![]() But Jordan's search for challenges now threatens to cause him an image problem. Jordan's father says that if anything, his son has "a competition problem," an understandable flaw in a player who's better than anyone who's ever pulled on a pair of shorts. The drive to excel, to compete, to win, evidently is as hard to turn off as it is awesome to behold. It's not easy being the most famous athlete in the world. Three years ago the team began using its own charter plane to protect the players' privacy-but also, it seems now, to keep from embarrassing view the hundreds of dollars spread across airport-lounge tables, the stakes in Jordan's card games. On the road, he hosts all-night poker games in his hotel room. On the Chicago Bulls' plane, he runs games of 21 or tonk, a sort of gin rummy. At practice he'll wager on trick shots or play H-0-R-S-E for cash. Suffice it to say he is a frequent and ardent one. Leave it to the psychologists to determine whether Michael Jordan is a compulsive gambler.
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