Michael Jordan’s Early Life

Michael Jordan had a very interesting early life, and he faced obstacles.

On February 17, 1963 Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn New York. He has 4 siblings He has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. Jordan, Jr., one older sister, Deloris, and one younger sister, Roslyn. His family moved to Wilmington North Carolina when Michael was still a toddler. He attended Emsley A. Laney high school. And was a star in basketball, baseball and football. After high school he went to North Carolina for college and played a big roll on the team, averaging 13.4 points per game. He was asked about what his favorite shot or most important shot was in the 1982 NCAA Championship when he made the game winning shot. After that happened he said that was the shot was the shot that got him in the MBA.

In 1984 he was drafted by the Chicago bulls in the 1st round 3rd pick. In 1992 he retired. for the first time, because his dad was murdered! MJ went to play minor league baseball for 1 year then went back to basketball in 1994 and again played for Chicago.

He also played for the USA Olympic team for basketball and won gold twice. He retired and then in 2001 again came back to play for the Washington Wizards. Jordan played in his final NBA game on April 16, 2003 in Philadelphia. After scoring only 13 points in the game, Jordan went to the bench with 4 minutes remaining in the third quarter and with his team trailing to the Philadelphia 76ers, 75–56. Just after the start of the fourth quarter, the crowd began chanting “We want Mike! We want Mike!” After much encouragement from coach Doug Collins, Jordan finally rose from the bench and re-entered the game, replacing Larry Hughes with 2 minutes left in the game. Jordan was intentionally fouled by the 76ers” and stepped to the line and made both free throws. After the second foul shot, the 76ers in-bounded the ball to rookie John Salmons, who was then intentionally fouled by Bobby Simmons right after, stopping time so that Jordan could return to the bench. He got a three-minute standing ovation from his teammates, his opponents, the officials, and the crowd of 21,257 fans. Michael Jordan is clearly in my opinion one of the best to play the game.