Jared Jeffries was a rising NBA executive, then he decided to embrace esports

Jared Jeffries wanted no part of Michael Jordan’s poker games in the rear of the Washington Wizards’ team plane in 2002. Jeffries was a rookie fresh out of Indiana. Jordan was his boss, his teammate, the team president, minority owner, and to many the greatest basketball player of all time. The stakes were a little too high for the 20-year-old, 11th-overall pick, entering the professional workforce...