By
Sampson I.M Onwuka

Sampson I.M Onwuka
The year 2011-2012 is perhaps Bobcats toughest season with a
7-59 loss in the NBA. The owners of the club anticipated public outrage and
were not spared the contagion of failing of basketball teams. It amounts to
small story to suggest that Michael Jordan – among the coveted franchise owners
of Basket Ball team - Bobcat – was not spared the vitriolic from the general
public. One of the men who inveighed against the shortfalls of Bobcats –
especially against Michael Jordan was Charles Barkley, - friend and foe of the
celebrated basket champion, Barkley for the record is also family and also a
star in his own right.
In Yahoo Sports interview with Charles Barkley was by
reported Stefan Bond to have said that "I think that Michael was upset by
some of the things I said about the Bobcats – which, number one, they were
true," Barkley told Yahoo! Sports. "I told you earlier, I’m going to
be honest, and I’m going to be fair.
"The Bobcats - first of all, he’s doing a much better
job. But a couple years ago, I want to say three years ago, when they were
vying for the worst record in NBA history, Michael had not done a good job. He
took it personally." Stefan Bondy
for Daily News stated that ‘Although they're coming off a surprisingly
successful season -- and have since changed their name to the Hornets -- the
Bobcats were the NBA's worst in the previous two seasons, bottoming out in
2011-12 with a 7-59 record. It is the worst winning percentage in the league's
history.’
There is something wrong with public castigation when we are
struggling with energy as part our failures. But when they come from family
members or people we honor the injury is deep, quite deep. It would seem to
create the impression that the few years of Michael Jordan’s stay at the realm
of Bob Cat was destined to crash into different boulevards. One of these
boulevards was a new name for a team and the other is perhaps the searching
necessity for potential including the possibility of his Jordan’s return to
Basket for Hornets as possible.
For if we compare this criticism from Barkley to Jordan in
terms of the quality expended here by Stefan Bondy, we may fail to corner Jordan’s
change of attitude except from when memories of a drunk day afternoons while we
lull from ether of alcohol and encounter a family member and someone very
close. There is something in the subconscious that speaks for its, it is our
manners and how we charge from the strains of the vain ether.
Although the reports of Jordan anger did not demonstrate
that he felt it deeply, he is injured from his understanding of the needs of a
team that was dying in his hands if buries with it the memories of an
outstanding career. Perhaps the change in Jordan was part of the
story since from 2012 there is a change from Bobcats to Hornets. Perhaps the
expectations for the new team and new name were measured by the new spirit and
attitude of the basketball players.
It is from here can we understand the evolution of the name
team from Old, the old is Charlotte Hornets which resumed its NBA operation
from 2014-2014 seasons but the team has since the end of 2012 have taken new
and deciding turns for its own good.
But this good did not magic an appearance on its own, for
how else could any team or persons of interest be expected to explain the
relocation of the team’s name from Bobcat to Hornets saving for new attitude
from old. It is clear that Hornets need
some ground support, and in this case, they need originality. The strategy
involved in this process and maturity of signing former NBA players such as
Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman as part of Hornets’ managerial future may be a
way to encourage the originality of their selective process.
(2) Assuming Jordan has a strategy for making Hornets the
dream home of NBA players, it is most likely a plan that will evolve through
acquisition of players and improving the pedigree of players already
existing. But this area is better left
to Michael Jordan and his crew of experts including General Manager Rich Cho and
Steve Clifford.
The question is does the Hornets have the chance of being the NBA champions this year or anytime soon? What are the plans to facilitate this aspiration?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
II
The difference between Jordan the player from Jordan the
manager are essentially worlds apart.
But considering what has taken place and an article by Forbes
Magazine., Dan Alexander/Forbes Staff. 3/2/2015, “A record 290 newcomers joined
the Forbes billionaires list in the last year as world markets defied
international turmoil. While wars, diseases and currency crises made headlines,
tycoons from every continent but Antarctica managed to mint new 10-figure
fortunes.
“Michael Jordan,
arguably the greatest basketball player of all time and indisputably the
best-paid athlete of all time. Forbes first ousted Jordan as a billionaire last
June. Most of his cash comes from Nike payouts on his iconic brand. The Jordan
brand grossed an estimated $2.25 billion in 2013, earning his Airness some $90
million. But his most valuable asset is his stake in the Charlotte Hornets,
worth more than $500 million.”
“A record 290
newcomers joined the Forbes billionaires list in the last year as world markets
defied international turmoil. While wars, diseases and currency crises made
headlines, tycoons from every continent but Antarctica managed to mint new
10-figure fortunes.
Meanwhile the Madam Walker example as an American business
person has not faded; it is not a rigid sample in drawing aside the merits of
all American business idea and franchising either. If the business started in
one end of economic spectrum is expected to end as it began then such rebuke
did not merit a consideration. Then you
probably not an NBA player, team or part of its future…narrating the explosive
interest and profit in patronizing African American business, loosely based on
well-studied introspection of what African Americans are like and what their
course of interest look like.
Their market needs and seeking means and ways to bring their
final product to the market.
Michael Jordan has given back to African Americans does not
mean he would have recognized need to do so, either does it mean that his name
is not among the lasting eagles in Sports. But the legacy of Neo cons being the
upper part of these African Americans that sustains its gravity, its one hand
that trains the other hand or hands that trains other hands, in a long chain
that ensure their future with best laid investment.
It better explicated through the levels of training and
corporation we can generate from within and with those who we consider our
kind. The future of Hornets can be divided into two now, what it wants to
accomplish now and what it plans for in the future.
But like the many examples of the grace which proof of
character transformed such people such as Michael Jordan or lateral opponent
Charles Barkley, we see these individuals are good examples of American
entrepreneurship battle with Apex of Character and in basic demands of an
African American society, of the basic demands and expectations in riding and
keeping African American business, ‘good is not enough’.
In the past, Pepsi has had their own share of problems with
these African Americans regarding employment and employment opportunity and
took long swaps independent and collective efforts to transform the enigma that
was Pepsi from Pepsin produced first in North Carolina, to a company that
marginally employed Blacks.
It is also from Curtis – in spite of his past – that may
have toed the lines of Joe Louis that was one of the earliest Black business
partnership with Pepsi, torching in this case, the new and well-found
assortment of fruit and crème soda variety emulated by Shaquille O’Neal who is
nearer to public access than Kobe Bryant that is virtually inaccessible.
Likeability is not an endeavor’s keep it fluctuate with the
‘taste of the pudding’ and with it the new materials that attempts to torpedo
other brands in its meaning including its promotional ability, the not-so
easily likeable but total effeminate with public, Funk Flex, failed,
resurrected and bolstering experiment through Ford do not meet and qualify as
entrepreneur but showers excessive meaning on how well and to what extent can
the general public ameliorate a star torching on his product and the identity.
For if we however clear the ice of Michael Jordan and his
products during his renal years at Chicago ( a personal destination) he was
first and fore-mostly patronized by African Americans, which may or may be the
same with Regis but to the limits of exercises of talent and publicity, it is
also the case.
The needs to remain disciplined at work towards objective
financial pursuit may prove a hard act to follow unless from tender ages, a
private especially an African American private was trained on the merit of
academic and work situation, in essence, these people do not just arise except
from which by conscription we argue the triumph of a society is best explained by
how well a society can progress through commitment to itself and to others, to
a large extent how it secures its future.
Unless there are material issue of power and belligerent
argument of resources allocations, some parties need to ensure a specific pool
of African Americans, if not directly linked to the company or trained
elsewhere, since the issue with people familiar with color which is not the
same as been familiar with the processes mismatch and misdirect on business.
You don’t for instance know Michael Jordan or Sean John; you
do not have anything in common with these eponymous of human ability and as far
their business in concerned there are gaps even when there are jobs to these
people.
No comments:
Post a Comment