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Knee Ability The Book INTRO I can still remember being 4 years old and telling my best friend I was going to save up for a Michael Jordan rookie card. I worked odd jobs, saved every penny, and at ... age 6 I did it: I bought a Michael Jordan rookie card for one thousand dollars. I had no interest in toys: just Jordan. First thing after waking up each day, I raced to the couch to turn on the TV, but not to watch cartoons… (From the 1990 video ʼnNBA SuperstarsŊ) An F-16 Fighting Falcon appears on the screen. Michael Jordan enters the tunnel into the arena. The F-16 approaches the runway, then Jordan steps onto the court. The F-16 begins accelerating for takeoff, and Jordan begins dribbling down the court. The F-16 gets faster. Jordan gets faster! F-16 – Jordan! Back and forth they go, till the F-16 lifts off and Jordan soars into the air for a dunk! Berlin’s ʼnTake My Breath AwayŊ begins to play, and slow motion highlights of Michael Jordan ensue. Many hours a day I practiced these dunks on my Little Tike hoop in the garage. By age 9 I was waking up at 5am to do vertical jump programs before school. Thousands of nights I dreamed of dunking like Michael Jordan. Not once did I dream of [Show More]

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