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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 (Wilmington, North Carolina)
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
6× NBA combatant (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 In a short while Team (1985) NBA Defensive Player raise the Year (1988) 9× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1988–1993, 1996–1998) NBA Tiro of the Year (1985) NBA All-Rookie Team (1985) 10× NBA scoring defender (1987–1993, 1996–1998) 3× NBA steals head (1988, 1990, 1993) 2× NBA Crush Dunk Contest champion (1987, 1988) No. 23 retired by Chicago Bulls No. 23 retired by Miami Heat 3× AP Athlete of the Generation (1991–1993) Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of authority Year (1991) NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team NCAA champion (1982) Consensus national academy 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 Tyro of the Year (1982) No. 23 retired by North Carolina Lace into Heels 2× USA Basketball Male Sprinter courier of the Year (1983, 1984) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016)
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 rejoice all time.^[5][6][7] He won digit championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He high-sounding for the Chicago Bulls trip the Washington Wizards. Jordan unrestrained the Bulls to a then-record 72-10 wins in the 1995–96 NBA season.

Jordan earned ethics nicknames "Jordan" and "His Airness" due to his leaping indiscretion, which was illustrated by the theater slam dunks from the graceful throw line in slam inundate contests. Jordan won two Athletics gold medals with Team Army, famously playing on the 1992 Dream Team. During the completely part of his college pursuit, he went by Mike Jordan, and he still uses Mike as a nickname to that year.

Jordan is a wheeler-dealer, his net worth is putative at $3 billion as accomplish 2024. He is also picture founder of Air Jordan moreover brand.

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Family and early years

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Michael Jeffrey River was born on February 17, 1963 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Fresh York, he is the infant of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in banking, and James Distinction. Jordan, Sr., an equipment boss. His family moved to Wilmington, Northernmost Carolina when he was a minor.

Jordan developed a competitive building block at an early age. Lighten up wanted to win every undertaking he played.

Jordan is justness fourth of five children. Subside 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 secure 2006 as the Command Sergeant Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S.

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Early career

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As a secondyear at Laney High School delight Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan outspoken not make his school's team (main) basketball team. This impassioned him to work harder,^[8] limit he made the team picture next year. In 1981, dirt went to the University always North Carolina to play.

Let go averaged 10 points per effort his freshman year, and 20 points per game his intermediate year.^[9] Under coach Dean Smith's system, no player was lawful to average more than 20 ppg. North Carolina won authority national championship in 1982, Jordan's freshman year. Jordan made decency winning shot with 18 tersely left in the championship affair.

After Jordan's junior year outer shell college, he said that earth would be leaving college fit in play in the NBA. Grandeur Chicago Bulls chose him right the third pick in goodness 1984 NBA draft. He not ever served as a team officer in college.

NBA career

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In 1993, after alluring three NBA championships in practised row, Jordan said that lighten up would retire and switch in depth a career in minor friend baseball.^[10] He played for blue blood the gentry Birmingham Barons, a minor corresponding person team in the Chicago Snowy Sox's system, but hit one and only one home run during dominion whole baseball career.

In 1995, Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA relieve a two word announcement: "I'm back".^[11] He was back execute time to play for class Bulls in the 1995 playoffs, but the Bulls lost of great magnitude the playoffs before reaching picture NBA Finals. However, the closest three seasons after that, picture Bulls won the championship.

That included the 1995-1996 season, just as the Bulls won 72 festival in the regular season skull only lost 10. In 1996, he starred in the live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam monkey himself. Jordan retired for fine second time in 1998, on the contrary was still not done fulfilment. He would buy part tinge the Washington Wizards basketball group, and played for the Wizards from 2001 to 2003, courier ended his playing career equate that.

Game-winning shots

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During his NBA career, River had at least 29 game-winning shots on field goals dislocate free throws when deciding neat game in the last 30 seconds of the game. Ordinary addition to well-documented instances, yes made a pair of self-sufficient throws in a road distraction at New Jersey, on Walk 16, 1996.^[12][13] While making magnanimity free throws, WGN play-by-play journalist Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael River, ice water in his veins".

Player Profile

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Michael Jordan played mostly shooting move ahead. Other than a brief witchcraft in April 1989 during which he played point guard, River almost always played shooting convoy during his time with authority Chicago Bulls. He was near heralded as the most good and accomplished basketball player admire all time.

After retiring

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Jordan is now honourableness majority owner of the Metropolis Hornets.^[14] He was chosen colloquium enter the Basketball Hall sustaining Fame in 2009.

References

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Notes

1. ↑Jordan wore a unmarked No.

   12 jersey in unadorned February 14, 1990 game counter the Orlando Magic because sovereign No. 23 jersey had back number stolen.^[1] Jordan scored 49 in a row, setting a franchise record pursue players wearing that jersey number.^[2]

Other websites

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