Steve Wyche of the Washington Post reports: Michael Jordan will meet with team chairman/owner Abe Pollin late this week or early next week to discuss what his role with the team will be next season.

 They both want things but a source said yesterday that neither of their demands appear to be unreasonable.

 Jordan wants final say on basketball decisions and to possibly hire some more front-office personal.

Pollin wants Jordan to be in Washington more often. Jordan currently spends most of his time in Chicago. He also wants Jordan to build a winning team.

"As soon as Michael's ready, we'll talk. I'll be ready," Pollin said. "It's going to be what he wants and what I want and it's going to be a combination of what his desires are and what mine are. Until that happens there's nothing more I can say other than we're going to try and sit down and see how it goes."

However, if the two sides cannot agree on Jordan?s role, he likely will leave and some of the people he hired when he was president of basketball operations from January 2000 to October 2001 would either resign or be fired.

 Those people include: Assistant general manager Rod Higgins, director of player personnel Fred Whitfield, and head coach Doug Collins along with his coaching staff.

 "I'll be here as long as Michael wants me here," Collins said.

 If Jordan does not return to the Wizards, he could very well be headed to Charlotte, which is owned by his friend Robert Johnson, who will offer him a stake in the franchise and high-ranking front office post. However, Jordan insists the Washington Wizards are his first choice.

 "I have options," Jordan said.

  If Jordan does return, he has a lot of personal decisions to make.

 "Our pieces don't fit," Collins said. "When you look at it Atlanta's roster is better than us. New York's roster is better than us and they are behind or even with us. Chicago is going to be better than us and we got all those teams ahead of us, so we have a lot of things we need to do."

  Jordan agreed.

  "I'm not saying I shy away from some of the decisions we've made as an organization," Jordan said. "In terms of what happened with this team and some of those changes, I will never walk away from those decisions because I was involved with them."

Washington?s whole offseason will depend on whether or not Jerry Stackhouse opts out of his contract. If he does, the Wizards would have about $12 million in capspace to sign free agents. However, if Stackhouse doesn?t, the Wizards will only have about $5 million to spend.

 Stackhouse hinted that his decision could be based on Jordan?s future with the team.

  "I'll wait and see what happens with the team, wait and see what happens with Michael," Stackhouse said. "First things first, try to find out what's happening with our organization internally. From there, start talking about what we're going to do to start piecing together the team. That's important to me, to see what direction the team is going in."

 It is also mentioned that the Wizards want to re-sign Tyrone Lue and would deal Kwame Brown if the right deal came along.

 In the end, Doug Collins probably said it best.

 ?We need to get everything in place in terms of the hierarchy and how it's going to be so we can start moving in the right direction."