Michael Jordan's life was pretty comfortable. He grew up in Brooklyn New York but moved to North Carolina as a toddler and was a child of five with two older brothers, an older sister, and a younger sister. Michael was born February seventeenth of nineteen sixty three. He wanted to join the varsity team in Carolina in highschool but wasnt the height acceptence. He origionally played baseball and a little of Basketball and football but realized that his brother Larry was in basketball and was interested. He waited and later got the right height and joined the team.
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Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in banking, and James R. Jordan,Sr., an equipment supervisor. His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, when he was a toddler.Jordan attended Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, where he anchored his athletic career by playing Baseball, football, and basketball. He tried out for the varsity basketball team during his sophomore year, but at 5'11" (1.80 m), he was deemed too short to play at that level. His taller friend, Harvest Leroy Smith, was the only sophomore to make the team.
Growing up in Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan developed a competitive edge at an early age. He wanted to win every game he played. As his father James later noted, "What he does have is a competition problem. He was born with that...The person he tries to outdo most of the time is himself."
Jordan enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981 and soon became an important member of the school's basketball team. His team won the NCAA Division I championships in 1982 with Jordan scoring the final basket needed to defeat Georgetown University. He was also singled out as the NCAA College Player of the Year in 1983 and in 1984. During the summer of 1984, Jordan made his first appearance in the Olympics as a member of the U.S. basketball team, which won the gold at the games held in Los Angeles. Later Jordan helped the United States bring home the gold at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
He was born in Brooklyn, but spent most of his life living in Wilmington, North Carolina.