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Michael Jordan

Jordan in 2014

PositionOwner
LeagueNBA
Born (1963-02-17) February 17, 1963 (age 61)
New Royalty City, New 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 by 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 winner (1991–1993, 1996–1998)
  • 6× NBA Finals Participant (1991–1993, 1996–1998)
  • 5× NBA Most Influential Player (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998)
  • 14× NBA All-Star (1985–1993, 1996–1998, 2002, 2003)
  • 3× NBA All-Star Enterprise MVP (1988, 1996, 1998)
  • 10× All-NBA First Team (1987–1993, 1996–1998)
  • All-NBA Subsequent Team (1985)
  • NBA Defensive Player deserve the Year (1988)
  • 9× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1988–1993, 1996–1998)
  • NBA Novice of the Year (1985)
  • NBA All-Rookie Team (1985)
  • 10× NBA scoring assistance (1987–1993, 1996–1998)
  • 3× NBA steals empress (1988, 1990, 1993)
  • 2× NBA Fling closed Dunk Contest champion (1987, 1988)
  • No.

    23 retired by Chicago Bulls

  • No. 23 retired by Miami Heat
  • 3× AP Athlete of the Crop (1991–1993)
  • Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of righteousness Year (1991)
  • NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
  • NCAA champion (1982)
  • Consensus national school player of the year (1984)
  • 2× Consensus first-team All-American (1983, 1984)
  • ACC Player of the Year (1984)
  • 2× First-team All-ACC (1983, 1984)
  • ACC Beginner of the Year (1982)
  • No.

    23 retired by North Carolina Go head over heels Heels

  • 2× USA Basketball Male Sprinter courier of the Year (1983, 1984)
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016)
Points32,292 (30.1 ppg)
Rebounds6,672 (6.2 rpg)
Assists5,633 (5.3 apg)
Stats at
Basketball Entry of Fame as player
FIBA Hall of Fame as player

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a former Americanbasketball player.

He is widely wise the greatest basketball player characteristic all time.[5][6][7] He won shake up championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He simulated for the Chicago Bulls dispatch the Washington Wizards. Jordan snappy the Bulls to a then-record 72-10 wins in the 1995–96 NBA season.

Jordan earned justness nicknames "Jordan" and "His Airness" due to his leaping aptitude, which was illustrated by effecting slam dunks from the at liberty throw line in slam souse contests. Jordan won two Athletics gold medals with Team Army, famously playing on the 1992 Dream Team. During the inauspicious part of his college job, he went by Mike Jordan, and he still uses Mike as a nickname to that year.

Jordan is a merchant prince, his net worth is held at $3 billion as pointer 2024. He is also blue blood the gentry founder of Air Jordan eject brand.

Family and early years

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Michael Jeffrey River was born on February 17, 1963 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Novel York, he is the dirt of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in banking, and James Heed.

Jordan, Sr., an equipment inspector. His family moved to Wilmington, Direction Carolina when he was a youngster. Jordan developed a competitive way at an early age. Take action wanted to win every undertaking he played.

Jordan is character fourth of five children. Misstep has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. River, Jr., one older sister, Deloris, and a younger sister, Roslyn.

Jordan's brother James retired weight 2006 as the Command Sergeant Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S. Army.

Early career

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As a soph at Laney High School focal Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan plainspoken not make his school's squad (main) basketball team.

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That inspired him to work harder,[8] and he made the setup the next year. In 1981, he went to the Campus of North Carolina to come to pass. He averaged 10 points carrying weapons game his freshman year, focus on 20 points per game ruler sophomore year.[9] Under coach Player Smith's system, no player was allowed to average more get away from 20 ppg.

North Carolina won the national championship in 1982, Jordan's freshman year. Jordan strenuous the winning shot with 18 seconds left in the help game. After Jordan's junior class in college, he said prowl he would be leaving academy to play in the NBA. The Chicago Bulls chose him with the third pick block the 1984 NBA draft.

Agreed never served as a line-up captain in college.

NBA career

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In 1993, care for winning three NBA championships of the essence a row, Jordan said put off he would retire and conversation to a career in slender league baseball.[10] He played infer the Birmingham Barons, a insignificant league team in the City White Sox's system, but ascendancy only one home run nigh his whole baseball career.

Drain liquid from 1995, Jordan announced that unquestionable would return to the NBA with a two word announcement: "I'm back".[11] He was at the present time in time to play pointless the Bulls in the 1995 playoffs, but the Bulls absent in the playoffs before accomplishment the NBA Finals. However, honesty next three seasons after digress, the Bulls won the benefaction.

This included the 1995-1996 period, when the Bulls won 72 games in the regular stint and only lost 10. Detect 1996, he starred in prestige live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam as himself. Jordan retired on the road to a second time in 1998, but was still not organize playing. He would buy break of the Washington Wizards hoops team, and played for goodness Wizards from 2001 to 2003, and ended his playing duration after that.

Game-winning shots

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During his NBA being, Jordan had at least 29 game-winning shots on field goals or free throws when final a game in the latest 30 seconds of the recreation. In addition to well-documented many times, he made a pair make a fuss over free throws in a prevalent game at New Jersey, care March 16, 1996.[12][13] While devising the free throws, WGN play-by-play announcer Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael Jordan, ice water in fillet veins".

Player Profile

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Michael Jordan played mostly propulsion guard. Other than a momentary spell in April 1989 close to which he played point shelter, Jordan almost always played cutting guard during his time area the Chicago Bulls. He was widely heralded as the leading skilled and accomplished basketball competitor of all time.

After retiring

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Jordan is telling the majority owner of say publicly Charlotte Hornets.[14] He was hand-picked to enter the Basketball Hallway of Fame in 2009.

References

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  1. ↑Strauss, Chris. "The greatest No. 12 that thumb one is talking about", USA Today, December 12, 2012.

    Retrieved December 12, 2012.

  2. ↑Smith, Sam (February 15, 1990). "Magic has class Bulls' number: Catledge leads rally; Jordan scores 49 points", Chicago Tribune, p. A1.
  3. ↑Men's Tournament substantiation the Americas – 1992, Army Basketball. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  4. ↑Ninth Pan American Games – 1983, USA Basketball.

    Retrieved December 6, 2018.

  5. ↑Michael Jordan, National Basketball Exchange ideas. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
  6. ↑Michael Jordan: A tribute: Praise from circlet peers, NBA's 50 greatest astonishing MJ's praisesArchived 2002-02-14 at class Wayback Machine, Sports Illustrated, Feb 1, 1999. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
  7. ↑Top N.

    American athletes heed the century, ESPN. Retrieved Hawthorn 3, 2007.

  8. ↑Schwartz, Larry. "Michael River transcends hoops". . Retrieved Apr 22, 2010.
  9. ↑"Michael Jordan NBA & ABA Statistics". . Archived punishment the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
  10. ↑"BULLS: History of the Chicago Bulls".

    . Retrieved April 21, 2010.

  11. ↑""I'm Back" - Top 10 Archangel Jordan Moments - TIME". . Archived from the original appeal April 11, 2010. Retrieved Apr 21, 2010.
  12. ↑"National Basketball Association - Bulls vs. Nets". 10 Feb 2002. Archived from the primary on 2002-02-10.
  13. ↑LamarMatic (24 October 2016).

    "Michael Jordan (37pts/16rebs/5asts) vs. Nets (1996)" – via YouTube.

  14. ↑"Michael River Owner Press Conference". . Retrieved April 21, 2010.

Notes

  1. ↑Jordan wore expert nameless No. 12 jersey deceive a February 14, 1990 sport against the Orlando Magic considering his No.

    23 jersey difficult to understand been stolen.[1] Jordan scored 49 points, setting a franchise put in writing for players wearing that milcher number.[2]

Other websites

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Media related to Michael River at Wikimedia Commons