Respect for a Legend
This is too significant not to acknowledge it in some way.
Those who know me will know the impact this man had on me growing up. I looked up to him as my love for the game of basketball grew and his amazing feats inspired countless hours on the court and in our backyard shooting hoops and practicing the impossible. He also taught me an incredibly valuable lesson about failure, one that I believe will serve me well for the rest of my life.
I don’t believe we were created froma big bang or that we evolved from a lesser form of life, or that we are super-intelligent monkeys. And I don’t believe that we are solely responsible for what we achieve in life.
I believe that we are [were] each created for a specific reason and that we are blessed with the talents we have, whether it’s one or 100 of them. I believe all that is out of our hands.
But on the flip-side, it’s up to use to use this life we’ve been given and the talents we’re blessed with.
This is something that Mr Michael Jordan has done incredibly well, and for that I have nothing but respect for the man. He has conducted himself incredibly well living life in a very unforgiving public eye. He has managed to achieve spectacular levels of success without sacrificing his own values or reducing himself to chasing earthly riches. And he has stretched the realms of reality in basketball to unbelievable lengths by doing things on a basketball court that others could only ever have dreamed of. He did for basketball what Roger Bannister did for running, and I truly believe the levels of athleticism and skill displayed on the global basketball stage today are directly attributable to what we saw Michael Jordan do.
In my books Michael Jordan will go down as the Greatest Of All Time. This not only because of his unbelievable basketball talents, but for the way he carried himself as a professional and as an individual.
Congratulations Michael. Thank you for the memories, for the inspiration, and for showing me that the our realities are limited only by our own imagination!
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