New York — Could Michael Jordan's next big acquisition for the Washington Wizards be Michael Jordan?
Citing a source identified only as being "very close to Jordan," Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly reported in this week's edition the former NBA great is "90 percent committed" to making a comeback next season with the Wizards.
A Jordan comeback has been fueled by reports he is working out with some saying he was spending up to six hours a day in a gym to get back into playing shape.
Jordan told The Washington Post on March 8 that a comeback "has not crossed my mind, but I will never say never."
"The first time I said never, I ended up coming back, but I can say that there's a 99.9 percent chance that I am not coming back," he said.
Jordan's agent, David Falk, ridiculed the report.
"I think that there is less than one-tenth of 1 percent of a chance that Michael will play again in the NBA. When you hit the last shot in the last second of his last game for a three-peat, how do you top that?" Falk told the Boston Globe.
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