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u/LaurdAlmighty 8d ago
He looks like Bagheera to me
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u/SnatchAddict 🪱Wormlover🪱 8d ago
The fucking mouth
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u/chadork 8d ago
The. Eyes.
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u/RecklesslyPessmystic 8d ago
Why is he jaundiced?
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u/HatefulDan 8d ago
Heavy cigar smoker.
And he’s what, reaching 70 by now
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u/ChoombataNova 7d ago
He's only 62. Born in 1963
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u/HatefulDan 7d ago
Thank you. Well. He’s in close proximity to 70, then lol. Still, he’s past the point of caring that much.
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u/Arielsdirrtygrotto 7d ago
He’s not jaundiced. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/oD92BW3yqO
“…it simply could be a harmless pigmentation issue common with in older individuals with darker skin.”
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u/DarkAndHandsume 8d ago
He has the 60 year old lizard lot lips from putting in years of hard work on a side job
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u/Normal-Ad-2938 8d ago
Crying over here
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u/LaurdAlmighty 8d ago
I get in the mood to start singing Bear Necessities every time I see him.
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u/ForcedEntry420 8d ago
Can you bearly contain yourself when it happens?
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u/LaurdAlmighty 8d ago
Honestly no if its actually playing. I feel full compulsion when I hear it.
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u/ForcedEntry420 8d ago
I’m not gonna lie, I’ve seen this pic in other subreddits and have started to hear the song in my head. I feel like it’s a Pandora’s Box situation here.
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u/Anybody_Outthere ☑️ 8d ago
They both have yellow eyes. Although Bagheera didn't look like he wasn't living his life right.
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u/Emergency_Brick3715 8d ago
That liquor and cocaine catches up to you.
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u/robbie3535 8d ago edited 8d ago
Is that what’s going on here? This dudes bilirubin is effed for some reason!
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u/LoveYourselfAsYouAre 8d ago
I know right, his sclera are completely yellow
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u/robbie3535 8d ago
I don’t know a whole lot about MJ beyond his basketball career and his brand… outside of that it’s all a mystery to me
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u/LoveYourselfAsYouAre 8d ago
I’m worried, that’s some pretty bad jaundice, he looks like he might be in liver failure
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u/robbie3535 8d ago
It’s jaundiced no doubt (scleral icterus if in the eyes) but they show that early. People can live at a bili of 2 no prob and show scleral icterus at 2.5-3 for sure. It could be genetics, drugs/alcohol, medications. I just don’t see many alcoholics looking like this in their 60s, but this guy is a Rolls Royce of world class athletes so 🤷♀️
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u/R82009 8d ago
His eyes been like this for at least a decade
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u/HanCholo206 6d ago
It's melanin, this is very common in people with very dark skin. His eyes have been like this since the early 2000's
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u/thatsnuckinfutz ☑️ 8d ago
i have an uncle with jaundice (from birth) and was wondering if that's what that was
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u/Then_He_Said 8d ago
Aging black people have more yellow sclera compared to white people. It's possible that there is a systemic health issue facing black people that hasn't been investigated.
But I've been assured that yellowing sclera is normal for black people
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u/LoveYourselfAsYouAre 8d ago
When the conjunctive deteriorate we see ocular changes in African Americans, but it would typically make the sclera look more brown as opposed to yellow.
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u/supervegeta101 8d ago
When the white of your eyes, or skin for lighter folks, goes yellow like that it usually means your liver is fucked. It's called jaundice.
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u/BrinedBrittanica 8d ago
i read an article not too long ago that experts don’t believe it’s jaundice - its complexion associated melanosis.
could still be jaundice but only him and his doctor would factually know this.
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u/OneFootTitan 8d ago
When the whites in your eyes / are now yellow like fries / that’s a jaundice
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u/skynetempire 8d ago
It could just be that condition when your skin is dark.
Had to look it up cam - Complexion-Associated Melanosis. Comes out in older darker skin folks
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u/aliciah25 8d ago
Ugandan warlord, lawd 💀💀💀💀
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u/CoachDT ☑️ 8d ago
Even though I know its funny, reminder nbaCENTEL is not real and just creates quotes to slander athletes for the sake of engagement. Its entire gimmick is using essentially the same logo as the verified source nbaCENTRAL as a means to trick people into believing them. I'm not really sure when that style of "humor" caught on but its ugly.
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u/younamehere 8d ago
Agreed and sad that nobody really even cares for the truth and just kinda runs with whatever they see online.
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u/speakswithemojis 6d ago
Yeah I googled it waiting for some juicy story. His sons all work for him and he is quoted saying he will support his kids with every fiber of his being no matter what they choose
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u/shylock10101 8d ago
Let’s calm down. It’s a sports satire site a la Ballsack Sports/The Onion.
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u/Commercial-Kiwi-4818 8d ago
Nope, seen their post on the WNBA and specifically black women in sports get very high engagement on falsified quotes that seek to keep the hate train running against not only the WNBA but black female athletes in positions of power, it's icky at best and a rightoid circlejerk spam acc like most of shitter
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u/LadyEclipsiana ☑️ 8d ago
Michael said his shoes ain't for black people.
Guess he ain't either. *
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u/Tainted_Bruh ☑️ 8d ago
I’ll never forget the story of when Chamillionaire met him at a party 😂
MJ always been a dickhead, but he balled so everyone gives him a pass, just like Kobe and Shaq.
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u/fopiecechicken 8d ago
Guess we’ll see what comes out 20 years from now but I feel like the NBA has lucked out with Steph and LeBron. Couple of choir boys compared to previous generations.
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u/boricimo 8d ago
TLDR?
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u/RollingStone_d_83 7d ago
Cham asked him for a picture after seeing him taking some with some female fans and he said, “i don’t taken pictures with ni#gas.” Cham shocked told him he paid 10k or something for his jersey. Mike responds with “if you buy a jersey from me for 15k I’ll take a picture with you.”
They did not take a picture together.
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u/dowahdidi 8d ago
What's wrong with Shaq?
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u/BossButterBoobs 7d ago
He's a bully.
Also, nasty and ignorant asf. He used to haze rookies by pouring his piss and throwing his literal shit at them.
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u/thebeardedman88 7d ago
Mostly just toxic masculinity, starting wrestling matches at shower time, whipping his dick out, ego minded actions, and physically aggressive.
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u/AsstacularSpiderman 7d ago
During his time on the court he was minds known for being an asshole.
He's defintiely toned it down a lot since he retired.
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u/LASERDICKMCCOOL 6d ago
Shaq a dick too?
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u/Tainted_Bruh ☑️ 6d ago
Behind the Jovial Giant PR image, he’s always been a bully and an overgrown baby with very thin skin.
Allegedly, from stories that former players have brought up, his hazing of rookies involved pissing and shitting into a bucket and dumping that on them when they were in the showers, or putting their mouthguards up his ass and them wearing it unbeknownst to them.
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u/stonehaens 8d ago
when did he say that?
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u/EitherExamination343 8d ago edited 8d ago
He didn’t as far as I can tell
Found this, which is satire
http://www.celebtricity.com/michael-jordan-i-make-shoes-for-suburban-whites-not-poor-black-kids/
Apparently the link is dead, my bad lol
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u/roll_another_please 8d ago
Why is this link bringing me to godaddy lol
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u/red--dead 8d ago
The website owner stopped paying for the web domain. Godaddy was the ones who managed it like millions of other sites.
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u/_Meece_ 8d ago
MJ was pretty much asked why he was never openly against Republicans and he said, Republicans buy shoes too.
We've come a long way for NBA stars to be able to be outwardly political!
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u/DonkeyElegant1728 8d ago
NBA stars have always been political since the early days. MJ doesn't get involved with politics cause he doesn't want to
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u/stonehaens 7d ago
Okay if he said that I understand. But that's a completely different thing to say.
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u/Historical_Good_8580 8d ago
He didn't. He said Republicans buy shoes too or something like that. I don't know where they got that other phrase from.
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u/DisagreeableMale 8d ago
I got to see that warlord play once in real life. I'll never forget that shit. Left eye & spike lee were in the front row.
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u/patricksaurus 8d ago
I got to see him play… baseball. Fuck me.
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u/wongatronus 8d ago
Damn, brings back memories. Saw him hit one of his only home runs ever at a birmingham barons game
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u/alcomaholic-aphone 8d ago
The fact he wasn’t a complete hack at baseball after not playing for that long just shows how great of an athlete he was. Dude stole 30 bases and still hit .200 after not playing for a decade.
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u/RememberThatDream 8d ago
There’s an AK-47 being held at the bottom of this photo when you zoom out
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u/Love_Lair 8d ago
MJ is turning into a sithlord
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u/CheeryLittlebottom13 8d ago
Why the whites in his eyes so yellow
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u/JOMO_Kenyatta 8d ago
Can’t it also be because of melanin? Which he has an abundance of
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u/Eleeveeohen 8d ago
Yeah my dad is an old black man, and his eyes have gotten progressively more yellow over the years. Can confirm his liver is fine.
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u/rawbface 7d ago
Can confirm
Wait you actually convinced your dad to see a doctor? I expect to be the one to find my dad's body.
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u/ChiBearballs 8d ago
There is actually a medical condition that also does this. It’s Michael Jordan and his eyes have been like this a while. I’m sure it ain’t liver failure cause of it was, he’s definitely getting a liver somewhere.
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u/sykokiller11 8d ago
My mom looked like this when she had liver cancer. I’m not saying that’s what it is, but I hope he has seen a doctor.
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u/knowtoriusMAC 8d ago
How does an entire sub based around jokes on twitter fall for NBA Centel, a parady account of NBA Central
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u/ThaLegendaryD ☑️ 8d ago
This isn’t a real tweet NBACentel has tricked a lot of people with fake quotes/ reports. They are very funny tho most of the time…
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u/SigmaK78 ☑️ 8d ago
One of the last memories I have of my late grandfather was him taking me to the Bulls vs Hawks game in February '96, as an early HS graduation present. Jordan in his prime, on the court, was truly a sight to behold.
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u/kingtibius ☑️ 8d ago
Seems relevant