NBA Goat Michael Jordan’s competitive streak began after James Jordan insulted the Bulls legend in his childhood.
Michael Jordan is a living basketball god. Some of you may feel that this is a bit too much. But listen to us.
Michael Jordan’s performance in the playoffs is proof of how different he is from every other player in history. Jordan’s dominance where players drowned made him who he is.
But the real reason for his greatness lies in his method of approaching a challenge. MJ takes the smallest of anyone’s problems, taunts or punches and makes it his mission to show them off. Almost like fodder for her fearsome talent.
In Michael Jordan: The Life, Roland Lazenby revealed when and how Michael got his competitive gene.
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James insulted Michael Jordan for not knowing the terms of the workshop
In the book, Lazenby wrote how, as a child, James Jordan worked on people’s cars to earn money. And while he did, Michael’s older brothers would help him.
As a child, Michael was always interested in what his brothers and father were doing. Then, naturally, he would also end up working with his father. But one incident scarred MJ for life.
Once when father and son were working together, James asked Michael for a tool and young Jordan had no idea what to do. So, James, irritated by his son’s lack of knowledge, asked MJ to go out with the women.
Michael didn’t take this very kindly.
From that point on, everything Michael Jordan did was to prove himself to his father. He carried that need to accept any teasing, even if it made no sense, within himself like a torch guiding him to victory.
Michael’s sister, Deloris, shared what he had told her.
MJ’s sister Deloris revealed in the book how, as a young NBA star, Jordan confessed this story to her.
She claimed that MJ’s greatness was a testament to her constant battle with James’s negative views of him.
Deloris: “Years later, during the early days of his NBA career, he confessed that it was my father’s early treatment of him and dad’s declaration of his worthlessness that became the driving force behind him…Every What he accomplished was his battle to cry over defeating my father’s negative views of him.”
As horrible as it sounds now, the actions of Michael Jordan’s father made him what he is today. Perhaps without James’s negative opinions, MJ might never have found his groove. What do you think?
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