So let's say you've got the Clinton administration, with ole Slick Willy up there at the top running the show (assuming Hillary is not in the picture, of course). And let's say, for argument's sake, that ole Slick Willy has to reconfigure some positions, and just for fun, to make a point, we say he named -- drumroll please -- Larry Flynt as vice president and Ted Kennedy as Secretary of State.

Just go pitch a tent right now. Well, with those three, maybe that's not the phrase we should use.

But we're talking three rings and an elephant here -- and, no, Ted is not playing the part of the elephant.

My point is, there are just some relationships that, if you placed them together, would be such a mockery of all that is sane that it is virtually impossible to even imagine.

	The 'North Carolina thing' wouldn't go far with George Karl.

But, if the stars align properly, not to mention the checking account numbers, we could have the potential for a situation so galactically combustible that the entire basketball community would sit back and make wagers (if that's OK with the NCAA) about when, where and under what circumstance the relationship would implode, explode and then replode, if you don't mind my inventing of words to fit the situation.

So you've heard that Michael Jordan is pursuing purchasing the Milwaukee Bucks?

That's right, those Milwaukee Bucks, the team led by George Karl, run by Sam Cassell and anchored by Anthony Mason, which I believe was the winning trifecta for emotional instability at the sports psychologists convention held at Oregon State Hospital in Salem recently.

Can you imagine tossing the enigmatic Jordan into the mix? It would be like Saddam Hussein having Slobodan Milosevic over for tea, cookies and a game of cards -- presumably without Saddam's face on them.

Now, at first glance, it seems as if the pairing of Jordan and Karl would be a hospitable venture, considering there is that whole North Carolina thing going on.

(As an aside, I don't know about you, but I don't really get that whole North Carolina thing. It's like it's a perverse secret society or something. You don't hear other schools say, "Well, they went to UCLA," or, "They went to Kentucky." But when you say they went to North Carolina, it's like people's eyes glaze over and they are talking about some religious, ritualistic, brain-washing cult that took place because Dean Smith performed some Jedi mind tricks on some unsuspecting kids. Maybe I'm being anti-social, but that's reason enough for me NOT to go to North Carolina. I don't need that stuff trailing me around for 50 years. Send me to Hoboken Junior College and let me get on with my life.)

Anyway, Jordan and Karl have that whole weird Carolina thing happening, and supposedly that is a good, bonding thing. But my personal opinion is that Tarheel loyalty goes about as far as a plate of cookies around Star Jones, and when the rubber meets the road it's every man for himself.

After all, both Jordan and Jerry Stackhouse had that whole North Carolina thing going on, but apparently Dean forgot to tell them the knives they were wielding were for communing dinners and not to stab each other in the back.

Now, let me be up front. I covered George in Seattle, and I like George. But I think even George would admit that he is rather high maintenance, and that he has some "issues."

When he was at Golden State, George did not really get along with the Warriors' owners. When he was in Seattle, he did not get along with Wally Walker, the team's vice president. And now that he is in Milwaukee, he was unable to get along with either Glenn Robinson or Ray Allen.

It escapes me how he managed to get rid of the two guys who were All-Stars and were capable of carrying the team while holding on to the one guy -- Cassell -- who proved through his ridiculous contract negotiations that he was just as nuts. And it escapes me even further how he managed to get, essentially, Toni Kukoc and Desmond Mason in return for a guy who once was the first pick in the draft and another who is an Olympian in the prime of his career. But then, I guess that is how you go from the cusp of the NBA Finals to just barely making the playoffs.

	The point is, George has had problems with either a) Authority; or b) strong-willed players willing to speak their minds throughout the course of his career. Which brings us back to Jordan, who in this case will be a) Authority; and b) a strong-willed player who was willing to speak his mind.

The point is, George has had problems with either a) Authority; or b) strong-willed players willing to speak their minds throughout the course of his career.

Which brings us back to Jordan, who in this case will be a) Authority; and b) a strong-willed player who was willing to speak his mind.

As some smart guy somewhere once said: A + B = C(ombustion).

According to my colleague Marc Stein, Jordan is only interested in a return to the front office if he has full decision-making power, the reason that he wants to be a part-owner of the Bucks -- which, conveniently, will be only a 90-minute drive from his Chicago home.

But let's be honest, while a fantastic player, Jordan has not proved himself to be quite so skillful as an executive. Those who covered him in Chicago say that the recommendations he made to management about which players to pursue to play alongside him were disastrous.

And while, admittedly, he did a nice job of unloading the contract of Juwan Howard and getting rid of some other dead weight, he also drafted Kwame Brown, fell in love with Bobby Simmons (and traded the rights to Peja Drobnjak for him), chose Juan Dixon well ahead of where anyone else would have chosen him and took Jared Jeffries. Basically, if the Wizards' cupboard isn't bare, there are only a lot of broken dishes sitting in there needing Krazy Glue.

Not only that, Jordan was so divisive and haughty that he alienated Wizards owner Abe Pollin. This is not to say that Jordan is entirely in the wrong, because clearly Pollin is out of touch, but it is to say that he must have done something egregious to force Pollin to summarily dismiss him without warning.

So picture the scene: Jordan buys the Bucks, then goes into George's office for their first sit-down meeting.

Michael: "Talked to Dean the other day."

George: "So did I."

Michael: "He said to say hello."

George: "He told me to tell you the same thing."

Michael: "We need to talk about the team."

George: "Are you going to play again?"

Michael: "There's a 99.9 percent chance I won't. Not with this raggedy bunch you put together. They don't play defense. Sam is selfish. And Mase, he looks like he doesn't care."

George: "Bite me."

Michael: "You're fired."

George: "I'm telling Dean you're a jackass."

Michael: "Go Tarheels."

That means Michael will have to hire a coach.

I hear Doug Collins and Leonard Hamilton are available.

Frank Hughes, who covers the NBA for the Tacoma (Wash.) News-Tribune, is a regular contributor to ESPN.com.