according to the New York Post<\/a>. “I sat in those meetings with longtime owners who were brow-beaten for so many years trying to make change. I was a new person, I wasn’t afraid. I felt I could challenge NASCAR as a whole. I felt as far as the sport, it needed to be looked at from a different view.”<\/p>\nThe whole sticking point for Jordan, as well as a group of others that includes racing legend Joe Gibbs’ daughter-in-law, Heather, was about the supposed forced signing of a charter, the sport’s equivalent of the franchise model used in other sports.<\/p>\n
“The document was something in business you would never sign,” said Gibbs. “It was like a gun to your head: If you don’t sign, you have nothing.”<\/p>\n
Jordan added, “The revenue split was far less than any business I’ve ever been a part of. We didn’t think we’d ever get to what basketball was getting, but we wanted to move in that direction.<\/p>\n
“I wanted a partnership and permanent charters wasn\u2019t even a consideration. The pillars that the teams wanted, no one on the NASCAR side even negotiated or compromised. They were not even open-minded to welcome those conversations, so this is where we ended up.”<\/p>\n
Jordan’s presence in the case should bring extra sets of eyes to the matter and to the sport of NASCAR in general, which has long been seen as a niche sport.<\/p>\n
The six-time NBA champion being involved has already garnered the attention of the public and has even given us our first viral moment of the hearing.<\/p>\n
As Jordan walked into the courthouse today, a fan played “Sirius,” his intro song from his days on the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n
One thing is for certain, Jordan is not happy and is uber-competitve, a combo that NASCAR probably doesn’t want to see.<\/p>\n
Couple that with the money he’s reportedly lost since launching his NASCAR team in the early 2000s (an estimated $100 million) and the stock car industry could incur the wrath of Jordan.<\/p>\n
And, as anyone who watched MJ play at the height of his powers can testify, that doesn’t bode well for his opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let’s see if MJ’s winning ways translate to a different court. PublishedDecember 5, 2025 6:30 PM EST\u2022UpdatedDecember 5,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-328032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}