Michael Jordan made his home debut as a rookie in 1984 not at the old Chicago Stadium but at a high school gym in East Chicago, Indiana, where the Bulls played an electric preseason game against the Milwaukee Bucks.
MJ’s playing days, of course, are long past. And the school that hosted that game was torn down a long time ago.
But two murals that went up long after his career ended aim to keep the memory of Jordan, the superstar, alive in the northwest Indiana city.
“We wanted to make sure that what we’re putting up isn’t going to be something just random or some sort of advertisement,” says Felix “Flex” Maldonado, the artist who was commissioned to create them to “showcase something positive.