It’s the NBA All-Star weekend, which means we don’t get to watch a lot of basketball but we do get to complain about how the dunk contest isn’t what it used to be.
We also get to have press conferences from rising NBA players, who occasionally say something that makes us laugh.
That honor on Friday belonged to Grizzlies rookie Jaren Jackson Jr., the 6’11” big out of Michigan State who was picked fourth overall in last year’s NBA draft.
A reporter asked Jackson if he could play any NBA legend in 1-on-1, to which Jackson thought about it for a second, then said Michael Jordan. When asked if he thought he would win, Jackson said yeah. Because Jordan is old.
Here is the thing. He’s not wrong! Michael Jordan is old. And Jackson is 19 and 6’11” and is an active professional athlete. I’m not saying Jordan doesn’t score on him a few times, but I am going to take the 19-year-old NBA player over the 55-year-old NBA executive.
What makes me the happiest about this quote, though, is that I know Jordan is seething about it. Dude is trying to organize a 1-on-1 game right now. When they’re done with basketball, they’ll play golf. Then after that, poker. Jordan doesn’t take kindly to slights.
