NBA Lockout: Michael Jordan Assumes Disturbing Role on Owners Side

My, my Michael Jordan sure has found an interesting way to sully his legacy. The greatest to ever wear sneakers is making a lot of people mad in his latest venture as an NBA owner crying poor. 

The players and owners are set to meet on Saturday in what looks to be a worthless meeting. The two sides will come together with no intention of conceding any further than they already have. 

The New York Times reports how grim things have become surrounding the NBA's ongoing negotiations. The players are so fed up with what they have already given to the owners that they are ready to dissolve and decertify as a union if their heads concede any further. 

The owners are just as locked into making the players give even more money back as they continue to ask for them to go as low as 47 percent in a basketball-related income split. 

That is where his Airness comes in. Michael Jordan is reportedly the ring leader of small-market team owners hell bent on pushing for more money to come back their way. 

It has left a nation to scratch their heads and wonder if Jordan understands how he is being received. The report states the following: 

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The owners’ faction includes between 10 and 14 owners and is being led by Charlotte’s Michael Jordan...That group wanted the players’ share set no higher than 47 percent, and it was upset when league negotiators proposed a 50-50 split last month.

According to the person who spoke with the owners, Jordan’s faction intends to vote against the 50-50 deal, if negotiations get that far.

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It will not get that far. The players are set at 52 percent and about half the owners want 47 percent or more if the lockout continues to cancel more games. This is about to get ugly for everyone. One person who is seeing his name dragged through the mud is Jordan. He is being received on Twitter as a hypocrite and traitor. 

Ira Winderman asks a beautiful question in his tweet that will be answered in full in the next few days if the lockout continues towards a messy continuation.

NBA writer Steve Aschburner remembers a hard-line Michael Jordan during the last lockout in this tweet, when Jordan was fighting for the players.

And here's my favorite tweet of what is turning into a mammoth thread. 

We fans have seen bad contract after bad contract get offered for a decade. We chide and we make fun, but the owners continue to spend recklessly. Now they want some help by slashing payroll on players. 

This may rile you up something fierce if you walked into work and your boss said, "I'm going to pay you 10 percent less now and you will never get it back because of a hard cap. Sorry, I just made some bad decisions, but good news is I will make more."

Jordan will forever be known as the greatest to ever lace up the sneakers. But now he will have another image, one that he would have never thought he would wear.

He is a crotchety owner that has no business owning an NBA team.