Jeffrey Jordan
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Biography
Jeffrey Michael Jordan (born November 18, 1988) is an American former basketball player who played for the University of Central Florida Knights and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini. Jordan is the elder son of retired Hall of Fame basketball player Michael Jordan.
High school
Jeffrey Jordan was the subject of local and national media attention as a high schooler, and had three of his high school games shown nationally on ESPN in 2007. At Loyola, he was a starter for three years and was All-Catholic League twice. He was chosen for the 2007 Jordan Brand Classic.
Jordan also played football in his tenth-grade year.
College
Jordan graduated from Loyola Academy on May 26, 2007. He received scholarship offers from Valparaiso and Loyola University Chicago, and was actively recruited as a preferred walk-on by Davidson, Penn State, Northwestern, and University of Illinois. Jordan decided to play as a preferred walk-on at the University of Illinois and enrolled at the university in 2007 as a psychology major with an academic scholarship. On January 22, 2009, it was announced by the university that Jordan would receive a full athletic scholarship.
On June 24, 2009, Jordan announced he was leaving the University of Illinois’ basketball team to focus on school and his "life after basketball". During the summer of 2009, he interned at Nike. Jordan later decided to return to the team, but after the 2009–10 season, he received a release to transfer to the University of Central Florida alongside his brother, Marcus.
In January 2012, Jordan left the UCF team for "personal reasons".
Personal life
Jordan is the oldest of five children. His full siblings are Marcus and Jasmine, and his father has twin daughters, Ysabel and Victoria, with his second wife. His parents married at a wedding chapel in Las Vegas when Jordan was an infant, then divorced when he was in high school. They shared custody of their three children.
Jordan lives in Portland, Oregon, where he entered Nike Inc.'s management-training program after college. He now leads brand digital innovation for Jordan Brand.
Jordan married Radina Aneva in May 2019.
In popular culture
In the 1996 film Space Jam, Jordan was portrayed by Manner Washington.
