A Big Happy Family
Michael Jordan was born on February 17th, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Deloris and James Raymond Jordan; Michael was their fourth child out of five. He was raised in a pretty big family with three brothers and two sisters.
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When he was just a toddler, Michael and his family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, and that’s where he grew up and went to school. Jordan’s parents thought that Brooklyn wasn’t the best place to raise a family. Therefore, they uprooted their kids and moved them to give them a better life.