Obama Dishes It Right Back To Michael Jordan: Worry About Your NBA Team

President Barack Obama speaks as he campaigns for Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, at Temple University in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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President Barack Obama isn’t taking basketball icon Michael Jordan’s golf diss lying down.

Jordan said in an interview last month that he would play a round of golf with the President, but then quickly took it back because he said Obama would be too slow.

“I never said he wasn’t a great politician, I’m just saying he’s a sh*tty golfer,” Jordan told sportscaster Ahmad Rashad.

“Mike and I, we know each other but I’ve never played golf with him,” Obama said in a Tuesday interview with Milwaukee radio station WJMR.

“But there is no doubt that Michael is a better golfer than I am,” he added. “Of course if I was playing twice a day for the last 15 years, then that might not be the case.”

Obama then slipped in a dig at Jordan’s NBA team.

“You know he might want to spend more time thinking about the Bobcats — or maybe the Hornets, but that’s another issue.”

Under Jordan’s ownership, the struggling basketball franchise based in Charlotte, N.C. had been known as the Bobcats. After it was knocked out of the first round of NBA playoffs earlier this year, the team officially changed its name back to the franchise’s original moniker, the Hornets.

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