Michael Jordan: An oral history

Posted Feb 15, 2013
The first time I saw him, the summer before his freshman year, we were playing pickup games on campus. We all knew about him, but I'm from New York, and he looked like a scrawny country bumpkin from North Carolina. -- Sam Perkins, Jordan's UNC teammate (ESPN.com)

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