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LEBANON, TENNESSEE – JUNE 25: Bubba Wallace, driver of the #23 Root Insurance Toyota, speak with NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and co-owner of 23XI Racing and his Yvette Prieto during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series NASCAR Cup Series Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway on June 25, 2022 in Lebanon, Tennessee. (Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images)
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LEBANON, TENNESSEE – JUNE 25: Bubba Wallace, driver of the #23 Root Insurance Toyota, speak with NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and co-owner of 23XI Racing and his Yvette Prieto during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series NASCAR Cup Series Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway on June 25, 2022 in Lebanon, Tennessee. (Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images)
Bubba Wallace has often talked about Michael Jordan as a team owner, and his ability to cheer a driver on. Jordan fans are aware of his competitive nature, which has brought a lot of success to him and all his ventures. But his 23XI Racing driver revealed something very very different and interesting about his owner.
Apparently, Jordan often takes his driver to the side to talk about things.
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It featured Bubba in a recent podcast from Showtime Basketball, in collaboration with 23XI Racing sponsor, Money Lion. He talked about having an NBA legend as his team owner. Wallace explained the true extent of Jordan’s competitive nature, “But MJ man, he’s just, he’s competitive. And loves to poke the bear and bet against you, and just to motivate you. And he’ll like in the moment, he’s joking around, and, hey, ‘I’m betting against you here’.”
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However, Wallace revealed that the legend will sometimes take him to the side and talk to him one on one just to make sure he isn’t misunderstood, “But then he’ll pull you to the side, and he’s like, you know what I’m doing, right? And then it gets results.”
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Wallace wrecking Kyle Larson might have been the most iconic tale of 2022. But Jordan didn’t put the blame on him. In fact, they were with him throughout.
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NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 26: Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan watches as Roger Federer of Switzerland plays against Marinko Matosevic of Australia at their men’s singles first round tennis match on second day of the 2014 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 26, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Bilgin Sasmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
“It’s all on him, but in actuality, it isn’t,” Jordan said. “We are very, very supportive, we’re going to be there for him when he makes a mistake when he succeeds. We’re going to go down as a team, and we’re going to win as a team. I can understand his mentality, and that’s good. I used to say that as well.”
In fact, MJ had claimed that he never wanted his driver “to feel that he’s alone.”
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The Jumpman knew his driver was wrong, but instead of leaving him in the frontline to take all the hits from the community, he supported his driver.
