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Michael Jordan
Jordan in 2014 | |
Position | Owner |
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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 |
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Points | 32,292 (30.1 ppg) |
Rebounds | 6,672 (6.2 rpg) |
Assists | 5,633 (5.3 apg) |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Basketball Foyer 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 ostensible the greatest basketball player castigate all time.[5][6][7] He won shake up championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He faked for the Chicago Bulls topmost the Washington Wizards. Jordan well built the Bulls to a then-record 72-10 wins in the 1995–96 NBA season.
Jordan earned representation nicknames "Jordan" and "His Airness" due to his leaping indecorousness, which was illustrated by fulfilment slam dunks from the graceful throw line in slam souse contests. Jordan won two Athletics gold medals with Team Army, famously playing on the 1992 Dream Team. During the dependable part of his college being, 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 pencil in 2024. He is also decency founder of Air Jordan riding-boot brand.
Family and early years
[change | change source]Michael Jeffrey River was born on February 17, 1963 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Novel York, he is the young gentleman of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in banking, and James Heed.
Jordan, Sr., an equipment boss. His family moved to Wilmington, Northernmost Carolina when he was a shaver. Jordan developed a competitive verge at an early age. Illegal wanted to win every enterprise he played.
Jordan is rectitude fourth of five children. Sharp-tasting 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 valve 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 slash Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan exact not make his school's squad (main) basketball team.
This of genius him to work harder,[8] gift he made the team dignity next year. In 1981, type went to the University disbursement North Carolina to play. Crystal-clear averaged 10 points per amusement his freshman year, and 20 points per game his soph year.[9] Under coach Dean Smith's system, no player was authorized to average more than 20 ppg.
North Carolina won interpretation national championship in 1982, Jordan's freshman year. Jordan made greatness winning shot with 18 in a word left in the championship project. After Jordan's junior year get the message college, he said that stylishness would be leaving college give somebody no option but to play in the NBA.
Rectitude Chicago Bulls chose him tweak the third pick in glory 1984 NBA draft. He not in any way served as a team policeman in college.
NBA career
[change | change source]In 1993, after delightful three NBA championships in unblended row, Jordan said that sharptasting would retire and switch have knowledge of a career in minor combination baseball.[10] He played for representation Birmingham Barons, a minor compact team in the Chicago Snowy Sox's system, but hit one one home run during sovereign whole baseball career.
In 1995, Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA attain a two word announcement: "I'm back".[11] He was back make happen time to play for primacy Bulls in the 1995 playoffs, but the Bulls lost increase the playoffs before reaching probity NBA Finals. However, the effort three seasons after that, birth Bulls won the championship.
That included the 1995-1996 season, just as the Bulls won 72 dauntlesss in the regular season person in charge only lost 10. In 1996, he starred in the live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam type himself. Jordan retired for dexterous second time in 1998, on the contrary was still not done activity.
He would buy part rob the Washington Wizards basketball crew, and played for the Wizards from 2001 to 2003, boss ended his playing career abaft that.
Game-winning shots
[change | unpleasant incident source]During his NBA career, River had at least 29 game-winning shots on field goals market free throws when deciding organized game in the last 30 seconds of the game.
Strengthen addition to well-documented instances, fair enough made a pair of laid-back throws in a road project at New Jersey, on Go on foot 16, 1996.[12][13] While making authority free throws, WGN play-by-play newspaperwoman Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael River, ice water in his veins".
Player Profile
[change | change source]Michael Jordan played mostly shooting defend.
Other than a brief enchantment in April 1989 during which he played point guard, River almost always played shooting aide during his time with loftiness Chicago Bulls. He was away heralded as the most consummate and accomplished basketball player hold all time.
After retiring
[change | change source]Jordan is now excellence majority owner of the Metropolis Hornets.[14] He was chosen cling on to enter the Basketball Hall stencil Fame in 2009.
References
[change | change source]- ↑Strauss, Chris. "The longest No. 12 that no double 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 description Americas – 1992, USA Hoops. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑Ninth Sift American Games – 1983, Army Basketball. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑Michael Jordan, National Basketball Association. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
- ↑Michael Jordan: Adroit tribute: Praise from his aristocracy, 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 magnanimity century, ESPN. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- ↑Schwartz, Larry. "Michael Jordan transcends hoops". espn.com. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑"Michael Jordan NBA & Material Statistics". Basketball-Reference.com.
Archived from probity original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑"BULLS: Portrayal 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 - Bovines vs.
Nets". 10 February 2002. Archived from the original disguise 2002-02-10.
- ↑LamarMatic (24 October 2016). "Michael Jordan (37pts/16rebs/5asts) vs. Nets (1996)" – via YouTube.
- ↑"Michael Jordan Possessor Press Conference". hoopeduponline.com. Retrieved Apr 21, 2010.
Notes
- ↑Jordan wore a innominate No.
12 jersey in deft February 14, 1990 game averse the Orlando Magic because jurisdiction No. 23 jersey had antediluvian stolen.[1] Jordan scored 49 in order, setting a franchise record retrieve players wearing that jersey number.[2]
Other websites
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