He is the ultimate form of a basketball player and the goal that Kobe Bryant has imitated throughout his life. He is also the king of trends, and every sneaker he produces is regarded as a fashion classic. He is Michael Jordan, a basketball goat who cannot be "touched".
"Witness the Miracle" series will take you into the story of the God of Basketball, and the beginning of this story is a fight with death. Jordan almost died when he was still in his mother's womb, and he encountered repeated dangers after he was born. , it’s a miracle that he survived.
Jordan family portrait
Jordan's ancestral home is Pender County, North Carolina. His father's name is James Jordan, and his mother is Delores Peeples. James's family was middle-class and Dolores's was a local landowner. James and Delores met for the first time on the basketball court. James was 17 and Delores was 13. James fell in love with this beautiful girl at first sight. According to Delores's memory, when James drove them home after the game, he took the initiative to flirt with her.
"He said to me, 'You're so cute,'" Delores recalled. "I told him that was childish, and he said, 'I'm going to marry you one day.'"
Delores Si's father did not agree with this relationship. He believed that his daughter was still too young to date. To avoid contact between Delores and James, the elder Peoples sent her to live with relatives in Alabama, while James graduated from high school and served in the Air Force.
Just when Old Peeples thought he had successfully separated his daughter from James, he received the news like a bolt from the blue. Delores was pregnant. She was only 15 years old at this time. It turned out that the lovers were separated on the surface, but There are appointments behind the back of the family, and the rice is cooked right away.
Dolores's pregnancy caused a sharp deterioration in her relationship with her parents. Fortunately, James was responsible. He proposed to Dolores and took her back to his home in Pender County. Soon after, their eldest son, James Ronald Jordan, was born. Two years later, their second child, their eldest daughter, Delores Jr., arrived, followed closely by their second son, Larry Jordan. Two months after Larry's arrival, Delores discovered that she was pregnant again, and the child was Michael Jordan. At this time, James had taken his family to work and live in Brooklyn, New York.
When Delores was pregnant with Jordan, her mother died. Because of her love affair with James, Dolores had a serious estrangement from her native family. Her mother's departure made her re-examine her actions in the past, and she was extremely sad that she could not accompany her mother through the last journey of her life.
The emotional misery caused Dolores to show signs of miscarriage. Fortunately, the doctor discovered it in time and took anti-fetal treatment, otherwise Jordan would not even have a chance to be born.
February 17, 1963, that day was Sunday, but Delores was still working. She suddenly felt abdominal pain. The ambulance took Delores to Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn. She had just been put on the bed. , Jordan couldn’t wait to be born.
When Jordan was born, his family felt that there might be something wrong with the child's health. He came into the world with nosebleeds. Doctors couldn't explain why. Jordan still has nosebleeds frequently to this day. What was more serious than the nosebleed was that Jordan had difficulty breathing. After examination, it was found that there was mucus in the lungs, which could be life-threatening if not treated in time. Jordan was hospitalized for treatment and did not go home until his breathing became smooth.
Jordan had many disasters as a child. He almost died of suffocation when he fell out of bed as a baby. When he was two years old, he ran to the backyard to watch his father James repair the car. At that time, James used two wires from the kitchen to the backyard to conduct electricity for lighting. Jordan He directly grabbed the connection between the two wires, and the strong current directly ejected him and fell to the ground unconscious, but Jordan was not injured when he woke up. After Jordan became famous, some reporters joked that the electric shock may have caused wonderful changes in Jordan's body, because his family members were not tall, but Jordan grew to 1.98 meters.
A Troubled Childhood
When Jordan was four years old, the "bleeding" incident happened.Once, Jordan went to his grandfather's house and saw his cousin chopping wood. Jordan also tried it twice. The cousin didn't know what he was thinking. He told Jordan that if he used an ax to chop off his toes, he would give Jordan a dollar. . The young Jordan did as he was told. The severe pain made him scream and he ran home bleeding. Fortunately, he was not very good at using an ax at the time and had limited strength. The ax fell on the tip of his toe. , if the impact point was higher and the force was stronger, Jordan's toes might not be able to be saved.
What really brought psychological shadow to the young Jordan was not the wire or the ax, but the water. When Jordan was 5 years old, he moved with his parents again. This time they came to the seaside city of Wilmington, and James joined the local General Motors to work.
Jordan often went swimming in the sea with his friends. When he was 7 years old, he was swimming vigorously in the sea with his friends. Suddenly a big wave came over and the children were involved. Jordan struggled to swim to the shore. A friend suddenly grabbed him and nearly dragged him back into the wave.
This is a common situation when swimming in danger. A drowning person will try to grab any objects around him that may allow him to survive. Even a professional rescuer may be pulled into the water by this huge force of survival and die. The frightened Jordan tried his best to throw away his friend's hand. When he swam ashore with a narrow escape, his friend had been submerged in the sea and could never come back.
This experience gave Jordan a sense of fear that will last a lifetime, and gave him an almost instinctive repulsion towards water. "Later someone told me that that moment was called the lock of death. He almost pulled me down to accompany him. From then on, I didn't want to get involved in water." Jordan said.
As Jordan grew up, he started his sports career. As a teenager, Jordan met an opponent that he respected throughout his life. No matter what brilliant achievements Jordan made in the future, he would always behave well around this opponent, even I am satisfied if my basketball level is half as good as that of my opponent.
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