{"id":1131722,"date":"2020-04-04T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T21:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1131722"},"modified":"2020-04-21T21:19:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T01:19:04","slug":"what-happened-to-baby-jordan-harold-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/what-happened-to-baby-jordan-harold-miner\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to ‘Baby Jordan' Harold Miner?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It's not easy being compared to Michael Jordan<\/a>. Just ask a number of NBA players that were saddled as “the next Jordan” coming up through the ranks. It's nearly impossible to live up to. Now try having the nickname “Baby Jordan”, the moniker given to Harold Miner in high school. Now that's pressure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harold Miner was an extremely talented player at Inglewood (CA) High School, averaging 27.5 points in his final two years. Showcasing amazing athleticism, a big vertical, and a bald head, Miner was called “Baby Jordan” due to his dunking abilities, a nickname that would later haunt him. With multiple scholarship offers on the table, Miner chose to stay close to home, signing on with the USC Trojans in 1989. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wearing No. 23 (hmmm...know anyone else with that number?), Harold Miner was an immediate star with the Trojans, averaging 20.6 points per game his freshman year on the way to his first of three First Team All-Pac-10 selections. He upped his scoring average to 23.5 his sophomore year and again his junior year to 26.3, earning First Team All-American honors. Miner was also named the Pac-10 Player of the Year in 1992. To this day, Harold Miner still owns the USC scoring record with 2,048 career points. He declared for the NBA draft and seemed destined for stardom, stardom that never really came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harold Miner's career highlight was the Slam Dunk Contest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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