Michael Jordan is regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time, and that did not happen by luck. The 62-year-old legend’s love letter to his high school sweetheart recently went up for auction, and its content reveals how seriously he took the sport.

Laquetta you are my whole life next to basketball,” Michael Jordan wrote in the letter. “Please don’t get mad about that statement. You are my whole life. But you can’t have basketball.” Also on sale are a game-worn jersey and a "holy grail" collectible card.