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✳️ Today's reading passage is about Michael Jordan (born February 17, 1963), who is an American former professional basketball player and the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association.

Although he was already an outstanding athlete, in Grade 10 Michael Jordan was told he wouldn’t be picked for the varsity basketball team - and would never make it as a college or professional player - because he was too short.
It now seems incredible that anyone ever told the boy who would become the greatest basketball player in history that he was never going to make it as a professional, but that is exactly what happened to the legendary Michael Jordan.
Today, Jordan is described by most experts as the best player to ever pick up a basketball. His list of awards, records, scoring titles, most-valuable-player trophies, Olympic gold medals, NBA championships, and other honors goes on for several pages. When the TV sports channel ESPN conducted a poll of sports journalists, they voted Michael Jordan the number one athlete in any sport of the past one hundred years!
Yet in high school, Jordan couldn’t even make the varsity basketball team. He was already an outstanding athlete in basketball, football, and baseball, but when he tried out for the senior basketball team in Grade 10, the coaches told him he was simply too short. He was told that, at 5’ 11” (183 cm), he was never going to make it as a college or professional player.
Some people might have taken that judgment to heart and lost their self-confidence, but Michael Jordan took it as a challenge, and decided he would prove the coaches wrong. He took his dedication to the sport to the next level, practicing and working out in every spare moment. In Grade 11, Michael was on the basketball team. In Grade 12, he was named one of the best high school basketball players in the United States.
As a star player in university, Michael Jordan had another turning point in his life when he scored the winning basket at the last second in a U.S. college championship game. That boost to his self-esteem never faded, and Jordan says he has never doubted himself since then.
Going on to win more championships at the college and professional levels, and setting records that may never be broken, Michael Jordan traces much of his success back to the lesson he learned in high school - when someone tells you that you can’t accomplish something, it simply means that you have to try harder.

✳️ 10 Words to learn:
✅ outstanding – ko’zga ko’ringan
✅ varsity team – universitet jamoasi
✅ judgment – fikr, mulohaza, hukm
✅ self-confidence – o’ziga ishonch
✅ a spare moment – bo’sh vaqt
✅ a turning point – burilish nuqtasi
✅ self-esteem – o’ziga bo’lgan hurmat
✅ to fade – so’nmoq, o’chmoq
✅ a professional level – professional darajada
✅ to trace back – bog’lamoq

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