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Re: Kobe's pinkie requires surgery; Would be out 6 weeks?
Do you know that MJ would smoke a cigar before home games? The following is an excerpt form an interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine in 2005.
Quote:
MRS: Cigars? We're sitting here. We're smoking a Cuban Monty No. 2. Nothing wrong with that. I went through your humidor here; you have a great selection. When did you first get into cigars?
Jordan: I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything. We won the championship, and Jerry Reinsdorf gave me one of his cigars. He's a big cigar smoker.
The next time I received a cigar was from my good friend, Ahmad Rashad. He used to get these Churchills from Las Vegas that were dipped in rum. I wouldn't smoke them, but I owuld sit there and chew on them. I got to the point where it became very relaxing.
In Chicago, I tell people this, and they have to understnad the context of what happened. We had to be to the stadium at 6 o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and 15 or and hour and 30 minutes to drive. So now I'm sitting in a car for almost an hour and a half, and I'm very tense. I'm worried about the traffic. So I started smoking a cigar going to the games. In 1993. It became a ritual for every home game.
MRS: What cigar?
Jordan: At the time, I started out with the Hoyo de Monterrey Doubla Corona.
MRS: That's a good hour smoke.
Jordan: Taking my time. I never rushed. As soon as I walked in, Phil (Jackson) would say 'Ok, you had a long drive.' It became such a relaxing thing to do...I wanted that feeling of success, and relaxation. It's the most relaxing thing...
http://www.unc.edu/~bretd/2005/08/mi...-in-cigar.html
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