A friend of mine went to HS with Jordan, said he was a pretty cool guy ( and to be honest my buddy was kinda racist, so he really must have been impressed with him even back then). Also said Jordan wasn’t the stereotypical “dumb jock” but rather was pretty smart getting all A’ and B’s in school. He apparently went out for football first wanting to be a quarterback but sucked at that, so switched to basketball and well the rest is history.
My sister in law went to school with him. Her husband, my brother in law was at a court playing basketball and Jordan showed up to play and my brother in law decided not to go up against Jordan. Jordan’s father worked for my father in law and he fired him.
I went to the same baseball camp as Jordan. Mickey Owens in Miller, MO. Charlie Sheen went there too.