What type of cigars does michael jordan smoke

He even installed a walk-in humidor and special ventilation system in his Highland Park estate. In , after the Bulls won the championship, a photograph circulated of Michael Jordan smoking a cigar in the locker room.

The organization felt his behavior sent a bad message to children. He explained one was for the riffraff; the good stuff was for the real cigar smokers. Rashad, who introduced Jordan to cigars, laughed and told Barkley that he was clearly the riffraff. Director Jason Hehir explained that in one episode, a cigar rests on the table next to MJ, untouched.

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If you got stitches, you got stitches. Those are the types of games we had. But once we overcame them, then we knew we could do anything. There was no one else beating us, or having that kind of rivalry with us.

MRS: Your biggest rival was Detroit. Where did the Knicks fit in? You single-handedly took us down more times than I want to remember. Every time in the playoffs when we thought we could reach the top, you nailed us. They were trying to get where we were. We were trying to maintain what we were. Every battle was magnified.

Patrick [Ewing] was a good friend. Charles Oakley used to be in Chicago. When Detroit was winning, everybody had adopted the physical type of game. New York became that way, too. You go in the middle, you're going to get hit.

Patrick was a fierce intimidator. We always heard that Michael Jordan was coming to the Knicks. We hated you, but on the other hand, we wanted you.

We had one occasion when there was a dialogue. It must have been in or because of my contract situation in Chicago. But nothing ever really materialized. We actually had a dialogue with New York. If a phone call didn't come in 30 minutes from Chicago, we had already given assurances that we would have gone to the Knicks for less money. I don't want to second-guess Isiah. I'm not taking over for Isiah Thomas as general manager. MRS: No, I'm not suggesting that. What would you do?

They have a lot of injuries and a lot of big contracts. First of all, you have to find some commodities that you feel will benefit the New York Knicks, but when you do that, you can't just think one way. You have to find some team that feels that the players on the Knicks will be a better fit for the other team. Until you find the right situations for those players, you have to wait until their existing contracts expire or buy them out of their contracts. For the Knicks, it isn't a financial issue; they are still taking on a lot of contracts.

MRS: But didn't they get rid of a lot of contracts, too? They are not going to be under the cap any time soon. When you look at the Lakers, they may have one or maybe two sustaining long contracts.

The Knicks have four. MRS: So you're saying the Lakers would be easier to fix? They'd be easier to fix. MRS: How would you fix the Lakers today? It's as simple as that. You've got three championships with a big man, and big men are hard to find. Not only that, you have the most dominant big man in the game today. You don't just send him away because you got some problems.

But you can't blame one guy. It's a combination of both of them. If you've got success in your house, you find a way to manage so that everybody prospers and everybody is viewed as champions. Personalities got involved after they'd had some success. It becomes about individuals—individual goals that they wanted to achieve. Be it Kobe leading the league in scoring and carrying the team by himself, or Shaq proving he can win without Kobe. What's the purpose of changing if you've got the right mixture that's working?

Give me a seven-footer and I'd probably still be playing right now. MRS: The media have made a big thing about drugs this year. Is this something new or something that was around in the '80s and the '90s? Is it worse today? Is it the same? Is it a serious problem? They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business.

It's everywhere. It starts with the kids of tomorrow, and how those kids are brought up and what their values are. And how the parents teach those kids those values. If you don't take the time to teach those values, they will make the same mistakes. Is it still prevalent in sports? MRS: Is it worse today than it was 20, 30 years ago? I wouldn't say it's worse. There is some drug awareness out there. I must admit, it's still prevalent.

But it's not worse. They've tried in the NBA to implement some provisions to monitor drug use, to eliminate it and totally get rid of it. To some degree, it is working. MRS: It seems like for the first time in football, baseball and basketball, both on the union's side and in management, they are understanding what drugs are and that they have to do everything in their power to stop their use. Was that the case in the past?

Drug use was hidden in a lot of sports a long time ago. Now it's out in the open, be it steroids in baseball or steroids in football. Steroids have never been prevalent in professional basketball. But you got a lot of marijuana smoking and drug use like cocaine. All that stuff has been in the NBA. We've been able to curtail it and try to eliminate it, but it's very tough to eliminate. I think marijuana is still strong in the NBA. I'd like to see that paid more attention to. I think [NBA Commissioner] David Stern has done a great job to eliminate all those issues, but no one is going to be able to eliminate it completely.

MRS: Do you miss the excitement of basketball? I have to stay away from it because of it. I wouldn't say it's an addiction, but it's a passion. When you have a passion, you want to do it as much as possible. Addiction means you can't help yourself. I have a strong passion for the game of basketball. You're on the team, and you can name four other guys at different positions. That doesn't mean there aren't 20 other great guys for those positions, but you can explain your picks.

It's going to be somewhat biased because I didn't play back in the days of Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, some of the great stars prior to me.

And it's very tough because I'm friends with a lot of players today. But if I had to pick a center, I would take Olajuwon. That leaves out Shaq, Patrick Ewing. It leaves out Wilt Chamberlain. It leaves out a lot of people.

And the reason I would take Olajuwon is very simple: he is so versatile because of what he can give you from that position. It's not just his scoring, not just his rebounding or not just his blocked shots. People don't realize he was in the top seven in steals. He always made great decisions on the court. For all facets of the game, I have to give it to him. But in terms again of versatility, it has to be Larry Bird.

The things he could provide to you all around: his demeanor, his work ethic and his versatility once again. The idea here is I would build a versatile, multitalented team able to do so many different things.

When the defense comes at you, they have to guard a lot of different areas, and that makes Larry Bird the choice for me. Small forward: That is the toughest part because I played with one of the best small forwards, Scottie Pippen. He is as versatile as it comes. He handles the ball. He's a good defensive rebounder.

I would be hard-pressed to pick someone else at the small forward position, even though I know Dr. J [Julius Erving] is sitting right there, too, especially in terms of excitement. And there's Dominique Wilkins, too. And you'd have to think about Elgin Baylor, even though I never saw Baylor play, or played with him.

But from what I know, and what he could provide, it's Scottie Pippen. I know that's being biased to some degree. But I can't help it. Point guard: That's easy.

Magic Johnson. Because of his height, you'd have a tough time defending him. It's a beautiful thing to see a 6-foot 9-inch guy rebound the ball and start the break. It would be the all-time tallest team, putting me at the two guard. And coming off the bench would be Jerry West to replace me. I love Jerry West.

MRS: Who in your mind is the best shooter you've ever seen? Oh, boy. That's a great question. Pure shooter? MRS: Or clutch shooter. I have another one here, best clutch player. You can combine the two if you want. He was an all-around player, but I wouldn't say he was one of the best shooters. But he was one of the best all-around players, in the same category as Magic Johnson, who could rebound, assist and score. He had the most beautiful stroke of all the people whom I can think of. You could go, too, with John Paxson, who was next to me in the backcourt in Chicago.

He doesn't have the best form. But Reggie Miller. Or maybe Jerry West; it's hard picking one. MRS: Best rebounder? No doubt it was Moses. MRS: Most unselfish, a real team guy who put himself second, third, last, whatever, just cared about winning? But to pick one, who would have the biggest impact on a game where you had a chance to win, that would be Magic Johnson.

I would take him because of my own preference. You think he'll stay with the Lakers? A, and he has a great connection with L. I think he would consider that.

MRS: But he played for the Knicks. MRS: I don't know. Explain to me why you are the most popular athlete in all sports. That's an extraordinary achievement. My personality is my personality. I'm very real when people see me. The way that I'm protected, I am as close to normal as anyone could be. In terms of my accolades and the way I played the game, those things had something to do with it, along with the marketability of Michael Jordan.

And I don't quit. I'm a very competitive person. That could be taken in a lot of different ways. Some people take it in a negative way, and some people take it in a positive way.

MRS: You don't quit. You work hard. You don't speak out like a child. There have been players who have gone public with a lot of complaining that ends up hurting them, but you've been fairly pure and quiet. When I speak, I speak with conviction. If I feel like it's something that best suits me and my person, I deal with it.

I say it. I have no problem speaking out publicly about issues. But for personal things, and for things about personal selfishness, or wanting more money, I don't do that. Once I give my word, that's it. I don't go back to renegotiate. I don't renegotiate my contracts.

MRS: How did you get into endorsements? There have been other celebrities, but you took endorsements and ran with it in an unconventional way on a huge stage. How did this happen? All I focused on was basketball. They took what I did on the basketball court and attached a marketing value to it, and connected me to companies that had the same values that I had from the basketball standpoint.

Those type of things. They built a connection from a puzzle that they pieced together because of what I portrayed on the basketball court. If you asked my agents how they created this mixture, they couldn't tell you. It was just one of those things. We entered the league in an era when the marketing of athletes became prevalent. It became one of the biggest things. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson should have been there first. Their reputations should have given them opportunity.

But they didn't foresee it and they didn't capitalize on it. Initially, I think it became a sticking point in our relationships, because I was getting things that from a success standpoint they were entitled to or should have at least had the opportunity to obtain. But the timing was perfect for me. How did the relationship happen, and what role do you play today? I wore Converse in college, and I was a big Adidas fan.

Then Nike came to me about creating my own shoe. They wanted to put my name on my shoe, and [let me] have input into the design of the shoe. I'd never heard of that before. It was a great pitch. It gave me an opportunity to learn more about the shoe industry, and they gave me an opportunity to create. I sat down with the designers and I talked to them about my personality and things that I like and things I feel people may like.

We put all those thoughts into a brand, into the Jordan brand and into the shoe. Things just started to progress. The public adapted to it and accepted it. We continued to create and lead, and the public kept following and following. It has continued for 20 years. We pride ourselves on putting certain values in the products.

Those are all the things that make up my personality. And they have been turned into a product that sells. The public has received that message consistently each and every time. That has aided the success of the brand. Once the brand had evolved into something of significance, we decided to see if we could create its own foundation, separate from Nike. We wanted to give it an appearance of two entities, with Nike as the parent company and Brand Jordan as a subsidiary. I was given the opportunity to get involved at a hands-on level, touching, creating, approving everything that has the Jumpman on it.

We took Nike off the brand, and put the Jumpman on the brand to see if the public would receive us properly. And they have. With that move, we have been able to expand, not just in basketball, but in baseball, football, boxing and outside of sports, too, like a Ralph Lauren or Tommy Hilfiger or those type of brands. Even though Nike was not that edgy and not that stylish, but more traditional, they gave me an opportunity to expand on the more creative stuff. They controlled 80 percent of the basketball industry, but they knew, just because of consumer preferences, it would be tough to get more than 80 percent.

So they created this other brand to capitalize, and it proved to be the correct way to do it. MRS: Aren't you a worldwide brand today? MRS: Do you have any official responsibilities? Are you a corporate officer? But I approve all the decisions for Brand Jordan. MRS: Do you get a salary and royalties, so as the brand grows, your royalties grow? If you want a junior partner, I'm available. Let's move on. When did you decide that the last chapter, or in an important future chapter, you should be an NBA owner instead of just a player or an endorser?

When I came in as a player, I was dumbfounded by the business aspect, but I learned about the business of basketball during the 20 years I was involved.

I created an appetite in myself to still have an impact on the game and have an influence on the game from a managerial position. I managed a team for a couple of years. I felt like I did a good job with the Washington Wizards, contrary to what people may think. Because of that experience, I still want to have an impact on a basketball team, but I want to do it from an ownership position.

I want to have a longtime connection with the game of basketball. MRS: Is that because you see yourself as a businessman, or because you saw things done by management that were good or bad, that you might have changed? Yes, I consider myself a businessperson, and yes, I felt like certain things happened that if I was in ownership, I would have done it differently. On the Board by. The Philanthropy by. Desirables: Artistry, Produced Locally by. Outside the Box by. Rowling: A Profile In Failure by.

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