NBA scrutinized Jordan's all-star connections

Yahoo! sports did an enterprising story about whether Michael Jordan has an unfair advantage, evaluating NBA draft prospects, through his connection to a summer adult basketball camp and a spring all-star game. Click here to find this story.

I checked into this, and was told the league set up restrictions when Jordan was approved as a Bobcats owner. For instance, he can no longer hire future NBA prospects as camp counselors and he’s not supposed to have interaction with players at the all-star game beyond what other player-personnel executives get.

I did have two quibbles with the way this issue was portrayed:

First, the story was almost entirely unnamed sources – executives from other teams who were allowed to complain without tying their names to their comments. Unnamed sources are a legitimate part of journalism, but I don’t like allowing people to snipe anonymously.

Second, the implication – that Jordan is all-knowing and all-seeing – doesn’t pass the sniff test. Wasn’t Jordan in charge of the Washington Wizards when they wasted the No. 1 overall pick on Kwame Brown?