Michael Jordan

Facts about Michael Jordan

• His dad died.
• He has a big family.
• He's married.
• He's competitive.
• He makes great comebacks after his breaks.

Quotes

"Wanted to win every game he played, as his father James later noted, ‘what he does have is a competition problem. He was born with that… the person he tries to outdo most of the time is himself…Jordan enrolled at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981 and soon became an important member for the school’s basketball team. His team won the NCAA division 1 champions in 1982 with Jordan scoring the final basket needed to defeat Georgetown University. He was also singled out as the NCAA college player of the year in 1983 and in 1984”(biography.com).

“Even his Airiness Michel Jordan had a serious injury scare, breaking his foot early in his second season in the league…returning for the final 15 games of the regular season, MJ responded in the most Jordan way possible when they were matched up with and historically-great Celtics team in the play offs: he scored 49, then 63 points in the first two games of the series” (Oberg 4).

“net worth as of 1/11/26, $1.1 billion at age 52, his source of wealth-sports team, he made the money himself. Residence is Jupiter, Florida, USA; he’s married and has 6 children. He got a bachelor of art/science, his university was North Carolina University, Chapel Hill… he acquired a majority stake in 2010 for $175 million. He increased his ownership from 80% to 90% in 2013…in 2014 NBA franchise values shot up, thanks largely to racist comments by Donald Sterling that got him banned from the league and led to a bidding war for his los Angeles clippers, which sold in august to Steve Ballmer for a record $2 billion” (Forbes 1).

“At one of his annual flight school sessions Jordan revealed on a Q&A posted by Bay Area HQ that if he couldn’t play basketball or baseball he would have wanted to be a weather man…I went to college, I got my degree in cultural geography? Well, it’s an introduction to meteorology. I always wanted to be a weatherman… so if I wasn’t playing basketball or baseball, I was going to tell you what the weather was going to be like tomorrow” (Mccalmont 1).

“Michael’s middle name is Jeffery, he was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York, but he grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina although he was cut from the varsity basketball team in his sophomore year of high school, he later became one of the teams star players…in his first season with the bulls, the 6 inch (I. 98-meter) Jordan averaged 28.2 points per game and was named rookie of the year… in 2000 Jordan bought a share of the Washington wizards, but he soon wanted to return to the court”
(holler 68).

Work cited
Biography.com A&E, Feb.11 2016.web.1/7/2016.
Complex.com. DougSibor, 8/8/2014.web.1/7/2016.
Forbes.com. Forbes,7/16/2015.web.1/7/2016.
Huffington.com.lucymccalmont,8/10/2015.web.1/7/2016.
Holler, Sherman. Basketball and Its Greatest Players. New York, NY: Briannica Educational Publishing, 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYEkkmDkzfg