Make Your Basketball Jump Higher

I watched a video on the internet that had Michael Jordan answering basketball questions that had been sent in by kids aspiring to be better basketball players. One answer he gave kind of made me step back and think a little. The question was about how do you make your basketball jump higher? Jordan responded by saying that he never really worked on this skill a lot as a child. He rode is bike a lot and would actually just practice jumping rather than doing particular exercises. What struck me was when he said you don’t have to be able to jump high in basketball. I would think the higher you can jump, the bigger the advantage you would have over your opponents.