MIchael Jordan Biography

Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 17, 1963. His parents, James and Delores Jordan, moved to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was still a toddler. Jordan has two older brothers, one older sister, and one younger sister.
Jordan loved to play baseball when he was a child, and also played some basketball and football. His love for basketball began when his older brother, Larry, continuously beat him in one-on-one pickup games. As with any challenge Jordan faces, this determined Michael to become a better player.
Jordan played basketball for Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. Ironically, Jordan was cut from the varsity team as a sophomore. Instead of giving up after failing to make the team, Jordan used it to spur himself to greater achievements, practicing hour after hour on the court. "Whenever I was working out and got tired and figured I ought to stop, I'd close my eyes and see that list in the locker room without my name on it," Jordan said, "and that usually got me going again." He eventually made the team and led it to the state championship.
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Jordan accepted a basketball scholarship from the University of North Carolina. As a freshman, Jordan's ever-growing popularity began when he scored the game-winning basket in the 1982 NCAA championship game against the Georgetown Hoyas. Jordan was selected college player of the year in the 1983-84 season, and led the US Men's Basketball Team to an Olympic Gold Medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics under coach Bobby Knight.Jordan left college and entered the NBA in 1984, he was selected third in the draft (First pick: Houston--Hakeem Olajuwon; second pick: Portland--Sam Bowie) by the Chicago Bulls, a team that had won only 28 games the previous season. Ironically, Jordan played in his first game as a pro against Washington on Oct. 26, 1984. Jordan became an immediate impact in the league and proved that he belonged among the elite players. He finished his rookie season as one of the top scorers in the league, averaging 28.2 points per game, was named Rookie of the Year, and also made the All-Star team. Jordan led the Bulls into the playoffs in every season, but didn't make the NBA Finals until 1991, where he led the Bulls to their first of three consecutive NBA Championships (1991, 1992, and 1993Jordan played in the 1992 summer Olympics with the original Dream Team, perhaps the greatest team ever assembled. It was the first time NBA players were allowed to compete in the Olympics. Michael Jordan averaged 12.7 points per game as the USA Dream Team went 6-0 to win the gold medal, Jordan's second in his career.
There were some troubling events that followed his third NBA Championship. Jordan's father, James Jordan, pulled over one night to take a nap on his way home, and was murdered by a couple of armed robbers in North Carolina. The NBA also began an investigation into allegations that Jordan had illegally bet on NBA games. He was eventually cleared. These events eventually caused Jordan to lose his motivation and the sense of having to prove something as a basketball player, and he felt it was time to step away from the court.
Jordan sought a new challenge, to play professional baseball. He signed a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox. He was assigned to the Birmingham Barons, affiliates of the Chicago White Sox, and played an outfielder position. His presence in the minors grew large numbers in attendance, but his batting was uncharacteristic of Jordan's athletic skills. In his first summer with the Barons, he batted .202 with 114 strikeouts in 127 games. Later in the year he batted .252 with the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League. By November of 1994, the Bulls had retired his number and erected a life-size statue of him in front of the United Center.
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On March 18, 1995, Jordan announced "I'm back!" He ended his short-lived career with baseball and rejoined the Bulls near the end of the 1994-1995 regular season, eventually losing to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. "He didn't look like the old Michael Jordan, " said Orlando's Nick Anderson.
Jordan once again had something to prove to the world, that he was still the greatest basketball player to ever play the game, and that he would be even greater in the season to come. Michael Jordan led the Bulls to an astonishing 72-10 record, the best regular season in the history of the NBA. Jordan led the league in scoring with 30.4 points per game, was named the All-Star MVP, the league MVP and the NBA Finals MVP, as they went on to win their fourth NBA championship (1996). He was selected in 1996 as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA HistoryJordan and the Bulls continued their dominance into the next two seasons, winning two more consecutive championships (1997 and 1998), becoming the first team in NBA history to repeat-the-threepeat (1991-1993, 1996-1998). Jordan earned All-Star MVP and league MVP honors in 1998, led the league in scoring in all three years of his comeback (1996, 1997, and 1998) and won six NBA Finals MVP awards for every Finals the Bulls have competed in.
The breakup of the Bulls dynasty by Jerry Krause led to Jordan's second retirement. Jordan stated he would not play basketball for anyone else other than Phil Jackson, and mentioned he would like to spend more time with his wife, Juanita, and their three children, Jeffrey, Marcus, and Jasmine.
Michael Jordan later joined the Washington Wizards as President of Basketball Operations and part owner in January 2000. "I'm going to have my imprints and footprints all over this organization," said Jordan. "I look forward to turning this thing around. Right now we're an underachieving team." Jordan disappointedly witnessed his team win 19 games in the 2000-2001 season, his first full season as President of Basketball Operations, after winning only 29 games the season before. He completely overhauled the roster, hired Doug Collins, a coach Jordan played for once before in his early years with the Bulls, and
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began the Wizards rebuilding phase. But no one had expected the turn of events that were leading into the 2001-2002 season.
Michael Jordan's burning competitive desire to succeed motivated him to return once again as a basketball player, and turn the Wizards franchise around. Jordan began training, informing the media, at first, he was only doing it to lose weight. He worked himself into basketball shape during the summer by holding several invitation-only camps of pickup games with other NBA players at a Chicago gym. Jordan suffered three setbacks during his comeback summer workouts, raising questions as to whether his 38-year old body can endure a NBA 82 game schedule.
On September 25, 2001, Jordan added another chapter to what could have been the perfect ending in his storybook career. He announced that he would return to the NBA and play for the Washington Wizards on a two-year contract. "I am returning as a player to the game I love," said Jordan. "I am especially excited about the Washington Wizards, and I'm convinced we have the foundation on which to build a playoff-contention team." Ironically, Jordan achieved another moment in his spectacular career, scoring his 30,000th career point on January 4, 2002 against his former team, the Chicago Bulls. Unfortunately, Jordan was never able to lead his Wizards into the postseason as a player. He retired for a third and final time after playing his final game on April 16th, 2003.
There's no question that Michael Jordan is the greatest player to ever play the game, he has single-handedly redefined basketball. No player in NBA history has achieved so much in any amount of time. He is a five-time league MVP, a ten-time scoring champion, a six-time Finals MVP, and houses six NBA championships. This time Michael Jordan left the game of basketball on his own terms. His comeback was to scratch an itch, and to teach the younger players how the game is played. He finished his career with 32,292 points, and a career average 30.12 ppg, the best in NBA history. Jordan has now officially passed the torch to the younger stars. "Now I can go home and feel at peace with the game of basketball," said Jordan

February 3, 2010
Austin Texas

Today snow came down and and came down did it we are so happy and we loved it we were outside and it was hailing were being pelted by hail I was picking up the hail. I was throwing it at my friends and they said ow I got hit in the face by some and I was shocked because it was cold and I was warm. I was like oh I got you so I picked up a lot and I made it into a whole bunch and I threw it at every one and it was so funny because everybody was like wow I was laughing because it was funny. Then at 12:00 we let out and I got picked up at 12:30 and I got home and put socks on my hands and I went outside with my baby cousin and my aunt. I picked up a snowball and I threw it at her. Then we were in the middle of a snow ball fight when my mom pulled up then we stopped to go warm up are hands and we went inside and we changed our gloves and we went back out side with my 2 cousins and my aunt. We had another snowball fight even my 2 year old cousin played with no help! I was amazed! I was having fun. When I looked up it looked like Silent hill at the beginning.

LAST WEEK WHAT I LEARNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel ok about working with my teammates they could be more into the project. They got mad at me because I was trying to do questions and I was on google looking up stuff and they thought I was looking up questions and stuff for the the game.I think we got another chance to get thing done and organized. I do feel that I having additional time got us more organized and prepared.
It also helped to put math into our games and people to be a little more into the game.I understand more in how to put the concept of our objective in our game. Some of my lows were putting the stuff on our page. My highs are finishing the game and getting a good grade and having fun with my friends. All the people in my group participated in the game. I did the questions and did research and They did all the coloring and writing because they told me to not do any thing I was coloring and then they told me to stop and Janelle took it away from me. So I did the questions and then they told me to stop doing that so I did a question and by the time Monday came they did not even use any thing of mine and they used all of Brittine's and I did not care and they only assigned me one thing and then they did the rest.

1.Team Captain-Brittine
2.Assistant Captain-Heaven cook(me)
3.Graphic Artist-Janelle
4.Wiki Updater-Arnold
5.Helper-Steven

Roles and WHY????

I got the assistant leader because I am good at keeping people on topic and I get the job done. Like the questions I did the job and Steven was doing something that I do not know what and I also read the lean mean gaming machine . I also did some of the questions and I could not do all of them because Janelle said she is doing them and then said we lost all of it and I got so upset and wanted to defenestrate it and I wanted to scream.All I did is just breath and sat down and then redid the questions and I tried to do the most that I can and I did not get to finish it. I have a lot of disagreements and I can cooperated with my group because they don't pay attention and they look up pizza and games.I look forward to getting this game finished and over with and never see it again. The inspiration for our game is saving the reforest and to save the earth.I need to finish the questions and I have got to read the thing again and make the questions and a new game.

PaPeR pRoToTyPiNg

I liked the paper prototyping because it was easy and fun I like drawing the pictures. I think it was easy because all you do is you draw pics and you think of what it is going to be in each level. I also think it is very stressful because you are panicking trying to get it done. I think it is very fun because you get to draw hilarious things like I drew a monkey and I made it dance and jump and I had fun doing all of that with my friends. I under stand the concept of doing all of this and I understand that I have to fix it up and change my questions and make it shorter. We thought to incorporate all of our games and that is very hard it is so difficult that we just decided on just one game to do so we decided the one that looked the one that is best. We made a wiki page for our game and we blog about the game too see like know.

I think my progress will keep getting better and better . I work better in teams than by my self because it gets boring but it depends on who is with me.I like my team because they are good to work with but Steven I can not work with him because he starts an argument over nothing. He tried to take my job and he wanted to start over when we had a minute to work left and he looks up pizza and plays games and does not help. He is the helper and he said he did not like the game and we told him if he does not like the game he should of helped but he did not do anything but get some paper for the drawing.

ThE aWeSoMe Of ThE aWeSoMeNeSs BlOg In ThE wOrLD

I like Globaloria because it is very fun. What we we do in Globaloria is we write blogs here is some of the blogs I wrote and published about Globaloria
(What I hope to learn more stuff about g mail,wiki, and blogging.I also hope to learn more about how to make more games. I also hope to learn more about the websites all of them. I hope to learn about the computer and the hard-drive. The game that I want to make is about gardening. The thing I'm excited about is to make games and getting on g mail, wiki, and blogging even more.) This 6 weeks I have learned how to play with the flash and how to put videos on our Wiki. I feel good about action scripting it is very fun (wait is action scripting messing with the flash). (I know that you have to ask if you would like to go YouTube. We watched a video about action scripting the projector in Globaloria class. I am very good at doing blogs and emailing people on my Gmail .The thing that I am having trouble in you class is keeping up with you in class because when it comes to Tech you are so fast and I can't keep up with you because it is very hard. I am having trouble with the learning log. I try to to do my learning log and when I do it always messes up and I don't do any thing to it and I don't know why but every time I try it messes up some how).I am having the most difficult time with my wiki it is the worst in the world. For instance I am working in my learning log and it messes up.I love blogs because I can do so much with blogger and it is far from the wiki and it is ten million times easier than WIKI. We are working on our games for the end of the school year.I look forward to do learning more about the flash work. I look forward to learning more about flash and all the cool tricks. Our game topic is Pollution and our objective is #6 and What my game is about monkeys and lemurs and they try to save the rain forest.It is going to be awesome and cool to make my first game I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that I can make my game and it to take me to Washington D.C to present them to the people we need the to be presented to and I hope our group makes it. I will pray that we go to Washington D.C . I hope that I get to go if I don't I will cheer my friends on and I will not be upset. Besides my mom won't even let me go. I am very excited and I hope my game will be the best of the best. You know what would be cool is if we presented in front of the president. I would be so nervous