Jeffrey Jordan
Jeffrey Michael Jordan (born November 18, 1988) is a former American basketball player who played for the University of Central Florida Knights and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini. He played high school basketball for Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Chicago. Jordan is the elder son of retired NBA MVP Michael Jordan, who played for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards, and the older brother of Marcus Jordan.
Jeffrey Jordan has been the subject of local and national media attention, and had three of his high school games broadcast nationally on ESPN in 2007. Jordan also played American football in his sophomore year at Loyola Academy.
Jordan graduated from Loyola Academy on May 26, 2007. He received scholarship offers from Valpariso and Loyola University Chicago, and was actively recruited as a preferred walk-on by Davidson, Penn State, Northwestern and University of Illinois. Jordan decided to play as a preferred walk-on at the University of Illinois. Jeff Jordan enrolled at the university in 2007 as a psychology major with an academic scholarship. On January 22, 2009, it was announced by the university that Jordan would receive a full scholarship.
On June 24, 2009 Jordan announced he was leaving the University of Illinois’ basketball team to focus on school and his “life after basketball”. Jordan later decided to return to the team, but after the 2009-10 season, he received a release to transfer to the University of Central Florida alongside his brother, Marcus.In January 2012, Jordan left the UCF team for “personal reasons”.
Marcus Jordan
Marcus Jordan (born December 24, 1990) is an American college basketball player for the UCF basketball team of Conference USA. He is the son of Hall of Fame NBA player Michael Jordan. Marcus Jordan originally played high school basketball with his older brother Jeffrey Jordan at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. In Marcus’ sophomore year, the pair led the school to the conference championships and the best season in school history. Marcus then transferred to Whitney Young high school in Chicago for his junior and senior seasons.
On March 22, 2009, he led the Whitney Young Dolphins to the Illinois State 4A Championship title. Jordan scored a game-high 19 points leading Whitney Young to a 69-66 victory over Waukegan.Jordan was rated as the 60th-best shooting guard in the country as a high school senior by ESPNU, averaging 10.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, and earning state tournament MVP honors. Marcus Jordan currently plays college basketball at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. During his freshman year, UCF was in the final year of a five-year contract with Adidas, but Jordan insisted on wearing Air Jordan shoes out of loyalty to his father, Michael Jordan. This eventually prompted Adidas to terminate its sponsorship deal with UCF.
Jordan scored 8.0 points per game in his true freshman year in 2009-10, including 10.3 points and 3 assists per game in conference play. On the 12th of November, 2010, the opening game of the 2010-11 season, Jordan led UCF to victory against University of West Florida scoring a career high 28 points on 8-11 field goal shooting and 5-7 from the 3-point line.He also had a team-high 18 points in upsetting number 16 ranked Florida on December 1, 2010.
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