Status is a lot when you're in high school. So you can imagine the disappointment that I got, when I felt like I should have made the team, but then didn't make the team. I'm crying, I lost my emotions totally. My mother came to me and said, "Use that energy to prove to the coach and to your peers and your classmates, that they made a mistake."

You give it your best. You try so hard and you get to the point---I know I can do it. And if you try one more time, you are able to achieve it. It's going one step farther. That's not giving up, it's giving your best. I only will walk away when I know I do not have anything else to give.

The disappointment was so deep, like a cut, it struck the fire in me to make sure that I never endure that type of pain again.

In the second round of the playoffs, Michael returned home with a vengeance---playing the Charlotte Hornets. It would be Michael's last professional appearance in North Carolina.

It's always been a treat to come back home when you've grown up here and you go out and become a man on your own, and then come back home to show what's evolved of that person.

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