Selling the 'Cats

NBA commissioner David Stern expects the Charlotte Bobcats to be sold within 60 days. He's just not ready to say if Michael Jordan will be the buyer. At his news conference Saturday on the eve of the All-Star game, Stern said if Jordan was the buyer "that would be a good thing." Jordan is currently a minority investor in the Bobcats but majority owner Bob Johnson has given Jordan control of the basketball operations. Johnson is the first black majority owner of a major professional sports team, but has lost tens of millions and is looking to sell. Jordan has first refusal on any sale, but it's unclear if the Hall of Famer has an ownership group in place. Former Houston Rockets executive George Postolos has also inquired about the Bobcats.

Why?

After Michael Jordan called him out in his Hall of Fame speech, former Utah player Bryon Russell had a terse response today. "I'll play his a-- right now," he told Yahoo Sports. “This is a call-out for him to come play me. He can come out here in his private jet and come play. He’s got millions of dollars. He can pay for the jet. He can meet me at the Recreation Center in Calabasas. “We can have Mark Jackson do the commentating. We can have Mitch Richmond do the officiating. We can put it on TV and see if Michael’s still got it.” In his speech, Jordan credited Russell for inspiring his second comeback. Jordan saw Russell, then a rookie, practicing one day and Rusell told him: "Why’d you quit? You know I could guard you. If I ever see you in a pair of shorts…" Jordan then said in his speech: “When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in ’96, I’m at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, ‘You remember the [comments] you made in 1994 about, ‘I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you? Well, you’re about to get your chance. ” Jordan hit his famous Finals-winning shot in 1998 over Russell. End of story.

At 46....Still Ballin

If you are a huge Favre fan and is cheering for him to do good, I say Jordan can still do the same.

Forbes

Forbes unveiled its list of the world’s highest-paid athletes in 2009. This of course is when you combine salary and endorsements together. The #1 athlete is Tiger Woods. He is banking 110 million. And even that's with the knee problems. Then in second you had Kobe and Michael Jordan . Lebron came in 6th [tied with Manny Pacquaio & Phil Mickelson] but he was ahead of Kevin Garnett. I did not know Kobe was banking up there with MJ. Wow!

Oh yeah, Kobe [4] Rings shirt is now on sale because it was so popular when Kobe was wearing it.

You need MORE

We all know that the summer of '1o is supposedly called the summer of Lebron beacuse he is a free agent. The team that is dumping just about everybody for him is the New York Knicks. The great Michael Jordan spoke on the topic while he was golfing this weekend. He feels that New York fans would love to have him, but you need a lot more components than just one player. He feels that he should stay in Cleveland because he's done a heck of a job in Cleveland, they deserve to have him there, and he's from that area. So the picture above maybe the only picture you see of 'Bron in a NY jersey. 

Oh and for the NY fans thinking they can get D-Wade, Wade has said he will not sign with New York because of the weather.