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#4 Michael Jordan’s gambling problems
As great as Michael Jordan was, his weakness was his gambling addiction. Reports started coming out about Jordan’s gambling issues and the media was pressuring the NBA to investigate it.
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The NBA never acted, and it ended up being a PR stunt. Michael Jordan was the most popular athlete in the world and the NBA was peaking in terms of coverage around the world and how popular it was becoming.
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Investigating its biggest star and possibly suspending him would have destroyed the perfect image of Jordan and the NBA.
Conspiracy theorists argue that David Stern sat down with Jordan and told him to take time off while the stories die down so sort of an unofficial suspension which leads to Jordan’s first retirement.
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