MICHAEL JORDAN

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MICHAEL JORDAN

• BY MATTHEW

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Early Life

Michael Jeffery Jordan was born in
Brooklyn,New,York during his early ages the
Jordans moved to Wilmington. Michael majored in
cultural geography from the university of north
Carolina. He would go to the gym everyday to make
it on one of the high school teams to practice
but he got cut three times from a basketball team
so that even meant that he would even strive
more to reach his goal to become a good athlete.

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Starting in the NBA

• Michael Jordan basketball player and active
  business men. with his height of 6ft 5in he has
  the largest leap that the NBA has ever seen. he
  went North Carolina and played shooting guard on
  the team tar heels.In 1982 Jordan joined the
  Chicago bulls he had the same position shooting
  guard. He stayed with them from(1984-1993,1995-199
  8) after he was done with the Chicago bulls he
  went to the Washington wizards and stayed with
  them from(2001-2003).

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His Family

• Michaels Mother Deloris Michael father divorced
  Michael is married to Junita Vanoy.The Jordans
  they met at a restaurant and later The Jordans
  have three kids Jeffery Marcus and Jasmine they
  all have December birthdays Jeffery 1988, Marcus
  1990 and Jasmine 1992 .he said quote Ill give
  anything up for my kids even if it means giving
  up basketball.

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Career

• On 2003 Michael was put into the hall of fame
  the scouts has been watching Michael since he was
  playing with a basketball. The teams said no
  matter what team he played for he would always
  give 110. If they would lose he would always
  say no matter what we do we are always bulls.
  Michael was not only an basketball player he was
  also was an baseball player .in the beginning he
  was declared short at511 but after two weeks
  grew four inches higher he really must have had a
  strict diet.

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Baseball vs basketball ?

• Michael played with the Scottsdale Scorpions and
  had played for a little while when his father
  died Michael wanted to play baseball because that
  was his dads favorite sport. but that did not
  last long he wasnt that good in baseball than
  he would be as in basketball .But his stats in
  baseball werent that bad .202 with 3HR 51RBI
  30SB and 11 errors but in 1994-95 the bulls were
  struggling at 31-31 the team received a lift and
  Michael decided to come back and he lead them to
  championships.

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Questions and Answer

• 1 Michael Jordan was born in New York but grew
  up in North Carolina what was the name of the
  city he lived in? Wilmington
• 2Every body knows that Jordan went to University
  of North Carolina but what city is it located in?
  chapel hill
• 3What is Michaels Middle Name? Jeffery
• 4 Jordans high school team had the same mascot
  as a current NFL team what was it? Buccaneers
• 5 How many centimeters did Michael grow?191 or
  6ft 3in

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The number 23

• Michael Wanted the num (45) but it was
  already taken so he halved the number and kept it
  through High school and College . His favorite
  number was 45 just like his oldest brother Larry
  When I got to high school I couldnt have the num
  45 because Larry already had took it so I
  decided to halve his number and I got 22 and
  rounded it off to 23 and that is the real story
  about how I got num 23.

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Bibliography

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan
• http//www.nba.com/history/players/jordan_summary.
  html
• http//www.sporthaven.com/players/michael-jordan/
• http//www.funtrivia.com/en/Sports/Michael