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Former Charlotte Bobcats player Raymond Felton recalled this week how then-team owner Michael Jordan beat several of their best players in games of one-on-one. MJ had been a minority owner of the team in 2006 and went on to become the first former player to become the majority owner of an NBA team when he completely purchased the Bobcats in 2010.
Felton, who played at the same college as [Michael Jordan](https://brobible.com/tag/michael-jordan), North Carolina, was drafted fifth overall pick by the Bobcats in the 2005 NBA Draft. So his story occurs several years after Michael Jordan retired for the third and final time following the 2002-03 season he spent with the Washington Wizards.
“He was super competitive. He hated to lose. And he came to the locker room many times and told us how he felt, how he felt about how we was playing,” Raymond Felton recounted this week on Paul George’s _Podcast with P_.
“I know the one moment I’mma take from that man was, it was me, him, Jeff McInnis, Gerald Wallace, and J-Rich. But J-Rich might not have been there. But I know it was me, Jill, and Jeff McInnis. We played one-on-one against MJ. And when I tell you, he was frying us. Man, he was frying us, bro, and was talking crazy to us too, man.”
Felton also said that despite the Bobcats, later renamed the Hornets, never finishing higher than seventh in the Eastern Conference during Michael Jordan’s 11 years as Managing Member of Basketball Operations and then majority owner, he wasn’t as bad at his job as many fans think.
“Him as an owner though, like I said, a lot of people giving him dirt about being an owner,” said Felton. “But a lot of people don’t understand, man, it’s not easy. It’s not easy. You taking a chance and drafting kids, and you know, signing people in free agency, and you just don’t know how things going to pan out. You just, you basing it on their talent, you basing it on what you feel like the potential can be. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.”