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NBC announced that Michael Jordan will be a special taxpayer to its NBA coverage when it begins in the 2025-2026 season on Monday.
Sports announcer Kevin Harlan talked about what the public should expect from Jordan behind the desk.
“I think that when you talk about perhaps the best player who has played our game, they are always the interior things, which I think is more captivating,” Harlan said during a recent appearance in “No,” not with Dakich “of Outkick.
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Michael Jordan and Curtis Polk, on the left, co -owners of 23xi Racing, look during the qualification with the president of 23xi Racing Steve Lauletta for a race of the Nascar Cup series, on November 9, 2024, in Avondale, Arizona. (AP Photo/John Locher, Archive)
“You don’t have to cut the statistics, you can talk about your personal experience, and if you talk about their battles with Reggie Miller and talk about how he prepared for a game 7 or how he prepared for a new series or how he prepared for sections of the regular season. I think that is what people want to see what is behind the curtain.”
“We all have access to numbers, we read the stories, but I want Jordan to tell me things that I don’t know.”
Harlan cited an interview he did with the late Kobe Bryant, and how insightful it was, and Harlan would want Jordan to provide a similar vision.
“Listen to Kobe talk in detail about the foot game, positioning, reading, schemes, every preparation, preparation day, routine after the game, such as the type of things I want to listen to Jordan to speak,” said Harlan.
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Michael Jordan during the 400 presented by Mobil 1 in Homestead-Miami Speedway on October 22, 2023. (Jasen Vinlove-USA Today Sports)
Harlan said Jordan wants Jordan to take fans “behind the scene.”
“We have a flood of host stories and their analysts, those are great, there is only one Michael Jordan, there is only one Kobe Bryant and listen to them talk about several facets of the game,” Harlan said.
“It is not necessary that you be distributing 18 different things, choose one thing, choose two things, take people behind the scene and the back of the curtain and reveal what it is to be in that position for that coach for that team. A personal experience, not ‘well in my day’, it is not that kind of thing, but a way of preparing against a great defender is a point point.”
CBS sports analyst Kevin Harlan on the court before a game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Florida Gators during the NCAA tournament at the Chase Center on March 29, 2025. (Kyle Terada-Imagn images)
NBC brought the rights to the 1990-2002 NBA, Jordan’s peak years. After 23 years without it, the NBA will return to the network when its 11 -year contract begins in October.
“I am very excited to see the NBA in NBC,” Jordan said during a video message. “The NBA in NBC was a significant part of my career, and I am excited to be a special taxpayer to the project. I hope to see them all when the NBA is launched in NBC this October.”
Jordan had not been part of any network since his retirement, but he had a documentary about his career, “The Last dance,” Air in ESPN in 2020.
