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After two months on the set, Jordan seems to have adopted the personality of his Space Jam co-star Bugs Bunny. It's not surprising: if you'd spent the summer filming a $100-million mega-production opposite Bugs, Daffy Duck, Charles Barkley, and Bill Murray, you'd be singing Looney Tunes too. But though Jordan acts a bit daffy at times, he is a thoughtful man. He describes the whiz-bang, effects-laden Space Jam--in which he joins forces with Bugs and company to slam dunk some nasty aliens--as a "message movie." The message, he says, is this: "To be successful, a team has to have the same goals and the same focuses." During a break in the final day's filming, Jordan took an hour to chat with Mr. Showbiz about this philosophy and much more, including his movie, the differences between acting and athletics, and why he and Bugs are such good buddies.
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[A]fter a season and a half of watching his inept team, Jordan -- at 38 -- had a change of heart. Jordan, who said that he was "99.9 percent" he would never play again at his second retirement press conference, went for the one-tenth of a percent on Sept. 25, 2001, and announced for the second time that he was coming back, this time with the Wizards. After resigning his front-office position and selling his shares in the team, Jordan said, "I am returning as a player to the game I love."
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Jordan had a versatile offensive game. He was capable of aggressively slashing to the basket and drawing fouls from his opponents at a high rate; his 8,772 free throw attempts are the ninth highest total of all time.[87] Jordan could ... post up his opponents and score with his trademark fadeaway jumpshot, using his leaping ability to "fade away" from block attempts. According to Hubie Brown, this move alone made him nearly unstoppable.[88] Jordan's 5.2 assists per game[7] indicate his willingness to defer to his teammates. In later years, he extended his shooting range to become a three-point threat, rising from a low 9 / 52 rate (.173) in his rookie year into a stellar 111 / 260 (.427) shooter in the 1995–96 season.[7] For a guard, Jordan was also a good rebounder (6.2 per game)[7].
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Jordan attended Wilmington’s Laney High School, where at first he failed to make the varsity basketball team. Instead, Laney’s basketball coach, Clifton 'Pop' Herring, decided that Jordan could improve his skills with more playing time on the junior varsity team. As a sophomore on the junior varsity, Jordan, then 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) tall, averaged 25 points per game.
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Michael was saddened when he failed to make the varsity basketball team at Emsley A. Laney High School. He played basketball during two high school seasons and part of his senior year. He made the varsity team in his junior year and played as a senior.
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Between the 10th and 11th grade, Jordan grew from 5'11" to 6'3", and because he had improved greatly as a player, he made the varsity team the following year. Jordan played so well in his junior season that he was invited to attend the Five-Star Camp in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the summer before his senior year.
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