The interplanetary star, Michael Jordan is not like the others. The most famous number 23 in history, all sports combined, preferred to spend his days playing golf and his evenings at the casino or in a nightclub. But the evenings in a nightclub with Michael Jordan have often been difficult for his companions.
Michael Jordan immediately had an aura and a celebrity. However, he also had less desirable inclinations such as post-game night outs with his teammates. One of them, moreover, John Salley, his former partner Chicago Bulls shared an anecdote about his nights out with the basketball legend on the show ” Panic Room ».
“No one lets a stranger approach the messiah”
Go out on the town when called Michael Jordan must require a large organization. John Salley explains how outputs with MJ23 were taking place, in comments reported by parlons-basket.com : « Do you honestly think that institutional security lets people get close to Michael Jordan? When you go out with people like him, you don’t run into any weird people, because they’re all evacuated. No one lets a stranger approach the messiah. Once I wanted to go out with him in Philadelphia, I begged him, but he wanted to drive to Atlantic City to be quiet. »
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“It is not possible with MJ to leave with a girl”
John Salley then explains that dating Michael Jordan, it was to be sure not to go home accompanied: ” His thing was to be in a small room at the back of the nightclubs to be able to smoke his cigar in peace. In the end, it’s good to go out without him. When we were in Miami, for example, nobody paid attention to us, the NBA players. The girls would simply ask us how much we earned, then we could leave with it. This is not possible with Michael Jordan. »
