The phone rang at Aaron Watkins’s home on the south side of Chicago on a chilly night in January 1994.
“Hurry up, get down here,” Aaron’s father, Jim, said. “Mike is here.”
Watkins, 14, hopped on the bus and rode more than an hour downtown to the gym where his father was working out. What happened next, he’ll remember for the rest of his life.
He got to play basketball with Michael Jordan.
Afterwards, he was interviewed by SportsChannel Chicago about the pickup game and offered his scouting report on how to guard Jordan.