Michael Jordan

by Richard J. Brenner

An illustrated biography of basketball's "Air" Jordan highlights his rise to superstardom which includes two Olympic gold medals and his participation in six NBA championships for his team, the Chicago Bulls. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Genres: Sports, Biography

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Scottie · Rating 5 out of 5]

He's the best in history

[Oscar Basuyaux · Rating 5 out of 5]

October 3, 2014

Michael Jordan was one of the greatest players with Larry Bird Patrick Ewing Charles Barkley and others in basketall history. Jordan started basketball as a kid. His father was a baseball player. His first basketball career started in high school. Everybody thinks he didn't make the team, but he made the Junior Varsity team, and scored a bunch of forty points games. Jordan wasn't only a great athlete, he was very smart and had a lot of high grades in school. After Jordan gratuated he went to college in North Carolina. That is when he's started to be more famous.

As Jordan started in the NBA (National Basketball Association), he started in the Chicago Bulls, as number twenty-three, wich is worn today by Lebron James in the Cavaliers, and not exactly by Briant because he wears twenty-four to show that he is better than Jordan. However Jordan's fiirst game with the Bulls went very well, and he scored twenty-four points, made eight assists and two steals. Then, Jordan became more famous and gained a lot of money. After a while Jordan signed a contract with Nike to make his own brand of shoes known today as the very famous shoes Jordan. Then few years later, Michael Jordan signed a contract with the Barons, a MLB (Major League Baseball) team.
Michael Jordan was very bad at baseball so he went back to basketball. He went back to the Chicago Bulls. In 1995 Michael Jordan retired and entered in the basketballl Hall of Fame.

[Noah Neacsu]

I dont think it was this exact book, but it was inspiring

[Faith High School · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read by Duce Escott: this book is a great biography about a famous basketball player named Michael Jordan. This biography just talked about Michael's basketball life.

[Jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are looking for a book about Michael Jordan, this is the book for you.

[Rayan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michael Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 at Brooklyn, New York City. He is popular because he was one of the top 3 best Basketball players in the whole entire world. He won the most trophies and prizes. Michael Jordan attended Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington. In 1981, he got a Basketball scholarship at the University of North Carolina. 3 years later, he got elected in the Chicago Bulls team. In the Olympics, he won a gold medal. After the Olympics, he became the NBA Rookie of the year. He designed a Basketball shoe that got sold by the store called NIKE. From 1991- 1993, he became the most valuable MVP Chicago leading. At the NBA finals, he scored the most goals against the Los Angeles Lakers and won the NBA title. In the summer, he won the gold medal with the “dream team” that included Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and David Robinson. MJ Became one of the world most Valuable player in the NBA title. His team was the first team that won three consecutive titles in 27 years. At the end of 1993, he retired. February 7, 1994 He signs a free agent contract with the Chicago White Sox. Voted as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA history by a panel of media, former players and coaches, general managers and team executives. He won the ESPY athlete of the century award. Came out of retirement to play with the Washington Wizards. In 2006, he divorced with his wife Juanita on December 29, 2006. Now, Michael Jordan is 52 years old and is still one of the most valuable players in the Basketball list. There are many reasons why this book is a biography.

First of all, the subject is not the author. The subject is Michael Jordan and the author is David Porter. Another reason why it is a biography is that it is all about Michael Jordan’s life. The author discusses his childhood and his present daytime. Michael Jordan changed people's lives while his career. He changed people's lives by playing basketball very well without giving up. A lot of his fans looked up to him. All of them started to try for their own dreams. There are several likeable things about Michael Jordan. Everyone called him Air Jordan because he was dunking so high. He was always confident with his team and himself. He won a lot of MVP awards and for my opinion; he is the best player I have ever read about in the whole entire basketball. These things make Michael Jordan likeable.

I recommend this book to people that likes sports. I would recommend this person to people that like sports because he was a very good athlete and was in the top players. I would certainly recommend this book to people that loves playing Basketball because Michael Jordan is a player that explains you what is life if we are good in Basketball. This Basketball player never gave up and always listened for his heart. He loved Basketball and people could get entertained when they read about this fabulous Basketball player. If he were next to you, you would be encouraged to read his life. If you read his biography, you will never regret to listen him talking about his life each day. Michael was always trying his best and the author that he wrote about the biography of David L. Porter might love his life. To summarize about Michael Jordan, he is the leader of the Basketball game and everyone that will read his biography will want to know more about his life.

[Josh Garcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is basically about the things Jordan did to be great. Things he did to push himself to the next level a level only he has reached. Jordan was great and did everything to win. He won championship after championship. Retired. Returned. Championship after championship. Retired . Returned. New team and he still showed why he was the best player in the league doing it in different ways then now the he wasn't explosive as he once was. This book just explains his greatness.

[Tyler Buche · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is classic Jordan because of it talks about the way he preformed in then dunk contest and how he just flys through the air like nothing. I really like how they go into detail about Jordan's career as a dunker and how he just made everything look so much easier. I also really like how they talk about Jordqn and his Olympic career. He loved playing for the USA in the olympics and people from other countries even like watching him play because everyone says he is the best in the world.

[Juan Miguel Gamotia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am naturally familiar with Michael Jordan as life after retirement at basketball from NBA until 2003 as though I am in good hands from the assistance with or as different people, including Graciela C. Gasoc and Sabrina Faith G. Evangelista from Academy of Jesus for victory.

[joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

i like think this book is great becuase it inspires the ones who love basketball and want to grow up as a basketball player and i can relate to this book myself

[Kourosh_kahn · Rating 5 out of 5]

its a inspiring book to read and its tells how he grows up

[Victor · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will like it

[Kyle Conley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned more about Michael Jordan than I did

[Joseph Grice]

cool

[Drako Crespo]

Honestly this book was really good because it gave so many specific information that I pretty much never really knew about it. It told about how he became who he is till this day, it talked about how the games he played he did so good. He's a legend greatest basketball player that I know by far. It was unique ive never read a book that went into so much detail on the life he had, even if it was on court or off they gave everything to know about Michael Jordan.