This is a shout out to all of our seasoned readers! One of whom may be basketball great, Michael Jordan, who just turned 50… If you ask Michael, age is just a number, 23, forever 23… Okay, maybe 45, forever 45.

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“It was hard for me,” Kidd-Gilchrist, almost 20, told USA Today before the Rising Stars Challenge rookie-sophomore game at All-Star Weekend. “I lost. I lost to a 50-year-old guy. … He’s the greatest man that ever played the game.

“Oh, yeah. He’s good.”

How about taking it easy to make the boss look good? The 6-foot-7 rookie out of Kentucky said that wasn’t the case.

“No. I didn’t allow him to beat me,” he told CSNHouston. “Because that’s my boss? Nah.”

Kidd-Gilchrist is averaging 9.1 points and 5.7 rebounds per game this season. Source.