Michael Jordan used to be a very popular sports figure. Well, he still is but he used to have a real Beatles effect on everybody who consumed basketball or shoes or basketball shoes on some level. He's still known as the greatest player of all time and the icon he became transformed the landscape for players as both celebrities and financial winners in today's NBA.

Jordan was such a big deal that this woman Irene Liao used to bring a cardboard cutout of him everywhere she went in third grade. They went to Starbucks. They went to the market. They went to the mall and rode escalators. He was near her when her grandpa taught her how to play the piano. He even went to school with her.

I have some questions about this:

  • How difficult was this to transport everywhere she went and what was that conversation/tantrum like when first discussing whether or not Cutout MJ could go to the store?
  • How long until this Cutout MJ started to deteriorate?
  • How many 20-year-old guys from Twitter would do this with a Kobe Bryant cutout right now?
  • Which player would be the weirdest to do this with now? Nikola Pekovic? Is a Nikola Pekovic cutout readily available anywhere in the world?
  • Is this any weirder than when I used to dunk over a cardboard Shaquille O'Neal cutout on a Nerf hoop in seventh grade?
  • She apparently threw it out when promised a poster after a teacher said it was an unhealthy relationship. She never got the poster. Should Michael Jordan send her a new cutout?
  • Could that new Cutout MJ be the ring bearer at her wedding some day?
  • How close is a LeBron James cutout to being better than a Michael Jordan cutout?

Also, it looks like she's not the only person to do this ...