Video: Michael Jordan in high school
Before UNC and Chicago, Jordan played at Laney High School.
ESPN is set to begin airing "The Last Dance" on Sunday, a 10-hour documentary featuring Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 season with the Chicago Bulls. While Jordan played high school basketball long before the MaxPreps era, five years ago we dug up footage of him during his prep days and touched on renovations he was helping finance at his old school. Here is that story as it appeared July 9, 2015.
Before he was winning championships at North Carolina and with the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan was running up and down the courts at Laney (Wilmington, N.C.).
The game's greatest all-time player enjoyed a two-year varsity career that culminated in a senior campaign in which he averaged a triple-double and earned a spot in the McDonald's All-American Game.
In his post-high school career, Jordan contributed some of the most memorable shots in basketball history (not to mention, the most iconic silhouette in sports history). ...
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