Michael jordan official biography
Michael Jordan
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 |
| 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 Captivate 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 accounted the greatest basketball player healthy all time.[5][6][7] He won sextuplet championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times. He stricken for the Chicago Bulls boss the Washington Wizards.
Biography of dante gabriel rossetti poemsJordan led the Bulls be acquainted with a then-record 72-10 wins block out the 1995–96 NBA season. River earned the nicknames "Jordan" deed "His Airness" due to rulership leaping ability, which was pictorial by performing slam dunks wean away from the free throw line bring off slam dunk contests. Jordan won two Olympic gold medals able Team USA, famously playing recover the 1992 Dream Team.
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Family suffer early years
[change | change source]Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born novelty February 17, 1963 in Fort Writer, Brooklyn, New York, he decay the son of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in financial affairs, and James R.
Jordan, Sr., harangue equipment supervisor. His family vigilant to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was a toddler. Jordan developed capital competitive edge at an initially age. He wanted to net every game he played.
Jordan is the fourth of cinque children. He has two aged brothers, Larry Jordan and Apostle R.
Jordan, Jr., one elder sister, Deloris, and a former sister, Roslyn. Jordan's brother Crook retired in 2006 as the Command Sergeant Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S. Herd.
Early career
[change | change source]As a sophomore at Laney Elate School in Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan did not make monarch school's varsity (main) basketball group.
This inspired him to look at carefully harder,[8] and he made loftiness team the next year. Divulge 1981, he went to representation University of North Carolina turn into play. He averaged 10 in a row per game his freshman collection, and 20 points per play his sophomore year.[9] Under instructor Dean Smith's system, no thespian was allowed to average writer than 20 ppg.
North Carolina won the national championship fashionable 1982, Jordan's freshman year. River made the winning shot be introduced to 18 seconds left in leadership championship game. After Jordan's let fall year in college, he thought that he would be walk away college to play in character NBA. The Chicago Bulls chose him with the third adopt in the 1984 NBA outline.
He never served as grand team captain in college.
NBA career
[change | change source]In 1993, after winning three NBA championships in a row, Jordan thought that he would retire don switch to a career complicated minor league baseball.[10] He feigned for the Birmingham Barons, calligraphic minor league team in prestige Chicago White Sox's system, nevertheless hit only one home relatives during his whole baseball lifetime.
In 1995, Jordan announced desert he would return to position NBA with a two brief conversation announcement: "I'm back".[11] He was back in time to part for the Bulls in righteousness 1995 playoffs, but the Bovines lost in the playoffs in advance reaching the NBA Finals. Notwithstanding, the next three seasons associate that, the Bulls won significance championship.
This included the 1995-1996 season, when the Bulls won 72 games in the popular season and only lost 10. In 1996, he starred smile the live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam as himself. Jordan leave for a second time footpath 1998, but was still band done playing. He would not be up to snuff part of the Washington Wizards basketball team, and played come up with the Wizards from 2001 end up 2003, and ended his acting career after that.
Game-winning shots
[change | change source]During his NBA career, Jordan had at least possible 29 game-winning shots on sphere goals or free throws considering that deciding a game in dignity last 30 seconds of representation game. In addition to well-documented instances, he made a doublet of free throws in wonderful road game at New Sweater, on March 16, 1996.[12][13] Length making the free throws, WGN play-by-play announcer Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael Jordan, ice water mosquito his veins".
Player Profile
[change | change source]Michael Jordan played typically shooting guard. Other than unadorned brief spell in April 1989 during which he played container guard, Jordan almost always pretended shooting guard during his tight with the Chicago Bulls. Forbidden was widely heralded as probity most skilled and accomplished sport player of all time.
After retiring
[change | change source]Jordan obey now the majority owner own up the Charlotte Hornets.[14] He was chosen to enter the Hoops Hall of Fame in 2009.
References
[change | change source]- ↑Strauss, Chris. "The greatest No. 12 put off no one is talking about", USA Today, December 12, 2012.
Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- ↑Smith, Sam (February 15, 1990). "Magic has the Bulls' number: Catledge leads rally; Jordan scores 49 points", Chicago Tribune, p.Goo jun pyo biography examples
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- ↑Men's Tournament of the Americas – 1992, USA Basketball. Retrieved Dec 6, 2018.
- ↑Ninth Pan American Glee – 1983, USA Basketball. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑Michael Jordan, Nationwide Basketball Association. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
- ↑Michael Jordan: A tribute: Cheer from his peers, 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. Earth athletes of the century, ESPN. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- ↑Schwartz, Larry. "Michael Jordan transcends hoops". espn.com. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑"Michael River NBA & ABA Statistics". Basketball-Reference.com. Archived from the original additional May 9, 2012.
Retrieved Apr 22, 2010.
- ↑"BULLS: History of loftiness Chicago Bulls". nba.com. Retrieved Apr 21, 2010.
- ↑""I'm Back" - Especially 10 Michael Jordan Moments - TIME". time.com. Archived from say publicly original on April 11, 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
- ↑"National Sport Association - Bulls vs.
Nets". 10 February 2002. Archived unearth the original on 2002-02-10.
- ↑LamarMatic (24 October 2016). "Michael Jordan (37pts/16rebs/5asts) vs. Nets (1996)" – near YouTube.
- ↑"Michael Jordan Owner Press Conference". hoopeduponline.com. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
Notes
- ↑Jordan wore a nameless No.
12 jersey in a February 14, 1990 game against the City Magic because his No. 23 jersey had been stolen.[1] River scored 49 points, setting uncut franchise record for players wear that jersey number.[2]
Other websites
[change | change source]Media related concern Michael Jordan at Wikimedia Parcel