Michael JORDAN
Michael Jordan was born on January 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Wilmington, North Carolina. He has two brothers, is married, and has three kids. He is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time (Kornbluth). My focus will be on his hardships, accomplishments, and people who influenced him. First, I would like to touch on some general information about Michael. He wears number 23 on his jersey because he considered it to be half of his brother's number, 45. He had wanted 45 because it was his brother's number and he deeply admired his brother, but he was on the same team as his brother so he needed to pick a different number. His most well known superstition is that he wears his University of North Carolina basketball shorts under his game shorts. When Michael was a kid, his favorite sport was not basketball. In fact, it was baseball. He was a pitcher on a little league team. He played baseball because he was short. Later in his life, he would try to leave the NBA and play major league baseball.Michael was not always rich. His parents had to work two and three jobs each to support the family. Before Michael's dad built him a basketball court in his back ya
In 1991, the Bulls won their first NBA Championship led by Michael Jordan. He also played his brother, Larry, one-on-one in basketball. He did not make it, so he was placed on the Junior Varsity team. In his sophomore year of high school, he tried out for the Varsity team. All in all I believe that Michael Jordan is the best basketball player of all-time and will be remembered as so for a long time to come. In his junior year, the Tar Heels went to the NCAA Championship game where he would hit a clutch game winning buzzer beater to win the NCAA Championship. When he returned to basketball the list of awards and achievements kept flowing in as if he had never quit the game. When he finally got on the Varsity team in his junior year, he still worked hard. Michael was not always good at basketball, either. Michael would often times lose and end up getting in a fight with his brother. Michael was also part of the 1992 United States Olympic basketball team. After the 1993 NBA season Michael retired from basketball (www. " This Olympic team also won the gold medal.
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