Jeffrey Michael Jordan (born November 18, 1988) is an American former

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player who played for the

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and the

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. He is the oldest child of retired Hall of Fame basketball player Michael Jordan. Jeffrey Jordan is the co-founder of Heir Jordan, a philanthropic foundation that he runs with his younger brother Marcus.

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

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in 2007. At Loyola, he was a starter for three years and was All-Catholic League twice. He was chosen for the 2007

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. 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

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accessed April 26, 2007. Jordan decided to play as a preferred walk-on at the

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

alongside his brother, Marcus. In January 2012, Jordan left the UCF team for "personal reasons".

Personal life

Jordan is the eldest child of Michael Jordan and his first wife, Juanita Vanoy, who married when Jeffrey was an infant and divorced when he was in high school, sharing custody of Jeffrey and siblings Marcus and Jasmine. Through his father's second wife he has twin half-sisters, Ysabel and Victoria. Jordan lives in

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, where he entered Nike Inc.'s management-training program after college. In 2020, he co-founded the Jordan Avakian Group, a Chicago-based consultant group. Jordan married Radina Aneva in May 2019. On September 24, 2021, Jordan was arrested in

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for assaulting hospital staff.

In popular culture

In the 1996 film ''

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'', which starred Michael Jordan as himself, Jeffrey Jordan was portrayed by Manner Washington.

References

External links

Jeff Jordan's profile at University of Illinois Athletics

Illinibasketballhistory.com
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