{"id":5449,"date":"2009-03-22T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2009-03-22T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T18:12:08","slug":"michael-jordan-cries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=5449","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan cries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS\">When his son&#8217;s team wins the state championship.  So sweet ..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/highschool.rivals.com\/content.asp?SID=1185&#038;CID=926973\">PEORIA, Ill.<\/a> &#8211; Michael Jordan celebrated another Chicago basketball championship &#8211; his son&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Jordan, son of the Bulls&#8217; six-time champion, scored a game-high 19 points to lead Chicago Whitney Young to a 69-66 victory over Waukegan in the Illinois Class 4A championship Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As Marcus Jordan and his teammates celebrated on the court after the final buzzer, Michael Jordan stood quietly, clapping his hands with tears in his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crying?&#8221; the NBA great said in response to a reporter&#8217;s question. &#8220;I&#8217;m not crying. Not for me, anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The younger Jordan was key down the stretch after two teammates fouled out, hitting four of four free throws in the final 3 minutes to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Awesome,&#8221; Marcus Jordan said. &#8220;Just awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jordan, part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, skipped his team&#8217;s home loss to Indiana so he could attend his son&#8217;s game. Another son, Jeff Jordan, plays basketball for the University of Illinois.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pride of a parent.  The love of a parent. ..<\/p>\n<p>Michael is one of my most favored athletes.  Smart, sexy and accomplished.  I always wonder why Jaguar didn\u2019t use him to advertise, a perfect fit \u2013 the older models when it was sleek and sexy; the newer models are look like Japanese.  Instead he did for undies, fruit of loom, what a waste. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When his son&#8217;s team wins the state championship. So sweet .. PEORIA, Ill. &#8211; Michael Jordan celebrated another Chicago basketball championship &#8211; his son&#8217;s. Marcus Jordan, son of the Bulls&#8217; six-time champion, scored a game-high 19 points to lead Chicago Whitney Young to a 69-66 victory over Waukegan in the Illinois Class 4A championship Saturday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}