Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (New York City, February 17, 1963) is a former American basketball player.



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[hide] *1 College  ==College[ Edit] == Jordan played between 1981 and 1984 college basketball at the famous UNC (University of North Carolina), the Tar Heels coach Dean Smith. In the final of the NCAA tournament of 1982 (in the battle for the national title), he scored (in his first season as a college-basketball) the last two points and determined the final standings on 63-62 in a victory over Georgetown. This was the first title of coach Smith. Both in 1983 as 1984 he was chosen as Player of the Year by Sporting News and in 1984 he received also the Wooden and Naismith Awards, two of the most prestigious college titles for best College basketball player of the year. He then had still to start his final year at the University but decided to interrupt his studies for the time being and to opt for the NBA: he introduced himself available for the NBA Draft of 1984, in which NBA teams can choose from new talent, mainly from the college basketball but now also from abroad. ==NBA: the early years[ Edit] == With the third choice chose the Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls in the NBA Draft. Everyone was stumped that the two-time College player of the year as the second was chosen, but the Portland Trailblazers opted for length (Sam Bowie), while all was clear that Akeem Olajuwon (who later became a H would add to its first name) to ' hometown ' Houston would go. Even before his career took off, did Jordan participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and he won the Gold Medal with Team USA (fellow Olympians from when Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin were, among others, with whom he would win gold again in 1992). In his third game as a Pro, he already scored 37 points, a small harbinger of what was to come: 49 points against the Detroit Pistons, 5 days before his 22nd birthday. This meant a rookie-record, that pas would be broken in 1996/1997 by Allen Iverson. He finished the season with an average of 28.2 points and was awarded the Rookie of the Year-Award (newcomer of the year).
 * 2 NBA: the early years
 * 3 Changes
 * 4 Champions
 * 5 murder of father
 * 6 Baseball career
 * 7 Come Back Kid
 * 8 Second comeback: the Wizards
 * 9 Club owner
 * 10 Prices
 * 11 Trivia
 * 12 external links

He barely played In his second season, because he had a broken foot, but despite his absence placed Chicago still for the play-offs. In the first round if the team from the Windy City will be challenged by the Boston Celtics of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish. Although they fell out of the first round by losing three games in a row, Jordan scored 63 points (a playoff-record) in one of those parties and thus attracted Larry Bird to the response: "I think it's just God disguised as Michael Jordan". Jordan was then just 23 years old.

The ' outburst ' against Boston was just the beginning of what would make a legend of Jordan. In the season he was top scorer for the first time 86 ' 87 (including nine times in a row to score 40 points) and with the 37.1 points per game, he was the only one in the neighborhood came from the statistics of the legendary Wilt Chamberlain.Despite the violence, Jordan's Bulls were scoring for the second year in a row with 3-0 by the Celtics from the playoffs rolled.

The season 87/88, appears in the records as one of Jordans best, although there are no Championship was won. He was top scorer for the second time; was voted most valuable player (MVP), Defensive Player of the Year, MVP of the All Star Game (thanks in part to 40 points to score, an all-star record); won the Slam Dunk Contest during the all-Star Weekend; was chosen to the All NBA First Team and All Defensive First Team (both for the first time). This time the Bulls reached a round further into the playoffs, but a new ' nemesis ' was found: the Detroit Pistons, led by Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodmanthe emerging defensive talent. They were 4-1 but that was not considered as a shame: the Pistons stumbled through to the final in which they lost to the Lakers. Both in 1989 as in 1990 the Bulls in the Conference Finals (the final of play-offteams from the East, which the Bulls were part) losing the same Pistons, who had devised an effective defence system: the "Jordan Rules", which ensured that Jordan was guarded by three continuous double and sometimes man. ==Changes[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because the Bulls had to lean too much on Jordan, the management of the franchise to a number of players from caliber to pick up. Forward/center Horace Grant was drafted and the versatile small forward Scottie Pippen was extracted from the same "draft" (he was "drafted" by Seattle but was exchanged with center Olden Polynice).The real change came in 1989. Coach Doug Collins was fired and Assistant Phil Jackson was appointed as new Head Coach. He and Assistant Tex Winter had a complicated system devised, called the Triangle Offense (either the Triple Post). In short that it comes with five players three triangles are formed. That triangles are the pass-lines. This tactic was the final piece of the puzzle for Jordan and his team to become successful. In 1990 this was still not really, but that was because the team did not know how the Pistons had to tackle. In 1991, however, changed everything. ==Champions<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jordan was top scorer for the fifth time in a row and led them to the Conference Finals against the Pistons. This time was the Triangle Offense better understood. The Pistons were 4-0 and the world could get ready for a battle between Jordan and the leader of the Los Angeles Lakers, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, which his team between 1980 and 1988 to 5 NBA titles led. The Lakers explained it unleashed against the Bulls: 4-1.Jordan made in one of the final games "The Move": during an attack he cut through the center of the bucket, received the pass and went up for the one-handed dunk, which he could easily make. However, in the corner of his eye he saw a defender of the Lakers preparing to go up and he decided otherwise: in ' mid air ' he changed his hand and ' scoopte ' the ball through the left side of the Board inside. Would the Bulls twice successfully defend their title: in 1992 against the Portland Trailblazers of Clyde "The Glide" Drexler and in 1993 against the Phoenix Suns of the MVP of that season, Charles Barkley (which, incidentally, that season of Philadelphia come across was). ==Murder of father<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the playoffs in 1993, there was a controversy around Jordan as he signaled was while he was gambling. In the same year he admitted more than fifty thousand dollars to have lost gambling.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jordan announced on 6 October 1993 to stop basketball, because he had lost his desire to play the game. Later he would admit that the murder of his father in July of that year had played an important role in his decision to quit. James Jordan was killed in a roadside restaurant in North Carolina by two teenagers. ==Baseball Career<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Jordan plays for the Scottsdale Scorpions while he.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jordan surprised the world by announcing professional baseball player to want to be. He signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox to play in the minor league . The White Soxs lent him to Birmingham Barons. His batting average was. 202. He hit three home runs. Jordan was one of the worst scoring players in the League. In 1994 he played also for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League. There lay his average higher on. 252. After a conflict with the White Soxs in the spring of 1995 because Jordan against the appointments in this commitment as strike-breakers Jordan decided to stop at an exhibition game baseballs. At his decision also appeared that the prospect to ever come out in the Major League was little. ==Come Back Kid<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After his retirement as defined above, the death of his father and wanderings in the baseball world, Jordan returned in March 95 back in the NBA with three words: "I'm back". Already in his fifth game, he scored 55 points against the enemy of the 90 's, the New York Knicks. In that year the Bulls in the semifinals of the Eastern Conference by the Orlando Magic of Shaquille O'Neal and Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway with 4-2 records. The Magic would eventually get the final 4-0 and losing the Houston Rocketsof Hakeem Olajuwon (drafted in the same year as Jordan). The Bulls would sporting revenge.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In his first full season after the comeback was the NBA's leading scorer for the eighth Jordan times, but something much memorabelers came to pass: the Bulls became the first team in the history of the NBA (which officially exists since 1947) that 70 games won. They won there even 72 of 82. There were more prizes for team members: Jordan was MVP, Phil Jackson was Coach Of The Year, forward Toni Kukoc was best sixth man. In the finals the Bulls defeated the Seattle Supersonics by Shawn "the Reignman" Kemp and Gary "the Glove" Payton. They should defend their title successfully twice in a row by the Utah Jazz of Hall of Fame-tandem Karl Malone (The Mailman) and John Stockton beat, 4-2. The Bulls had something managed what even the mighty Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s not managed: two separate "Three-Peats Ridge water" (three consecutive titles). Jordan also won in all these years the Finals MVP Award and shattered the old record of "Magic" Johnson (three). ==Second comeback: the Wizards<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Michael Jordan while playing for the Wizards<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jordan announced in January 1999 for the second time his departure from. In 2000 he returned to the NBA, but not as a player. The basketball legend was part-owner of theWashington Wizards and was head of the Department of Operations of the club. Opinions vary on how well he functioned in that position. He knew the club to get rid of several expensive, unpopular players such as Rod Strickland and Juwan Howard. During the NBA Draft of 2001 however, the Wizards made an unfortunate choice by being the first to go for Kwame Brown . The high school student made the expectations in the following years, not true.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the summer of 2001 Jordan made known perhaps to times in the NBA despite statements that "it was 99.9 percent sure" that that would not happen. He took a shot by Doug Collins, the former head coach of the Bulls, nominate at the Washington Wizards for the new season. Jordan announced on 25 september for the second time to make a comeback. In the first year he was top scorer of the team, but only played 60 games due to a knee injury. In 2003, he played for the 15th time in an NBA All-Star Game and passed that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the record holder of all time. In that year he also played all matches and scored an average of 20 points per game. Despite his own successes obtained the Wizards no once the play-offs. In 2003 Jordan played his last game in the NBA. ==Club Owner<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After his third farewell expected Jordan to return to his old staff function at the Wizards. In May 2003, however, dismissed him club owner Abe Polin . Jordan said he never would have played for the Wizards if he had known that this would happen. In the following years was a lot on the golf course, Jordan was involved in his family and the promotion of its own clothing line. He was also owner of a private racing team.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2006, Jordan bought a minority stake in the NBA team the Charlotte Bobcats. He had full control over all basketbalgerelateerde Affairs. In February he obtained a majority stake in the Bobcats. In the season 2011-12 the Cats reached a historic low by only 7 of the 66 matches to win. ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 6 x NBA Champion
 * 5 x NBA Most Valuable Player Award
 * 10 x NBA Scoring champion
 * 14 x NBA All-Star
 * 3 x NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player
 * 6 x Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP Award
 * 1 x NBA Defensive Player of the Year
 * 11 x All-NBA selection (10 x first team, 1 x second team)
 * 9 x All-Defensive selection (9 x first team)
 * NBA All-Rookie selection (first team)
 * NBA Rookie of the Year
 * 2 x NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion
 * Chosen as one of the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History" (1996)
 * Was part of 2 teams in "Top 10 teams in NBA History" (1996)
 * Included in the Basketball Hall of Fame
 * 2 x Olympic gold
 * 1 x Naismith College Player of the Year
 * 1 x John r. Wooden Award
 * 1 x Adolph Rupp Trophy
 * 1 x USBWA College Player of the Year
 * ACC Freshman of the Year
 * 1 x ACC men's Basketball Player of the Year
 * 1 x The Sporting News College Player of the Year
 * 1 x Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year
 * 1st in SLAM magazine's Top 75 Players of all-time
 * 1st in ESPN Sportscentury's Top 100 Athletes of the 20th Century
 * 1 x NCAA National Championship
 * 7 x The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award
 * Jordan once made 69 points in one regular season game (1988) and 63 in a playoff game (playoff record).
 * The Jersey number of Jordan was 23. He played after his first return in 1995 with the Jersey number 45, because his brother wore that number at the college-baseball. After this failed season however, he decided to return to number 23. He previously played with Jersey number 12, after his jersey in 1990 before the game against the Orlando Magic out of a bag was stolen.
 * Jordan's wife, Juanita, demanded after their separation in January 2002 on the control over their three children.
 * Jordan played with Bugs Bunny in the film Space Jam in 1996.
 * Jordan played in the clip of Michael Jackson Jam. The single was also used in the 1992 NBA Championship video "Untouchabulls" of the Chicago Bulls ', where Jordan played at that time.
 * Jordan stood in 2009 with $ 45 million still on the 3rd place of highest paid sportsmen (thanks to advertising revenue & good investments), while he has stopped for several years.
 * He is the first player who during an all-Star Game to record a triple-double knew.
 * He was after Willis Reed (New York Knicks) in 1970 the second player that all three MVP awards won in a season (regular season, All Star Game, Finals). However, he is the first who managed to do this twice (1996 and 1998). Shaquille O'Neal then won in 2000 still all MVP awards, even though he shared the All Star MVP Award with Tim Duncan.
 * In 2001 he establishes a new record by scoring 51 points on his 38th in one game.
 * In 2003 he becomes the first 40 +-year-old NBA player that more than 40 points in one game.
 * He also has a clothing brand and shoe brand called: Air Jordan.