Jordan Sells Out Players With Hard-Line Stance

In his Fox Sports column, Jason Whitlock writes a searing admonition of Michael Jordan for taking a hard line against the NBA players' union in the ongoing lockout negotiations. He calls Jordan a sellout who has become the frontman for the NBA ownership's desire to rob players of their fair share of the revenue the league generates.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan finally found a cause he can get behind off the court: being an obstacle for any black kid dreaming of matching or exceeding Jordan’s wealth.

Sellout.

And I don't throw that word around liberally. But there's no better description for Jordan now that he has reportedly decided to be the hard-line frontman for NBA ownership's desire to rob NBA players of their fair share of the revenue the league generates.

Sellout.

Now that NBA superstars have decided to fully engage in the lockout negotiations and threaten union decertification, David Stern and ownership have decided to unleash their token minority owner from the house to play hardball. According to The New York Times, Michael Jeffrey Jordan, the greatest player of all time, is the owner most determined to bury the union financially. Jordan allegedly wants current players to take a 10- to 20-point basketball-related-income pay cut.

Sellout.

This is the ultimate betrayal. A league filled mostly with African-American young men who grew up wanting to be like Mike is finally getting to see just who Michael Jordan is. He's a cheap, stingy, mean-spirited, cut-throat, greedy, uncaring, disloyal slave to his own bottom line.

Read Jason Whitlock's entire column at Fox Sports.

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