![]() ![]() The CGA got started when guys like Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley showed up. “It was always up in the air,” said CGA President Jim Karvellas of Jordan’s participation following his father’s death. The $250,000 CGA event starts on Friday with the final rounds on Saturday and Sunday televised on Channel 5. Scott Williams also will make an appearance sometime during the weekend. Saturday and John Paxson will appear from 2-4 p.m. Four of Jordan’s Bulls’ teammates will be at the tournament. The tournament will go on as scheduled with a celebrity-amateur tournament scheduled on Thursday. Michael has always been there for McDonald’s and we want to be there for him.” We go back a long way with Michael, back to the 1991 McDonald’s All-American game. “We understand his decision,” said Paul Schrage, senior executive vice president of McDonald’s. The Celebrity Golf Association portion of the event starts on Friday and runs through Sunday. The tournament’s celebrity activities start Thursday with a celebrity-amateur tournament. Although I enjoyed participating-and hope it promoted the event’s worthy community programs-I simply feel that I need more private time with my family and friends before I can resume my public appearances.” “Based on a commitment I had made earlier, I did play in the Rose Elder Invitational this past weekend (in Virginia). “It had been my intention to resume my off-season schedule tomorrow at the Michael Jordan/Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities Celebrity Golf Classic,” the statement said. Barkley, a rival on the basketball court as a member of the Phoenix Suns, agreed to fill in for his friend and read a statement from Jordan. ![]() The Chicago Bulls’ superstar decided he was not ready to make a public appearance in Chicago so soon after his father’s death. It will be played at Seven Bridges Golf Club in Woodridge with Charles Barkley as the substitute host. They were always going to be yes men.The Michael Jordan/Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities Celebrity Golf Classic will go on without Michael Jordan. I thought the people around him, they wanted the private jet. That was actually my statement, to be honest. … I thought the people he hired around him were too many yes men. And actually, my criticism was about the people around him. But I’m going to always try to do my job. It’s unfortunate the way things went down. “Don’t you have friends who you’re not sure how they’re gonna react when you’re honest with them,” Barkley asked. But after joining the Phoenix Suns in 1992, Barkley became confident he had found the right group to contend for a title. The current NBA on TNT analyst went on to expound on his sentiments, and as it turns out, he remembers exactly what he said that made Jordan so upset: Charles Barkey always felt he was the best player in the NBA.Even though Michael Jordan was the one winning championships, Chuck argued it was because he had more help around him. But obviously he didn’t take kindly to some things I said about his management skills. ![]() He’s the greatest basketball player ever. “We were great friends forever,” Barkley said of Jordan on the Hoops, Adjacent podcast, via David Aldridge of The Athletic. Though Ilya Hoffman met Christiana Barkley during a basketball game, he wasn’t knocked sideways when he learned the identity of her father. As it turns out, their once-close friendship was damaged when Barkley criticized Jordan for the latter's performance as an NBA executive: For his part, Barkley opened up about why he and Jordan still have beef to this very day. With 45 seconds left in Game 4 of the 1993 Finals and Chicago up by two on the Phoenix Suns- and up 2-1 in the series - Charles Barkley intercepted a wild Pippen pass and kicked the ball ahead. ![]()
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