The NBA asked Michael Jordan if he was gambling on Chicago Bulls games after they found out he had a $1.2 million gambling debt.
During the 1993 playoffs, Richard Esquinas — a one-time general manager of the San Diego Sports Arena — wrote in his book that Jordan owed him more than $1.2 million in gambling debt.
“Richard Esquinas, we met from a third party,” Jordan said in The Last Dance doc. “I’m actually playing golf with people all the time now. And if they wanna gamble, we gamble. The character of those individuals, I find out later what kind of people I was playing with, I learned that lesson. But the act of gambling, I didn’t do anything wrong. … I never bet on games. I only bet on myself and that was…
