or get picked apart by legends who just plain out class them, and unless you're handing Shaq off to the new school team, Wilt Chamberlain's going to bulldoze the other team's center all night long and not even Jordan will have much say about it.
What am I getting at? Jordan was never, and arguably can never due to how talented he was, a team player. Dude literally cannot think outside of his own position and has the worst kind of bad ego. A partially justified one. That's Jordan's problem and why the dude should be as far away from a management position as possible.
The worst professional sports franchise in the history of mankind is the Minnesota Timberwolves.
8:18 😂😂😂😂
Ironically Charlotte looking good now
they are kinda doin pretty ok now tho
Yo that assist at 1:50 though
Bringing in Michael Jordan has to be one of the worst things anyone can do to an NBA franchise. How do I put this… the man is bulletproof. Sports superstars invariably get torn down to some extent no matter how good they are. Patrick Ewing did, Charles Barkley did, Allen Iverson did, Shaquille O'Neal did, Evander Holyfield and Steve Young and Alex Rodriguez and Greg Norman and Michelle Kwan and Chiyonofuji did. That's just how sports media is. Jordan, the only times I remember him getting any heat were during his ill-thought out stint in baseball and the story about him losing a bunch of money to some dipwad (and by "a bunch" I mean "a random number that seemed to change every freaking day"). And it was far from savage. Remember that time he was on the team, rested, loaded, raring to kick butt, and the Bulls lost in 6 to the Magic? Nothing. Freaking nothing.
Worse, not only is basketball seemingly afraid of tearing him down, they're absolutely ferocious about tearing down everyone around him. Two words: Scottie Pippen. When was the last time you heard anything nice about him? It's always big whiner, overpaid, nothing without Jordan, ingrate, lucky bastard, or that time he walked off the court during the playoffs of that one doomed season. (Seriously, Bulls fans' monomaniacal obsession with that one bad moment makes Cavaliers' fans obsession with The Decision look like mild nostalgia.) Everyone throws shade at him. Colin Cowherd threw shade at him. Rick Reilly threw shade at him, for crying out loud. Who's willing to even have the discussion of Lebron James' GOAT credentials? Or Kobe Bryant's? Or Larry Bird's? Or Wilt Chamberlain's? When does Phil Jackson get credit for one solitary thing?
And there are no cracks in his armor. From day one he made very sure to cultivate the image of a cool, indomitable superstar among an entire generation, and now that generation is pulling the levers of power in business and the media. They love him, and he's given them no reason to stop loving him. He's never breathed a word about any of the hot-button issues of his day. Rodney King beating? Mass shootings? President Trump? Black Lives Matter? He's not touching that junk! And guess what, that means that the big businessmen, and marketers, and anyone else with real money or power in this country also loves him.
That's who you're getting when you hire Michael Jordan, and that's what you're getting. A golden god who cannot be criticized, cannot be fought, cannot be swayed, cannot be deterred, and absolutely cannot be removed. All you can do smile and hope for the best. And hope. And hope. And hope…
I'd love to see an update on this now that the Hornets are looking like actual contenders and LaMelo is looking like the man his dad hyped him up to be and Miles Bridges has developed greatly.
Now make one for the Panthers.
1:31
Lamelo: 👀👀👀
Hornets have LaMelo now but they're still mediocre in the 10th seed.
0:56 XD damn self roast
In the words of The Hockey Guy…
"Welcome back."
Eternal play in exit
That why the bulls front office didn't let Michael Jordan be part of gm the Lakers cavs make the mistake letting James get involved
Lebron: He's already doing this in Cleveland and Los Angeles since the 2016 Finals (2020 is an * because of the bubble).
Back after Kenny Atkinson Turned down the Head coaching job. It seems that the Hornets STILL can't get out of their own way
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8:16🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 well for me Nic Batum two looks like a scrub to me
Michael Jordan is the ted Williams of basketball
amazing at playing the sport…but holy shit were they bad at coaching it
I noticed that MJ always drafts flashy names out of the draft instead of ones to develop and build around
Coming here after the Hornets went through one of their worst offseasons in recent history. You thought losing Kemba and overpaying Rozier was bad?
How about:
Having hired Kenny Atkinson as a coach, only for him to change his mind and go back to the Warriors not even a week after the hiring.
This forces the team to panic and bring back Steve Clifford
They had planned on signing Miles Bridges to a max contract, until he was accused of domestic violence, days before he was set to sign the contract. (idiot)
They didn't do anything else to fix their team in free agency, or anything period. And LaMelo Ball is gonna be out for a while.
I honestly think Hornets fans wish their ceiling was wild card exit this year.
BRING OUT THE TANKS
One thing LeBron is doing better is that he's now getting hands-on experience on the results of terrible GMing by wasting his last dance on a horrible Lakers team he himself built. With any luck he'll learn from this.
Jordan and the Hornets is the perfect example of why you never put a player in the executive chair
Out of all the videos that UTree has done that have aged well.
This one has definitely aged very well for sure as I go back and see as well as see Jordan putting his head down in a recent Hornets game today.
Now MJ is potentially selling his stake if the Hornets
Now Michael Jordan is looking to sell the Charlotte Hornets.
And now MJ is planning to sell the Hornets.
And with the Sacramento Kings making the playoffs, the Hornets now have the longest active playoff in the NBA.
SELL THE FUCKING TEAM, MICHAEL.
Now the Hornets have the longest active playoff drought in the NBA