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There was Michael Jordan on Monday at the United Center, wearing a Blackhawks jersey, watching a team (the Hawks) he has no financial interest in perform a sport he knows nothing about, while his own franchise (the Charlotte Bobcats) was being humiliated 800 miles away.
The man has pride, right?
Yet he stood with Hawks legends Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull in a city he has disowned, in a stadium he once owned, and smiled to the cameras while his Bobcats were being annihilated 101-73 in Washington by the lowly Wizards.
Jordan is the principal owner of the Bobcats.
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