Michael Jordan: The Life
von Roland Lazenby
The franchise needed all that their new rookie had to offer. The first time they attended a Bulls game in Chicago Stadium, James and Deloris Jordan were taken aback by the sparse attendance and the dead atmosphere. Compared to the intense basketball energy at the University of North Carolina, Bulls games seemed pathetic. The Jordans wondered how this team could afford to pay their son hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. The discreet activities that made James Jordan smile were the stuff of nightmares for Michael’s mother and fiancée. “We live in a very tempting world,” Sonny Vaccaro explained. “At that level, at Michael’s level, it’s unbelievable. He was good-looking, a young guy on top of the world. The stories are out there. But these things are just indigenous to fame and fortune. It’s hard to be an idol.”
The discreet activities that made James Jordan smile were the stuff of nightmares for Michael’s mother and fiancée. “We live in a very tempting world,” Sonny Vaccaro explained. “At that level, at Michael’s level, it’s unbelievable. He was good-looking, a young guy on top of the world. The stories are out there. But these things are just indigenous to fame and fortune. It’s hard to be an idol.”
Vaccaro traveled and worked with Jordan often enough to be surprised, even amazed, by his discretion. Even though he was young, Jordan was obviously wise enough not to put his friends and associates in awkward positions. He had his moments, but he was no rampant womanizer like Magic Johnson, who later claimed to have slept with as many as five hundred women a year at the height of his stardom.
James Jordan, according to investigators, had become a victim of circumstance when he stopped his car in a well-lighted place alongside Interstate 95 near Lumberton in the early morning hours of July 23. The teenagers were armed and had reportedly talked of robbing someone that night as they waited at a nearby exit, when Jordan apparently pulled off the road to rest, said Captain Art Binder.
Jordan, meanwhile, pushed for the only thing he really trusted. He wanted the team to sign Buzz Peterson or to acquire Walter Davis, and he seemed generally in favor of anything related to North Carolina, which left Krause rolling his eyes. After a while Jordan simply decided to avoid the new GM at all costs. Such were the gnarly twists in the plotline of Jordan’s professional career.
From there, Krause worked a somewhat complicated deal with Seattle that netted Pippen for Chicago after the Sonics had selected him fifth overall in the 1987 draft. In return, Seattle got Olden Polynice, a center out of the University of Virginia. As a player from a small town and a small school who was suddenly thrust into the spotlight in Chicago, Pippen was understandably lost.
"The franchise needed all that their new rookie had to offer. The first time they attended a Bulls game in Chicago Stadium, James and Deloris Jordan were taken aback by the sparse attendance and the dead atmosphere. Compared to the intense basketball energy at the University of North Carolina, Bulls games seemed pathetic. The Jordans wondered how this team could afford to pay their son hundreds of thousands of dollars each year."
"The discreet activities that made James Jordan smile were the stuff of nightmares for Michael’s mother and fiancée. “We live in a very tempting world,” Sonny Vaccaro explained. “At that level, at Michael’s level, it’s unbelievable. He was good-looking, a young guy on top of the world. The stories are out there. But these things are just indigenous to fame and fortune. It’s hard to be an idol.”"
"Vaccaro traveled and worked with Jordan often enough to be surprised, even amazed, by his discretion. Even though he was young, Jordan was obviously wise enough not to put his friends and associates in awkward positions. He had his moments, but he was no rampant womanizer like Magic Johnson, who later claimed to have slept with as many as five hundred women a year at the height of his stardom."
"James Jordan, according to investigators, had become a victim of circumstance when he stopped his car in a well-lighted place alongside Interstate 95 near Lumberton in the early morning hours of July 23. The teenagers were armed and had reportedly talked of robbing someone that night as they waited at a nearby exit, when Jordan apparently pulled off the road to rest, said Captain Art Binder."
"Jordan, meanwhile, pushed for the only thing he really trusted. He wanted the team to sign Buzz Peterson or to acquire Walter Davis, and he seemed generally in favor of anything related to North Carolina, which left Krause rolling his eyes. After a while Jordan simply decided to avoid the new GM at all costs. Such were the gnarly twists in the plotline of Jordan’s professional career."
"From there, Krause worked a somewhat complicated deal with Seattle that netted Pippen for Chicago after the Sonics had selected him fifth overall in the 1987 draft. In return, Seattle got Olden Polynice, a center out of the University of Virginia. As a player from a small town and a small school who was suddenly thrust into the spotlight in Chicago, Pippen was understandably lost."
"In such an exceptional life, it’s easy to overlook the one factor that arguably shaped Michael Jordan’s character more than any other: through most of his formative years, he lived with four generations of Jordan men, a substantial accomplishment considering the societal factors that had long threatened the lives of African American males."
- →To his coaches his capacity to be coached was his single most impressive attribute, beyond even the eighteen-year-old’s spectacular physical gifts. Dean Smith asserted, “I had never seen a player listen so closely to what the coaches said and then go and do it.”
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