Michael Jordan has chosen David Thompson to present him during his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Watch David Thomspon highlight videos below.

David Thompson was a former NBA high-flyer who had a solid career with the Denver Nuggets. Thompson also starred at North Carolina State as part of the Wolfpack. Jordan played for the North Carolina Tarheels. When asked about inducting Jordan, who many consider as the greatest basketball player ever, David Thompson stated:

“I got a call from the Hall of Fame and they asked me if I was willing to be a presenter for someone. I said, ‘Yeah.’ I didn’t know who it was. They said Michael Jordan. I was like, ‘Wow.’ He told them that he was a big fan of mine and I was the one that really inspired him. Being that there was so many North Carolina people he could’ve chose, I was honored.”

But what mattered more to Air Jordan was that before Jordan became the greatest NBA player, David Thompson owned the skies. Thompson was then the NBA’s resident high flyer. Michael Jordan wrote in “For the Love of the Game”, his 1988 autobiography:

“I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else’s talent. I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era. Without Julius Erving, David Thompson, Walter Davis, and Elgin Baylor, there would never have been a Michael Jordan. I evolved from them.”

Watch the David Thompson video below, which showcases the Top 10 plays of his career:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6OsKy1c5A0