[Holmes] After JJ redick bemoaned the lack of quality wine in the 2020 playoff bubble, 50 cases of wine sent in by Jackson family wine. Michael Jordan then led informal virtual tastings for players, coaches and staff — small groups ranging from a few to a couple dozen. “Take it from MJ,” he closed while raising a glass of wine toward the camera. “Rosé all day.”
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39867961/michael-jordan-nba-wine-partnership
The video was part of a series of virtual tastings during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The person leading them wasn’t the Bulls’ six-time NBA champion superstar, but rather a California-based master sommelier who — as fate would have it — bears the same name.
“It’s always hilarious,” the 65-year-old Jordan told ESPN recently. “Because I’m a short, white Michael Jordan — and an Italian. It’s crazy. I loved coming up and Michael was making my name famous, and he was my hero too. Nobody had done what he had done.”
The 5-foot-4 Jordan heard a few remarks from players during some of the sessions, namely, “Who’s this Michael Jordan guy?”
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The bubble was peak athlete privilege, like what an odd thing to complain about
I wouldn’t be surprised if something came out where the players complained about the thread count in the hand towels during the bubble
I’ve come to hate jj redick
Rosé all day? What a psychopath
Tone deaf athlete
A lot of NBA players have a lot of money to spend on food and drink but no taste whatsoever.
When JJ was in LA he did a podcast where he listed his favorite restaurants in LA and you couldn’t make up a better “pricy and hyped but completely bland and generic food” list.
To hear athletes talk about it you’d think the bubble was a boxcar in Poland circa 1940
This wine obsession by nba players (and anyone, really) is so performative lmao.
JJ just can’t help but be a pretentious snob. Back in like 2010 when twitter was more casual, my brother tweeted at him asking where he should grab a quick lunch in downtown Orlando. JJ responded with something like “I wouldn’t eat anywhere downtown” and recommended an extremely expensive place like an hour away
Reminds me of that commercial with the white dude named Michael Jordan going up to various desks in various businesses and introducing himself and everyone looks up excitedly and just says “Oh” when they see it’s not THAT Michael Jordan.
I’ll have a glass of your sweetest wine
why did JJ not bemoan the human trafficking he watched happen
“I’m not drinking any fucking merlot!”
They’re all rich snobs I swear lol
This wine shit that NBA players do is so cringe
JJ is so pretentious lol
Anyone seen his apartment tour? Good lord
I hate this smug mf. I think these rich cunts forget that a million people died during that pandemic. Over a thousand people dying every day and this guy was worried about his fucking wine. Literally shut the fuck up
I had to look and see if Popovich and the Spurs were in the bubble that year (they did make it).
Whining about wine and getting free wine for it
cool story, but… Rosé?
To me it sounds like those guys were living in a bubble with plenty of quality “whine.”
Am I right, fellas? Am I right?
I am befuddled as to why this silver spoon Duke player is doing so well. Overrated player and announcer who is not even half as intelligent or clever as he thinks he is. In a nutshell, wtf cares about anything this arrogant blowhard thinks?
JJ has so much traction
These dudes continuing to bitch about the bubble like it was fucking 1940s Germany is one of the most tome deaf things I have ever seen. Y’all were put up in the nicest resort on the planet during a global pandemic and you’re bitching to a bunch of people who literally couldn’t leave their tiny apartments. Get a grip
The most annoying thing about the nba is 2024 is the fact that they just discovered red wine a few years ago and can’t stop talking about it.
When you get rich you’re supposed to just care about wine as a marker of social status. Good wine is in fact one of life’s great pleasure, but hearing JJ drone on about it seems like a deliberate flex as a one percenter. Almost like “I could have been a stock broker, you can tell because how much I know about wine.”
Jackson family wines ?? LOL these guys drink $300 bottles as table wine and they thought they could impress them with mass produced grocery store wine ??
Whats with NBA players and wine, it’s like their favorite thing to talk about.
Man of taste. Love a good rosé
Why do people who like wine have to be so annoying about it
He should have just gone to CJs room. He had a whole collection in his room and on the broadcast it said his AC was cranked up to keep it cellar temp.
This thread is completely devoid of perspective, empathy, and maturity.
People are/were allowed to complain during the pandemic. We all at one point complained about certain things. Admit it. Relative to normal life, covid sucked.
Original article (not link) doesn’t say “bemoaned.” Reddick simply saw the wine list, disliked it, picked up his phone and ordered wine he did prefer.
What is pretentious about being a wine connoisseur?! Yikes, whens the last time you spent more money on something you enjoyed?
$1500 Apple product when a fraction would have gotten you the same? $200 sneakers when $35 would do the trick? Consumerism. We are all consumers who over extend our paycheck on dumb things we like. Com’n.
FFS open your eyes. It’s all relative. We all complain. We human.
These dudes are the most pampered pricks on the planet man.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt because everyone has their own struggles, whether rich or poor etc etc etc. But bemoaning the lack of quality wine during a pandemic is so bad I can’t even begin to excuse it.