Michael Jordan could be Dunking on Slot Machines soon
Yep, ”His Airness,” Michael Jordan could be taking on an entirely different world folks.
Michael Jordan, being the filthy rich retired NBA Basketball icon that he is, could now become an investor in a slot machine parlor in Philadelphia. At least that’s what the state gambling regulators were told.
Regulators on Wednesday concluded three days of hearings on applications by five groups, professional casino operators with politically connected or celebrity investment partners, hoping to open slots casinos in Philadelphia. Jordan’s became the latest celebrity name to be dropped by applicants competing for licenses in what 
could be the nation’s largest city with stand alone casinos.
Of course, knowing Jordan’s ventures outside the NBA Basketball courts, we need not be excited yet. We all know he can’t ”fly,” if you will, without an NBA Basketball uniform on.
He sucked as a baseball player when he retired from the NBA for the first time, (he retired three times) he sucked as a team owner of the Washington Wizards when he drafted Kwame Brown, and it looks like he’ll suck as the team owner of the Charlotte Bobcats too.
The two licenses up for grabs in Philadelphia would allow the owners to install up to 5,000 slot machines in each of their proposed gambling halls. The state has not legalized table games.
Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. testified Wednesday in support of its proposed $350 million waterfront slots parlor on the Delaware River. If Pinnacle gets a license, company officials plan to bring in Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, as a partner.
In testimony, Johnson told members of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board that he would sell part of his one-third stake in the slots parlor to Jordan, who is a partner of Johnson’s in the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats. Attaching the name of a celebrity to the gambling establishment should help improve its draw, he said.
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