“Get the same hate!” Antonio Brown wickedly compares himself to Michael Jordan over his failed stint as team owner of the Hornets amid Albany Empire snub

Michael Jordan set to sell his stake in the Charlotte Hornets after 13 years of ownership that yielded absolutely nothing.

“Get the same hate!” Antonio Brown wickedly compares himself to Michael Jordan over his failed stint as team owner of the Hornets amid Albany Empire snub

Antonio Brown and Michael Jordan (Image via Times Union and The Japan Times)

Antonio Brown has gone a step beyond and put himself in the same boat as the NBA’s greatest player of all time and a global icon, Michael Jordan. The former NFL wide receiver was looking for sympathy on Twitter after his team, the Albany Empire, was kicked out of the National Arena League for not paying a fine.

On Friday morning, it was reported that Michael Jordan was selling his NBA team, the Charlotte Hornets, to the Gabe Plotkin-Rick Schnall group for $3 billion.

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After the news broke out, Antonio Brown retweeted Barstool Sports’ recap of MJ’s tenure as the owner of the Hornets. AB wrote, “Me n MJ get the same hate BLK Ownership archives.” Brown is suggesting that his team was thrown out of the league because of his color and comparing himself to Michael Jordan.

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Unfortunately for MJ, his ownership tenure didn’t replicate his playing career. The only worthwhile thing the Hornets did during Jordan’s 13-year ownership was draft Kemba Walker in 2011. Brown’s situation is the polar opposite of that of Jordan’s. It was MJ’s personal decision to sell his stake while Brown brought the team in March and is being kicked out a couple of months later.

This latest rant is nothing but another feeble attempt by Antonio Brown to shift the blame on someone else rather than looking in the mirror. Brown is still of the opinion that the National Arena League is at fault and not him.

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Why was Antonio Brown’s team kicked out of the NAL?

Antonio Brown with his dad Eddie Brown (Image via Times Union)
Antonio Brown with his dad Eddie Brown (Image via Times Union)

According to the National Arena League’s rulebook, every owner has to pay 1/7th of the league’s operating budget. These payments are taken in the form of monthly assessments. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wideout paid the monthly assessment in the month of April but failed to comply with the same in May.

The league officials gave Brown an extension to pay, which he missed. The league’s Chief Accounting Officer said, “It didn’t seem like he (Mr. Brown) was going to pay the assessment,” which prompted the executives to take the drastic step of evicting the team from the league.

“After exhausting all avenues, the NAL board of owners has decided to terminate the membership agreement of the Albany Empire,” the NAL said in their statement. Antonio Brown was also fined $1000, which he ignored like everything else.

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