Rarely does Michael Jordan pick up a basketball these days.

In an interview with NBC’s Mike Tirico during coverage of the NBA season opener on Tuesday, Jordan said it had been, in fact, years.

But prodded by Tirico, he recalled an instance just last month.

Jordan, viewed by many as the greatest of all time and renowned for his unmatched competitiveness en route to six NBA titles, was renting a house with a basketball court during the Ryder Cup in New York.

When the owner came over along with his grandchildren for a meet-and-greet, he asked Jordan to shoot a free throw.

“When I stepped up to shoot the free throw, it’s the most nervous I’ve been in years. The reason being is, those kids heard the stories from their parents about what I did 30 years ago. So their expectation is 30 years

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