If you didn't know, yesterday was the great,
Michael Jordan's 48th birthday..which brought to my attention this article, displaying almost two dozen unknown facts about
MJ..he's a pretty damn interesting guy, to say the least..down below are some of my favorite facts, but you can read the rest of them
right here, if you please.
8) He only fouled out 10 times in his career.
11) Jordan has also appeared on the front cover of Sports Illustrated a record 49 times.
13) Has a tattoo of the Greek letter ‘Omega’ over his heart, representing Omega Psi Phi Fraternity (Q Dogs), Incorporated, of which he is a member.
15) Jordan also wore #12. However, he wore it in only one game–in 1990 after an Orlando Magic Arena employee stole his uniform. It was a back-up jersey and did not even feature a last name. He scored 49 points in the game, leading the Bulls win over the Magic.
16) Neither of his parents are more than 5′ 9″ tall.
22) During his record performance of 63 points against the Boston Celtics in the playoffs, Larry Bird claimed that Jordan was “God disguised as Michael Jordan.”.
23) Michael Jordan having ‘retired,’ made $40 million in endorsements in 2010. Jordan makes:
• $178,100 a day, working or not.
• If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night or about what his son spend in one night of partying in Vegas.
• If he goes to see a movie, it’ll cost him $7.00, but he’ll make $18,550 while he’s there.
• If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he’ll make $618 while boiling it.
• He makes $7,415/hour more than minimum wage.
• If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.
• If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
• He’ll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.
• He’ll make about $19.60 while watching the 100- meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon .
• This year, he’ll make more than twice as much as all U.S. Past presidents for all of their terms combined.
If you didn't know, yesterday was the great, Michael Jordan's 48th birthday..which brought to my attention this article, displaying almost two dozen unknown facts about MJ..he's a pretty damn interesting guy, to say the least..down below are some of my favorite facts, but you can read the rest of them right here, if you please.
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