{"id":555276,"date":"2026-03-23T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555276\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:37:22","slug":"nba-fans-cant-hide-their-happiness-as-michael-jordans-nascar-team-continues-terrific-start-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555276\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fans can\u2019t hide their happiness as Michael Jordan\u2019s NASCAR team continues terrific start to season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NBA fans are loving Michael Jordan\u2019s latest winning run, this time in NASCAR, after his 23XI Racing team made it four victories in the first six Cup Series races of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jordan was seen celebrating after Tyler Reddick\u2019s latest win, a moment that quickly spread online as fans connected his old competitive edge with a new sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is an exceptional start in a series where even top teams rarely control the opening stretch this emphatically.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by Jeff Robinson\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b3acfe762ea876acb0443a6744b8ce4b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jeff Robinson\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jordan\u2019s 23XI Racing season start is exceptional<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DailyLoud\/status\/2035902665184440349?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michael Jordan celebrated the win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Michael Jordan celebrated the win&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Michael Jordan celebrated the win<\/a> after Tyler Reddick delivered 23XI Racing\u2019s fourth victory in the first six NASCAR Cup Series races of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reddick\u2019s latest success came at Darlington, where he chased down Brad Keselowski and led the final 28 laps to secure another win for the team Jordan co-owns with Denny Hamlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That matters because 23XI is not just winning regularly; it has already built one of the strongest starts the series has seen in years through Reddick\u2019s victories at Daytona, Atlanta, COTA, and now Darlington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In NASCAR, where weekly variation is high and deep fields usually spread wins around, taking four of the first six races is a serious statement of speed, execution, and consistency.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jordan\u2019s celebration had NBA fans buzzing<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael Jordan\u2019s reaction to the latest 23XI Racing win quickly drew fan attention, with many enjoying the sight of him celebrating in another competitive arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some framed it as a new chapter in his legacy, with one fan saying Jordan is \u201cdoing side quests at this point,\u201d while another called it \u201cjust like the good old times of winning and winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Others kept it simpler, writing \u201cMJ stay winning\u201d and \u201cSo Michael Jordan can dominate outside of basketball!\u201d as the clip spread online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another fan said Jordan had turned NASCAR into \u201chis personal victory lap,\u201d which captured the wider mood around a team that suddenly looks like one of the sport\u2019s defining forces early in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA fans are loving Michael Jordan\u2019s latest winning run, this time in NASCAR, after his 23XI Racing team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2074,49,48,3004,634,82,9272],"class_list":["post-555276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-23xi-racing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nascar","tag-sports","tag-tyler-reddick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555276","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=555276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}