B024_Jordan1.txt

Jordan "Mentally, I'm exhausted, I don't feel I have a challenge. Physically, I feel great. The last time I had other agendas, you know, and I knew I wanted to play baseball and I thought it is at my age; it was a good opportunity and time to do it. And with the death of my father, and I was basically trying to deal with that. This time I'm at peace with a lot of those things and know from a career standpoint right now I don't have the mental challenges that I have had in the past to proceed as a basketball player. Actually I talked to Jerry last year once, say, as the season ended and I told Jerry at that time that mentally I was a little exhausted, I didn't know if I would play next year. I wanted to put him on awareness so that he could possibly prepare going to next season. And Jerry once we had our conversation wanted me to take time as I did in 93 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the final decision. And he encouraged me wait to the time came to where I made that announcement. And in the middle of that process, with the lockout, I wanted to support the players.