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too many people have seen chicken and i in the same place before 
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Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:18 pm to SlowFlowPro
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how many members of the jordan family would die before people started getting curious?
I hope you're just going for the joke
Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:20 pm to Lloyd Christmas
It makes no sense. Why would he suspend him a year and a half. Why not 1 year or 2 years. If you believe this you should believe in Santa Claus.
Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:24 pm to tigers911
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It makes no sense. Why would he suspend him a year and a half. Why not 1 year or 2 years. If you believe this you should believe in Santa Claus.
I know what a lowlife Stern is, I know Jordan is a degenerate gambler. 2+2. It wasn't 2 years because Stern needed Jordan back, ratings were sagging. Stern cares infinitely more about money than integrity.
May not be true, I just think that this is closer to the truth than the retirement of a driven competitor
Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:28 pm to tigers911
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It makes no sense. Why would he suspend him a year and a half.
the temporal elements of the suspension may not have mattered. ASSUMING this was true, stern couldn't know when jordan would get his shite together, so i doubt there would be a timeline. it would be more like, "when you get your shite together, we can talk"
Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:28 pm to SlowFlowPro
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follow up: ASSUMING it's true, could something like this ever happen again? i don't think so
It could happen again because other players have been suspended for drug use. The cover up can't happen again because of social media.
Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:31 pm to HT713
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Kalunda is actually SlowFloPro....
FIFY
Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:38 pm to Sophandros
There is no evidence this happen. The story does not make sense at all. No reasonable grownup in his right mind would believe this. Everyone just says they believe it because they don't trust Stern. Somebody would have leaked this if it happen. I have never seen one real reason to believe this BS story.
Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
I always thought the jordan gambling ordeal and stern fixing the lottery was an obvious yes.
I thought this was common knowledge?
I thought this was common knowledge?
Posted on 5/3/12 at 3:44 pm to SlowFlowPro
I don't think he was suspended for gambling. It wouldn't surprise me if it was true, but I honestly don't think so. I tend to think he just conquered everything in the world of basketball and kinda got bored with it.
The only thing that makes me question my stance, and it actually goes both ways, is that Jordan was always the ultimate competitor. So part of me thinks that he wouldn't have just left basketball because he would've wanted to horde as many rings as he could. However, the other part of that is that he was such a competitor (and arrogant?) that he thought he could just waltz into another pro sport and be good at that too (a la other people like Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson).
The only thing that makes me question my stance, and it actually goes both ways, is that Jordan was always the ultimate competitor. So part of me thinks that he wouldn't have just left basketball because he would've wanted to horde as many rings as he could. However, the other part of that is that he was such a competitor (and arrogant?) that he thought he could just waltz into another pro sport and be good at that too (a la other people like Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson).
Posted on 5/3/12 at 4:24 pm to CocomoLSU
I believes he fixes the Lottery. Lebron to Cleveland and just like Davis will go to the Bobcats
Posted on 5/3/12 at 4:31 pm to SlowFlowPro
No.
No way.
No way.
Posted on 5/3/12 at 4:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
is there a solid place to read up on the theories being discussed in this thread? just behind the scenes type shite that is somewhere on the internet?
as for the thread, i dont think so. but for fun, i always tell people that's why he didn't play and they seem to have never heard of it even being an idea before.
as for the thread, i dont think so. but for fun, i always tell people that's why he didn't play and they seem to have never heard of it even being an idea before.
Posted on 5/3/12 at 4:45 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
Simmons always hints at the possibility Jordan was suspended for betting on his own games, much like he hints at George Gervin and Dr. J doing massive amounts of blow in the 1970s. And there's the blind item about how a current multiple time NBA All-Star enjoys cross-dressing with his wife (people think it's Chris Bosh).
Outside of Gervin, I don't really buy into any of that stuff. Jordan is and always has been a Grade-A scumbag, far worse than anything Kobe or especially LeBron have ever been. He is the most fortunate man in the world to be born in 1963 and not 1983. But the gambling/suspension narrative doesn't add up for me.
Outside of Gervin, I don't really buy into any of that stuff. Jordan is and always has been a Grade-A scumbag, far worse than anything Kobe or especially LeBron have ever been. He is the most fortunate man in the world to be born in 1963 and not 1983. But the gambling/suspension narrative doesn't add up for me.
Posted on 5/3/12 at 4:50 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
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is there a solid place to read up on the theories being discussed in this thread? just behind the scenes type shite that is somewhere on the internet?
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The "Frozen Envelope Theory" suggests that the NBA rigged the 1985 NBA Draft Lottery so Georgetown University standout Patrick Ewing would land with the New York Knicks, who had the first pick in that year's draft. Conspiracy theorists argue that the New York Knicks' envelope was placed in the freezer so that when NBA commissioner David Stern reached into a bowl containing the envelopes of all the teams participating in the draft lottery, he would be able to identify the Knicks’ envelope by its being colder than the others.[78]
LINK
Posted on 5/3/12 at 4:53 pm to Lloyd Christmas
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Stern cares infinitely more about money than integrity.
If so, then he would never suspend Jordan. No chance.
Posted on 5/3/12 at 4:55 pm to Deactived
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I always thought the jordan gambling ordeal and stern fixing the lottery was an obvious yes
Obvious yes when no evidence has ever been presented in 15+ years?
Posted on 5/3/12 at 4:58 pm to HT713
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is there a solid place to read up on the theories being discussed in this thread? just behind the scenes type shite that is somewhere on the internet?
1985 NBA draft video
Why that guy throw that one against the side, but not the others?!?
Posted on 5/3/12 at 5:14 pm to SlowFlowPro
He did not suspend him for gambling...he suspended him for not paying his gambling debts and getting his Daddy killed. 
Posted on 5/3/12 at 5:14 pm to Keys Open Doors
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Simmons always hints at the possibility Jordan was suspended for betting on his own games,
Yeah, he did it again today (good article, BTW):
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