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Michael Jordan built a basketball dynasty, but his five kids built quieter lives away from the cameras.

Nicki Swift’s video feature “The Untold Truth Of Michael Jordan’s Kids” traces the five children Michael Jordan raised across two marriages — three with first wife Juanita Vanoy and twin daughters with second wife Yvette Prieto. Jeffrey, Marcus and Jasmine grew up under the glare of his Bulls-era fame, while Victoria and Ysabel have been kept almost entirely out of public view since their 2014 birth. All three older kids eventually stepped away from chasing their father’s game and built careers running the business side of his brand instead.

• Jeffrey (born November 1988) and Marcus (born December 1990) both played college basketball, but neither approached their father’s on-court numbers before pivoting to business roles.
• Marcus’s insistence on wearing Air Jordans at Adidas-sponsored UCF led Adidas to terminate the school’s apparel contract, and Nike took over sponsorship afterward.
• Jasmine (born December 1992) studied sports management at Syracuse, now works as a field rep for Nike and the Jordan Brand, and made Michael Jordan a grandfather in 2019 with her son with Rakeem Christmas.

Jeffrey and Marcus Grow Up in the Bulls’ Shadow

Jeffrey and Marcus Jordan came of age during their father’s championship run with the Chicago Bulls, a team stacked with characters like Dennis Rodman, and they inherited a level of scrutiny most college athletes never face. Jeffrey, listed at 6-foot-1, walked on at the University of Illinois before transferring to the University of Central Florida, where he averaged 1.6 points per game. Rather than force a basketball career that wasn’t materializing, he stepped away from the sport to focus on psychology and business.

Marcus, at 6-foot-3, had the more productive college run of the two. He played three seasons at UCF from 2009 to 2012, averaging 12.3 points per game and peaking at 15.2 points per game during the 2010-11 season as a shooting guard. Both brothers eventually moved into roles connected to their father’s empire rather than the NBA itself — Jeffrey leading digital innovation for the Jordan Brand and marrying Radina Aneva in May 2019, while Marcus turned his UCF years into a business built entirely around sneaker culture.

The Adidas Standoff That Marcus Started

Marcus Jordan’s college career produced one of the stranger footnotes in NCAA apparel history. UCF had a contract with Adidas, but Marcus refused to wear anything other than his father’s signature Air Jordans on the court.

Marcus’s refusal to ditch the Air Jordans led Adidas to terminate its entire apparel contract with UCF, clearing the way for Nike to take over the school’s sponsorship.

Marcus later graduated with a hospitality degree and channeled that sneaker loyalty into a real business, founding the boutique sneaker store Trophy Room in Orlando — a shop built on the same shoe culture that once got his college kicked off an Adidas deal.

Jasmine’s Route Into the Family Business

Jasmine Jordan took a more direct path into the Jordan Brand’s operations. She studied sports management at Syracuse University, where she met former Syracuse and NBA player Rakeem Christmas. Today she works as a field representative for Nike and the Jordan Brand, coordinating athlete marketing on the ground rather than chasing a playing career of her own. In 2019, Jasmine and Christmas welcomed a son, making Michael Jordan a grandfather for the first time.

Victoria and Ysabel Stay Off the Record

Jordan’s marriage to model Yvette Prieto in 2013 produced identical twin daughters, Victoria and Ysabel, born in February 2014. Unlike their older half-siblings, the twins have been kept almost completely out of public reporting — no college sports history, no brand titles, nothing beyond confirmation that Jordan and Prieto have deliberately shielded them from the spotlight that defined Jeffrey, Marcus and Jasmine’s upbringing.

What the video makes clear is that none of Jordan’s older three ended up chasing his statline. Jeffrey tops out at 1.6 points per game at UCF, Marcus peaked at 15.2, and Jasmine never suited up at all — yet all three now sit inside the machinery of a brand built on his name, from Trophy Room’s sneaker racks in Orlando to Jasmine’s marketing work coordinating Jordan Brand athletes.