Happy birthday, MJ!
Today’s basketball stars, including Kevin Durant, Candace Parker, Damian Lillard, Breanna Stewart and thehave built fanbases through excellence on and off the court. The importance of a personal brand continues to increase. But Jordan literally created his own brand.
As the six-time NBA champion celebrates his 60th birthday on Friday, here are 60 facts about his basketball career, pop culture influence and life beyond the hardwood:Michael Jordan was born on Feb. 17, 1963 to James and Deloris Jordan. The couple was living in Brooklyn, New York, at the time, but moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, a few years after he was born. Jordan has two older brothers, an older sister and a younger sister.
“My father pulled me aside that summer,” he shared, “and he said, ‘Look, you don’t look like you’re headed in the right direction. If you want to go about doing all this mischievous stuff, you can forget sports.’ That’s all I needed to hear. It was like from that point on, it was tunnel vision.”His sophomore year, Michael Jordan didn’t make the varsity basketball team at Laney High School. The experience gave him reason to not ever be left off a team again.
“That turned my name from Mike to Michael Jordan,” he said in “The Last Dance.” “It gave me the confidence that I needed to start to excel at the game of basketball.”Michael Jordan received his degree from the University of North Carolina in 1986 when he returned to complete his classes after breaking his foot. He majored in geography.Michael Jordan wore a pair of North Carolina practice shorts under his Chicago Bulls shorts for every game.
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