<Li> Birmingham Barons (1994--1995) </Li> <Li> Scottsdale Scorpions (1994) </Li> <P> On October 6, 1993, Jordan announced his retirement, citing a loss of desire to play the game . Jordan later stated that the death of his father three months earlier also shaped his decision . Jordan's father was murdered on July 23, 1993, at a highway rest area in Lumberton, North Carolina, by two teenagers, Daniel Green and Larry Martin Demery, who carjacked his luxury Lexus bearing the license plate "UNC 0023". His body was dumped in a South Carolina swamp and was not discovered until August 3 . The assailants were traced from calls that they made on James Jordan's cell phone . The two criminals were caught, convicted at trial, and sentenced to life in prison . Jordan was close to his father; as a child he had imitated his father's proclivity to stick out his tongue while absorbed in work . He later adopted it as his own signature, displaying it each time he drove to the basket . In 1996, he founded a Chicago area Boys & Girls Club and dedicated it to his father . </P> <P> In his 1998 autobiography For the Love of the Game, Jordan wrote that he had been preparing for retirement as early as the summer of 1992 . The added exhaustion due to the Dream Team run in the 1992 Olympics solidified Jordan's feelings about the game and his ever - growing celebrity status . Jordan's announcement sent shock waves throughout the NBA and appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world . </P>

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