From Split, Croatia, to the Hall of Fame. We bring the story of Toni Kukoč.
Athletes and fans explore the impact of sports on the lives of Americans.
In the fall of 1993, in his prime and at the summit of the sports world, Michael Jordan walked away from pro basketball. After leading the Dream Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and taking the Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship the following year, Jordan was jolted by the murder of his father. Was it the brutal loss of such an anchor in his life that caused the world’s most famous athlete to rekindle a childhood ambition by playing baseball? Or some feeling that he had nothing left to prove or conquer in basketball? Or something deeper and perhaps not yet understood?
Jerry Michael Reinsdorf is an American billionaire businessman, and the owner of the NBA's Chicago Bulls and the MLB's Chicago White Sox. He started his professional life as a tax attorney with the Internal Revenue Service. He has been the head of the White Sox and Bulls for over 35 years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Reinsdorf, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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