Michael Jordan flies to top of NBA summit

Posted Sep 11, 2009
Getting inducted into basketball's Hall of Fame doesn't sit well with Michael Jordan. Jordan does consider it a tremendous honor -- a validation for the kid from Wilmington who blazed onto the scene in Chapel Hill and morphed into a basketball and cultural legend in the NBA. But Jordan's famously competitive streak means that, even at 46, he hates to admit basketball is over for him. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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