Barack Obama couldn't afford a ticket to see Michael Jordan play with the Bulls in the '80s: 'I was pretty broke.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
Former President of the United States Barack Obama presents NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan with a medal during a ceremony for the Presidential Medal of FreedomAfter being selected No. 3 overall by Chicago in the 1984 NBA draft, Michael Jordan made an immediate impact on the Bulls organization.
Just weeks into his professional career, "everybody on that Bull team ... knew he was the best player we had," said the team's former general manager Rod Thorn on an episode ofThe series was originally supposed to be released during the NBA finals in June, but with sports leagues and events suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic, ESPN, which co-produced "The Last Dance" with Netflix,. Since April 19, ESPN has been releasing two episodes every Sunday night.
The first episode details Jordan's early basketball career, at UNC and then with the Bulls starting in 1984. His rookie year, everyone in Chicago wanted to see the young phenom play — the stadium went from being two-thirds empty to selling out every game, the documentary reports.One Chicago resident couldn't afford a ticket at the time: a young Barack Obama, who had recently graduated from Columbia University and moved to Chicago to work with the Developing Communities Project.
In the early '80s, Obama had undergraduate loans from Columbia University, where he earned a degree in political science in 1983. He would later take out more loans to attend Harvard Law School from 1988-1991.
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