Dr walter martin biography of michael jordan

Michael Jordan grew up idolizing fellow Carolina Tar Heel swingman and 6-time All-Star with the Suns – Walter Davis.

Michael Jordan is one of the greatest athletes the world of sports has ever seen. The Chicago Bulls leader’s insane competitiveness and a crazy drive to be the best helped him succeed like no other player during his era.

Over the span of a 15-year career, MJ was able to achieve all the possible silverware. By the conclusion of his illustrious career, Mike retired as one of the most decorated superstars in NBA history. Jordan’s astonishingly long list of achievements includes – 14 All-Star selections, 11 All-NBA selections, 10 scoring titles, 5 MVPs, 6 championships, and 6 Finals MVPs, among a whole bunch of others.

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Apart from being of one the best megastars, the league has ever seen, MJ was even a global icon, that kids from around the world idolized. Similarly, there was one player that “His Airness” grew up idolizing – Walter Davis.

Michael Jordan was once ignored by Walter Davis

Even before his Tar Heels days, the $2.2 billion worth Jordan looked up to Walter Davis. Davis, who was a sharpshooter, even attended UNC 8 years before Michael went to the Carolina-based university.

The 6-time NBA All-Star even helped the then-phenom work on his mid-range jumpers, a shot that eventually led the Tar Heels to win a national championship in 1982.

“I worked with him on the jab-step and the pump fake, which were some of my favorite moves,” Davis once said, according to Basketball Network. “The mid-range shot was something I emphasized, I remember telling him that it was important to make that shot. When he helped us win the 82 national championships, that was a midrange shot. Michael had a lot of natural ability with that shot.”

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I am not Walter Iooss Jr. I am not Tinker Hatfield. I am not David Falk. I am not Bob Greene or Sam Smith or Michael Leahy.

I did not photograph Michael Jordan's entire career. I did not spend years with him designing iconic footwear that would change the sneaker game forever. I was not his agent. I did not spend enough time with him to write a book. I wasn't that privileged.

But what I have been for almost half of the 50 years of Michael Jordan's life is something more than a spectator. One of the few who was both in the Superdome to see him hit that shot in New Orleans (while he and I were both freshmen in college, albeit at different schools) that was his introduction to the world and at his true introduction to Chicago before his rookie year when he played in summer league uniforms sponsored by Schlitz Malt Liquor.

I was at the Chevy Blazer commercial shoot when he shot the ball thru the sunroof of the SUV. I was on the set of the iconic Jordan "Failure" commercial. I've been to pickup games when he has pulled up in his yellow Aston Martin wearing white/yellow Jordans to match just to mess with everyone's heads. I've been to some of those Saturday runs at Foster Park deep on the South Side of Chicago where he'd do things (and say things) on the court that made some of the things he did and said in the League seem lame.

I've watched him turn total strangers into friends for life. I've watched him end friendships (or what people felt was a friendship) so instantly the people never got the chance to ask "why?"

I covered him without being assigned. And it wasn't until a few years ago that it was brought to my attention that, while many watched him grow, I actually grew with him.

I am not Charles Oakley, Patrick Ewing, Rod Higgins, Howard White, Charles Barkley, Ahmad Ras

American basketball player (born 1963)

For other uses, see Michael Jordan (disambiguation).