“By the time they (UCLA) wanted to recruit me, they had heard that I was going to stay close to home, which was not necessarily true,” Jordan said. “I also wanted to go to Virginia because I wanted to play with Ralph Sampson for his last two years there. He was going into his junior year. I wrote to Virginia, but they just sent me back an admission form. No one came and watched me. Then I visited North Carolina and I was happy with the atmosphere, so I committed early.”
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“Michael Jordan wanted to go to UCLA”: Bill Walton reveals why MJ went to North Carolina instead of the country’s most successful program

Bill Walton revealed how Michael Jordan was once interested in attending UCLA, but John Wooden and co did not recruit him. Jordan was not a once-in-a-lifetime prospect, or so it seemed, back in high school. Players like LeBron James with…