Michael Jordan Was Too Short for His High School Team

The Story of Michael Jordan in 8 Minutes. June 14, 1998: 5.2 seconds left, the Bulls down by one, and Michael Jordan takes the last shot of his Chicago career. Twenty years earlier, a list went up on a gym wall in Wilmington, North Carolina, and his name wasn't on it. Brooklyn and Wilmington, the shot that won North Carolina a title, Air Jordan, 63 points in Boston Garden, the Bad Boys, the first three-peat, his father's murder, baseball, "I'm back", 72–10, the Flu Game, the Last Shot, the Wizards, the Hornets, 23XI Racing, the Daytona 500 and a $14 million jersey. The whole story, in 8 minutes. Told by Mr. Bigs. A new story every week: subscribe so you don't miss the next one. Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:51 ACT I · The Kid Who Wasn't Picked 2:12 ACT II · Air 3:26 ACT III · The Wall 4:43 ACT IV · The Long Way Round 5:30 ACT V · The Second Three-Peat 6:41 ACT VI · The Owner 8:16 Epilogue Sources Wikipedia: Michael Jordan; 1982 NCAA Division I championship game; 1998 NBA Finals NBC News: NASCAR settles federal antitrust case filed by two of its teams (December 2025) Net worth and the October 2026 jersey sale as reported on Wikipedia: Michael Jordan Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons, cropped) Steve Lipofsky, Basketballphoto.com, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... United Press International, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Carmine Galasso, North Jersey Media Group, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Steve Lipofsky, Basketballphoto.com, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Steve Lipofsky, Basketballphoto.com, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Zach Catanzareti Photo, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Licences: CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Music "Volatile Reaction", "Carefree", "Rocket Power", "Movement Proposition", "Long Note Four", "Heroic Age", "Investigations", "Inspired" — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Illustrations and animation are original. No game or concert footage is used. Narration voice generated with AI. Written and told by Mr. Bigs. #michaeljordan #nba #biography