Who was Michael Jordan?

Facing Michael Jordan

 Edited by: Sean Deveney and Kent McDill

Sevag Aboyan

Michael Jordan. What comes to your mind when you think of this legendary man? Who has impacted and what name has he built for himself?

     Facing Michael Jordan edited by Sean Deveney with Kent McDill, is a book composed of multiple stories about Jordan. As the Young man began his basketball journey, almost every opponent or member of his career shares their own personal story of what Michael jordan was really composed of. In the early chapter of the book a ex-pro basketball player Walter Davis talks about Jordan and his freshman year at North Carolina University. Davis could not talk bad about Jordan all he said were positive things. Davis talked about how him and Phil Ford played against Jordan and explained “ Phil and I were playing on the same team, and we were both trying to guard Michael” (4). No one really knew how good Michael was going to end up. As more and more people go on to explain there story and perspective of Michael the more interesting it gets. David Henderson played at Duke University from 1983-86, and talked about the ACC tournament when Duke played North Carolina. He said it was an intense and very competitive game, but it came down to one thing… stopping Michael Jordan. Henderson did not know what to say accept “ it was tough. Michael Jordan was so good…” (11). Michael jordan was not an ordinary basketball player and not an average division 1 player either. As his time came to leave college and continue his career into the NBA, everyone world wide knew he was the real deal. Once Jordan had reached the top and became who he is known as today, he has always looked at the greatest player of all time. Dennis Rodman a big name ex-player that played with Jordan knew him in a different perspective. Majority of the people who talked about Jordan either played against him or helped him out along the way. Rodman knew Jordan was the best and so did the whole league. Rodman explained “ He was a professional; he just knew everything he needed to know out there. He know how to take you apart if you were trying to defend him” (133). As the story progress each person elaborates on Jordan's career and how much of an impact he left on the game.

This interesting story has kept on the edge of my seat. Being a basketball fanatic it is one of the greatest books I have read. It explains the journey of the greatest player to ever play and how he did it to get there. The editor of the story does a very good job in not only sharing a story from each person but showing statistics and logistics to backup the talk on Michael. The story to me emphasizes a point how hard work can pay off and it is possible to do things when you put your mind to it.

In my opinion the story is very well written and very fascinating. Sharing the reader a perspective from various people really emphasizes the point of how good Michael really was. I would really recommend this story to anyone who knows who michael really was and/or loves the sport of basketball like I do. If you are looking for a story that will make you keep turning the page and want to know more about Jordan this is the one. I know I have really enjoyed this book and I hope you do as well.