Jordan Rules

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Summary: Painting the full picture
Review: Michael Jordan has always been portrayed as picture perfect. This book slowly tears at that image until what you have is a very human man. Many people see this as an attack on Jordan and others think it depicts his airness as an arrogant S.O.B. but the truth of the matter is it brings him down to earth. He may not be the high flying super hero everyone makes him out to be, but it doesn't make him the anti hero. He is a man with faults like everyone. This book is special in that respect ... it dared to bring an icon down from its pedestal

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Summary: Inside Jordan & The Bulls
Review: Michael Jordan has transcended from the ranks of a mere athlete to a cultural icon. Between the shoes and clothing line, all the commercials, the image, the accolades, the title of ultimate champion, one can sometimes forget that before he won his first title in 1991, people viewed Mr. Jordan in a different light. He was looked at a tremendous scorer, but not a winner. People questioned whether he would tone down his scoring and become more of a team player in order to breakthrough and win a title. The name of the book comes from the Detroit Piston's rules against playing Jordan. Sam Smith was a beat reporter for the Bulls and his insights into the innerworkings of the team during their first title run in 1990-91 are revealing and entertaining. Though his views of Mr. Jordan sometimes cast him in a less than favorable light (in reading the book you get the feeling that Mr. Smith is not a big Jordan fan), what he does show is that Mr. Jordan had an intense desire to be the best at everything he does. It is this intensity that made him the greatest ever. Every fan of Michael Jordan or fan of the game of basketball should read this book as it is an interesting chapter in the career of the best ever to lace up the sneakers.

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Summary: Inside Jordan & The Bulls
Review: Michael Jordan has transcended from the ranks of a mere athlete to a cultural icon. Between the shoes and clothing line, all the commercials, the image, the accolades, the title of ultimate champion, one can sometimes forget that before he won his first title in 1991, people viewed Mr. Jordan in a different light. He was looked at a tremendous scorer, but not a winner. People questioned whether he would tone down his scoring and become more of a team player in order to breakthrough and win a title. The name of the book comes from the Detroit Piston's rules against playing Jordan. Sam Smith was a beat reporter for the Bulls and his insights into the innerworkings of the team during their first title run in 1990-91 are revealing and entertaining. Though his views of Mr. Jordan sometimes cast him in a less than favorable light (in reading the book you get the feeling that Mr. Smith is not a big Jordan fan), what he does show is that Mr. Jordan had an intense desire to be the best at everything he does. It is this intensity that made him the greatest ever. Every fan of Michael Jordan or fan of the game of basketball should read this book as it is an interesting chapter in the career of the best ever to lace up the sneakers.

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Summary: His Royal Airness, Michael Jordan
Review: Michael Jordan. You hear this name and you automatically know who he is. He is a star, a wonderful basketball player. This is a book about Michael Jordan, the rest of the Chicago Bulls, the coaching staff, and the owners of the Chicago Bulls in the turbulent 1990-1991 basketball season. In this book, the Chicago Bulls have to face their arch rivals, The Detroit Pistons many times through out the time of this book. The Detroit Pistons are also how the book got its name. The defense that the Pistons played was called the Jordan Rules. This book goes deep into detail of basketball. There is also a lot of language in it so if you don't like the cussing I wouldn't suggest that you read it because it does it a lot.
I like this book a lot because I am a very big fan of Michael Jordan. He is one of most favorite basketball players in the whole history of the National Basketball Association. This book also goes into detail of the trading of players on the Chicago Bulls. Jerry Krause, who was in charge of all of this, was one of the rudest characters in the whole book. I guess you could say that he was the villain. This book talks about all of the Chicago Bulls. I takes you into the Game with all of the stars. To name a few.... Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, Horace Grant, Bill Cartwright, And John Paxton. It's a good book.

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Summary: His Royal Airness, Michael Jordan
Review: Michael Jordan. You hear this name and you automatically know who he is. He is a star, a wonderful basketball player. This is a book about Michael Jordan, the rest of the Chicago Bulls, the coaching staff, and the owners of the Chicago Bulls in the turbulent 1990-1991 basketball season. In this book, the Chicago Bulls have to face their arch rivals, The Detroit Pistons many times through out the time of this book. The Detroit Pistons are also how the book got its name. The defense that the Pistons played was called the Jordan Rules. This book goes deep into detail of basketball. There is also a lot of language in it so if you don't like the cussing I wouldn't suggest that you read it because it does it a lot.
I like this book a lot because I am a very big fan of Michael Jordan. He is one of most favorite basketball players in the whole history of the National Basketball Association. This book also goes into detail of the trading of players on the Chicago Bulls. Jerry Krause, who was in charge of all of this, was one of the rudest characters in the whole book. I guess you could say that he was the villain. This book talks about all of the Chicago Bulls. I takes you into the Game with all of the stars. To name a few.... Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, Horace Grant, Bill Cartwright, And John Paxton. It's a good book.

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Summary: The MOST OVERRATED PLAYER EVER
Review: This Book was very Good.But I Believe that Jordan is The MOST OVERRATED WALKING, TRAVELING, PLAYER EVER.he came out at a Good Time for The African-American Player.With Marketing&all.but He will never Mean what DR.J was.DR.J did everything before Jordan&did it with Class and Dignity.But DR.J was On The Real.He Didn't Front For Nobody.this Book Shows all The Vanity Of Jordan.He can't stay out of The Spotlight? Tacky Commercials etc...and Bad Movies Space Jam.He was a Great Player but Not as Great as The Hype.without Pippen he wouldn't have all the Juice he has.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is a GREAT book. It goes into detail about all of the players' lives and what they had to go through while playing with Jordan. You learn how much of a competitor Jordan is and what he thought of all the other players. Although this is Sam Smith's first book, it is still better than the other books about Jordan and the Bulls. I highly recommend it if you're a MJ or a diehard Basketball fan.

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Summary: A breakthrough
Review: This is the seminal, breakthrough book in terms of understanding Michael Jordan. It laid out the terrain for all the Bulls books that followed, including my own, Blood On The Horns.

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Summary: Fine book on the Champs
Review: To me, the Bulls will always be the champs. I'm sorry, I grew up watching the Bulls and they were always dominant. Sam Smith's book takes the reader behind the scenes and shows what the Champion Bulls went through in 1990-91. There were things in the book that were a surprise and I saw how Michael Jordan really controls not only the ball, but to some extent, the coach as well. To get a behind-the-scenes look at the '90-'91 Bulls, read Sam Smith's book and see how Jordan Ruled.

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Summary: Fine book on the Champs
Review: To me, the Bulls will always be the champs. I'm sorry, I grew up watching the Bulls and they were always dominant. Sam Smith's book takes the reader behind the scenes and shows what the Champion Bulls went through in 1990-91. There were things in the book that were a surprise and I saw how Michael Jordan really controls not only the ball, but to some extent, the coach as well. To get a behind-the-scenes look at the '90-'91 Bulls, read Sam Smith's book and see how Jordan Ruled.