You know who else just happened to be in at the time? Dominique Wilkins, Magic Johnson, Parick Ewing.....
Hey let's go further than that
Michael Jackson was more IN than Jordan ever was.....but did black artists start getting signed up the wazoo to multi billion dollar contracts after him? No. In fact it wasn't until MC Hammer that black artists began to make a name for themselves financially. And MC came AFTER