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A teenage Michael Jordan's love poem could be yours at auction (Ball Don't Lie)

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I know it’s been said ad infinitum, but Michael Jordan really is the greatest love poet who ever lived.

Before the six-time NBA champion was His Airness, he was Michael Jeffrey Jordan, hopeless romantic. This much we learned when a high school love letter to his dearest Laquette surfaced in 2011. In it, he essentially invented emojis, writing “(smile)” and “(joke)” in long-form, so add that to his résumé.

If you just can’t get enough of sweet MJ nothings like, “I am finally getting use to going with a girl much smaller than I,” then you’re in luck.