Michael Jordan’s basketball life vividly captured in new bio! INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bo

Today's Guest: NBA basketball writer Roland Lazenby, who captured the basketball life of superstars Michael Jordan (The Life) and Jerry West (The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon).

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with NBA basketball writer Roland Lazenby, author of Michael Jordan: The Life and Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of high school and college hoopsters smart enough to think that reading a book about MJ might offer some direction for their own potential careers… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

If memory serves correctly, I was lucky enough to see Michael Jordan play basketball for the Chicago Bulls, live, in person, at least once, possibly twice.

Once at the O-rena in Orlando, in a game against the Orlando Magic, probably back when Shaquille O’Neill was that team’s main attraction.

And, again, in an exhibition of some sort at either the University of South Florida Sun Dome or what was once the Florida Suncoast Dome or the ThunderDome (and is now Tropicana Field).
ROLAND LAZENBY podcast excerpt: "The whole Jordan family was short and Michael had really grown despondent. Because if basketball success was going to be about who was tall, he wasn't going to be able to do anything in the sport. And basketball was really his last resort. Then a cousin showed up who was 6'5" and created all sorts of hope in Michael. And -- BOOM! -- he started growing! ... The rest is history."
You can LISTEN to this interview with NBA basketball writer, author of MICHAEL JORDAN: THE LIFE and JERRY WEST: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF A BASKETBALL ICON, by clicking the audio player above!

I also drove to Sarasota during spring training the year he walked away from the Bulls to pursue a lifelong dream of playing professional baseball. Still have a Nike souvenir baseball fr