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Michael Jordan is one of the seven greatest players ever to play basketball in chronological order. Bill Rusell, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Kareem, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and then Michael, and there’s not good one to join that list since Michael, that’s how high the bar is for consent. Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn New York, but grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team as a sophomore for being undersized. By his junior year, Jordan grew four inches and was a Mcdonald’s high school all-American his senior year.
In 1982, Jordan earned a basketball scholarship to play for Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina and he had an immediate impact that same year after being awarded ACC freshman player of the year and hitting the game-winning shot in the national championship game for the Tar Heels against Georgetown. In his Junior year, Jordan was awarded Naismith College Player of the Year and decided to leave college to enter the NBA Draft and was drafted third overall to the NBA by the Chicago Bulls in 1984. Before his NBA rookie season, Jordan started for the 1984 U.S Olympic team which was made up of all amateurs and won the gold medal When Michael joined the Bulls as a rookie, they weren’t a really good team, but he changed that. Jordan was named Rookie of the Year, he soon became one of the NBA stars with prolific scoring and his loops in the air which earned him a nickname, “Air Jordan”. David Eisenbach, who is a PhD from Columbia University, said that Jordan’s ability to just go from the foul line and dunk the ball was something that was just extraordinary to see. In the 1991 season with Phil Jackson coaching the Bulls for the second year, Jordan finally led Chicago to the national championship.
Jordan’s stats and the Bulls improved every year and the Bulls continued to win championships three years in a row. Jordan won his second Olympic gold medal as part of U.S. basketball’s dream team in 1992. On July 23, 1993, Jordan’s father, James Jordan was tragically murdered and robbed. His body was not found or identified until weeks later. Devastated by this Michael Jordan shocked everyone by retiring from basketball, satisfied with his accomplishments and the fact that his father saw his last game. Instead Jordan tried his hand at professional baseball and played for the minor-league Birmingham Barons in 1994. However, this lasted a year before he returned to the court to play for the Chicago Bulls with 17 games left in the 1995 NBA season. Jordan returned to the below average Bulls, his returning game broke TV dating records. In the 1996 season with Jordan bag, the Bulls won even more games in the regular season than in the three championship years of the early 90s. “He did things in the basketball court that nobody had ever seen before”, David Eisenbach said. Jordan brought the championship trophy back to Chicago, becoming the first player ever to win the NBA Finals MVP four times. He repeated that win in 1997 and 1998 while leading the Bulls to another three-peat championship. He won six championships in a row which was phenomenal.
Michael Jordan was ranked as the world’s highest-paid athlete in 1997, this was an addition to his many endorsement deals and his acting in Hollywood films like Space Jam. Michael Jordan’s greatest assets are his brain and his heart. That’s four championships award right in the mind; are you smart enough it doesn’t matter to you? Michael Jordan retired again in 1999 and became part owner and president of basketball operations for the Washington Wizards. In 2001, he gave up his ownership in order to return a second time to play the game he loved, and became a player for the Washington Wizards. That season, Jordan passed Wilt Chamberlain with the third most career points, he averaged thirty point one points per game and led the league in that category for the 10th time, also a record. Jordan retired for good in 2003 and in 2009 was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the sport’s highest honor. In addition to his many business ventures and golfing, Jordan is involved with many charities including hosting his annual golf event. He has three children from his first marriage and recently remarried in 2013.
Everything that Michael Jordan has done in his life has taken the game and business of sports to evolutionary planes that have never been met by anyone else. He personifies what it means to be the most remarkable of champions.
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