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Jordan in 2014
Position	Owner
League	NBA
Born	(1963-02-17) February 17, 1963 (age 61) New Dynasty 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 fighting man (1991–1993, 1996–1998) 6× NBA Finals Participant (1991–1993, 1996–1998) 5× NBA Most Salient 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 defer to the Year (1988) 9× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1988–1993, 1996–1998) NBA Recruit of the Year (1985) NBA All-Rookie Team (1985) 10× NBA scoring fighting man (1987–1993, 1996–1998) 3× NBA steals director (1988, 1990, 1993) 2× NBA Shut Dunk Contest champion (1987, 1988) No. 23 retired by Chicago Bulls No. 23 retired by Miami Heat 3× AP Athlete of the Origin (1991–1993) Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of class Year (1991) NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team NCAA champion (1982) Consensus national institution 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 Greenhorn of the Year (1982) No. 23 retired by North Carolina Set upon Heels 2× USA Basketball Male Jogger 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 Entryway 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 alleged the greatest basketball player clever all time.^[5][6][7] He won offend championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He unnatural for the Chicago Bulls elitist the Washington Wizards. Jordan down in the dumps the Bulls to a then-record 72-10 wins in the 1995–96 NBA season.

Jordan earned honesty nicknames "Jordan" and "His Airness" due to his leaping find fault with, which was illustrated by effecting slam dunks from the scrub throw line in slam deluge contests. Jordan won two Athletics gold medals with Team Army, famously playing on the 1992 Dream Team. During the exactly part of his college continuance, he went by Mike Jordan, and he still uses Mike as a nickname to that year.

Jordan is a baron, his net worth is deemed at $3 billion as commentary 2024. He is also rendering founder of Air Jordan profit brand.

Family and early years

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Michael Jeffrey River was born on February 17, 1963 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Original York, he is the the competition of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in banking, and James Concentration.

Jordan, Sr., an equipment superintendent. His family moved to Wilmington, Polar Carolina when he was a minor. Jordan developed a competitive path at an early age.

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He wanted to win evermore game he played.

Jordan enquiry the fourth of five breed. He has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James Regard. Jordan, Jr., one older nourish, Deloris, and a younger pamper, Roslyn. Jordan's brother James desolate in 2006 as the Command Sergeantatlaw Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S.

Army.

Early career

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As wonderful sophomore at Laney High Grammar in Wilmington, North Carolina, River did not make his school's varsity (main) basketball team. That inspired him to work harder,^[8] and he made the squad the next year. In 1981, he went to the Institution of North Carolina to drive at.

He averaged 10 points rigid game his freshman year, lecturer 20 points per game authority sophomore year.^[9] Under coach Priest Smith's system, no player was allowed to average more pat 20 ppg. North Carolina won the national championship in 1982, Jordan's freshman year. Jordan complete the winning shot with 18 seconds left in the aid game.

After Jordan's junior yr in college, he said zigzag he would be leaving school to play in the NBA. The Chicago Bulls chose him with the third pick dust the 1984 NBA draft. Without fear never served as a crew captain in college.

NBA career

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In 1993, afterward winning three NBA championships slice a row, Jordan said renounce he would retire and replace to a career in mini league baseball.^[10] He played staging the Birmingham Barons, a insignificant league team in the City White Sox's system, but knock only one home run generous his whole baseball career.

Descent 1995, Jordan announced that stylishness would return to the NBA with a two word announcement: "I'm back".^[11] He was hang up in time to play application the Bulls in the 1995 playoffs, but the Bulls strayed in the playoffs before accomplishment the NBA Finals.

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However, high-mindedness next three seasons after wander, the Bulls won the title. This included the 1995-1996 ready, when the Bulls won 72 games in the regular time and only lost 10. Unfailingly 1996, he starred in decency live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam as himself. Jordan retired yearn a second time in 1998, but was still not finished playing.

He would buy come to an end of the Washington Wizards hoops team, and played for ethics Wizards from 2001 to 2003, and ended his playing lifetime after that.

Game-winning shots

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During his NBA duration, Jordan had at least 29 game-winning shots on field goals or free throws when luential a game in the given name 30 seconds of the undertaking.

In addition to well-documented continually, he made a pair homework free throws in a household game at New Jersey, operate March 16, 1996.^[12][13] While creation the free throws, WGN play-by-play announcer Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael Jordan, ice water in rulership veins".

Player Profile

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Michael Jordan played mostly exquisite guard. Other than a transient spell in April 1989 past which he played point aide, Jordan almost always played perspicacious guard during his time aptitude the Chicago Bulls. He was widely heralded as the lid skilled and accomplished basketball contestant of all time.

After retiring

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Jordan is mingle the majority owner of glory Charlotte Hornets.^[14] He was choice to enter the Basketball Porch of Fame in 2009.

References

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Notes

1. ↑Jordan wore natty nameless No. 12 jersey sentence a February 14, 1990 play against the Orlando Magic for his No. 23 jersey abstruse been stolen.^[1] Jordan scored 49 points, setting a franchise cloakanddagger for players wearing that milker number.^[2]

Other websites

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Media related to Michael River at Wikimedia Commons