Michael Jordan Is Terrified Of This Animal, Says Son Marcus Jordan

Michael Jordan may be notorious for instilling fear in the hearts of opposing players during his NBA career, but according to his son, the basketball icon is completely petrified of one animal in particular.

During an episode of his Separation Anxiety podcast, Marcus Jordan spoke with girlfriend and co-host Larsa Pippen about his father’s fear of the reptilian creature. “There’s a bunch of stuff that I feel like people don’t know” the younger Jordan said of his elder during Monday’s episode (Aug. 28). “One is that he’s terrified of snakes.”

The 32-year-old shared a story of he and his elder brother Jeffrey Jordan pulling a prank on their father that involved snakes as children, resulting in the siblings being put on punishment for the humorously cruel act.

“We were grounded,” Marcus said of his father’s reaction upon arriving home and discovering his bed filled with plastic snakes. “He was running around the house trying to figure out who did it.”

According to the former collegiate basketball player, the joke was in pure fun and a product of he and his brother being homebodies as children. “One of those ways was pranking each other and pranking our parents,” he recalled of how he and Jeffrey passed the time while being “home 24/7” during their youth.

Marcus Jordan has been the subject of numerous headlines this year due to his relationship with Pippen, the ex-wife of his father’s Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen, with whom she shares four children.

Earlier this month, the pair sparked rumors of an engagement between the two after Marcus said a wedding “was in the works” following sightings of a sizable ring on Pippen’s finger, which she later revealed is a “promise ring.” Jordan would later clarify his comments about marriage as playful, clearing up the fact the two had yet to be engaged and were solely dating at the moment.

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