Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, NY. However they moved to Wilmington,North Carolina before Michael's first birthday and made a basketball court in his backyard . Growing up wasn't easy for Michael , being the youngest out of his 4 siblings . His parents were James and Deloris. Sadly, James was murdered near his new home in North Carolina. As the years went on Michael started playing more sports . For example, Baseball and football. He took baseball the most serious out of all of the sports he played. In his sophomore year he tried out for the varsity team for basketball. He was only 5'9 at the time and was very skinny. He was booted out by a guy who was 6'8. Almost a foot taller than Michael. Some interesting facts about MJ was he retired twice from the the NBA . The first reason was to play baseball. But then he quit that and joined back to the NBA,and won 6 championships with the Bulls. Michael was drafted 3rd in the first round by the Bulls in 1984 . He was also given the nickname Air Jordan for his ability to stay in the air and do acrobatic layups and insane dunks . Next of are some awards won by MJ . 5 time NBA MVP, six time NBA champion . Won defensive player of the year , rookie of the year. 14 time all-star and lastly he was a Hall of Famer.
Famous Michael Jordan Quotes
This quote was one of the most famous quotes from MJ . This was from all the times Jordan has missed the game winning shot,but he always tried , even though he failed . Trying was big in Michael' s mind . For, example all of his failed attempts at winning the game with only a few seconds in the game. But that didn't stop him from taking the shots he is known to take to this day . To this day Jordan has made some of the amazing game winning shots the world has ever seen.
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