If you didn’t notice by now, it’s clear that Michael Jordan is competitive. He’s competitive with a lot of things too. Now, that’s spilling over into his love for racing as he co-owns 23XI Racing and is making waves on the NASCAR scene.
For Jordan, he took a lot of things personal during his playing career in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls. And you could see that when “The Last Dance” documentary aired back in 2020. It got to the point where he would even make up scenarios to motivate himself and take it out on opponents.
The latest example, however, involves his race team and the NASCAR lawsuit from a few months back.
Michael Jordan says NASCAR lawsuit was ‘personal’ to him
It’s rare to see Jordan do many interviews these days. He did appear on the NBA on NBC for a few segments but that was one interview broken down into multiple airings. But the latest comes on Friday when he sat down with Gayle King on CBS Morning News. Jordan spoke on his NASCAR experience, including the lawsuit.
To no one’s surprise, he admitted that he took that lawsuit personal.
“Yes, 100 percent,” Jordan said when asked if his intention was to change NASCAR. “When I got into the sport, obviously, as I learned there was a lot of things I wasn’t really happy about. The sport was not setup long term for the individuals involved with the sport. Now, up top? Yep. They were making a good living. The people that were putting on the show were not getting the type of recognition or compensated fairly.”
Jordan also said that even if they didn’t win the lawsuit, his goal was to wake up some people. That he did. Jordan did admit he was nervous when he had to take the stand but knew they had a good case.
And that’s when he went all in.
“I was all in,” Jordan said. “I was aggressively gonna win, you know. I became a competitor all over again.”
Jordan’s killer mentality never left, it just changed sports. What he’s doing for NASCAR is awesome and settling with NASCAR to provide changes was huge for the sport.
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