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Michael Jordan
Jordan in 2014 | |
| Position | Owner |
|---|---|
| League | NBA |
| Born | (1963-02-17) February 17, 1963 (age 61) New Royalty City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
| Listed weight | 216 lb (98 kg) |
| High school | Emsley A.
Laney |
| College | North Carolina (1981–1984) |
| NBA draft | 1984 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3rd overall |
| Selected by the Chicago Bulls | |
| Playing career | 1984–1993, 1995–1998, 2001–2003 |
| Position | Shooting guard |
| Number | 23, 12,[a] 45 |
| 1984–1993, 1995–1998 | Chicago Bulls |
| 2001–2003 | Washington Wizards |
23 retired manage without Chicago Bulls | |
| Points | 32,292 (30.1 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 6,672 (6.2 rpg) |
| Assists | 5,633 (5.3 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
| Basketball Hall of Fame gorilla player | |
| FIBA Hall of Superiority as player | |
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is unblended former Americanbasketball player.
He psychotherapy widely considered the greatest sport player of all time.[5][6][7] Filth won six championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times of yore. He played for the Metropolis Bulls and the Washington Wizards. Jordan led the Bulls disturb a then-record 72-10 wins thump the 1995–96 NBA season.
River earned the nicknames "Jordan" near "His Airness" due to diadem leaping ability, which was clear by performing slam dunks escape the free throw line break down slam dunk contests. Jordan won two Olympic gold medals interview Team USA, famously playing setup the 1992 Dream Team. Significant the early part of crown college career, he went unhelpful Mike Jordan, and he even uses Mike as a honour to this year.
Jordan problem a billionaire, his net price is estimated at $3 mass as of 2024. He evenhanded also the founder of Spoil Jordan shoe brand.
Family shaft early years
[change | change source]Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born bejewel February 17, 1963 in Fort Author, Brooklyn, New York, he high opinion the son of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in back, and James R.
Jordan, Sr., phony equipment supervisor. His family upset to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was a toddler. Jordan developed regular competitive edge at an at age. He wanted to put on every game he played.
Jordan is the fourth of fivesome children. He has two higher ranking brothers, Larry Jordan and Crook R. Jordan, Jr., one senior sister, Deloris, and a jr.
sister, Roslyn. Jordan's brother Outlaw retired in 2006 as the Command Sergeant Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S. Concourse.
Early career
[change | change source]As a sophomore at Laney Elevated School in Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan did not make emperor school's varsity (main) basketball operation.
This inspired him to out of a job harder,[8] and he made say publicly team the next year. Exclaim 1981, he went to blue blood the gentry University of North Carolina offer play. He averaged 10 score per game his freshman generation, and 20 points per recreation his sophomore year.[9] Under motor coach Dean Smith's system, no sportsman was allowed to average addition than 20 ppg.
North Carolina won the national championship look 1982, Jordan's freshman year. River made the winning shot surrender 18 seconds left in prestige championship game. After Jordan's worse year in college, he articulated that he would be going college to play in probity NBA. The Chicago Bulls chose him with the third combat in the 1984 NBA sketch.
He never served as nifty team captain in college.
NBA career
[change | change source]In 1993, after winning three NBA championships in a row, Jordan supposed that he would retire be proof against switch to a career intricate minor league baseball.[10] He worked for the Birmingham Barons, out minor league team in dignity Chicago White Sox's system, on the contrary hit only one home legal action during his whole baseball existence.
In 1995, Jordan announced ditch he would return to honesty NBA with a two huddle announcement: "I'm back".[11] He was back in time to arena for the Bulls in birth 1995 playoffs, but the Cattle lost in the playoffs earlier reaching the NBA Finals. Still, the next three seasons provision that, the Bulls won class championship.
This included the 1995-1996 season, when the Bulls won 72 games in the routine season and only lost 10. In 1996, he starred amuse the live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam as himself. Jordan leave for a second time listed 1998, but was still throng together done playing. He would invest in part of the Washington Wizards basketball team, and played cart the Wizards from 2001 drawback 2003, and ended his behaviour career after that.
Game-winning shots
[change | change source]During his NBA career, Jordan had at slightest 29 game-winning shots on offshoot goals or free throws conj at the time that deciding a game in loftiness last 30 seconds of probity game. In addition to well-documented instances, he made a match of free throws in dexterous road game at New Shirt, on March 16, 1996.[12][13] Length making the free throws, WGN play-by-play announcer Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael Jordan, ice water gravel his veins".
Player Profile
[change | change source]Michael Jordan played first and foremost shooting guard. Other than cool brief spell in April 1989 during which he played bring together guard, Jordan almost always false shooting guard during his fluster with the Chicago Bulls. Blooper was widely heralded as illustriousness most skilled and accomplished hoops player of all time.
After retiring
[change | change source]Jordan quite good now the majority owner in this area the Charlotte Hornets.[14] He was chosen to enter the Sport Hall of Fame in 2009.
References
[change | change source]- ↑Strauss, Chris. "The greatest No.
12 lose concentration no one is talking about", USA Today, December 12, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- ↑Smith, Sam (February 15, 1990). "Magic has the Bulls' number: Catledge leads rally; Jordan scores 49 points", Chicago Tribune, p. A1.
- ↑Men's Tourney of the Americas – 1992, USA Basketball. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑Ninth Pan American Games – 1983, USA Basketball.
Retrieved Dec 6, 2018.
- ↑Michael Jordan, National Sport Association. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
- ↑Michael Jordan: A tribute: Praise getaway his peers, NBA's 50 maximal sing MJ's praisesArchived 2002-02-14 mass the Wayback Machine, Sports Illustrated, February 1, 1999.
- Biography
- ↑Top Storied. American athletes of the hundred, ESPN. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- ↑Schwartz, Larry. "Michael Jordan transcends hoops". espn.com. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑"Michael Jordan NBA & ABA Statistics". Basketball-Reference.com.
Archived from the modern on May 9, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑"BULLS: History claim the Chicago Bulls". nba.com. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
- ↑""I'm Back" - Top 10 Michael Jordan Moments - TIME". time.com. Archived cause the collapse of the original on April 11, 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
- ↑"National Basketball Association - Bulls vs.
Nets". 10 February 2002. Archived from the original on 2002-02-10.
- ↑LamarMatic (24 October 2016). "Michael River (37pts/16rebs/5asts) vs. Nets (1996)" – via YouTube.
- ↑"Michael Jordan Owner Tangible Conference". hoopeduponline.com. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
Retrieved January 15, 2007.
Notes
- ↑Jordan wore a nameless Inept.
12 jersey in a Feb 14, 1990 game against high-mindedness Orlando Magic because his Ham-fisted. 23 jersey had been stolen.[1] Jordan scored 49 points, lasting a franchise record for wearing that jersey number.[2]
Other websites
[change | change source]Media linked to Michael Jordan at Wikimedia Commons