Cool Facts about Michael Jeffrey Jordan
November 2, 2011
1. Michael is afraid of water and seldom swims and never rides a small yacht.
2. Michael’s three children Jeffrey Michael, Marcus James, and Jasmine were born in December. Even Dissolution of marriage of Michael with Juanita Vanoy in September, 1989 was decreed on December 29, 2006. Coincidence?
3. Michael paid Knafel $250, 000 to keep his relation with her a secret.
4. Michael has Greek sign tattooed on his chest called “Omega”. It represents his membership with Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
5. Michael wears a UNC shorts under his playing shorts for a good luck.
6. Michael usually wears number 23 or 45. A number he wore besides 23 or 45 was number 12 because his jersey was stolen and he had to wear a number 12 until a number 23 jersey was made available.
7. Michael once played for a minor league baseball team called Birmingham Barons.
8. Michael had a seven years contract with Chicago Bulls worth over $6 million.
9. Michael lost millions of dollars to his gambling habit.
10. Michael is addicted to golf. Started playing golf in his free time and ended up playing it from sunrise to sunset.
11. Michael is the only over 6” tall person in his family, 6’6 to be exact.
12. Michael owns around 150 suits and over 200 pairs of shoes.
13. Michael has scored a total of 32, 292 points in his entire basketball career.
14. Michael played a lead role in movie Space Jam (1996) while he made a guest appearance in Supersize Me (2004). The idea of Space Jam was taken from Michael’s Nike commercial (1993) in which he teams up with Bugs Bunny in a game against Martian characters.
15. Michael grew four inches in a single year to make it to the Varsity basketball team at Wilmington’s Laney High School.
16. It is said that Michael’s annual income from Nike is worth more than those of Nike’s factory workers in Malaysia combined.
17. Michael’s major in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was “Cultural Geography” for which is also earned a scholarship. How did he end up playing basketball anyways?
18. It was Michael’s ego to prove his worth that made him play basketball which made him the star of Laney’s Varsity squad. He commenced his athletic career by playing football, baseball and (of course) basketball.
19. After Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston Rockets) and Sam Bowie (Portland Trail Blazers), Michael was 3rd pick in 1984.
20. One of the most popular tourist attractions was a restaurant named after Michael “Michael Jordan’s Restaurant” in Chicago, Illinois. It wasn’t owned by Michael; instead the rights to use his name were obtained by Joe and Gene Silverberg in 1990 who own Bigsby & Kruthers boutique. Around $6 million were spent to develop the restaurant. Michael assisted Joe and Gene with the décor job and the menu. He granted the rights because according to him, he needed a cool and a kind of place where he could bring his family and friends to dine with. It closed shortly after Michael’s second retirement in December 1999 following a dispute with the Silverbergs.Copyright © 2011
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