Kiley liddell biography of michael jordan

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Few athletes in the history of professional sports can match the extraordinary success enjoyed by Michael Jordan. The story of Jordan being cut from his high school basketball team has long been part of his personal narrative, but like a teenaged Jordan dangling from his chin-up bar to grow taller, the truth has been somewhat stretched. Jordan was never actually "cut" from the team — he tried out for the Laney High School N.

And a big reason for that was that Laney was in dire need of taller players, so they passed on the 5'10" Jordan in favor of his 6'7" friend Leroy Smith. What is true is that Jordan used this perceived slight as motivation to work his butt off to improve, which led to impressive results when a growth spurt shot him up to 6'3" as a junior.

He initially wanted to wear Adidas after entering the NBA, and was also heavily pursued to endorse a much smaller brand called Spot-Bilt. Jordan still wanted to go with his original choice and went back to Adidas one more time, but the company was in no position to match the ransom offered by Nike. Although he left the University of North Carolina a year early to pursue his pro career, Jordan received his degree in cultural geography in So what exactly does one do in that field, anyway?

Gives a whole new meaning to the name "Air Jordan," doesn't it? Jordan's passion for golf began in the summer of , when he first ventured to a course with a group that included future golf pro Davis Love III. He parred one of the holes that day, an experience that led this supremely confident athlete to believe he could par all 18 with a little more practice.

The quest for perfection led to his squeezing in as many rounds as possible in his downtime, including a notorious snubbing of President George H. The idea behind Jordan's surprising decision to leave basketball for a baseball career in had taken root a few years earlier. His dad, James, had always loved baseball, and with Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders having some success as two-sport athletes, James suggested his son could do the same.

As such, when James was killed in a carjacking incident in July , Jordan sought to honor his dad's wishes by picking up a glove.