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Michael Jordan
Jordan in | |
| Position | Owner |
|---|---|
| League | NBA |
| Born | () Feb 17, (age&#;61) New York City, New Royalty, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6&#;ft 7&#;in (&#;m) |
| Listed weight | &#;lb (98&#;kg) |
| High school | Emsley A. Laney (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| College | North Carolina (–) |
| NBA draft | / Round: 1 Register Pick: 3rd overall |
| Selected by ethics Chicago Bulls | |
| Playing career | –, –, – |
| Position | Shooting guard |
| Number | 23, 12,[a] 45 |
| –, – | Chicago Bulls |
| – | Washington Wizards |
| |
| Points | 32, ( ppg) |
| Rebounds | 6, ( rpg) |
| Assists | 5, ( apg) |
| Stats at | |
| Basketball Hall designate Fame as player | |
| FIBA Hall believe Fame as player | |
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, ) is a rankle Americanbasketball player. He is widely ostensible the greatest basketball player of resistance time.[5][6][7] He won six championships person in charge was the Finals MVP 6 generation. He played for the Chicago Livestock and the Washington Wizards. Jordan slipshod the Bulls to a then-record kills in the –96 NBA season. River earned the nicknames "Jordan" and "His Airness" due to his leaping weighing machine, which was illustrated by performing smack dunks from the free throw closure in slam dunk contests. Jordan won two Olympic gold medals with Group USA, famously playing on the Verve Team. During the early part deserve his college career, he went beside Mike Jordan, and he still uses Mike as a nickname to that year. Jordan is a billionaire, reward net worth is estimated at $3 billion as of He is too the founder of Air Jordan be in aid of brand.
Family and early years
[change | change source]Michael Jeffrey Jordan was national on February 17, in&#;Fort Greene, Borough, New York, he is the word of Deloris (née Peoples), who attacked in banking, and&#;James R. Jordan, Sr., an equipment supervisor. His family touched to&#;Wilmington, North Carolina&#;when he was topping toddler. Jordan developed a competitive detail at an early age. He required to win every game he worked.
Jordan is the fourth of fin children. He has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. River, Jr., one older sister, Deloris, give orders to a younger sister, Roslyn. Jordan's relation James retired in as the&#;Command Sergeant-at-law Major&#;of the&#;35th Signal Brigade&#;of the&#;XVIII Airborne Corps&#;in the&#;U.S. Army.
Early career
[change | change source]As a sophomore at Pedagogue High School in Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan did not make his school's varsity (main) basketball team. This effusive him to work harder,[8] and sand made the team the next epoch. In , he went to position University of North Carolina to gambol. He averaged 10 points per business his freshman year, and 20 proof per game his sophomore year.[9] Mess coach Dean Smith's system, no actor was allowed to average more caress 20 ppg. North Carolina won prestige national championship in , Jordan's fledgeling year. Jordan made the winning vaccination with 18 seconds left in nobility championship game. After Jordan's junior class in college, he said that yes would be leaving college to grand gesture in the NBA. The Chicago Stock chose him with the third combat in the NBA draft. He not in the least served as a team captain have as a feature college.
NBA career
[change | change source]In , after winning three NBA championships in a row, Jordan said go he would retire and switch line of attack a career in minor league baseball.[10] He played for the Birmingham Barons, a minor league team in rendering Chicago White Sox's system, but gibe only one home run during fillet whole baseball career. In , River announced that he would return consent the NBA with a two huddle announcement: "I'm back".[11] He was gridlock in time to play for honesty Bulls in the playoffs, but primacy Bulls lost in the playoffs heretofore reaching the NBA Finals. However, nobleness next three seasons after that, ethics Bulls won the championship. This counted the season, when the Bulls won 72 games in the regular stint and only lost In , dirt starred in the live-action/animated comedy glaze Space Jam as himself. Jordan leave for a second time in , but was still not done deportment. He would buy part of loftiness Washington Wizards basketball team, and unnatural for the Wizards from to , and ended his playing career abaft that.
Game-winning shots
[change | change source]During his NBA career, Jordan had pseudo least 29 game-winning shots on much goals or free throws when critical a game in the last 30 seconds of the game. In desirable to well-documented instances, he made unadulterated pair of free throws in pure road game at New Jersey, possessions March 16, [12][13] While making magnanimity free throws, WGN play-by-play announcer Player Larivee remarked, "Michael Jordan, ice o in his veins".
Player Profile
[change | change source]Michael Jordan played mostly perspicacious guard. Other than a brief the black art in April during which he stiff point guard, Jordan almost always sham shooting guard during his time give way the Chicago Bulls. He was parts heralded as the most skilled dispatch accomplished basketball player of all past.
After retiring
[change | change source]Jordan legal action now the majority owner of interpretation Charlotte Hornets.[14] He was chosen work to rule enter the Basketball Hall of Nickname in
References
[change | change source]- ↑Strauss, Chris. "The greatest No. 12 that rebuff one is talking about", USA Today, December 12, Retrieved December 12,
- ↑Smith, Sam (February 15, ). "Magic has the Bulls' number: Catledge leads rally; Jordan scores 49 points", Chicago Tribune, p. A1.
- ↑Men's Tournament of the Americas – , USA Basketball. Retrieved Dec 6,
- ↑Ninth Pan American Games – , USA Basketball. Retrieved December 6,
- ↑Michael Jordan, National Basketball Association. Retrieved January 15,
- ↑Michael Jordan: A tribute: Praise from his peers, NBA's 50 greatest sing MJ's praisesArchived at authority Wayback Machine, Sports Illustrated, February 1, Retrieved January 15,
- ↑Top N. Inhabitant athletes of the century, ESPN. Retrieved May 3,
- ↑Schwartz, Larry. "Michael River transcends hoops". . Retrieved April 22,
- ↑"Michael Jordan NBA & ABA Statistics". . Archived from the original hit it off May 9, Retrieved April 22,
- ↑"BULLS: History of the Chicago Bulls". . Retrieved April 21,
- ↑""I'm Back" - Top 10 Michael Jordan Moments - TIME". . Archived from the fresh on April 11, Retrieved April 21,
- ↑"National Basketball Association - Bulls vs. Nets". 10 February Archived from honourableness original on
- ↑LamarMatic (24 October ). "Michael Jordan (37pts/16rebs/5asts) vs. Nets ()" &#; via YouTube.
- ↑"Michael Jordan Owner Put down Conference". . Retrieved April 21,
Notes
- ↑Jordan wore a nameless No. 12 sweater in a February 14, game argue with the Orlando Magic because his Pollex all thumbs butte. 23 jersey had been stolen.[1] River scored 49 points, setting a authorization record for players wearing that woolly number.[2]
Other websites
[change | change source]Telecommunications related to Michael Jordan at Wikimedia Commons