The world's most famous athlete is biographed in the book by the great Roland Lazenby, where the narrative starts from the end of the previous century and does not capture the different characters of the greatest of the greats.

Even Jordan himself wondered in the early months of his professional career, watching himself on video… "Do you think I was flying?" he had said. "That's how it looked. It definitely looked that way. At least for a while. The rarest talent resembles a comet that crosses the sky at great speed and is visible only thanks to the bright tail it leaves behind. Overall, Michael Jordan's enchanting career made fans, the press, his former coaches and teammates, and even Jordan himself, still try to understand what had happened. And years have passed since he last competed. "Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to sit down and think about all this again," he once said, "if it would seem real to me."