Chicago Is Saying: Come To Papa Michael.....
I'm replying after message #23 which was after the last message I posted on "Radical Roots" - message #22 which was posted on December 23rd.
I believe Michael Jordan has "Radical Roots" of white-hot, light energy. He's a massive 'player' for a God-given purpose worldwide.
And his return to Chicago will be triumphant!!
For the dark seed that has oppressed the Bulls organization will begin an earnest retreat after being exposed from here on out.
And it isn't going to take 4+ years to bring Michael back to Chicago. This WILL happen this year! Forget about the Wizard's $50 million. Money is NOT the issue.
Principal, light, truth and energy IS the issue.
And I look forward to throwing a FREE throw - perhaps in the United Center upon his glorious arrival back to Chicago!!
Listen to your Dad, Michael - he's calling you "home."
Number 23 - Let It Be!!
Peace.
Light!!
GO!!
NOTE: Except for this thread, I've had ZERO/NO contact with Michael Jordan or any individual about this vision prior to today. When I went into the gas station today "Big Belly" Dave, my pal at the Mobil station here in Evanston said he was going to see the Bulls play the Wizards this evening. I immediately told him about my vision and he cut me off by saying "have you, too, read the Chicago Tribune sports section on that?" So I pulled out the Trib sports section and, low and behold...there it was. Dave, the Wizards/Bulls game this evening, my vision on 12/23/00 and my response to post #23 all but confirms with a complete, total CERTAINTY that this will happen.
As Martin Luther King once said "I Believe....!!" And a bright, white light is going to return to the Chicago sporting scene!!!
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chicagosports.com
Sam Smith
Heir to the Bulls' throne?
Michael Jordan has a good deal with the Wizards, but is he setting himself up for a return to Chicago?
January 4, 2001
He's coming back, and not just because his Washington Wizards are at the United Center Thursday to play the Bulls.
Michael Jordan is coming back to run the Bulls.
Or at least that's said to be his plan, though some patience is required.
Sort of like the Democrats in his adopted city, Washington, D.C., hoping George W. Bush may be on the way out after four years, Jordan is figuring Jerry Reinsdorf will be as well.
That's the speculation and belief among some of Jordan's intimates, who see his association with the Wizards strictly as a good business deal, and perhaps a training ground until the time when he can run the team he believes he built, the Bulls.
This is how it would work.
Jordan's agreement with the Wizards is said to be a five-year commitment. Jordan is expected to realize about $50 million in equity from Washington Sports, which includes the Capitals hockey team and the MCI Center. It's one big reason Jordan couldn't work out a deal with the Bulls or any other NBA franchise before.
The Wizards were substantially undervalued because of their history of failure and mismanagement. Adding Jordan's name to the executive roll would create additional value for the franchise. In effect, Jordan was endorsing a team. Instead of pitching shoes, hamburgers, batteries and automobiles, as he once did, Jordan endorsed a team and a league. Which is why NBA Commissioner David Stern pushed Wizards owner Abe Pollin into making the deal. For Jordan, it merely was hooking up with another company, like Nike or McDonald's.
With Jordan not putting up any money, few other teams could justify the expenditure of involving him. Washington, which needed someone of his basketball stature, was the perfect spot, even if it's clear Jordan's heart was never in it.
He has become a Chicagoan, and part of his Wizards deal was he wouldn't move to Washington. That suggested many things, principally that Jordan's interest in the Wizards was merely financial, and something of a training ground for future endeavors.
Jordan is a rookie executive, which is a lot different from being a rookie player. Then he could just take the ball and go and show off his unique abilities. Operating a team is something he has had to learn, and it has been a slow and uneven process.
What Jordan should have been doing with the Wizards—and what everyone said he should do—was get rid of Rod Strickland, Mitch Richmond and Juwan Howard and their cumbersome contracts, as John Gabriel did last year in stripping down the Orlando Magic to get salary-cap room and draft picks. But Gabriel has been doing that kind of thing for 20 years. Jordan simply hasn't known how to do it, so the team stumbles along without any significant personnel changes.
Jordan erred in changing coaches when he couldn't get rid of his old players, thus burdening Leonard Hamilton with veterans who know they aren't wanted. The ideal plan was to leave someone like Darrell Walker, an NBA veteran, in as coach until Jordan could sort out the roster. Hamilton, an NBA newcomer from the University of Miami, was placed in a hopeless situation.
Clearly Jordan is trying things to see what works, but by refusing to move to Washington or to be at games or practices regularly, the message he's sending to the team is that this is not his destiny.
But the Bulls would be, and it's no surprise Jordan keeps dropping hints in interviews about being disappointed over not getting an opportunity with the Bulls after he retired, that he would have been interested. That's a message to investors that he would come back to the Bulls—Larry Bird has sent the same understated message to whatever group might buy the Boston Celtics.
Jordan has four years remaining on his commitment to the Wizards, and he's not about to sacrifice $50 million, so there's nothing imminent.
But Jordan knows Reinsdorf will be 65 next month. Reinsdorf is not about to sell his shares of the Bulls or White Sox, but what about when he is 70? Would he still want to be actively involved? Jordan is betting he won't.
Another key for Jordan is that none of Reinsdorf's children has expressed a strong interest in being involved in the family's sports business. All have become successful in their own fields and don't appear inclined to take over running the teams.
Thus it's probable that after one more run at a World Series with the White Sox, Reinsdorf would consider selling. Jordan isn't interested in buying—he likes to play with OPM, Other People's Money—but he dearly wants to run the Bulls. He might even believe he can run the White Sox because he played pro baseball (sort of) and Reinsdorf never did.
And in four or five years, Jordan figures to be a relatively savvy executive. He plans one run with the Wizards, hoping to get a Vince Carter-caliber free agent in three years. But the teams that acquired major free agents this summer haven't shown dramatic improvement, so there is no guarantee. And Jordan doesn't particularly care for Washington, which is not much of a basketball city.
It's a political city. Chicago is a Michael Jordan city and Jordan knows that. Just consider him in training for now.
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