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Professional basketball players, Olympic athletes, businessmen, actors. February 17, 1963, was born in Brooklyn, New York. One of the best basketball players ever, Michael Jordan sport dominated from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He led the Chicago Bulls to six national championships to win the National Basketball Association (NBA) Most Valuable Player Award five times.
Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan's competitive advantage, at an early age. He wants to win every game he played. Later, his father, James pointed out, "He is a competitive problem he was born of the people most of the time he tried to go beyond their own."
Jordan in 1981, studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and soon became important members of the school basketball team. Division I in 1982, his research team won the NCAA Championship with Jordan scoring to beat the last ball of the Georgetown University (Georgetown University). In particular, he pointed out that the as NCAA College in 1983, and in 1984, the year the best player. Jordan in the summer of 1984, he first appeared in the Olympic Games, the U.S. basketball team, won the gold medal, one of the games held in Los Angeles. Later, Jordan helped the United States to bring the Olympic gold medal in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
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NBA Superstar
Jordan leave the university after his junior year to join the NBA.Overall by the Chicago Bulls, he soon proved himself on the court. He helped the team to the playoffs, made average per game was 28.2 points that season. For his efforts, Jordan won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and was selected as the All-Star Game.
In 1985, he completed his bachelor's degree in geography and continue playing basketball professional. Has been damaged by injury his second season, Jordan to open up new areas of the pitch in the 1986-1987 season. , He became the first player since Wilt Chamberlain scored more than 3,000 points in a single season. The next season, Jordan received his first NBA honors, in 1991, he will get four Most Valuable Player Award in 1992, 1996 and 1998.
The end of the 1980s, the Chicago Bulls quickly become a force can not be ignored, and the Jordan team's success is part of a tool. Bulls in the Eastern Conference finals in 1990 and won their first NBA championship the following year, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers. A rising NBA superstar, Michael Jordan on the court his strength and agility, as well as his leadership ability. He eventually fell endorsement contract with Nike and other companies, and further pushed him into the spotlight.
In 1992, the Chicago Bulls beat the Portland Trail Blazers win their second NBA title. The team's third championship the following year, dominating in the basketball world. However, Jordan, and other things in his mind. His losthis father, James, to the violence after the end of the 1992-1993 season. Two teenage young man in an apparent robbery and shooting James Jordan, was later convicted. A move that shocked many, Michael Jordan decided to retire from basketball to pursue baseball. Him as a the Birmingham Baron minor league team as an outfielder for the year.
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However, in March 1995, Michael Jordan on the basketball court. He re-joined the Chicago Bulls, and ultimately help them against the Seattle SuperSonics won the championship in the 1995-1996 season. That same year, Jordan made a big splash, star in another area - movie Space Jam (1996). Film live action mixed with animation and paired Jordan with cartoon legends Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck on the screen.
Thefollowing season Jordan came back stronger, 30.4 points per game. Start all 82 games that season, he helped the team completed the regular season with 72 wins in the NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz clinch a victory. The two teams face each other again in the 1998 championship, and Jordan to help the Bulls beat them for the second consecutive year in a row.
Retired after the 1997-1998 season, Jordan did not deviate from the sport for too long. He attended a part owner of the Washington Wizards basketball operations president. In the fall of 2001, Jordan gave up these roles back to court again. Two seasons ago, his jersey hung 2003 Wizards.
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In 2006, Jordan bought a share of the Charlotte Bobcats basketball operations management members to join the team's enforcement team. He experienced some personal changes, the same year, his wife, Juanita, ended his 17-year marriage. December 2006, the couple divorced. They have three children together, their marriage, Jeffrey, Marcus and Jasmine.
The following year, Michael Jordan's message this time and father of future college basketball players. Jeffrey Jordan, his eldest son, to keep the team at the University of Illinois. Michael Jordan and his ex-wife, Juanita, have always supported their son and tried to help him deal with the shadow of playing NBA legend. "He wanted to become a basketball player, but he hopes to do it in his own way, we tried to tell Jeff is that you set your own expectations. Never in this world, you will never live up to the expectations of others, you who in "Michael Jordan said in the" Today "show.
In April 2009, one of the greatest honor of Jordan basketball: he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. To participate in the inauguration of a bittersweet thing, because Jordan in the event meant "your basketball career is completely over," he explained.
His work with the Charlotte Bobcats, Jordan is also involved in a number of commercial enterprises, including several restaurants. He currently resides in Highland Park, Illinois.
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