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Editorials 5 Fantasy Football Breakout Stars of Mini-Editorials The story of how Aaron Rodgers became the no. For basketball fans across the country, the No. Born into a middle-class family in , Jordan grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The fourth of five children, Jordan spent his childhood and adolescent years playing sports. The team went on to win world championships in , and In , Jordan retired from the Bulls to play professional baseball. That's not to say he was yet the best player in the world when he was a freshman at North Carolina but he was a starter from day one, which was reserved for the very best players, and he averaged After a point performance against Tulsa, the reigning NIT champion, in early December of his freshman season, The Charlotte Observer 's Kevin Quirk wrote, "It was Michael Jordan's kind of game — lots of opportunities in the open court to flash his offensive prowess Good things — and some great — were interspersed with those errors.
Things such as a potent fast break, superb inside passing, intimidating defense and spectacular individual efforts. Most of those belonged to Jordan, who scored on jump shots, drives, offensive rebounds and a couple of dunks. Jordan became the team's leading scorer as a sophomore. He averaged 20 points per game, which was roughly a 50 percent increase from his freshman season.
He was second in rebounding and averaged more than two steals per game. He can handle the ball on the break. He can do it all.
Michael Jordan sank the game-winning basket in the national championship game against Georgetown to give legendary coach Dean Smith his first national championship. It added to the growing legend that was Jordan himself. Jordan scored 16 points on 7-of shooting with a team-high nine rebounds, two assists and two steals in the win.
James Worthy led the Tar Heels in that game with a career-high Jordan told reporters after the game he had a pregame vision of making the game-winning shot. Jordan said he didn't see the actual shot go in. I didn't want to look. His two greatest scoring outbursts in the NCAA tournament came in the regional finals, when he scored 26 points to go along with six rebounds before fouling out.
In the Tar Heels' first game of the NCAA tournament, Jordan's last, he had 27 points on of shooting and six rebounds in a win against Temple.
Michael Jordan wasn't Michael Jordan from the moment he set foot on campus in Chapel Hill but he was very good. In the fall semester of his freshman year of college, No. There's no bigger moment than making a national championship-winning jump shot but in case it wasn't clear, Jordan had a knack for coming up in the clutch in crucial moments. When the defending national champion Tar Heels were in danger of falling to to start the season, Jordan stole the ball against Tulane and made a spinning footer to force overtime and North Carolina eventually won in triple-OT.
Two and a half months later, No. In Jordan's final regular-season ACC game, he scored 25 points to help the Tar Heels complete an undefeated regular season record in conference play as North Carolina held off rival Duke in double overtime.
He's got a lot to learn, but he can be an outstanding player. After his time in college, which included a National Championship, Jordan headed to the pros and landed with the Chicago Bulls. Even with a brief sojourn into professional baseball , Jordan scored over 30, points, won six championships, and six MVP awards before calling it a career.
While there were a few notable exceptions , Michael Jordan took to the court wearing number 23 on his back. Jordan may now stand alone as basketball immortality, but even legends have role models.
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