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Michael Jordan, Black Cat, His Airness

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan, some might know him as MJ, Air Jordan, Black Cat, His Airness or even the goat. He was born on February 17,1963. The child Deloris and James Jordan SR was one of four kids. His siblings included two brothers, James Jr., Larry Jordan and two sisters Roslyn and Deloris Jordan. Mj was into basketball from an early age. He attended Emsley A. Laney high school and was a two year varsity basketball player. Surprising right? One of the greatest players ever to play the game only played varsity for two years! He is the story of how the greatest player ever almost walked away from basketball. The date was 1987 Michael was like every other basketball player.. He strived for greatness and the best way to show that was to make the …show more content…

Jordan attended North Carolina for 3 years and decided to enter the draft. But his success at the college level was truly one of the greatest. During his 3 years at UNC he helped them win the NCAA National Championship during the 1981-1982 season, the biggest honor in all of college basketball. That same year he was the ACC freshman of the year. In 1984 the awards came rolling in. He was the Naismith College player of the year, ACC men’s basketball player of the year, ACC athlete of the year, Won the John R. Wooden award, the Adolph Rupp trophy and was a 2x Consensus First team All- American in 1983 and 1984. After his success at college he was drafted by the bulls with the 3rd overall pick. He would soon show the two teams that passed on him that they made a terrible mistake. According to Wikipedia, Jordan would go on to lead the bulls to 6 Championships from 1991-1993 and 1996-1998 all of those championships Jordan was the Finals MVP. He was a 5x NBA MVP, NBA defensive player of the year, 10x scoring champ, 3x steals leader, 3x Minutes leader, 14x All star, 3x NBA All star MVP, 11x All NBA selection, 9x All defensive selections, NBA All-Rookie selection, NBA Rookie of the year and last but not least a 2x Slam dunk contest. After all of these amazing achievements he would go on to be part of the Naismith Hall of Famer for the class of 2009. Outside of the NBA according to Wikipedia he was a 2x Olympic gold medalist, gold medalist for the Tournament of the americas, gold medalist for the Pan American games, 3x USA basketball male athlete of the year. He was inducted into the FIBA hall of fame class in 2015 for his extraordinary achievements for the USA men's national

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