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Who was the middle aged guy that beat Michael Jordan one on one at his camp? Also, is the video online?

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I read about this in one of Rick Reilly's articles in Sports Illustrated but can't remember which one. I know there was a video, but I didn't know if anyone put it on Youtube.

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  1. Michael Kyle


  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Ng8l5h2...

  3. John Rogers, founder and CEO of Ariel Mutual Finds, the nation’s largest minority-run mutual fund, beat Jordan during a stay at Jordan’s Senior Flight School, a fancy basketball camp for people with a love of the sport and a lot of money

    The game begins, fittingly, with Jordan still ribbing a previous victim. "Don’t be mad at me, I'm just too good," he booms. "What, you think I had this camp just so you all could beat me?" Taking the ball first, Rogers drives right and lofts in a runner. Then he goes left to hit a leaner. The crowd of 150 or so -- campers but also coaches like John Thompson and Mike Krzyzewski -- begins to murmur. Predictably, Jordan evens it, and the end appears imminent until... Michael misses a jumper. Then he clangs another!

    So Rogers again hurtles left and, nearing the hoop, jumps off both feet. Jordan, clearly into it now, times his leap to swallow up the shot. Only Rogers, in a move he’s practiced a thousand times but that still appears impossibly awkward, leans away from MJ as if eluding the curl of a crashing wave. He spins the ball up, up, up and over Jordan’s fingertips, off the glass and in. On the video the first thing you hear is Jordan ("Oh, no!"), followed by comedian and camper Damon Wayans, who jumps at the chance to mock MJ. (Lest you think Jordan had lost his edge, he ¬immediately brought Wayans onto the court and ¬humiliated him 3–0.)

    Naturally, Jordan demanded a rematch with Rogers, right? Actually, he didn't. ¬Instead he hugged Rogers -- the two go back a ways from Jordan’s days in Chicago -- and said, not so huggably, "Next time we're on the court together, I’ll show you what it’s like to play in the NBA." But that has yet to happen.

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    Michael Finley beat MJ one on one when Finley was in Highschool!

    Darius Miles pinned MJ's shot on the backboard when Darius was 17 years old!.....

    Kobe Bryant Dropped 33 pt's against MJ when he(Kobe) was 19!

    MJ = overrated to sell shoes...won in a rigged league!

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