Michael Jeffery Jordan was born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, to a beautiful family. His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was still a young child. Later in life, he would become known as one of the most outstanding basketball players to ever play, but also a tremendous person. Michael would also be known as a successful off the court figure to as, he would go on to become multi billionaire when he grew older, as he started to own businesses. While Michael Jordan had a successful on the court career, he also was a very productive off the court figure.
According to (Ki, Jo. World Biography), Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Delores and James Jordan, but moved to Wilmington, North Carolina when
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When he entered his freshman year Michael attended Emsley A. Laney High School, where he evolved in a B+ student and a three-sport star in football, baseball, and basketball. He was cut from his varsity basketball team during his sophomore year because at five feet eleven inches, he was deemed to be underdeveloped, but over the summer he grew four inches and practiced even harder. By his senior year Jordan earned a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in geography. As, a freshman Jordan was an exciting but not dominant, player, but nonetheless, he made the game winning shot in the 1982 NCAA Basketball Championship game against Georgetown, which was led by future pro rival Patrick Ewing. In 1984, after winning the Naismith College player of the year award, he left school early to enter the NBA draft, and was selected by the Chicago Bulls.
Stated in"NBA.com: Michael Jordan Bio after scoring sixth-teen points in his first National Basketball Association (Nba), Jordan took the league by storm in his rookie year, scoring forty points seven times in route to a thirty points per game
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Since retirement, Jordan has kept himself busy by staying in shape, playing gold in celebrity charity tournaments, spending time with his family in Chicago, promoting his Jordan Brand clothing line, and riding motorcycles. Shockingly in 2004, rumors surfaced that Jordan may return yet again for the fourth time to play one season alongside Shaquille O’Neal with the Miami Heat, but Jordan denied the claims, and his given no indications since that will ever again play in the NBA. Now, Jordan is spending his time as the owner of the Charlotte Hornets. He has now been pronounced as one of the few billionaires in the entire world. Michael and his newly wedded wife Yvette Prieto, currently live in charlotte North Carolina, where they just had a set of