Michael Jordan is regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time, and that did not happen by luck. The 62-year-old legend’s love letter to his high school sweetheart recently went up for auction, and its content reveals how seriously he took the sport.
“Laquetta you are my whole life next to basketball,” MJ wrote in the letter, dated May 20, 1981, to his partner at the time Laquetta Robinson. The former couple attended Laney High School in Wilmington, NC together. “Please don’t get mad about that statement. You are my whole life. But you can’t have basketball […] I can never show you how much my love goes for you, but each day I try to show you.”
Jordan wrote Robinson the letter during his senior year of high school after he had already committed to the University of North Carolina, where he spent three years before entering the NBA draft. “Next year I will show you things you can’t believe,” he added. “Some of these things will amaze you. Laquetta […] My love for you will never run out.”
Michael Jordan seemingly believed that someone in her family did not support their relationship, but hoped their love could overcome any roadblock. “I am trying to get closer and closer to your family. I want them to know that I love you, but if Lynwood doesn’t want that, then it will be sort of hard for me to do this,” he wrote. “I hope you love for me and my love for you can overcome his reasons for us not getting together.”
The two-page letter is up for auction via Lelands and currently holds a bid of $11,567 with 18 days until it is sold. The former couple previously had one of their prom pictures sell for $3,960 in 2024, so this is quite the jump for something that features neither her face nor the six-time NBA champion’s. His “Last Dance” jersey also sold for $10.1 million in 2022, becoming the most expensive memorabilia to ever be sold.
Michael Jordan won six NBA championships and six NBA Finals MVPs with the Chicago Bulls, notably by executing two separate three-peats with a brief retirement in between. He is also a five-time NBA MVP, 14-time All-Star, and 10-time scoring champion.
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