NBA legend Michael Jordan is one of the greatest leapers in ... The claim is Jordan has the highest vertical leap when he was measured at 48 inches when he entered the league in 1984.
"He never moved like him; he didn't have the speed of Michael Jordan in the eighties or the nineties. He was athletic for a high school kid, and 38-inch vertical is still 38-inch vertical.
Jordan's game evolved to a more rounded game, lifting up his teammates. Edwards is facing some of those same challenges.
His running vertical jump was measured at 48 inches ... to fully explain Jordan's extraordinary athleticism. "Simple…Michael Jordan is from another planet," Jackson once said.