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This article is about the discovery of the greatest basketball player of all time…MICHAEL JORDAN!!!

This indepth recruiting article of MJ was written by Inside Carolina magazine.

I have included a plethora of interesting hyper links about everything and anything concerning MJ’s early years and how he was dicovered as well as some old school pictures.

At the end of the article…I tried to sum up MJ’s career in youtube video’s…lol.  I just counted how many videos I used…and…yup…you guessed it….23…crazy!!!  The video’s are in chronological order of his career.

http://prospect-central.blogspot.com/2011/11/mj-b4-mj-discovery-of-michael-jordan.html

The article is kinda long…so…here are the cliff notes:

(1) Jordan was actually first discovered by ex-Georgia Tech and current college of Charleston coach BOBBY CREMINS in summer of 1979.

(2) Bobby Cremins then called BOB GIBBONS, a recruiting writer at the time in North Carolina to inform his friend about the young phenom.

(3) Bob Gibbons then wrote about Jordan and from that, MIKE BROWN, who was athletic director of New Hanover County schools at the time caught wind.  

(4) Mike Brown then informed UNC assistant coach BILL GUTHRIDGE of the young Jordan.

(5) From that, Bill Guthridge went to watch Joran play and then told DEAN SMITH about the young prodigy.

(6) Smith decided to add Jordan to his recruiting list and told ROY WILLIAMS to write Jordan and ask him to attend UNC’s summer camp.  

At this time(1980)…JORDAN is still not nationally known.

(7) This is where Roy Williams "messed" up.  Instead of keeping Jordan a secret, Roy informed his friend and writer for a popular recruiting journal, BRICK OETTINGER about MJ.  Brick’s writings made Jordan slightly more popular with other coaches, but he was still not known outside a few group of people.

(8) Roy Williams also called HOWARD GARFINKEL (click his name in the article, very interesting) who ran the prestigious Five-Star Basketball Camp and arranged Jordan to attend. This did not make Dean Smith very happy…as you could imagine.

(9) Jordan then went to Five-Star and absolutely crushed the competition!!! He won MVP honors as well as 7 other awards in 2 sessions.  After Five-Star, Jordan was now a nationally known prospect among coaches and recruiters…but…no one truly knew what they had just stumbled upon…THE G.O.A.T!!!!

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