He did not make it, so he was .
placed on the Junior Varsity team. On the J.V. team, he averaged 28 points per game. He thought this .
would get the attention of the Varsity team coach. It did. However, it was not in the way he hoped it .
would. The assistant coach for the Varsity team was sick so they needed someone to hand out towels to the .
players while on a playoff road trip. That is what Michael got to do (Kornbluth). .
When he finally got on the Varsity team in his junior year, he still worked hard. He practiced with both the .
Varsity and the Junior Varsity teams and continued to go to the school gym and work on his shooting .
(Kornbluth). .
Michael's hard work would attract many scouts from colleges (Kornbluth). He would go to the University .
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In college, he was a very good player. In his junior year, the Tar Heels .
went to the NCAA Championship game where he would hit a clutch game winning buzzer beater to win the .
NCAA Championship. .
In 1984, Michael played for the United States Olympic basketball team. Michael was among the best .
college players in the country and helped the team win the gold medal. Michael was also part of the 1992 .
United States Olympic basketball team. The team was composed of the best NBA players and was .
nicknamed "The Dream Team." This Olympic team also won the gold medal .
(www.unc.edu/~lbrooks2/jordan.html). .
Michael was drafted after his junior year in college and would be the third pick in the first round of the .
1984 NBA Draft. He went to the Chicago Bulls, who at that time were a struggling team. With Michael on .
their team, they started to win. Michael was the NBA's rookie of the year in 1985. He would also be a .
NBA all-star in his rookie year and a NBA all-star game starter in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, .
1993, and 1996. In 1988 Michael would win the first of four league MVP honors, the others being 1991, .
1992, and 1996. He was named the MVP of the 1988 and 1996 NBA all-star games.
