Michael Jordan owns a golf course; Tony Kukoc owns Michael Jordan on the golf course.
The former Bulls teammates have become something of an odd couple in basketball retirement, the North Carolina ace and long armed Croatian rare bird—an albatross in golf vernacular?—often teeing it up around the country and the world, Kukoc an elite scratch golfer who often can match touring pros. The asphalt of North Carolina and the dusty courts of eastern Europe can make strange basketball bedfellows. But birdies and bogies produce links.
So one day six or seven years ago Jordan, who knows basketball talent, was talking with Kukoc and said when Kukoc was enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, he'd like to there for him as a presenter.