When he thinks of Michael Jordan, the first thing Brad Brownell remembers about the NBA’s greatest player was not his game-winning shots and six World Championships for the Chicago Bulls. Nope, it was Jordan’s corner jumper in the closing seconds to beat Georgetown in the 1982 NCAA Tournament Championship Game.
Of course, Jordan was a freshman for Dean Smith’s North Carolina Tar Heels in 1982.
“That was my first real memory of him. I think I was in the eighth grade or something,” Brownell said earlier this week to The Clemson Insider.
Like every basketball enthusiast, Brownell has watched ESPN’s documentary series on Jordan which chronicles his last season with the Bulls in 1998, as well as flashes back to other moments during the superstar’s legendary career in the game of basketball.