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Originally Posted by Cave Johnson
“After the Bulls won their third championship, the NBA launched an investigation into Jordan's gambling problems to check whether he had violated any league rules. Then, four months later Jordan stunned the world by suddenly retiring from professional basketball.
At the press conference when he was asked if he would ever return he said, " Five years down the road, if the urge comes back, if the Bulls will have me, if David Stern lets me back in the league, I may come back."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ret-suspension |
He had a gambling problem but as long as he wasn't gambling on his NBA games, NBA couldn't suspend him. And what would the point of suspending him but keeping it a secret be?