After being cut from his high school basketball team, a young boy went home
and cried in the privacy of his bedroom. Do you know who he is?
He is the professional basketball player, Olympic athlete, businessman and
actor. He was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York.
He is considered one of the best basketball player ever in history; he is
Michael Jeffrey Jordan.
Michael Jordan dominated the sport from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He
led the Chicago Bulls to six national championships, and earned the National
Basketball Association's (NBA) Most Valuable Player Award five times.
Michael Jordan developed an aggressive frame at an early age. He 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."
Athletics, sometimes lazy, usually discouraged because he could not
participate with his older brother Larry. Also he was not very tall during his
early years and did not have much expectation of being that tall since none in
the Jordan
family history could ever reach over six feet. It was clear that before
entering high school, Michael Jordan gave no thought at all to an athletic
career. He was not in purposely loved to play baseball when he was a child, and
so did basketball and football.
Michael's love for basketball began when his older brother, Larry,
continuously beat him in one-on-one pickup games that actually provided him any
challenges which at last resolute him to become a better player. Soon after
realizing his love to basketball, he moved right into JV basketball and learn something started to happen to him, which greatly influenced his career.
In the main school team needed an extra player seeing the playoffs were
coming up and everything, so Michael Jordan confidently felt that they would pick him,
but when his teammate Leroy Smith was the chosen one he became very upset. It
made sense anyway, since he was only 5'10" while Leroy was 6'5" and
the team indeed needed someone high. After the negative response Michael even
got a worse "look down" from the team members that eventually made
him woke up from the anxiety. Since that time he made up his mind and promised
himself to not letting such thing happened to him again. This thought
encouraged Michael to start working harder than ever on his basketball skills,
and the result of that can be seen in the near future as he intensively enthusiastic
himself to make that. He cut classes and go to the gym to practice. He was at
that time practicing every day after school with his brother Larry.
Michael Jordan enrolled at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1981 and soon became an essential member of the school's
basketball team. His team won the NCAA Division I championships 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.
In 1984, Michael Jordan made his first appearance at the Olympic Games as a
member of the U.S.
Olympic basketball team. The team won the gold medal that year, which were held
in Los Angeles.
Again Jordan helped the
American team bring home the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games from Barcelona, Spain.
In 1987 Michael Jordan became the first player since Wilt Chamberlin to
score more than 3,000 points in a single season. The following season, Jordan received
his first Most Valuable Player Award from NBA—this award he would receive four
more times in 1991, 1992, 1996, and 1998.
But Michael Jordan
didn't let this early-in-life setback stop him from playing the game and the
basketball superstar has stated, "I have missed more than 9,000 shots in
my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted
to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and
over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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