Research Paper On Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan. One of the most iconic athletes in NBA history, if not one of the most iconic athletes in the world. It would be easy to assume Michael Jordan has had quite the utopian lifestyle, with his 6 National Basketball titles, success in collegiate basketball, and of course his business “Air Jordan” which generated $2.6 billon in shoe sales in the U.S. alone (Forbes). However, after taking a look at Jordan’s many successes, his championship in 1996 has to be one of the more interesting, and emotional events in the basketball star’s legacy.

During the year of 1978 Michael Jordan was set out to try and make his high school basketball team in which he was only 5’10” and could not dunk a basketball. (Newsweek). The one and only Michael

He transferred his skills from UNC to the NBA as Michael Jordan, and the Chicago Bull’s first championship came in 1991 over the Los Angeles Lakers. Subsequently, in 1992 the Bulls won the NBA Championship again as Michael Jordan not only took the MVP vote for the second season in a row, but also averaged 35.8 points in the finals against the Trailblazers (“1992 NBA Finals”). Michael had now led a franchise to their first ever championship, and won two MVPs in the process. As far as career success, Jordan could not be blossoming any faster. The season of 1993 would entail more basketball success, yet Michael Jordan would have to endure a lot more off the court than any of his prior

However, on July 23rd 1993, I do not believe Michael Jordan’s dad, James Jordan, would have had any idea his time was going to run out. James Jordan had left to attend the funeral of a friend, and was returning home when he stopped at an intersection to take a break and get some sleep (“Looking Back”). It was at this intersection where James Raymond Jordan Sr. was shot and killed for reasons that most would consider senseless. Meanwhile, the rest of the Jordan family had assumed James had been gone on business, completely unaware of what had taken