Tag: David Falk

“When he retired in ’93, he had to have had the thought in the back of his mind that when you retire at 30, at the top of your career, you’re going to have pangs to come back. Whether you act on those impulses is a different issue. I’m not sure that I ever had a player who loved the game more than he loved it,” said Jordan’s longtime agent, David Falk in the days leading up to the 25th anniversary of Jordan’s return. “Everyone has these conspiracy theories about why he does things, which is interesting because he’s so popular. When he does something against the norm, everyone has an explanation as if it’s a tsunami coming or something supernatural. That’s Michael. Michael made that decision (to come back) because he missed basketball. He wanted to play.”

“You don’t have to explain why you’re coming back when you’re Michael Jordan,” Falk said. “This was like Twitter before Twitter. This might have been the greatest tweet in history. It would’ve been retweeted by millions of people. When people use the word a statement, this was a statement. In every sense of the word. It was serving notice to the rest of the league, ‘Holiday is over. Get ready. Back to the game. Back to torment you. Back to block your path.’ Back to whatever. He obviously wasn’t coming back for money, it’s not like he missed the publicity. He just missed the game.”