Air Jordans or adidas, that is the question.
Is it better to wear shoes that your mega gazillionaire daddy represents or to wear the shoes that the university that you are running hoop for has a contract with.
That be the dilemma that incoming freshman guard Marcus Jordan is facing at the University of Central Florida. The Chicago Tribune reports young Mr. Jordan is balking at having to wear adidas, jeopardizing a multi-million dollar contract the shoe maker has was UCF.
Apparently he was promised by the school when they were recruiting him that he could wear the Jordan brand; they lied. It happens.
The crux of the matter as I see it is that Mr.Jordan Jr. is nowhere near good enough to be making such demands. The son of the greatest player ever must take after his momma. He was rated as the 100th-best shooting guard in the country as a high school senior by ESPNU, averaging 10.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, earning state tournament MVP honors. Still, 100th, in the country as a shooting guard. To put that in perspective, Josh Wright, who played for the Univesity of Ottawa Gee Gees last year, was the 9th best guard in the States his Senior year.
If Mr. Jordan was a blue chip player going to a good basketball school; UCF was 133rd in the country at the conclusion of last season according to the USA Today's Jeff Sagarin, if he was a blue chip player he could strut. But he ain't. He wouldn't be good enough to start at Carleton so he should just suck it up and slip on the adidas.
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