After dominating for years in the NBA as a player, Michael Jordan has had a rather unsuccessful career in management and ownership. If drafting Kwame Brown first overall in one of the consensus worst draft fumbles of all time wasn’t enough, his Charlotte Bobcats setting a record low for wins last season must have put Jordan over the top as one of the worst executives all-time. I realize all the blame can’t be on Jordan, as its the players that play the game, but Jordan had his hand in almost all decisions, trying to micromanage the organization. He has since realized the err of those ways, and will be relinquishing much of the control to his GM Rich Cho:
In order to win basketball games, Michael Jordan has removed himself from the equation. He’s promised his front office staff that he’ll let them do their jobs without his shadow looming over their war-room marker boards. More unlikely still, he’s handed over the reins of the Bobcats to a next-generation GM, armed with high-level metrics, to do for Charlotte what he helped do for Oklahoma City — and in doing so, salvage Jordan’s flagging basketball reputation.
Michael Jordan, whose claim to ownership stems almost solely from his inability to admit defeat as a player, has, if only by his actions, admitted defeat as president. The dinosaur is making himself extinct. [via]
