Michael Jordan Biography

Micheal Jefffrey Jordan who is also known by the initials MJ is one of the greatest basketball players of all time who completely dominated the game of basketball in the 90s. He is also an American Businessman and entrepreneur soon after he retired from the game of basketball. Micheal Jordan is also the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association(NBA) and of 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. Throughout his career in Basketball, he played 15 seasons in the NBA and was able to win six championships with the Chicago Bulls. Micheal Jordan played a very important role in helping to popularise the NBA around the world in the 1980s and in the 1990s and also in turn became a global cultural icon while doing it. 

Without any doubt, Micheal Jordan is considered to be the greatest basketball player of all time. Summarising the career of Micheal Jordan is not possible in this article because he had an impact that revolutionized the game as no one could imagine. Micheal Jordan at his prime was a very phenomenal athlete who had a unique combination of grace, speed, power, artistry, desire to be the best, fundamental soundness, and the ability to single-handedly turn the game towards his team favor, according to be redefined the NBA game and also helped the game to reach its higher potential. 

Micheal Jordan’s effect, though, goes well beyond medals and victories. He exploded onto the scene as a rookie phenom with an unmatched first step and spectacular drives and dunks, and he went on to become a cultural legend. With his spectacular on-court talents and unique sense of flair that was sold to the people, he became a real champion who pioneered the globalization of the NBA. 

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Quick Facts about Micheal Jordan 

• Full name: Micheal Jefffrey Jordan

•  Michael Jordan birthday: February 17, 1963

• Michael Jordan age: 58 years old 

• Michael Jordan family: His father’s name is James and his mother’s name is Delores. He had 4 siblings, Larry, Deloris, Roslyn, and James Jr

• Micheal Jordan education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emsley A. Laney High School

• Micheal Jordan basketball player place of birth: Brooklyn, New York

The Early life of Michael Jordan 

• Micheal Jordan’s full name is Michael Jeffrey Jordan and he was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn New York. He grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. From a young age, Micheal Jordan developed a competitive spirit and he wanted to win every game which he played. 

• Jordan had a stable family life as a child. Delores, his mother, was a bank teller who went on to write numerous books. James, his father, worked for General Electric as a maintenance worker before becoming a manager. Larry, Deloris, Roslyn, and James Jr. were Jordan's four siblings.

• James, who was Jordan's father, knew the potential of his son from the beginning and he was also the one who introduced Jordan to the game of Basketball and built a basketball court in their backyard. In the summer of 1993, James was murdered by two teenagers who shot him in his car in an apparent robbery as he was driving his car from Charlotte to Wilmington in North Carolina. James went missing for almost 11 days and sadly after a brief amount of time his body was found in a swamp in McColl, South Carolina. The two teens who brutally murdered him were caught and then were later convicted of the crimes and received a well-deserved life sentence for first-degree murder. 

Micheal Jordan College Career

• Micheal Jordan’s father was a very good man who from the beginning knew the potential which his son had. He taught Jordan to work hard and not be distracted or get tempted by street life. His mother on other hand taught him to clean, sew and do laundry. Micheal Jordan loved the game of basketball but sadly did not make his debut in the high school basketball team as a sophomore. This failure did not stop him or let him let go of his dream as he continued to practice and was successful in making it into the team next year. 

• In 1982, Michel Jordan got himself enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel hill in 1981. Then, as time passed by, through dedication and hard work, he became a very important member of the school’s basketball team. In the year 1982, the University of North Carolina won the NCAA Division 1 championship with the help of Michel Jordan who scored the final basket to defeat Georgetown University. 

• For both 1983 and 1984, Micheal Jordan was selected college player of the year by the Sporting News. After his junior year, he departed North Carolina to join the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was picked third overall in the 1984 draught. Jordan was a part of Summer 1984 the United States Olympic basketball team that won the gold medal in Los Angeles, California, before joining the Bulls. Though Micheal Jordan was playing basketball, he finished his bachelor’s degree in geography.

Michael Jordan Basketball Player Professional Career 

• While he was in college he was offered a chance to be a professional basket back player and he began his professional basketball career when he was drafted to the Chicago bulls in the year 1984. Micheal Jordan was the third overall choice, behind Houston Rockets' Hakeem Olajuwon and Portland Trail Blazers' Sam Bowie and the selection also included legends John Stockton and Charles Barkley.

• Initially, when Micheal Jordan was drafted to the Chicago bulls the team was barely winning and was declared by the critics and the fans all around the world that it is a losing team. Little did people know that there has been a young player making a debut in the team who will change the sport forever in the coming years. The Chicago Bulls had only six thousand fans to the home games when Micheal Jordan joined the team and then the magic happened as Micheal Jordan quickly turned the game around. Jordan’s style and the fierce nature of his gameplay reminded people of another great retired basketball player, Julius Erving who was considered as the superstar player of the 1970s. Jordan's amazing jumping ability and hang time wowed crowds all across the league. Due to his commendable and extraordinary performance, he was chosen to the All-Star squad in his rookie season and was subsequently crowned the league's Rookie of the Year.

• Due to a broken foot, Micheal Jordan missed the 64 games during the 1985 -86 NBA season but he then returned and scored 49 points against the Boston Celtics in the first game of the playoffs and then again scored 63 points in the second game which is considered to be an NBA record of its own. Jordan started in the All-Star game after receiving a record 1.5 million votes in the 1986–87 season, which was another one of his solo triumphs. He became the first player to reach 3,000 points in a single season since Wilt Chamberlain (1936–1999). Jordan was a personal success story, but the Bulls didn't make it past the first round of the playoffs until 1988. Jordan focused on honing his other basketball abilities, and he was awarded Defensive Player of the Year in 1988. He was also awarded MVP of the league, becoming the first player to lead the league in both scoring and steals. In that year's All-Star Game, he was voted MVP once more.

• Micheal Jordan was a very good player who did the best of his capabilities to win the game for his team, but the game of basketball cannot be won by a single individual as it requires the team to coordinate with each other and help the team to go beyond the finish line. The Bulls' management built a formidable squad around Jordan by bringing in players like Scottie Pippen, Bill Cartwright, Horace Grant, and John Paxson. Due to a strong team and everyone’s effort, the Bulls won the 1991 NBA title by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers. The Bulls won the NBA title again the next year, defeating the Portland Trail Blazers. Jordan was also a member of the "Dream Team" that competed in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. Professional athletes were allowed to compete in the Olympics when the Olympic Committee agreed to abolish the prohibition. The team won the gold medal with ease, winning each of their eight games by an average of 43.7 points.

Unexpected First Retirement 

• In the year 1993, The Chicago Bulls met the Phoenix Suns for the NBA championships when they were successful in defeating the New York Knicks who were favorites at that time. In the final, Jordan's fierce gameplay nature helped the Chicago bulls to lift the NBA Championship for the third time and it was continuous. Due to Micheal Jordan’s gameplay, he was also named as the MVP player of the tournament. In the same summer, Micheal Jordan’s father James was brutally murdered by two young men during a robbery attempt. This incident changed Jordan’s life forever and he was shocked to find out about his father and the way he was killed. 

• The world only cares about you when you are at the top and the same thing was going on with Micheal Jordan at that time. Even though he was battling through the fact that his father was murdered, he was then blamed for gambling by many media houses and this led Micheal Jordan to take a major step in his life. He announced his retirement from professional basketball in October of the same year. 

• Micheal Jordan had won three consecutive NBA championships, three regular-season MVP awards, three playoff MVP awards, and seven consecutive scoring crowns, as well as being named to the All-Star team every year he played in the league. He had become the Bulls' all-time top scorer in just nine seasons. Micheal Jordan was a member of the Birmingham Barons, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the Chicago White Sox, from 1994 to 1995. Even though Micheline's seventeen-month experiment revealed that he was not a big-league baseball player, the experience and time away from basketball offered much-needed respite and an opportunity to rediscover his passion for the sport.

The Return of the King 

• After almost two years break, Michael Jordan returned to the court of basketball and joined the Chicago bulls during the 1994-95 regular season and many wondered if he still had the potential to be the best and deliver at the level which he delivered two years ago. Jordan played well initially but good isn’t enough. When a player sets a standard and if or she does not touch those standards, they get judged and the same thing happens with Jordan. The Bills were defeated in the playoffs by the Orlando magic. 

• Jordan returned with a tremendous resolve to prove that he could reclaim his position as the best in the world. The Bulls concluded the regular season 72–10, an NBA record for most victories in a season, and Jordan won his seventh scoring title after regaining his shooting rhythm. He also became the ninth NBA player to achieve 25,000 career points, and the second-fastest to do it behind Chamberlain. The Bulls went on to win their fourth NBA title in six games, defeating the Seattle Supersonics. Jordan dropped to his knees, head bent over the winning ball, in a moment of bittersweet joy and terrible grief that few will ever forget. The NBA finals were played on Father’s day and exactly three years after his father’s death. 

• The Chicago Bulls were the defending champions and had a more difficult season in 1996–97, but they nevertheless made the playoffs as predicted. The Bulls won their sixth NBA title thanks to sheer willpower. The squad was hampered by illness, injuries, and, at times, a lack of attention. Despite suffering from a stomach illness, Jordan led the squad to win in the fifth game of the finals. The Bulls were back in the playoffs in 1997–98, and they were up against some stiff opposition. They were able to win the NBA title once again, and Jordan won his sixth NBA finals MVP award.

• Micheal Jordan was also a very good businessman and he had many deals and brands wrapped around his name. Jordan was the brand ambassador for big companies like Nike and Wheaties. He also owned a golf company and his other business such as the Michael Jordan cologne was a huge hit and soon made him a multimillionaire. With a ＄30 million contract—the greatest one-year pay in sports history—and nearly ＄40 million in endorsement revenues, Micheal Jordan was named the world's highest-paid athlete in 1997.

End of an Era 

• Jordan announced his retirement for the second time in 1999, shortly after the formal end of a labor dispute between NBA players and club owners. He was widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time, and his retirement was heralded as the end of an era.

• Jordan has retired from basketball three times in the 19 years since he began his professional career. He retired three times, the first in 1993, the second in 1998, and the third time in 2003.