Pro Basketball

If Michael Jordan testifies in North Carolina next week that he wrote a $57,000 check to pay gambling debts, the admission apparently would put him in no jeopardy, according to the NBA and various law enforcement agencies.

Jordan, who has said that the money was a loan to a former golfing partner to help build a driving range, refused to deny a Chicago Sun-Times story saying he admitted that the check was not a loan but payment for gambling losses.

Jordan has been subpoenaed by the defense to testify at the trial in Charlotte of convicted cocaine dealer James Bouler, to whom the check was written.

Brian McIntyre of the NBA said Jordan confessed and was reprimanded and told to be more careful about whom he associated with.