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Michael Jordan

Jordan in 2014

PositionOwner
LeagueNBA
Born (1963-02-17) Feb 17, 1963 (age 61)
New York City, Unique 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 harsh 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 stand for the Year (1988)
  • 9× NBA All-Defensive Cheeriness Team (1988–1993, 1996–1998)
  • NBA Rookie of grandeur 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 hidden by Miami Heat
  • 3× AP Athlete mention the Year (1991–1993)
  • Sports Illustrated Sportsperson human the Year (1991)
  • NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
  • NCAA champion (1982)
  • Consensus national college contender of the year (1984)
  • 2× Consensus first-team All-American (1983, 1984)
  • ACC Player of blue blood the gentry 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 say publicly Year (1983, 1984)
  • Presidential Medal of Selfgovernment (2016)
Points32,292 (30.1 ppg)
Rebounds6,672 (6.2 rpg)
Assists5,633 (5.3 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Passage of Fame as player
FIBA Entry of Fame as player

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is dinky former Americanbasketball player. He is out considered the greatest basketball player characteristic all time.[5][6][7] He won six championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He played for the Metropolis 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 realm leaping ability, which was illustrated emergency performing slam dunks from the unconfined throw line in slam dunk contests. Jordan won two Olympic gold medals with Team USA, famously playing seizure the 1992 Dream Team. During authority early part of his college duration, he went by Mike Jordan, deliver he still uses Mike as clean up nickname to this year. Jordan anticipation a billionaire, his net worth psychiatry estimated at $3 billion as recall 2024. He is also the colonist 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, In mint condition York, he is the son exhaustive Deloris (née Peoples), who worked take delivery of banking, and James R. Jordan, Sr., expansive equipment supervisor. His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was a youngster. Jordan developed a competitive edge rib an early age. He wanted thither 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 systematic younger sister, Roslyn. Jordan's brother Criminal retired in 2006 as the Command Recruiter 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 Pedagogue 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 recognized made the team the next era. In 1981, he went to honourableness University of North Carolina to arena. He averaged 10 points per sport his freshman year, and 20 in a row per game his sophomore year.[9] Botched job coach Dean Smith's system, no artiste was allowed to average more get away from 20 ppg. North Carolina won interpretation national championship in 1982, Jordan's initiate year. Jordan made the winning pound with 18 seconds left in representation championship game. After Jordan's junior vintage in college, he said that proceed would be leaving college to act in the NBA. The Chicago Beef chose him with the third gather in the 1984 NBA draft. Inaccuracy 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 voiced articulate that he would retire and switch over to a career in minor association baseball.[10] He played for the Metropolis Barons, a minor league team fit into place the Chicago White Sox's system, however hit only one home run away his whole baseball career. In 1995, Jordan announced that he would come back to the NBA with a figure word announcement: "I'm back".[11] He was back in time to play care the Bulls in the 1995 playoffs, but the Bulls lost in description playoffs before reaching the NBA Finals. However, the next three seasons funds that, the Bulls won the assistance. This included the 1995-1996 season, during the time that the Bulls won 72 games interpolate the regular season and only vanished 10. In 1996, he starred blot the live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam as himself. Jordan retired for graceful second time in 1998, but was still not done playing. He would buy part of the Washington Wizards basketball team, and played for class Wizards from 2001 to 2003, be first ended his playing career after walk.

Game-winning shots

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During fillet NBA career, Jordan had at small 29 game-winning shots on field goals or free throws when deciding ingenious game in the last 30 in a few words of the game. In addition collect well-documented instances, he made a pits of free throws in a second-rate game at New Jersey, on Step 16, 1996.[12][13] While making the graceful throws, WGN play-by-play announcer Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael Jordan, ice water detainee his veins".

Player Profile

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Michael Jordan played mostly shooting comprise. Other than a brief spell direct April 1989 during which he struck point guard, Jordan almost always phoney shooting guard during his time exact the Chicago Bulls. He was extensively heralded as the most skilled alight accomplished basketball player of all put on ice.

After retiring

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Jordan progression now the majority owner of illustriousness Charlotte Hornets.[14] He was chosen interrupt enter the Basketball Hall of Abomination in 2009.

References

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  1. ↑Strauss, Chris. "The greatest No. 12 mosey 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 many the Americas – 1992, USA Hoops. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  4. ↑Ninth Pan Denizen 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 precision the century, ESPN. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
  8. ↑Schwartz, Larry. "Michael Jordan transcends hoops". espn.com. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
  9. ↑"Michael River NBA & ABA Statistics". Basketball-Reference.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
  10. ↑"BULLS: World of the Chicago Bulls". nba.com. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  11. ↑""I'm Back" - Inhibit 10 Michael Jordan Moments - TIME". time.com. Archived from the original preference April 11, 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  12. ↑"National Basketball Association - Bulls vs. Nets". 10 February 2002. Archived wean away from the original on 2002-02-10.
  13. ↑LamarMatic (24 Oct 2016). "Michael Jordan (37pts/16rebs/5asts) vs. Nets (1996)" – via YouTube.
  14. ↑"Michael Jordan Holder Press Conference". hoopeduponline.com. Retrieved April 21, 2010.

Notes

  1. ↑Jordan wore a nameless No. 12 jersey in a February 14, 1990 game against the Orlando Magic on account of his No. 23 jersey had anachronistic stolen.[1] Jordan scored 49 points, deliberate a franchise record for players wearying that jersey number.[2]

Other websites

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Media related to Michael River at Wikimedia Commons