MICHAEL JORDAN is an NBA legend but he is also an elite golf player.
The Chicago Bulls icon has spent plenty of time on the golf course throughout his life and is famed for his big bets on the green.
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He owns the private, invite-only golf club Grove XXIII, in Florida, and has taken part in several Pro-AMs down the years.
Jordan, 62, has played with several pros including the legendary John Daly, who praised the former basketball star’s swing.
Daly said on the Like A Farmer Podcast: “I haven’t played with him at his course in 23 yet.
“But [I] played with him at the Bob Hope Classic. It was me him, Joe Pesci, Rory Green and Charles Barkley. It was a blast.
“We played at Tamarisk Country Club and I was lucky to shoot 63 that day and took a little bit off MJ.”
Jordan regularly attends the Ryder Cup and has played with stars Xander Schauffele and Rickie Fowler.
He also hits the green with big sports stars and famous faces like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Patrick Ewing.
One opponent, Cedric the Entertainer, revealed the eyewatering sums of money Jordan wages on the rounds he plays.
He said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “That kind of took me from betting altogether.
“Mike likes to play golf, and then he bets throughout the game and it gets pretty serious. It got out of my pay range very quickly.
“When you play with you Mike, it’s always like him and (Derek) Jeter and other baseball players and athletes.
“The time I played, (Charles) Barkley was with us, and they were playing like ten thousand a hole, $10,000 a hole.”
“(Jordan) was like, ‘You gotta play, Ced! You gotta play!’ And I was like, ‘I don’t have it, Mike.’
“I would have to open a second line of credit just to play golf with you guys!”
What the new TV deal means for the NBA?
By The U.S. Sun’s Assistant Sports Editor Damian Burchardt.
THE new TV rights deal is promising to be a humongous win for NBA players.
The league is set to more than double the revenue coming from its media partners, pocketing about $6.9 billion per year, which will inevitably lead to a huge salary cap spike in 2025-26.
That is going to send the value of player contracts skyrocketing.
Projected figures suggest we might see the first $100 million-per-year deal being signed soon.
Currently, Boston Celtics All-Star Jayson Tatum is projected to earn the highest single-season salary in NBA history, collecting $71.5 million in 2029-30.
If TNT Sports successfully matches one of the offers to maintain its decades-long partnership with the league, hoops fans will be on the winning side too.
The network’s flagship, Inside the NBA, is a one-of-a-kind sports entertainment show, as evidenced by ESPN’s ongoing failure to come up with its own version of the program in recent years.
The NBA wouldn’t be the same without Kenny and Ernie trying to make sense of Shaq and Chuck’s never-ending bickering every Tuesday night.
