Guarding MJ and LeBron

by Casey Jacobsen This is the story of the first time I met Michael Jordan and LeBron James. I didn’t meet them both on the same day, but the stories of my first encounters with these two basketball idols are eerily similar. Just like every kid who ever picked up a basketball in the 1980s, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan. According to me, he was already the greatest player of all time and he hadn’t even won his first championship with the Bulls yet. I would practice for hours in my backyard in suburban Los Angeles pretending I was MJ. Who didn’t? I dreamed of the day I would meet him. Maybe I could get his autograph. Maybe I’d even get to talk to him. Not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that the first time I would ever meet Michael Jordan was the same day I got to play basketball against him. It was during the summer of 2000… After completing my freshman year at Stanford University, I was invited to be a coach/counselor at the Michael Jordan Flight School in Santa Barb...