Believe it or not, there once was a time Michael Jordan was a relative no-name. Even after he rapidly ascended to top prospect status, few freshmen had shone quite as much in the college basketball landscape of the 1980s and earlier. MJ changed that with one shot to win the 1982 NCAA national championship for the North Carolina Tar Heels. Harry Lyles Jr. traces the path of a kid they called Mike to the superstar who was getting GOAT-level praise before he even entered the NBA.
0:00 Intro
0:37 The state of college basketball in the early 1980s
1:24 Mike Jordan enters the chat
2:32 The 1981 class
3:28 An immediate star
3:59 Becoming Michael
4:27 Sophomore surge
5:10 A loaded Tar Heels squad in 1983-84
5:46 MJ’s Wooden Award push
6:28 A surprising ending
6:51 The GOAT already?
7:12 Entering the NBA
7:37 The rest is history
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