Prieto is a 32-year old Cuban model, making her just 9-years older than Jordan’s son Jeffery Michael.

Hopefully Jordan gets a prenup, after his 2006 divorce cost him $168 million. Jordan was married to his first wife Juanita Vanoy for 17-years, and according to Forbes their divorce was the most expensive celebrity settlement.

In Lithonia, Georgia, four people were arrested after they broke down a store door trying to get the shoes, forcing 20 squad cars to respond. At Somerset Mall in Troy, Michigan shoppers were trampled after people started lining up at 4am. “One kid was trampled and hurt his arm, maybe even broke it,” said Troy Police Department Public Information Officer Andy Breidenich.

Michael Jordan visited his alma mater before North Carolina took on the Washington Huskies for a spot in the Sweet 16. Jordan led the Tar Heels to an NCAA basketball championship in 1982 and wished the team good luck… but also knocked some of the players for wearing Kobe Bryant’s basketball shoes instead of Air Jordans. The players responded to Jordan asking for the high-in-demand “cool grey” Jordan 11s, but according to Jordan they have one more task to complete, “Get to the Final Four and you can get anything you want!”

“I had absolutely nothing to do with it, Nike had absolutely nothing to do with it,” Jordan told the Associated Press.

Jordan says he found out about the video when one of his son forwarded it to him. The video has been making the internet rounds and was even tweeted by Jordan’s son Marcus Jordan. In just under two weeks, almost 5 million people have seen the spoof that looks so real Michael Jordan is having to respond about the video himself.

Thejerseychaser.com did an exclusive interview with the creator of the video Tom Hinuebe. Congrats Tom!

The man responsible for the video that has all of America talking is film student Tom Hinueber. In a Jersey Chaser exclusive, Hinueber answered our questions about the video… and I think his answers will surprise you!

TJC: The AirJordan commercial you used in your video is from 2008 titled, “Maybe.” How did you come up with the concept? Did you look at mashing-up other AirJordan commericals with LeBron’s “Rise”?

Hinueber: I’ve always been a fan of the Jordan “maybe” commercial and many of Nike’s ad campaigns. However this new “Rise” ad with Lebron seemed incredibly pretentious to me. I guess I wanted MJ to bring him back down to earth.

TJC: In just over a week, 4 million people have viewed your “Maybe You Should Rise” video, did you contact any sports websites or writers to help make the video go viral?

Hinueber: Honestly this was a shock, I couldn’t tell you how it went viral. I posted it to my YouTube Tuesday and flew out to Chicago for the holiday. After thanksgiving dinner I saw it had 8,000 hits and I thought to myself “Wow! 8,000 that’s a lot” an hour later it had 30,000. That was when I got the sense it was taking off.

TJC: What has been the biggest surprise about the success of your video?

Hinueber: I was surprised by how positive the response was. I think I captured what a lot of people were feeling. As a filmmaker it’s great to know that your able to speak to people on that level.

TJC: A lot of people were fooled and thought it was a real commercial. Being that AirJordan and LeBron James Collections are both Nike, were you worried at all you would hear from Nike?

Hinueber: My father is a copyright lawyer, and I certainly got an earful from him. At the end of the day though this is free advertising for Nike, I don’t think they mind. I’ve heard from people in the know, that inside Nike it’s a very popular video. That’s certainly a major compliment if it’s true.

TJC: Michael Jordan’s sons @SASBMJ and @heirjordan have tweeted your video, any response on what their dad thought of it?

Hinueber: I haven’t heard if LeBron or Michael has seen it, but I was touched Marcus Jordan thought it was good. Hopefully he passes it on to MJ [Michael Jordan].

TJC: There have been other spoofs of LeBron’s “Rise” commercial, do you have a favorite one?

Hinuber: I liked Cleavland’s response a lot. There’s a great line where the guy stacking hay bails, answers one of many what should I do’s? with, “You could throw it in our faces on national television… thanks!” That part gives me a chuckle.

TJC: You’re obviously Team Jordan, but what do you think about the comparisons between LeBron and Kobe? Any Kobe v. Jordan, Kobe v. LeBron mash up videos in the future?

Hinueber: People might hate this, but as a west coast boy I’m a Lakers fan, so I’m team Kobe. I can’t see another basketball Mash-up in the future, I don’t like to repeat myself. In fact the next Mash-up I have in mind is going to be the polar opposite of “Maybe you Should Rise”. I don’t want to give it away, but the target audience will more likely be teenage girls than 18-35 year old men.

TJC: LeBron has said that he is keeping a list of all of his “haters,”what do you think his reaction would be to your video?

Hinueber: I don’t think Lebron James will ever care enough to learn my name, but “Guy who made that video” might go on his list.


TJC: You’re a film student at the University of Las Vegas, are you interested in making sports movies?

Hinueber: I’m interested in a lot of different movies and video projects, so yes. As a kid I watched “Field Of Dreams” until the tape broke. Hopefully I’ll create something that good one day.

TJC: You only have one video posted on your YouTube channel… where can we see more of your stuff!?

Hinueber: I will be posting more video’s to my YouTube soon, I’d like to keep my channel synonymous with quality, so no fluffy cat videos. Also I’m currently Employed by the Las Vegas Journal as a freelance videographer, you can see my work on rebelnation.net and nevadapreps.com week in week out.

On Thursday, I posted this video of Michael Jordan responding to LeBron’s Nike “Rise” commercial asking fans, “What should I do” after the basketball star left Cleveland. The Jordan commercial was titled, “Maybe You Should Rise,” and pretty bad @$$.

It was one of the most epic Z-snaps between the Jordan LeBron rivalry. Jordan’s video quickly became one of the TJC most popular posts and generated more than half a million views in just four days on YouTube.

Both commercials were for Nike, making us question the validity of the Jordan commercial… but we were blinded with excitement that the greatest basketball player of all-time was calling out the self-proclaimed king.

That was until Miami Heat beat writer confirmed our suspicions. Ira Winderman of the Sun-Sentiniel tweeted:

YouTube Jordan-LeBron commercial a spoof. Another example of anything goes social-media age. Jumpman vs. Nike simply not going to happen.

The video was created by fan Tom Hinueber, and the Jordan audio is from an old Air Jordan’s commercial. Nice job Tom && #TEAMJORDAN. To follow thejerseychaser.com on Twitter click here!

LeBron James has often been compared to Michael Jordan throughout his career. But unlike LeBron, Michael Jordan stayed in Chicago for his entire career (until he came back from retirement in 2001) and brought the city six championships in eight years. Jordan even turned down lucrative contracts to play fore bigger market teams like the New York Knicks.

Earlier this month, LeBron released a new Nike commercial called “Rise” asking the world “What should I do?” after he became Public Enemy No.1 for leaving the Cleveland Cavilers. Jordan has come out with his own commercial for AirJordans and responds to LeBron.

While I am not a huge Michael Jordan fan, I did like the movie Space Jam, and this commercial gave me goosebumps and will probably make my boyfriend cry.

The original “Rise” commercial can be seen below…

Michael Jordan later had his son remove the Tweet… but as those pestty PSA campaigns always say, once its on the internet, you can never get it back! Now, both MGM Grand, where Marcus Jordan was staying, and Norm Clarke of the Las Vegas Review Journal, ““Heard about it yesterday. We’re looking into it.”

Good thing MJ knows how to handle gambling related scandals!

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At the American Century Championship golf tournament Michael Jordan finally gave his opinion of LeBron James leaving Cleveland for the Miami Heat. Jordan talks about LeBron at the 30 second mark where he said, “There’s no way, with hindsight, I would’ve ever called up Larry, called up Magic and said, ‘Hey look let’s get together and play on one team…. But that’s, things are different. I can’t say that’s a bad thing. It’s an opportunity these kids have today. In all honesty, I was trying to beat those guys.”

Jordan placed 22nd at the tournament.

But Jordan’s son Marcus Jordan disagrees. Marcus took to his Twitter saying: “NO ONE… and I mean NO ONE should ever com par kobe Bryant to my dad an say that he is anywhere near close to my dad He’s jagging this game (SIC).”

*Jordan has 6 NBA Championships and 6 NBA FInals MVPs… not to mention the movie Space Jam.