My Hero Michael Jordan

My Hero is Michael Jordan, Why you ask, Well there are many ways he is but let me start off by giving you a little of his background.

Michael Jeffery Jordan was born February 17 1963, In Brooklyn, New York but grew up in Wilmington North Carolina. Jordan developed a competitive edge at an early age. He wanted to win every game he played. He attended at the University of North Carolina in 1981 and soon became an important figure of the schools basketball team. His team won the NCAA Division I with Jordan scoring the last point in 1982.  Jordan left college after his junior year to join the NBA. Drafted by the Chicago Bulls, he helped the team make it to the playoffs. For his efforts there, Jordan received the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. With five regular-season MVPs and three All-Star MVPs, Jordan became the most decorated player in the NBA.

That’s just a little of his life and now that you know that   I’m going to give reasons why I chose Michael Jordan as my hero.

1.   Competitiveness  

Like myself Michael Jordan is really competitive like I said before he wanted to win every game he played his father James Jordan 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." And before I actually learnt about him I didn’t know what to do with my competitive edge but after I read his biography it kind of made me feel better knowing there was someone famous out there that wasn’t so different from me.

2. Humbleness

Unlike me Jordan is humble and that’s something I have to learn from him. That’s one of the reasons I made him my hero because even though he’s the best player in the NBA and he won 6 championship rings he stayed humble and was never cocky.

3. Determination

This is something I think him and I have in common but I have to prove to you that he is and there are 2 story’s that proves he is determined. In the 1997 NBA playoffs Michael Jordan played with the flu and even though he was sick as can be, He lead his team to another victory. That was how determined he was now here’s another story. In his high school years, Jordan was cut from his the school basketball team for being a little too short and that really let him down but he was determined to make it and got back on top I guess you could say the coach was out of his mind because look at what he’s accomplished.

Those are all my reasons on how he’s my hero and why I chose him as my hero.


http://www.biography.com/people/michael-jordan-9358066