20 Things You Didn't Know About Michael Jordan..

these are 20 things you didn't know about Michael Jordan Eric Jordan 9-1-1 the count to Jordan the pitch it's alive and for number 20 there's no way you knew that MJ is a professionally trained motorcycle racer when did you discover motorcycle road racing once I started watching I said I got to get out there and do that stuff Michael Jordan is scaring us for the race of a lifetime yeah Jordan's got a Need for Speed but in number 19 all he needed was help cause I bet you didn't know that MJ once got humiliated by a kid in a wheelchair yeah this is Eric Barber and when he was just three years old he lost the ability to walk and growing up he was obsessed with Michael Jordan so in 1987 wrote a letter to MJ challenging him to a game of wheelchair basketball and a few months later His Wish finally came true what's your strategy for this one-on-one contest well pretty much just to go around them you know keep them off balance I miss getting rebound before he gets there you know well yeah he's not scaring me at all he can talk all the trash on TV we're gonna go at it when we get on the court Michael posting up Eric right away misses a short jumper remember now Eric has 15 foot range but Speedy makes the turn on Michael it's 4-0 Michael playing that Matador defense watches Eric go right by Eric looking for that favorite spot well amazing apparently from the top of the key puts it away damn that kid was on a roll and we're rolling the number 18 because you probably didn't know that Michael Jordan sells his underwear right here an unusual item hitting the auction block Michael Jordan's underwear yeah personally worn by the Bulls legend himself apparently got plenty of use Leland's auction site points out the loose threads and a Warren Jordan logo the shorts even have a dry cleaning tag still attached yeah Jordan's sweaty underwear is worth three thousand three hundred dollars that's just nuts but number 17 this downright scary because I bet you didn't know about the one thing Michael Jordan's terrified of see when MJ was just seven years old he was at a beach in North Carolina swimming with his best friend but out of nowhere current started to pick up and the waves became violent now luckily Jordan was able to make it out of the water that day but his friend wasn't as fortunate sadly he drowned leaving Jordan so traumatized that he developed aquaphobia an intense fear of water and according to MJ this condition is so serious that he'll never go swimming again because in 1992 during an interview with Playboy he said everybody's got a phobia for something me I don't go on the water anymore I can't swim I'm not messing with the water even when I go on a boat it's not without a life jacket man I feel bad for Jordan but at least he's he's got people he can lean on cause for number 16 there's no way you knew that Michael Jordan's neighbor is lamelo ball yeah this is Jordan's 7 000 square foot luxury Penthouse and downtown Charlotte and this place is massive it's got a private elevator automatic toilet 25 foot ceilings modern lighting from Italy a one-of-a-kind bathroom with a 500 gallon tub that takes 40 minutes to fill up yeah this place has it all but in 2020 all these features became way too much for Jordan to manage so he decided to split his luxury condo and two with the second half selling the lamello ball for three million dollars yeah these guys are practically roommates and nowadays Jordan can't even go outside without getting harassed by lamello fans what is Michael Jordan Michael Jordan can I get a pig huh Michael Jordan where the melody Michael let's go man even at home Jordan to make a little time for the fans for the number 15 Jordan changed the fans life back in 2016 Jordan caught wind of a viral video going around that touched his heart it was a man named Jeffrey Harrison who struggles with seizures and autism playing pickup basketball dressed as the goat while Jordan thought it was sweet some people saw the clip started hating come on to my man Jeffrey for no reason someone responds MJ decided to get in touch with Jeffrey's family give him the gift of a lifetime this is uh Michael Jordan and I was just calling to uh to say to your son thank you for your support Michael Jordan did you get all the stuff yep I got all of it right now you look cool tells you even tried them all on are you kidding me first Air Jordans the Dream Team bangs right here the new thing that's tights oh Jordan hats of course you got a smell good yup that's it wow play hard always remember to enjoy the game your friend Michael damn this man Jordan's a hero but in number 14 he was a victim because I bet you didn't know about the mystery of MJ's stolen Jersey on Valentine's Day 1990. the Bulls were in Orlando to face the magic when shortly before tip-off Jordan went back to the locker room to get suited up only to find that his number 23 Jersey was missing yeah and Jordan was pissed so he flipped around the entire locker room trying to find this thing and Magic Security even searched the entire building but it was nowhere to be found forcing Jordan to wear a replacement number 12 Jersey and leaving people wondering what the hell happened well eventually the world would get some answers because after the game the magic decided to launch an internal investigation and a couple of days later they made a shocking Discovery I found out from security that one of their personnel had set up a plan to uh to get to Jersey had uh actually gone through another locker room climbed over the ceilings came through a ceiling tile grabbed the Jersey put it back in the ceiling planning for I guess a few days later to come back and get it after thinking no one would figure it out yeah a rogue magic security guard climbed through the ceiling and stole Jordan's jersey damn that guy really wanted it but a number 13. Jordan really wanted something else as you might not have known what MJ's career would have been if it wasn't for basketball imagine someone I need to play basketball or baseball what sport would you play a great question I went to college I got my degree in cultural GI ant and everybody want to know what is the multigai but it's an introduction to meteorology I always wanted to be the weatherman that's what I really wanted to do yeah so if I wasn't playing basketball baseball I was going to tell you what the weather was going to be like tomorrow Michael Jordan wanted to be a weatherman well that would have gave Air Jordan a whole new meaning huh but number 12 gave divorce a whole new meaning cause you probably didn't know that MJ had the most expensive divorce of all time back in 2006 after 17 years of marriage Jordan's wife Juanita officially filed for divorce breaking up his heart but to make matters even worse as a part of the divorce settlement Jordan had to cough up a gold mine giving Juanita possession of a seven acre mansion in Chicago and 168 million cash which at the time was the largest divorce settlement ever man MJ was down bad but he was down even further number 11 as I died into about the time Jordan was nearly cut in half by a sword yeah back in college during a local martial arts show Jordan got invited on stage for a sword trick where a samurai would slice a watermelon on top of his stomach Jordan thought it was gonna go smoothly but Samurai accidentally cut too far slicing Jordan's stomach and sending him to the hospital for stitches jeez but all right dog we've had the top tent so you're gonna see a whole new side of Michael Jordan like I bet you had no idea that Jordan owed thousands of dollars to a convicted felon or that MJ had an injury so bad it almost ended his career yeah but uh I almost had an injury that bad too see when I was younger I tried shaving my newly grown beard but it didn't go well after that I was too afraid of Shaving so my 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the Year people were already calling him an NBA superstar so going into year two MJ was expecting to take his game to an even crazier level but instead just a few days into the season this happened it was the third game of the season in the second season I was playing Golden State I go up for a lob where I landed I landed flat-footed when it did the CAT scan it was a clear break and I was done I was devastated because I never got hurt I'm in the cast I couldn't do anything I was anxious I'm pretty sure I was irritable to a lot of people MJ completely shattered his foot leaving the NBA World devastated and according to Bull's team doctors Jordan suffered a navicular stress fracture an injury that's extremely hard to recover from due to lack of blood flow and in some cases may never heal so people thought Jordan's career was in serious danger but in 1986 after missing 64 four games the last season Jordan returned to the court looking better than ever playing all 82 games and averaging 37 points the most in his career damn man went from limping off the court to running it but he didn't always come out on top because in number nine you might have missed that MJ once owed tens of thousands to a convicted felon see in 1992 MJ found himself in a different court because he was forced to testify in the trial of James slim bulu a man that was facing life in prison for money laundering and drug charges yeah Jordan got caught up with the wrong dude and while in court authorities questioned MJ about something suspicious a check he wrote the Buller for 57 000 with people wondering if this money was to cover up something sinister Michael Jordan's day in court was a short one he spent a lot less time on the witness stand than he does on the bench at Bulls games and that's not very much but the few questions he did answer shed new light on his gambling debts and how they mounted so rapidly Court after testifying it was clear Jordan couldn't wait to put it behind him fast normally he's patient with reporters but there'd be no post-game interviews today on the witness stand he looked uncomfortable when he talked about the high-stakes golf matches which led to checks like these more than a hundred thousand dollars lost in golf and card games while under oath Jordan Clinton the real reason for the check was to cover a gambling debt that he owed to slim so in the end Jordan might not have faced any consequences himself but he still learned the some bets aren't even worth making as his buddy slim was found guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison damn this man Jordan was hiding some crazy stuff and I bet you didn't know about number eight either the meaning behind Jordan's iconic jersey number 23. well in high school when I played with my brother my favorite number was 45 and his his favorite number was 45 but we were on the same teams so he had senior he had the option to wear 45 so I just figured 23 was half of 45 22 and a half so I got grabbed 23 and 23 has kind of stuck with me the whole time yeah Michael Jordan almost wore 45. that's just weird but number seven is freaky because there's no way you knew that Michael Jordan has a secret tattoo yeah 1995. Jordan was featured shirtless on the cover of a book titled rebound no no I'm serious the book was actually titled rebound and on the cover of this book Jordan Haswell looks to be a tattoo on his chest and after staring at this shirtless picture for a couple of hours I got curious what was the meaning behind this tap well I started doing some digging and that's when I uncovered something strange see according to a legendary Bulls reporter Sam Smith Jordan's tattoo has been a sensitive topic his entire career and in fact he's never even publicly commented on it but that's not even the weirdest part because it turns out this symbol isn't even a tattoo it's actually a branding for Jordan's secret college fraternity Mega sci-fi yeah someone took a scalding hot iron and branded the secret logo right into Jordan's skin damn this dude Jordan is into some weird stuff and what he did at number six was really twisted because I bet you didn't know that MJ used to starve one of his own teammates after they lost games yeah as an NBA player Jordan showed no mercy from taunting his opponents to trash talking rafts I mean hell he even punched his own teammate during practice but no one caught it worse than former Bulls forward Horace Grant as throughout his six seasons playing with Jordan he was punished for every bad Road game he played and the sickest way imaginable see during Bulls team flights Not only would MJ take horse's food away but he also forced the flight attendants not to feed him saying Horus doesn't deserve to eat shoot me straight what's going on with this deal I mean Mike said you can't eat a lot a lot a lot of he's a shark I'm telling you 100 that did happen the flight attendants they're serving us and he because of the flight attendant says hey he doesn't need cause he played like poop Jesus MJ had him going hungry but luckily he's serving up at number five because I don't think you knew that Michael Jordan has his own McDonald's burger called the mcjordan La is still in blue Detroit's the same way too cause only one team can repeat and only one town gets to eat the McDonald's [Applause] [Music] today they were loving it but Jordan was 11 number four as it turns out MJ is one of the most embarrassing records in NBA history during the 1990 all-star weekend Jordan suited up for his very first Three-Point Contest he was expecting to put on a show but instead he put on a stinker of historic proportions missing 25 out of 30 shots here earlier today for some school kids it was on fire at that time it seems to still be on it right now 28 seconds remaining well Jordan has really struggling his furniture yeah Jordan couldn't make a damn thing by the end of it Jordan had said an all-time record for the worst Three-Point Contest in NBA history but I dog we've had the top three so it's about to get coded and we gotta start with the real reason Jordan became the greatest because you might not have realized that MJ had the greatest Training Method of all time this is legendary sports trainer Tim Grover and in the early 90s he was hired by Jordan to help transform his body into a machine increasing his strength in the weight room watching his diet and even inviting Jordan's teammates to work out in the morning as part of The Breakfast Club but there's one thing that Tim did that was insane see to make sure Jordan wasn't overworking certain parts of his body Tim studied his every movement in fact in each game that Jordan played Tim counted every single step Jordan took on the court I would literally write down how many steps he took every single basketball game I have pieces of paper still now I would rewind it watch it again rewind it watch again one two three four this is how he's steps he took in the first quarter this is how he took in the second these how many talks he took the left this is on me took to the right forward back all this stuff so that way I could understand which body part and which angle he used most which one he used less and the training programs were totally developed around that methodology damn this man Jordan hired the human Fitbit but hey that's not always about basketball with Jordan sometimes it's about giving back and for number two you probably had no idea that the amount of money that Jordan's donated to charity is more than what he made in the NBA see Jordan Made bread in the league because after 15 seasons in the NBA he earned over 90 million from his team contracts alone and that's a boatload of money but to Jordan that's nothing because he gave it all away and then some donating over a hundred million to different charities over the course of his life Wow Jordan really knows how to spread the wealth and he knows how to spread some knowledge too because there's one final thing you should know about Michael Jordan so that his greatest student was the black mob Kobe Bryant see when Kobe first came into the NBA Jordan was at his Peak dominating anyone that got in his way and in their first couple of match-ups all Kobe could think about was one day earning the respect of the goat so over the next couple of years he kept working on his game until eventually 1998 he finally got Mike's attention during the 1998 All-Star Game Kobe made waves becoming the youngest NBA player ever to start in an All-Star game with an achievement like that Jordan started seeing a huge potential in Kobe so after the game he pulled him aside and said if you need anything just call and that marked the beginning of an iconic friendship because from that point on Kobe was calling up MJ every week asking for basketball tips how to handle the media life advice Jordan it was like Kobe's older brother Mike Anthony who's off your feet yeah but where else you're gonna go in the game I go for you right here like it's Michael Jordan a friend of yours he's a he's a good Mentor he's like a big brother how about the best advice you've ever gotten from him probably the best advice was to to be to be me to be me Kobe and Jordan had nothing but love for each other by the time they both retired from the NBA the two were practically family and while sadly the world may have lost the Black Mamba in 2020 the mam will never be forgotten because MJ is going to remember his greatest student and his little brother Kobe Bryant for the rest of his life this kid had passion like you would never know what Kobe Bryant was to me was the inspiration that someone truly cared about the way I either I played the game or the way that he wanted to play the game he wanted to be the best basketball player that he could be [Music] and as I got to know him I wanted to be the best Big Brother that I could be damn now that's good but all right man that's gonna be it for the video again big shout out to our sponsor manscape thank you for making videos like this possible make sure you guys go click that link support the brand they're supporting us all right appreciate all the love I'll see you guys in the next 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Channel: REBOUND

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Length: 21min 27sec (1287 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 21 2023