Michael Jordan didn’t forget about this high school teacher.
The greatest basketball player of all time fulfilled the dream of his former high school teacher, Ms. Etta, who is in hospice care in Jordan’s hometown of Wilmington, N.C., and wished to hug her former student.
The staff at Lower Cape Fear LifeCare told wect.com how Jordan’s name kept coming up to Ms. Etta, who reflected on her favorite memories and past students at Laney High School.
After several unsuccessful attempts to contact Jordan, a LifeCare social worker named Wendy received a phone call from an unknown number and handed Ms. Etta the devce.
“Is this Ms. Etta?” the caller asked.
“They laughed, reminisced, picked at each other, and shared a moment that brought tears to everyone in the room,” the staff at Lower Cape Fear LifeCare told the outlet about the conversation.
Ms. Etta is seen on a couch on FaceTime with Jordan in a clip posted by the local news outlet, with Jordan wearing a simple blue t-shirt and smiling widely.
Her family said that Jordan’s generosity provided “a memory they will carry forever,” the outlet reported.
Jordan has a long-known history from his high school days, when Ms. Etta was his teacher, as he was infamously was cut from the varsity basketball team as a sophomore in high school.
Jordan parlayed that into extra motivation, pulling himself up by the bootstraps and earning a full scholarship offer from the University of North Carolina.
He guided the Tar Heels to a national championship as a freshman alongside James Worthy, hitting the game-winning shot against Georgetown in the title game.
Jordan was drafted No. 3 overall in 1984 by the Chicago Bulls, behind Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie, and won six championships.
