A virginity game and a $900,000 bet. Details of basketball legend Michael Jordan’s insane gambling surfaced

Michael Jordan is a basketball legend and the richest athlete of all time. Despite such impressive successes, there is another side to the coin. In addition to being a part of several love scandals, such as his estranged divorce from model Juanita Vana, which cost him a $168 million payout, Jordan has also been known as a heavy gambling fan.

Despite the idealised image admired by all children and teenagers at the end of the last century, Michael Jordan has a number of significant flaws. One of them is an addiction to gambling. The American press can’t stop discussing several iconic stories, which the basketball player became a hero of in the past. One of them was shared by teammate Antoine Walker.

Walker talked about his friend’s gambling hobbies

Walker and Jordan’s friendship and joint outings were active in the 1990s. The rising stars spared no expense on gambling, placing fabulous bets. Fear of losing and a sense of proportion were rarely present at the time. Walker told a fascinating story on CBS about a game that took place in a restaurant and lasted 36 hours. The minimum bet at the time was $20,000.

As the players got more and more involved, the stakes increased decently and eventually even reached the $900,000 mark. For a period of time, Michael and Antoine, who paired up to play spades (a well-known card game in the United States), even lost. Nevertheless, they managed to win back, but they lost the last bet of $20,000. Jordan intended to win it back, but it didn’t work out. The guys’ loss was $180,000. Interestingly, Walker attributed the failure to Michael’s fatigue, who literally “fell asleep at the table”.

Indecent behaviour

Another impressive story in terms of Jordan’s gambling is related to former MTV host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery. In her memoirs, the girl decided to recount the events that took place in 1995. The presenter had a meeting with Michael and another basketball player in a bar in New York. According to Lisa, Jordan pulled out dice during dinner and offered to play. His sounded bet was a night out with Kennedy.

The girl specifies that the athlete’s seriousness wasn’t even on her mind, which made her very scared. At the time she was 23 years old and had not previously been intimate. The girl’s story stirred up the public. According to her, she managed to change the bet, because the prospect of sex with a strange man did not appeal to her at all. Moreover, Jordan was already married, which she also reminded him of.

An unhealthy love of gambling

Completes the mini-rating gambling “adventures” of the legendary basketball story that happened in 1993. The decisive game in the NBA Finals was to take place. The Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks were opponents. On the eve of the big event Jordan decided to visit a casino in Atlantic City. He sat there until late at night, risking his fortune. And that’s not to mention the fact that he had a crucial game the next day. This only confirms the athlete’s unhealthy addiction to gambling.