Jordan quits Playinng Ball

Remember when John Elway’s kid left the football team at ASU? Well another legends kid is hanging it up. Jeffrey Jordan, the son of Michael Jordan is calling it quits. Jeffrey was playing basketball at Illinois as a walk on turned scholarship athlete. Now he is walking away from the game that his father dominated in the NBA. Jeffrey said, “I loved playing for the Fighting Illini and appreciate the support I was given by my teammates, coaches and the great fans here,” Jordan said. “But I have come to the point where I'm ready to focus on life after basketball. I will concentrate on earning my degree from the University of Illinois and the opportunities that await upon graduating.”

I never ever saw him play, but I have seen Jordan play and it was a great sight to watch his games on TBS or TNT back in the day. The only thing that could make Jeffrey not want to play is the possibility of not being able to live up to his dad’s greatness. There had to added pressure on him when he couldn’t perform well on the court. Or maybe he had enough of the sport and wants to pursue other things. I’ve known people who were good/great at their sport that they played and just wanted to focus on other things in life. At least he proved to people that he could play the game, he did walk onto a division 1 basketball program. Now we will see if Marcus Jordan will stay with the sport as he enters his first year at UCF.