Michael Jordan is a legend in basketball.
1. Technically, he was never dismissed from his high school basketball team. Although the truth has been somewhat stretched, like a teenage Jordan dangling from his chin-up bar to grow taller, the tale of Jordan being cut from his high school basketball team has long been a part of his narrative. Jordan tried out for the Laney High School (N.C.) varsity team as a sophomore but ended up on the junior varsity, so he was never actually "cut" from the team. And a significant factor in that was Laney's desperate need for taller players, which led them to choose his…