“Michael Jordan Struggled With Women!?”: John Salley Reveals Why the Bulls Legend Couldn’t Do Anything He Wanted in the 90s

Popularity has its demerits. As much as we want the world to know us, we might not like the life some celebrities and superstar athletes live on a daily basis. Not certainly that of somebody like LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, or Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

The latter, as it turns out, even struggled a lot to get the ladies back in the day because of the same reason. Would you believe it?

Half the men on planet earth equate success to getting more women. And while the general belief is that being more famous might help you attract more people of the opposite gender, the circumstances were such that it turned out to be the exact opposite for Michael Jordan.

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John Salley tells a story about the struggles of Michael Jordan to live a normal life

Talking on his recent appearance on the Pierre’s Panic Room podcast, former 4x NBA Champ, who played in Chicago at the peak of MJ’s success, revealed a few things about the Bulls legend’s day-to-day life.

When Pierre asked if everything was easy (implying women) when you were somebody like Michael Jordan, John Salley said no and explained how it was actually more difficult.

John also talked about how he once took His Airness to a club in Philadelphia to enjoy a boys’ night out, but the owner of the club recognized Jordan and turned the lights of his club up so that people knew that MJ was in the house.

Watch the whole thing in the following embed.

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Is it worth being MJ?

The multi-billionaire has enjoyed a decent dating life. He got married at 26, to Juanita Vanoy who was then a model, to whom he was married for 17 years and had 3 children.

He also dated or allegedly had an “affair with Karla Knafel”, and then a Cuban-American model, Yvette Prieto, who is his wife since 2011. That does not sound like a man who struggled to get women.

And those are only some of the concrete details we know about. There might be several more. With MJ’s stardom peaking during the 90s, his entourage would have ensured that any news about the woman he dated or spent time with did not really come out in the media, so as to preserve his image.

Or maybe Salley expected Michael to bag more than 20,000 women, as Wilt Chamberlain famously did. And thus, according to him, MJ fell short.

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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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