{"id":1331637,"date":"2021-03-06T20:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T01:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1331637"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T15:38:27","slug":"michael-jordan-was-betting-45000-at-a-time-on-blackjack-and-may-have-pulled-a-1-3-million-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/michael-jordan-was-betting-45000-at-a-time-on-blackjack-and-may-have-pulled-a-1-3-million-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan Was Betting $45,000 at a Time on Blackjack and May Have Pulled a $1.3 Million Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Jordan<\/a> was one of the so-called \u201cblue chips\u201d coming out of high school in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1981. It didn\u2019t take Jordan long to establish himself as a money player at the University of North Carolina, and he was on his way to NBA stardom by 1984 with the Chicago Bulls<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little did anyone know that Jordan<\/a> and blue chips would still be a thing two decades after finishing high school. An enterprising newspaper employee got the story by staking out the blackjack table at a local casino as the six-time NBA champion and double gold medalist pulled the sort of all-nighter that they don\u2019t teach in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Jordan was on the comeback trail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The start of the 2001\u201302 NBA regular season was just days away when the Washington Wizards pulled into the Mohegan Sun casino, about 45 minutes southeast of Hartford, Connecticut, in late October 2001. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wizards were playing the Boston Celtics, the local favorites, but Jordan was indisputably the attraction. After three years of retirement from the Chicago Bulls, Jordan was back in the NBA<\/a> with the Wizards as their part-owner, front-office executive, and now as a small forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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