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[Holmes] After JJ redick bemoaned the lack of quality wine in the 2020 bubble, 50 cases of wine sent in by Jackson family wine. Michael Jordan led informal virtual tastings for players, coaches and staff. “Take it from MJ,” he said while raising a glass of wine toward the camera. “Rosé all day.”

  • April 4, 2024


[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?"

45 comments

  2. 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

  7. 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.

  8. To hear athletes talk about it you’d think the bubble was a boxcar in Poland circa 1940

  10. This wine obsession by nba players (and anyone, really) is so performative lmao.

  11. 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

  12. 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.

  21. 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

  22. I had to look and see if Popovich and the Spurs were in the bubble that year (they did make it).

  25. To me it sounds like those guys were living in a bubble with plenty of quality “whine.”

    Am I right, fellas? Am I right?

  26. “Master sommelier.”

    That’s the same as being a master of bullshitting.

  27. 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?

  28. I’d be much more surprised if the white guy that went to Duke WASN’T a little pretentious about his tastes.

  30. 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

  31. 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.

  32. All these comments poking fun at athletes’ wine obsession and nobody mentioning Stoudemire use to literally bathe in wine.

  33. 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.”

  35. 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 ??

  36. Whats with NBA players and wine, it’s like their favorite thing to talk about.

  37. The more athletes do podcasts and reveal behind the scenes stuff… the more they suck and come off as entitled assholes. OMG no good wine?? My fucking kids lost a year of social development you whiny fuck… I love basketball to death but this era is infuriating as a fan.

  39. The real one drink their wine in a can, not those fancy new canned wines, but pouring your own wine into a fake soda can a la Always Sunny

  40. NBA players are so soft. They think they’re hard cause they bang into each other on the playground. But they need their nice wine and leather seats.

  42. 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.

  43. JJ seems like the type who wouldn’t be able to tell boxed wine from fancy wine but says he does anyway

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