When he was a boy in North Carolina, Michael Jordan dreamed of being a sports star. But he could never have dreamed how successful he would really become. Michael Jordan is one of the most amazing athletes of all time. His basketball career was one great achievement after another: the last-minute shot that clinched his college team's NCAA title, glory with the Olympic Dream Team, a long reign as the NBA's top scorer, and many championship seasons with the Chicago Bulls until his retirement in 1999.
A brief biography of the popular basketball player, Michael Jordan.
Basketball journalist Roland Lazenby spent almost thirty years covering Michael Jordan's career in college and the pros.
After endless practice hours on the court, a young Michael Jordan reached the day when his moves were as good as his older brother Larry, and so challenged him to a game for all to see--becoming the victor to the surprise of his family.
The day of the draft, Ron Coley, who had worked for a time as a volunteer assistant at Laney High School back in Wilmington, called James Jordan. “Move over Oscar Robertson and Jerry West,” Coley had told Michael's father, invoking the ...
Steve James has made a lifetime study of Michael Jordan's rise from repeated failure to NBA legend. And now he's here to share the secrets behind Michael Jordan's winning record so you can follow in his footsteps.
A kinetic graphic biography about Michael “Air” Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time and most influential athlete in history, from the creator of the acclaimed and best-selling 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente.
This must-own book is a great way to introduce young ballers to basketball's Greatest of All Time. Other titles in this series: The Legend of Kobe Bryant
... including his and James Olson's Winning Is the Only Thing: Sports in American Society since 1945 (Baltimore, ... Ill., 1989); an outstanding and important collection of essays (by Elliott Gorn, David K. Wiggins, and Stephen H. Hardy ...
" "This is going to sound wild-but my ultimate dream is to get a potbelly." (This book has not been prepared, approved, licensed, or endorsed by Michael Jordan.)
When Terry Catledge left the Magic , O'Neal's Louisiana State Tigers un 33 became available . ... It appears that the NBA s modern principle of universality is taking a postmodern turn , because there are three other instances in which ...