We know one of the greatest competitors in the history of sports, not one to acknowledge that he might not be able to handle something.

But Cigar Aficionado just made public a fuller transcript of the interview that they published back in 2017 and the additional comments included some interesting perspective on the social media era Now.

At the time, Jordan told Cigar Aficionado he's making comparison between Tiger Woods, Jack Nicholas, how you could really not compare players between eras.

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I wonder who he was really talking about, and he said that Tiger plaited his peak somewhere toward the end of my career, he said then what changed from that time frame to now is social media, Twitter and all those types of things, and that has invaded the personalities and personal time of individuals.

For someone like myself, and this is what Tiger deals with, he said.

I don't know if I could have survived in this Twitter era, where you don't have the privacy that you'd want and what seems to be very innocents can always be misinterpreted.

So, Matt, first of all, that's an interesting acknowledgement from M.

J that anything is harder now than when he played right, because, of course, the defense's were harder and the hand checking was harder.

And he walked uphill both ways to school and all that stuff.

How true, by the way, clearly, clearly.

How do you think MJ would have fared in the social media era as someone, By the way, you saw everything really changed while you were playing?

Absolutely.

It would have been tough.

It's a definitely a different time now, Um, you know, it's social Media has been the greatest gift you could say we've had in one of the biggest curse we have and one of the reason why it's the biggest curse because it gives a lot of idiots voices and a lot of negative people with a lot of negative energy will just say random stuff.

They would never say to your face.

So I think MJ playing this area, he would have been mawr closed off than he already was, and he was already really closed off.

So, um, you know, everything is about timing.

Uh, luckily, he didn't have to deal with it, but it's It's a really issue that people don't really understand how much hate and negativity ways into social media.

People always wanna jump on Kevin Durant for responding and firing back.

But I understand because I mean negativity, death threats You're talking about your kids, your ex wife, you name it.

There's nothing off limits because you're not held accountable because you're behind the computer behind the phone.

So I completely understand where NJ is coming from.

I'm a little Tauron here because on the one hand, I like to imagine MJ is so cool and was so cool he wouldn't even be on Twitter.

Who cares?

He wouldn't even see anything on Twitter.

And like so what?

You snap a photo of M.

J at a casino a to 45 in the morning having a whiskey.

Guess what?

He hangs 50 on your team the next day, so it doesn't even matter.

Then again, would he have a whole team of branding and advertising people forcing him to be on Twitter and Instagram and ruining his life by putting them on social media?

Bottom line, MJ would be fine.

This dude is this Michael Jordan?

He survived the bad boys fouling and he survived.

Bill, Maybe we survived social media is Michael Jordan, you still would have been a killer.

I'm just saying, it's It's It's just a different time, obviously, and it's acknowledging.

And I appreciate that.

He's acknowledging this, and that sort of shows how he is still.

I mean, he's a team owner.

He is still very current in the game and what's going on.

It's acknowledging that it is an extra layer to deal with.

Look, we saw the most dramatic example of it.

It's not Kevin Durant answering Twitter followers.

It's not the burner phones.

It's not what has gotten, say former general managers in trouble LeBron James during the 2011 finals was subject and heard and let in so much noise that he now has acknowledged it affected his performance and then went to the length of turning off all of his phones and social media for the next five or six years during the playoffs.

It it's something to navigate.

It is interesting to me to see Jordan recognize that the whole interview is great.

It's definitely worth checking out.