NBA icon Michael Jordan revealed that operating as an owner of NASCAR team 23XI Racing has helped make up for the absence of basketball in his life. <\/p>\n
Jordan confirmed that part of him misses playing his former sport in a recent interview with CBS News’ Gayle King. <\/p>\n
“Oh yeah, 100 percent,” Jordan said (7:10 mark). “It’s not just a tiny, it’s a huge piece. But I’ve compensated that feeling through NASCAR. But that urge to dream, that if I wish I can still pick up a basketball, I would love to do that. Believe me.”<\/p>\n
23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick has helped Jordan’s team start the 2026 season on a high note, winning four of the first six Cup Series races of the year. <\/p>\n
This included a Daytona 500 victory that led to a memorable celebration<\/a> from the Basketball Hall of Famer. <\/p>\n Reddick racked up 325 points for his strong start heading into Sunday’s action, holding a comfortable lead at No. 1 in the Cup Series standings. <\/p>\n As for Jordan, his signature competitiveness helped him win six championships and capture five MVP awards throughout his legendary NBA career. He also earned 14 All-Star nods in 15 seasons, still sitting at No. 6 on the league’s all-time scoring list<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA icon Michael Jordan revealed that operating as an owner of NASCAR team 23XI Racing has helped make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-569572","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\/569572","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=569572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}