Michael Jordan's Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech

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Cites kenny87 · 2018-04 · on “Ask HN: How do you keep up the energy to work on side-projects after work?”

Michael Jordan was great at doing this. His hall of fame speech is filled w/ anecdotes about him turning slights into motivation: [this video]

Cites math-ias · 2022-08 · on “Gauss's Day of Reckoning”

I was surprised that the story of Gauss's schoolboy arithmetic tricks was the guy himself. Per Sartorius, Gauss "often related [the incident] in old age with amusement and relish". I suppose it makes sense. I cannot imagine biographers hunting down old schoolmates for stories without modern tools. A lot of celebrity myths can be verified in 2022. Michael Jordan often recounted [0] that he was cut from his high school basketball team. Reporters found his high school coach who clarified that Michael was placed on junior varsity just like everyone else in his year[1]. [0] Here in his hall of fame enshrinement speech [this video] [1] An article about another article :/ but the links from here to the

Critical at-fates-hands · 2015-01 · on “Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building (2013)”

Actually he's not. You start with his Hall of Fame speech which was pretty shocking for everybody in attendance. Not before or since has a player admonished so many people he felt were beneath him. [this video] Here's some excerpt's from an ESPN article: "The greatest athlete of our time made sure to point out the high school coach who didn't put him on the varsity his sophomore year. (He was never cut, per se. That's an urban myth akin to Catfish Hunter's nickname origin.) He pointed out the guy who made the team "over" him, who was in the audience; his college roommate, Buzz Peterson; the NBA vets who froze him out in his first All-Star Game, two of whom were there, George Gervin (who presented