Michael Jeffery Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 17, 1963. His parent’s names are James Jordan (his father) and Deloris Jordan (his mother). When Michael was at a young age he and his family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina. As a child his favorite sport was baseball. However in the city there was not very much room to practice. The one thing that kept him from being in-active as a child was a basketball hoop in the back of his yard. He would play with his friends and family. If he started to play and it was getting dark out or was dark and his parents told him he had to come in he would struggle to get to play just a couple of more minutes. This started his long journey into the great sport of basketball where he became a “Legend”.After high school he went to the University of North Carolina to play basketball. As a freshman he made the team and astonishingly was named College Player of the year by the sporting New in 1983 and 1984. 1984-85, Jordan came into the NBA after an outstanding three-year career at North Carolina. He hit the jump shot that gave the Tar Heels the NCAA Championship in 1982. Jordan averaged 17.7 points in three seasons before declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft after his junior year. The Chicago Bulls took him with the No.3 overall pick. Between his college and pro careers, he was co-captain and star of the gold-metal-winning U.S. Olympic basketball team in 1984. Voted starter in the 1985 All-Star Game, he scored 7 points in 22 minutes. ON February 12 he set a club single-game rookie record by dumping in 49 points against the Detroit Pistons. He finished the season with a scoring average of 28.2 points per game (third in the league behind the New York Knicks’ Bernard King and the Boston Celtics’ Larry Bird) and set Chicago single-season records for points (2,313), field goals (837), free throws (630), free-throw attempts (746), and steals (1...
