Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn,
New York on February 17, 1963. He had 5 siblings Michael was the 4th child to
be born Michael was a mechanic and Deloris Jordan his brother was a bank teller. Soon after Michael's birth,
James and Deloris felt that the streets of Brooklyn were unsafe to raise a
family, so they moved the family to Wilmington, North Carolina
When He was younger, Michael immediately
became interested in sports. However, it was baseball not basketball that was
his first favorite sport. He would play catch in the yard with his father, who
loved baseball. He soon started to play basketball to try and go along with his
older brother, Larry.
At Laney High School, as a sophomore, he
decided to try out for the varsity team but he did not make it because he was
to short. The following summer, he grew four inches and practiced everyday for
hours . The hard work paid off as he averaged 25 points per game in his last
two years and was selected to the McDonald's All-American Team as a senior.
While Michael was in High School he earned a
basketball scholarship from North Carolina University where he would play under
the command of coach Dean Smith. In his
first year, he was named ACC Freshman of the Year. He would help lead the
Tarheels to the 1982 NCAA Championship, making the game-winning shot
After winning the Naismith College Player of
the Year award in 1984, Jordan decided to leave North Carolina to enter the NBA
draft. Although he decided that he was going to leave college early, would
later return to the university in 1986 to complete his degree in geography. In
the 1984 NBA draft, he was selected with the third overall pick by the Chicago
Bulls. As a rookie for the Bulls, he made an amazing impact to the team,
averaging an amazing 28.2 points a game, including six games where he scored
40+ points. He was selected to the NBA All-Star Game and named Rookie of the
Year. This would just be the beginning of a career filled with awards and
accolades. In the upcoming years, he would go on to win five regular season MVP
awards, six NBA championships, six NBA finals MVP awards, three All-Star game
MVP awards, and a defensive player of the year award. Michael Jordan even got a
brand of shoes made their called Jordan's they are nice basketball shoes that
he wares and so does his fans
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