In 1989, she co-founded the Michael Jordan Foundation, and in 2000, she founded the James R. Her two proudest moments of Michael? Seeing him in a cap and gown to accept his degree from the University of North Carolina and watching him competing in the gold-medal game at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.ĭeloris is also the author of several books, including “Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream,” “Michael’s Golden Rules ,” Did I Tell You I Love You Today?” and “Dream Big.” She also penned “Family First: Winning the Parenting Game ,” which outlines her seven principles of parenting: In the famous anecdote about Michael being cut from the varsity basketball team, Deloris is credited for motivating her son to convert his anger into hard work. “We didn’t have any more trouble from him after that.”
We went to lunch, and then after dinner, I knew a lady at the library, so he stayed there and read some more.” I wanted him to know I was always watching him. I took him to work and made him stay in the car all day and read. “He tells me it would be considered child abuse today,” she admitted to ESPN.
She worked as a homemaker, then a bank clerk.ĭeloris rode her children hard and molded Michael into a fierce competitor, especially when he would act out: They had five children: Larry, Deloris, Roslyn, James Jr. She attended a trade school in Alabama while James joined the Air Force, and then they reunited and married in 1957. She met Michael’s father, James, at a high school basketball game in North Carolina. She was born in September 1941 in Rocky Point, North Carolina. “She made me get on that plane and go listen.” You may not like it, but you’re gonna go listen’,” Jordan remembered. “My mother said, ‘You’re gonna go listen. The doc also reveals that Deloris played an integral part in sneaker history, as Michael was set to sign with Adidas, only for Deloris to make him take Nike meeting: “It’s somewhat embarrassing, but yet it’s refreshing that I took the time to write a letter to say how much I love my mom and, you know, what I needed in college.” “My mom, she kept all my letters,” Jordan said. Jordan teased the moment on “Good Morning America” in April: Michael Jordan’s mom, Deloris Jordan, is a standout presence in ESPN’s “ The Last Dance” docuseries.īeyond miraculously defying the aging process, she touchingly read a letter from her son from college about affording the phone bill and postage stamps.
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