Michael Jordan expected to be named to Hall of Fame today

Posted Apr 6, 2009
To the generation who grew up on Spike Lee's Nike commercials, it must be the shoes. No, Phil Jackson describes, it was the hands. No, James Worthy adds, it was the drive. It was all of the above, making Michael Jordan the transcendent basketball player of this, and possibly any, generation. Jordan is expected to become a first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame when the class of 2009 is revealed today. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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