Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:53 pm EDT

Michael Jordan's son quits Illinois basketball team
By Eamonn Brennan
Jeffrey Jordan is Michael Jordan's son. That little proposition, as it relates to basketball, can not be an easy one for any offspring to undertake.

It's not just that your dad was a great NBA basketball player. Your dad was the single greatest basketball player who ever lived. Your entire life, you're not just a classmate to your friends. You're the son of their hero. Imagine that! For all of the sundry benefits of being Jordan's son -- the money, the basketball shoes, the unimaginably awesome toys you'd get as a kid -- the specter of anticipation, of "hey, that's Michael Jordan's son out there" would haunt you for as long as you played basketball.

It appears those days are over for Jordan's eldest offspring. Jeffrey Jordan, a walk-on-turned-scholarship-athlete at Illinois, has apparently decided to hang up his balling kicks for good:

"I loved playing for the Fighting

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Official #95 member of the CBMB Jay Cutler Fan Club.

well, im glad. he wasnt that great to begin with last year

That's fine, but it doesn't change the fact that we should

SIGN JARRETT PAYTON!

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funsize1984:

well, im glad. he wasnt that great to begin with last year

Can you imagine the pressure he had being Jordon's son. Good for him.

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Ari Bear:

funsize1984:

well, im glad. he wasnt that great to begin with last year

Can you imagine the pressure he had being Jordon's son. Good for him.

seriously. he should have picked another sport. i can not imagine what he goes thru everytime he plays basketball being jordan's son. i'm glad for him