@@michaelhagen2712 🤣😹🤣😹😂😂🤣😹... Both are correct. Because he can jump as high as I said and higher as you have mathematically displayed. 🤣😹.... Now show us how high in metric
@TonyYikes I find it comical. I didn't even take it as a slight. We're all planes. Some of us are cesnas flying at low altitudes. Some Iike me are 787 Jumbo Jets or AirBuses. You don't sweat cesnas. Notice I gave him homework to keep his wheels spinning. Guys like him usually work for guys like me. We need each other. He does all the calculations I need and I have the paycheck he works for. 😂🤣😹 (Rich Dad, Poor Dad)
Naw there are many players 6'2 and shorter that are HOFers if Larry was nice he would have at least made it as a role player, clearly he peaked in grade school
No, that was James Jr. that served 31 years in the Army and retired from it with honors. Larry was the 2nd oldest brother, he ended up becoming an NBA executive and I imagine he has a significant role in the Air Jordan brand, as does his Mom, Delores. But, it was James Jr who was the career military hero..
The fact that he is considered one of, if not the greatest player of all time and his shorter brother didn't even go pro because of size, that shows how much size makes a difference in opportunities with sports.
@@phdavis10 yes. And it was an anomaly. Him, Spud Webb, Nate Robinson. Now let's go down the list of unathletic big guys that made it in the NBA. Yao Ming is in the HOF. AI, the little guy in the NBA, was 6' when he played. And that's tiny. Height matters.
@@davidornelas3326 while they definitely stand out as the most advantageous, Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps weren't amazing because they ate their Wheaties. Size helps in most sports if you are able to manage controlling that size. I can't think of many sports where you'd benefit from being small.
There is footage of Larry in the gym with MJ earlier in his Bulls career. MJ was right. If that dude was at least 6ft, we'd be calling MJ Larry's little brother. He was out of this world. He did all of MJ's dunks at 5'8".
MJ's Dad created that killer drive in him because he always made him feel like he could have done better/etc. so MJ was obsessed with showing his Dad he could do better and it carried over into his career. In some ways it makes you feel bad for young MJ, feeling like he could never please his Dad but it created the best player to ever exist.
I found this story spectacular as a kid. I read Jordan's autobiography and a few other materials that centered around Jordan & some of the game's best player. Larry Jordan was the stuff of legends! It wasn't until I was an adult that I actually found the clips online of Larry scrimmaging against Jordan at the Bulls' training facility....let me just say that MJ was not lying. That little man could FLY!! Jordan definitely learned a lot from his older brother. It's truly a spectacular story if you actually think about it. We never got to see Larry Jordan on the NBA, but the basketball world owes a significant debt to Larry.
I watched a video of Jordan's HS coach saying that Jordan when he was 5'11" in his SO year tried out and didn't make varsity because his JV coach didn't want to lose him. It wasn't because he wasn't good enough. I don't remember a story about him ever getting cut from his HS team.
When you see MJ and wonder where that swag came from...that reverse 2 hand is the one MJ did in slam dunk contest. In that clip with Larry, Larry comes off the baseline and grabs the side of the backboard and just reached and dunked. Larry Jordan was Cold.
More than that, God so loved Mike, that He gave His only begotten Son, that if Mike will believe in Him, Mike shall be saved! The ball is in Michael's court.
There was never a single player during his career at the Bulls that was better than him. He lost a few times early in his career but he was always the best player in a series
And this is why when it comes to basketball,there will never be nobody better than Jordan. If you actually watched him play in the 80s and 90s you would know how much of a killer instinct he had to dominate and win always which led him to becoming a beast on the court and demolishing all the talented players that played in the 90s especially.the Pistons would beat him down to the ground but he never gave up. He became stronger physically and mentally and became the greatest player ever to play the game of basketball.
I fought my younger brother 100 times. We were about 14 months apart. He made me competitive. Every day was a competition. He could not lose. He made me better.
Mike loved his brother for that special push ….. much luv going out to their mother & father and all to a family that fought the odds of adversity coming from the south ! We all in that time period came up against ( South ). Even when he came out from North Carolina ….
what's meant to be, will always be. There will always be someone who is placed around you or crosses paths with you......for a reason. As an athlete, Jordan is everything!
It just sounds like MJ really didn't like basketball from the get go. His competitive nature was the only reason he succeeded. He was just extremely extraordinary. He's truly the GOAT!
People underestimate those little brothers determination. When you see your parents admiration for them, also when you have a sibling always whooping your ass you either get stronger or make excuses. MJ chose the former.
There's things that happen in people's lives for a reason. And evidently Michael's father saw that he had no drive when he was younger and by cuddling his older brother Larry, Michael gained they desire to be the best, not better than someone, but the best. And I count that as being successful.
That's actually amazing. I followed Michael's points per game in the 90's all the way back from Finland. Never knew Michael's brother was the instigator for the GOAT! Fantastic story/fact, thanks!
When I say that the difference between successful men and unsuccessful men is usually their fathers I'm being serious. Jordan's father can still be seen alive every time you look at Michael.
I wish we could’ve seen his brother play. But I think his brother worked with Michael a lot and that helped him against people like spud Webb or Isaiah Thomas who were shorter than Jordan
44 inch verticle ? Damn. That's the hop family. I had to workout jumping back and forth over a tennis net everyday just to be able to grab the rim with both hands at age 16. By the way...I learned to raise my feet when I jumped on that tennis net because if I didn't...owwwwch!!
@@Jay-tx2wz I can't be exact but it was roughly 2 and half feet. Same as tennis courts. I jumped over back and forth in the middle of the net. It sags down a little in the middle in case I didn't raise my feet up and hit the ground. Which happened twice.
Jordan's wife, the starting cener Luc Longley and the starting pount guard, Ron Harper, were cut out completely from the Bulls story, too. Harper onlyshowed up to throw Lenny Wilkens under the bus for having Ehlo on Jordan. His role on the Bulls was cit out completely.
If he was soooo good, any team should've picked him up even though he was only 5'8" tall cause Spud Web was only 5'6" and he found success. So did Muggsy Bogues and he was only 5'3".... So how good could he have been? I guess we will never know.?
I hate stories like this that are taken so out of context. The worst is about MJ being cut from his high school basketball team. He didn't make the varsity as a freshmen player which most freshmen don't make the varsity. He went on to play on the JV team as a freshmen like most freshmen do.
@@look-at-curry-man2206 Jordan was better than Bird but the number of rings doesn’t prove that. Ben Roethlisberger has more rings than Dan Marino and Drew Brees combined but nobody thinks he better than them.
It happens all of the time in families. Maybe there was a recessive trait for tall height in their family that Jordan received and his brother did not. In my own family, my father is 5'8, but his baby brother grew to be 6'5. They both look just like their father too. It does happen.
When your young you need something to take over. Alot of great athletes never reach their full potential because they've always been the best athlete in their youth until they reach college or the pros and the level out at that point because they can't understand how to reach down and do better. Jordan was designed to be the greatest as a child. He had an older brother to look up to
It was the drive he had that really did it for me. The will and determination he had just to be better than his older brother pushed him to be elite! The competitiveness that Michael developed was just undeniable.
It's a good thing L.Ball made the clip. A star???? I don't even know what team he's on. Not even a standout now. Let alone star. Thank The Ball dad's relentless promoting those 👟 is most popular of the family
See now we know why MJ was so hellbent on winning and obsessively completive. As a Dad you got to show love by taking time with each child, encouraging them to be the best individual they can be character wise included. Dammmm all these years MJ just wanted his Dad's affirmation,PoP am I good enough now after all I've accomplished. Let this be a Teachable Moment Men🙏💯💪❤
