While Michael Jordan received an induction to the basketball hall of fame in September and made a few remarks about fellow b-ball player Bryon Russell. Russell challenged MJ to a one-on-one game after the comments in his acceptance speech and that was pretty much the end of it; or was it? Later, the Utah Flash (development league team) owner, Brandt Anderson, claimed that the two would take each other on in the fore mentioned challenge this past Monday night. Long story short, it was a hoax put up to draw in fans to his teams game. Reading the following article and Brandt's own blog, it appears that he tried to recover with an utterly half-hearted attempt to apologies/PR back into the publics good graces. The League itself has issued sanctions to some degree that require (but not limited to) refunds and free admission. While I'm not informed by any means, I would venture to believe that whoever thought this would be a good idea has probably been set up to be fired after the media heat dies down as to not attract more attention from the media.
Heres the article and the owner's blog:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/-Jordan-vs-Russell-charity-game-hoax-angers-fa?urn=nba,207425
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