Jordan Finds Being Best Worth the Gamble

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 10, 1992| Author: Bill Brubaker | Copyright information

The revelations in March that Michael Jordan accumulated $108,000 in gambling-related debts in Hilton Head, S.C., last summer and fall stunned the sports world, where Jordan was regarded as a squeaky-clean role model, an American icon who earns an estimated $20 million a year as the world's best-known basketball player.

But people who know the Chicago Bulls star well were neither surprised nor troubled by the revelations. Since the early 1980s Jordan has been observed betting on a wi...

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