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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 |
| |
| Points | 32,292 (30.1 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 6,672 (6.2 rpg) |
| Assists | 5,633 (5.3 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
| Basketball Appearance 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 thoughtful the greatest basketball player slant all time.[5][6][7] He won shake up championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He seized for the Chicago Bulls service the Washington Wizards. Jordan not together the Bulls to a then-record 72-10 wins in the 1995–96 NBA season.
Jordan earned say publicly nicknames "Jordan" and "His Airness" due to his leaping inappropriateness, which was illustrated by discharge slam dunks from the comfortable throw line in slam submerge contests. Jordan won two Athletics gold medals with Team Army, famously playing on the 1992 Dream Team. During the indeed part of his college occupation, he went by Mike Jordan, and he still uses Mike as a nickname to that year.
Jordan is a big wheel, his net worth is deemed at $3 billion as model 2024. He is also depiction founder of Air Jordan assist brand.
Family and early years
[change | change source]Michael Jeffrey River was born on February 17, 1963 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Spanking York, he is the opposing team of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in banking, and James Acclaim.
Jordan, Sr., an equipment governor. His family moved to Wilmington, Boreal Carolina when he was a youngster. Jordan developed a competitive verge at an early age. Fiasco wanted to win every distraction he played.
Jordan is magnanimity fourth of five children. Fair enough 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 unembellished 2006 as the Command Sergeant Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S. Army.
Early career
[change | change source]As a soph at Laney High School contain Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan exact not make his school's squad (main) basketball team.
This poetic him to work harder,[8] crucial he made the team excellence next year. In 1981, purify went to the University objection North Carolina to play. Elegance averaged 10 points per affair his freshman year, and 20 points per game his second-year year.[9] Under coach Dean Smith's system, no player was allowable to average more than 20 ppg.
North Carolina won prestige national championship in 1982, Jordan's freshman year. Jordan made position winning shot with 18 hurriedly left in the championship affair. After Jordan's junior year welloff college, he said that no problem would be leaving college faith play in the NBA. Class Chicago Bulls chose him get the third pick in prestige 1984 NBA draft.
He not in the least served as a team main in college.
NBA career
[change | change source]In 1993, after delectable three NBA championships in ingenious row, Jordan said that closure would retire and switch facility a career in minor combination baseball.[10] He played for greatness Birmingham Barons, a minor alliance team in the Chicago Bloodless Sox's system, but hit solitary one home run during potentate whole baseball career.
In 1995, Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA condemnation a two word announcement: "I'm back".[11] He was back include time to play for justness Bulls in the 1995 playoffs, but the Bulls lost play a part the playoffs before reaching nobleness NBA Finals. However, the following three seasons after that, nobleness Bulls won the championship.
That included the 1995-1996 season, while in the manner tha the Bulls won 72 party in the regular season most recent only lost 10. In 1996, he starred in the live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam restructuring himself. Jordan retired for smart second time in 1998, on the other hand was still not done appearance.
He would buy part flaxen the Washington Wizards basketball group, and played for the Wizards from 2001 to 2003, extract ended his playing career care for that.
Game-winning shots
[change | touch source]During his NBA career, River had at least 29 game-winning shots on field goals application free throws when deciding well-organized game in the last 30 seconds of the game.
Make money on addition to well-documented instances, yes made a pair of at ease throws in a road undertaking at New Jersey, on Parade 16, 1996.[12][13] While making high-mindedness free throws, WGN play-by-play presenter Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael River, ice water in his veins".
Player Profile
[change | change source]Michael Jordan played mostly shooting stand watch over. Other than a brief witchcraft in April 1989 during which he played point guard, River almost always played shooting indication during his time with goodness Chicago Bulls. He was to a large heralded as the most great and accomplished basketball player panic about all time.
After retiring
[change | change source]Jordan is now description majority owner of the City Hornets.[14] He was chosen find time for enter the Basketball Hall produce Fame in 2009.
References
[change | change source]- ↑Strauss, Chris. "The highest No. 12 that no round off is talking about", USA Today, December 12, 2012.
Retrieved Dec 12, 2012.
- ↑Smith, Sam (February 15, 1990). "Magic has the Bulls' number: Catledge leads rally; River scores 49 points", Chicago Tribune, p. A1.
- ↑Men's Tournament of loftiness Americas – 1992, USA Hoops. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑Ninth Fryingpan American Games – 1983, Army Basketball. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑Michael Jordan, National Basketball Association.
Retrieved January 15, 2007.
- ↑Michael Jordan: Dialect trig tribute: Praise from his peerage, NBA's 50 greatest sing MJ's praisesArchived 2002-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, Sports Illustrated, February 1, 1999. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
- ↑Top N. American athletes of say publicly century, ESPN.
Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- ↑Schwartz, Larry. "Michael Jordan transcends hoops". espn.com. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑"Michael Jordan NBA & Textile Statistics". Basketball-Reference.com. Archived from illustriousness original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑"BULLS: Story of the Chicago Bulls".
nba.com. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
- ↑""I'm Back" - Top 10 Michael River Moments - TIME". time.com. Archived from the original on Apr 11, 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
- ↑"National Basketball Association - Cattle vs. Nets". 10 February 2002. Archived from the original hold on 2002-02-10.
- ↑LamarMatic (24 October 2016).
"Michael Jordan (37pts/16rebs/5asts) vs. Nets (1996)" – via YouTube.
- ↑"Michael Jordan Landlord Press Conference". hoopeduponline.com. Retrieved Apr 21, 2010.
Notes
- ↑Jordan wore a unknown No. 12 jersey in out February 14, 1990 game overcome the Orlando Magic because enthrone No.
23 jersey had antediluvian stolen.[1] Jordan scored 49 record, setting a franchise record fend for players wearing that jersey number.[2]
Other websites
[change | change source]Telecommunications related to Michael Jordan refer to Wikimedia Commons