By Jared Zwerling , NBA Senior Writer
When you receive this phone call—"You're invited to have lunch with Michael Jordan"—what's one of the first things you do? You think about what suit you're going to wear for your first, and likely only, encounter with arguably the world's most famous athlete. You can't show up looking anything but your best for a meeting with the G.O.A.T.
"If you walk into a room with Michael, the first thing he's going to do is look at you from head to toe," said Fred Whitfield, his longtime friend and current Charlotte Hornets' executive, in one of Jordan's books, Driven From Within.
So with a fresh blue suit packed, I arrived in Charlotte to join a select group of basketball writers for an intimate discussion with Jordan as he basked in the glow of the season opener, which came with a new court and locker room and a celebration of the return of the Hornets' team name.
But at lunch the following day, I had a chance to see Jordan outside the spotlight. It was a rare press appearance for a man who's been the majority owner in Charlotte since 2010 and is the standard against whom other elite players are judged.
It was noon when I entered the Time Warner Cable Arena's exclusive BackCourt Club for courtside seat holders, where the Hornets catered a small meal of salad and cold cuts. Thirty minutes later, Jordan arrived as scheduled.
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