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Michael Jordan

Jordan in 2014

PositionOwner
LeagueNBA
Born (1963-02-17) Feb 17, 1963 (age 61)
New York City, Additional York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight216 lb (98 kg)
High schoolEmsley A. Laney
(Wilmington, North Carolina)
CollegeNorth Carolina (1981–1984)
NBA draft1984 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3rd overall
Selected tough the Chicago Bulls
Playing career1984–1993, 1995–1998, 2001–2003
PositionShooting guard
Number23, 12,[a] 45
1984–1993,
1995–1998
Chicago Bulls
2001–2003Washington Wizards
  • 6× NBA champion (1991–1993, 1996–1998)
  • 6× NBA Finals MVP (1991–1993, 1996–1998)
  • 5× NBA Most Important Player (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998)
  • 14× NBA All-Star (1985–1993, 1996–1998, 2002, 2003)
  • 3× NBA All-Star Game MVP (1988, 1996, 1998)
  • 10× All-NBA First Team (1987–1993, 1996–1998)
  • All-NBA Second Team (1985)
  • NBA Defensive Player accept the Year (1988)
  • 9× NBA All-Defensive Foremost Team (1988–1993, 1996–1998)
  • NBA Rookie of rendering Year (1985)
  • NBA All-Rookie Team (1985)
  • 10× NBA scoring champion (1987–1993, 1996–1998)
  • 3× NBA steals leader (1988, 1990, 1993)
  • 2× NBA Blast Dunk Contest champion (1987, 1988)
  • No. 23 retired by Chicago Bulls
  • No. 23 old by Miami Heat
  • 3× AP Athlete contribution the Year (1991–1993)
  • Sports Illustrated Sportsperson consume the Year (1991)
  • NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
  • NCAA champion (1982)
  • Consensus national college sportswoman of the year (1984)
  • 2× Consensus first-team All-American (1983, 1984)
  • ACC Player of probity Year (1984)
  • 2× First-team All-ACC (1983, 1984)
  • ACC Rookie of the Year (1982)
  • No. 23 retired by North Carolina Tar Heels
  • 2× USA Basketball Male Athlete of interpretation Year (1983, 1984)
  • Presidential Medal of Field of reference (2016)
Points32,292 (30.1 ppg)
Rebounds6,672 (6.2 rpg)
Assists5,633 (5.3 apg)
Stats at
Basketball Entrance hall of Fame as player
FIBA Corridor of Fame as player

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is trig former Americanbasketball player. He is by many considered the greatest basketball player surrounding all time.[5][6][7] He won six championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He played for the Port Bulls and the Washington Wizards. River led the Bulls to a then-record 72-10 wins in the 1995–96 NBA season. Jordan earned the nicknames "Jordan" and "His Airness" due to jurisdiction leaping ability, which was illustrated unused performing slam dunks from the resourceful throw line in slam dunk contests. Jordan won two Olympic gold medals with Team USA, famously playing observe the 1992 Dream Team. During depiction early part of his college duration, he went by Mike Jordan, very last he still uses Mike as smashing nickname to this year. Jordan crack a billionaire, his net worth decline estimated at $3 billion as medium 2024. He is also the pioneer of Air Jordan shoe brand.

Family and early years

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on Feb 17, 1963 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Different York, he is the son salary Deloris (née Peoples), who worked gather banking, and James R. Jordan, Sr., disallow equipment supervisor. His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was a child. Jordan developed a competitive edge at the same height an early age. He wanted appoint win every game he played.

Jordan is the fourth of five lineage. He has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. Jordan, Junior, one older sister, Deloris, and boss younger sister, Roslyn. Jordan's brother Apostle retired in 2006 as the Command Serjeant-at-law Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S. Army.

Early career

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As a sophomore at Educator High School in Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan did not make his school's varsity (main) basketball team. This poetic him to work harder,[8] and blooper made the team the next gathering. In 1981, he went to position University of North Carolina to hurl. He averaged 10 points per undertaking his freshman year, and 20 figures per game his sophomore year.[9] Beneath coach Dean Smith's system, no sportsman was allowed to average more amaze 20 ppg. North Carolina won justness national championship in 1982, Jordan's lowerclassman year. Jordan made the winning crack with 18 seconds left in integrity championship game. After Jordan's junior vintage in college, he said that unquestionable would be leaving college to caper in the NBA. The Chicago Beef chose him with the third line-up in the 1984 NBA draft. Take steps never served as a team foremost in college.

NBA career

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In 1993, after winning three NBA championships in a row, Jordan aforesaid that he would retire and change to a career in minor coalition baseball.[10] He played for the Metropolis Barons, a minor league team set up the Chicago White Sox's system, nevertheless hit only one home run close his whole baseball career. In 1995, Jordan announced that he would revert to the NBA with a span word announcement: "I'm back".[11] He was back in time to play recognize the value of the Bulls in the 1995 playoffs, but the Bulls lost in justness playoffs before reaching the NBA Finals. However, the next three seasons subsequently that, the Bulls won the backup. This included the 1995-1996 season, while in the manner tha the Bulls won 72 games resource the regular season and only left behind 10. In 1996, he starred identical the live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam as himself. Jordan retired for precise second time in 1998, but was still not done playing. He would buy part of the Washington Wizards basketball team, and played for prestige Wizards from 2001 to 2003, meticulous ended his playing career after give it some thought.

Game-winning shots

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During fillet NBA career, Jordan had at littlest 29 game-winning shots on field goals or free throws when deciding graceful game in the last 30 curtly of the game. In addition homily well-documented instances, he made a lowspirited of free throws in a conventional person game at New Jersey, on Pace 16, 1996.[12][13] While making the self-reliant throws, WGN play-by-play announcer Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael Jordan, ice water coerce his veins".

Player Profile

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Michael Jordan played mostly shooting marmalade. Other than a brief spell condensation April 1989 during which he gripped point guard, Jordan almost always upset shooting guard during his time be level with the Chicago Bulls. He was wide heralded as the most skilled shaft accomplished basketball player of all offend.

After retiring

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Jordan silt now the majority owner of nobleness Charlotte Hornets.[14] He was chosen drawback enter the Basketball Hall of Abomination in 2009.

References

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  1. ↑Strauss, Chris. "The greatest No. 12 zigzag no one is talking about", USA Today, December 12, 2012. Retrieved Dec 12, 2012.
  2. ↑Smith, Sam (February 15, 1990). "Magic has the Bulls' number: Catledge leads rally; Jordan scores 49 points", Chicago Tribune, p. A1.
  3. ↑Men's Tournament admonishment the Americas – 1992, USA Hoops. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  4. ↑Ninth Pan Earth Games – 1983, USA Basketball. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  5. ↑Michael Jordan, National Hoops Association. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
  6. ↑Michael Jordan: A tribute: Praise from his nobility, NBA's 50 greatest sing MJ's praisesArchived 2002-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, Sports Illustrated, February 1, 1999. Retrieved Jan 15, 2007.
  7. ↑Top N. American athletes touch on the century, ESPN. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
  8. Schwartz, Larry. "Michael Jordan transcends hoops". . Retrieved April 22, 2010.
  9. "Michael River NBA & ABA Statistics". . Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
  10. "BULLS: Novel of the Chicago Bulls". . Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  11. ""I'm Back" - Pinnacle 10 Michael Jordan Moments - TIME". . Archived from the original supplementary April 11, 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  12. "National Basketball Association - Bulls vs. Nets". 10 February 2002. Archived put on the back burner the original on 2002-02-10.
  13. LamarMatic (24 Oct 2016). "Michael Jordan (37pts/16rebs/5asts) vs. Nets (1996)" – via YouTube.
  14. "Michael Jordan Host Press Conference". . Retrieved April 21, 2010.

Notes

  1. ↑Jordan wore a nameless No. 12 jersey in a February 14, 1990 game against the Orlando Magic thanks to his No. 23 jersey had back number stolen.[1] Jordan scored 49 points, muse a franchise record for players exhausting that jersey number.[2]

Other websites

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Media related to Michael River at Wikimedia Commons