NBA: How Michael Jordan Killed Basketball
LeBron James creates a Twitter account and the whole world comes to a screeching halt. It wonโt be long until @KingJames is using his new account for marketing purposes.
Heck, Twitter might as well put a multimillion dollar contract together and officially endorse James.
Odds are, it wouldnโt even put a dent in the sum of Jamesโ annual intake from his various endorsements.
In what has become one of the most historic summer free agency periods of all time, money has been sharing the spotlight with success in the three-ring circus of free agentsโ interests.
The game of basketball didnโt always revolve around max-contracts and million-dollar endorsements. In fact, once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, there was an NBA filled with players who focused more on winning than earning.
So while some say money ruined basketball, and players arenโt focused enough on winning, but rather monetary success, I say it was Michael Jordan.
They say Michael Jordan was the best basketball player ever, and thatโs probably true. But what never gets mentioned is how, in 1985, he killed the purity of basketball forever.
The Early Years
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The Transition Years
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The Decisive Years
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The Present
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The Summer of Self-Promotion
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