Marcus Jordan

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.