EXCLUSIVE: Inside the 1993 bombshell book that brought the NBA's heat on Michael Jordan

In his first interview in 27 years, author and MJ golf opponent Richard Esquinas explains what led to Jordan's famed $1.252 million debt in 1991.

Ask any Bulls fan about the 1993 book Michael & Me: Our Gambling Addiction … My Cry For Help! and you’ll get one of three reactions.

One group of people has never heard of it. A second group doesn’t remember it, until hit with some light prodding, at which point vague memories return.

But the third group. 

The third group remembers. The third group hated t…