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Michael Jordan

January 11, 2023

This article is about the American basketball player. For other people with the same name, see Michael Jordan (disambiguation).

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ,[9] is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. His biography on the official NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time."[10] He played fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Jordan is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA and of 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. He was integral in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s,[11] becoming a global cultural icon in the process.[12]

Michael Jordan
Jordan in 2014
Charlotte Hornets
PositionOwner
LeagueNBA
Personal information
Born (1963-02-17) February 17, 1963 (age 59)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight216 lb (98 kg)[a]
Career information
High schoolEmsley A. Laney
(Wilmington, North Carolina)
CollegeNorth Carolina (1981–1984)
NBA draft1984 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3rd overall
Selected by the Chicago Bulls
Playing career1984–1993, 1995–1998, 2001–2003
PositionShooting guard
Number23, 12,[b] 45
Career history
1984–1993,
1995–1998		Chicago Bulls
2001–2003Washington Wizards
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points32,292 (30.1 ppg)
Rebounds6,672 (6.2 rpg)
Assists5,633 (5.3 apg)
Stats  at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
FIBA Hall of Fame as player
Medals

Jordan played college basketball for three seasons under coach Dean Smith with the North Carolina Tar Heels. As a freshman, he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982.[5] Jordan joined the Bulls in 1984 as the third overall draft pick,[5][13] and quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring while gaining a reputation as one of the game's best defensive players.[14] His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the free-throw line in Slam Dunk Contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness".[5][13] Jordan won his first NBA title with the Bulls in 1991, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a three-peat. Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the 1993–94 NBA season to play Minor League Baseball but returned to the Bulls in March 1995 and led them to three more championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998, as well as a then-record 72 regular season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season.[5] He retired for the second time in January 1999 but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.[5][13] During the course of his professional career he was also selected to play for the United States national team, winning four gold medals (at the 1983 Pan American Games, 1984 Summer Olympics, 1992 Tournament of the Americas and 1992 Summer Olympics), while also being undefeated.[15]

Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include six NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, ten NBA scoring titles (both all-time records), five NBA MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game selections, three NBA All-Star Game MVP awards, three NBA steals titles, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.[13] He holds the NBA records for career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and career playoff scoring average (33.4 points per game).[16] In 1999, he was named the 20th century's greatest North American athlete by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press' list of athletes of the century.[5] Jordan was twice inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, once in 2009 for his individual career,[17] and again in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team ("The Dream Team").[18] He became a member of the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 2009,[19] a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2010,[20] and an individual member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015 and a "Dream Team" member in 2017.[21][22] In 2021, Jordan was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.[23]

One of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation,[11] Jordan is known for his product endorsements.[24] He fueled the success of Nike's Air Jordan sneakers, which were introduced in 1984 and remain popular today.[25] Jordan also starred as himself in the 1996 live-action animation hybrid film Space Jam and is the central focus of the Emmy Award-winning documentary miniseries The Last Dance (2020).[26] He became part-owner and head of basketball operations for the Charlotte Bobcats (now named the Hornets) in 2006,[25] and bought a controlling interest in 2010. In 2016, Jordan became the first billionaire player in NBA history.[27] That year, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[28] As of 2022, Jordan's net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion.[29]

Early life

Jordan was born at Cumberland Hospital in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City, on February 17, 1963,[30] the son of bank employee Deloris (née Peoples) and equipment supervisor James R. Jordan Sr.[30][31] In 1968, he moved with his family to Wilmington, North Carolina.[32] Jordan attended Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, where he highlighted his athletic career by playing basketball, baseball, and football. He tried out for the basketball varsity team during his sophomore year; at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m), he was deemed too short to play at that level. His taller friend Harvest Leroy Smith was the only sophomore to make the team.[33][34]

Motivated to prove his worth, Jordan became the star of Laney's junior varsity team, and tallied some 40-point games.[33] The following summer, he grew four inches (10 cm) and trained rigorously.[34] Upon earning a spot on the varsity roster, Jordan averaged more than 25 points per game (ppg) over his final two seasons of high school play.[35] As a senior, he was selected to play in the 1981 McDonald's All-American Game and scored 30 points,[36][37] after averaging 27 ppg,[35] 12 rebounds (rpg),[38][39] and six assists per game (apg) for the season.[39][40][41] Jordan was recruited by numerous college basketball programs, including Duke, North Carolina, South Carolina, Syracuse, and Virginia.[42] In 1981, he accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in cultural geography.[43]

College career

 
Jordan going in for a slam dunk for the Laney High School varsity basketball team, 1979–80
 
Jordan in action for North Carolina in 1983

As a freshman in coach Dean Smith's team-oriented system, Jordan was named ACC Freshman of the Year after he averaged 13.4 ppg on 53.4% shooting (field goal percentage).[44] He made the game-winning jump shot in the 1982 NCAA Championship game against Georgetown, which was led by future NBA rival Patrick Ewing.[45] Jordan later described this shot as the major turning point in his basketball career.[46][47] During his three seasons with the Tar Heels, he averaged 17.7 ppg on 54.0% shooting, and added 5.0 rpg and 1.8 apg.[13]

Jordan was selected by consensus to the NCAA All-American First Team in both his sophomore (1983) and junior (1984) seasons.[48][49] After winning the Naismith and the Wooden College Player of the Year awards in 1984, Jordan left North Carolina one year before his scheduled graduation to enter the 1984 NBA draft. Jordan returned to North Carolina to complete his degree in 1986,[50] when he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography.[51] In 2002, Jordan was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team honoring the 50 greatest players in ACC history.[52]

Professional career

Chicago Bulls (1984–1993; 1995–1998)

Early NBA years (1984–1987)

The Chicago Bulls selected Jordan with the third overall pick of the 1984 NBA draft after Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston Rockets) and Sam Bowie (Portland Trail Blazers). One of the primary reasons why Jordan was not drafted sooner was because the first two teams were in need of a center.[53] Trail Blazers general manager Stu Inman contended that it was not a matter of drafting a center but more a matter of taking Bowie over Jordan, in part because Portland already had Clyde Drexler, who was a guard with similar skills to Jordan.[54] Citing Bowie's injury-laden college career, ESPN named the Blazers' choice of Bowie as the worst draft pick in North American professional sports history.[55]

Jordan made his NBA debut at Chicago Stadium on October 26, 1984, and scored 16 points. In 2021, a ticket stub from the game sold at auction for $264,000, setting a record for a collectible ticket stub.[56] During his rookie 1984–85 season with the Bulls, Jordan averaged 28.2 ppg on 51.5% shooting,[44] and helped make a team that had won 35% of games in the previous three seasons playoff contenders. He quickly became a fan favorite even in opposing arenas.[57][58][59] Roy S. Johnson of The New York Times described him as "the phenomenal rookie of the Bulls" in November,[59] and Jordan appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the heading "A Star Is Born" in December.[60][61] The fans also voted in Jordan as an All-Star starter during his rookie season.[5] Controversy arose before the 1985 NBA All-Star Game when word surfaced that several veteran players, led by Isiah Thomas, were upset by the amount of attention Jordan was receiving.[5] This led to a so-called "freeze-out" on Jordan, where players refused to pass the ball to him throughout the game.[5] The controversy left Jordan relatively unaffected when he returned to regular season play, and he would go on to be voted the NBA Rookie of the Year.[62] The Bulls finished the season 38–44,[63] and lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in four games in the first round of the playoffs.[62]

An often-cited moment was on August 26, 1985,[35][64] when Jordan shook the arena during a Nike exhibition game in Trieste, Italy, by shattering the glass of the backboard with a dunk.[65][66] The moment was filmed and is often referred to worldwide as an important milestone in Jordan's rise.[66][67] The shoes Jordan wore during the game were auctioned in August 2020 and sold for $615,000, a record for a pair of sneakers.[68][69] Jordan's 1985–86 season was cut short when he broke his foot in the third game of the year, causing him to miss 64 games.[70] The Bulls made the playoffs despite Jordan's injury and a 30–52 record,[63] at the time the fifth-worst record of any team to qualify for the playoffs in NBA history.[71] Jordan recovered in time to participate in the postseason and performed well upon his return. Against a Boston Celtics team that is often considered one of the greatest in NBA history,[72] Jordan set the still-unbroken record for points in a playoff game with 63 in Game 2,[73] but the Celtics managed to sweep the series.[62]

Jordan completely recovered in time for the 1986–87 season,[74] and had one of the most prolific scoring seasons in NBA history; he became the only player other than Wilt Chamberlain to score 3,000 points in a season, averaging a league-high 37.1 ppg on 48.2% shooting.[44][75] In addition, Jordan demonstrated his defensive prowess, as he became the first player in NBA history to record 200 steals and 100 blocked shots in a season.[76] Despite Jordan's success, Magic Johnson won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award.[77] The Bulls reached 40 wins,[63] and advanced to the playoffs for the third consecutive year but were again swept by the Celtics.[62]

Pistons roadblock (1987–1990)

Jordan again led the league in scoring during the 1987–88 season, averaging 35.0 ppg on 53.5% shooting,[44] and he won his first league MVP Award. He was also named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year, as he averaged 1.6 blocks per game (bpg), a league-high 3.1 steals per game (spg),[78] and led the Bulls defense to the fewest points per game allowed in the league.[79] The Bulls finished 50–32,[63] and made it out of the first round of the playoffs for the first time in Jordan's career, as they defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games.[80] In the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the Bulls lost in five games to the more experienced Detroit Pistons,[62] who were led by Isiah Thomas and a group of physical players known as the "Bad Boys".[81]

In the 1988–89 season, Jordan again led the league in scoring, averaging 32.5 ppg on 53.8% shooting from the field, along with 8 rpg and 8 apg.[44] During the season, Sam Vincent, Chicago's point guard, was having trouble running the offense, and Jordan expressed his frustration with head coach Doug Collins, who would put Jordan at point guard. In his time as a point guard, Jordan averaged 10 triple-doubles in eleven games, with 33.6 ppg, 11.4 rpg, 10.8 apg, 2.9 spg, and 0.8 bpg on 51% shooting.[82]

The Bulls finished with a 47–35 record,[63] and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, defeating the Cavaliers and New York Knicks along the way.[83] The Cavaliers series included a career highlight for Jordan when he hit "The Shot" over Craig Ehlo at the buzzer in the fifth and final game of the series.[84] In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pistons again defeated the Bulls, this time in six games,[62] by utilizing their "Jordan Rules" method of guarding Jordan, which consisted of double and triple teaming him every time he touched the ball.[5]

The Bulls entered the 1989–90 season as a team on the rise, with their core group of Jordan and young improving players like Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant, and under the guidance of new coach Phil Jackson.[85] On March 28, 1990, Jordan scored a career-high 69 points in a 117–113 road win over the Cavaliers.[86] He averaged a league-leading 33.6 ppg on 52.6% shooting, to go with 6.9 rpg and 6.3 apg,[44] in leading the Bulls to a 55–27 record.[63] They again advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals after beating the Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers;[87] despite pushing the series to seven games, the Bulls lost to the Pistons for the third consecutive season.[62]

First three-peat (1991–1993)

In the 1990–91 season, Jordan won his second MVP award after averaging 31.5 ppg on 53.9% shooting, 6.0 rpg, and 5.5 apg for the regular season.[44] The Bulls finished in first place in their division for the first time in sixteen years and set a franchise record with 61 wins in the regular season.[63] With Scottie Pippen developing into an All-Star, the Bulls had elevated their play. The Bulls defeated the New York Knicks and the Philadelphia 76ers in the opening two rounds of the playoffs. They advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals where their rival, the Detroit Pistons, awaited them;[88] this time, the Bulls beat the Pistons in a four-game sweep.[89]

The Bulls advanced to the Finals for the first time in franchise history to face the Los Angeles Lakers, who had Magic Johnson and James Worthy, two formidable opponents. The Bulls won the series four games to one, and compiled a 15–2 playoff record along the way.[88] Perhaps the best-known moment of the series came in Game 2 when, attempting a dunk, Jordan avoided a potential Sam Perkins block by switching the ball from his right hand to his left in mid-air to lay the shot into the basket.[90] In his first Finals appearance, Jordan had 31.2 ppg on 56% shooting from the field, 11.4 apg, 6.6 rpg, 2.8 spg, and 1.4 bpg.[91] Jordan won his first NBA Finals MVP award,[92] and he cried while holding the Finals trophy.[93]

Jordan and the Bulls continued their dominance in the 1991–92 season, establishing a 67–15 record, topping their franchise record from 1990–91.[63] Jordan won his second consecutive MVP award with averages of 30.1 ppg, 6.4 rbg, and 6.1 apg on 52% shooting.[78] After winning a physical seven-game series over the New York Knicks in the second round of the playoffs and finishing off the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Conference Finals in six games, the Bulls met Clyde Drexler and the Portland Trail Blazers in the Finals. The media, hoping to recreate a Magic–Bird rivalry, highlighted the similarities between "Air" Jordan and Clyde "The Glide" during the pre-Finals hype.[94]

In the first game, Jordan scored a Finals-record 35 points in the first half, including a record-setting six three-point field goals.[95] After the sixth three-pointer, he jogged down the court shrugging as he looked courtside. Marv Albert, who broadcast the game, later stated that it was as if Jordan was saying: "I can't believe I'm doing this."[96] The Bulls went on to win Game 1 and defeat the Blazers in six games. Jordan was named Finals MVP for the second year in a row,[92] and finished the series averaging 35.8 ppg, 4.8 rpg, and 6.5 apg, while shooting 52.6% from the floor.[97]

 
Jordan in 1992

In the 1992–93 season, despite a 32.6 ppg, 6.7 rpg, and 5.5 apg campaign, including a second-place finish in Defensive Player of the Year voting,[78][98] Jordan's streak of consecutive MVP seasons ended, as he lost the award to his friend Charles Barkley,[77] which upset him.[99] Coincidentally, Jordan and the Bulls met Barkley and his Phoenix Suns in the 1993 NBA Finals. The Bulls won their third NBA championship on a game-winning shot by John Paxson and a last-second block by Horace Grant, but Jordan was once again Chicago's leader. He averaged a Finals-record 41.0 ppg during the six-game series,[100] and became the first player in NBA history to win three straight Finals MVP awards.[92] He scored more than 30 points in every game of the series, including 40 or more points in four consecutive games.[101] With his third Finals triumph, Jordan capped off a seven-year run where he attained seven scoring titles and three championships, but there were signs that Jordan was tiring of his massive celebrity and all of the non-basketball hassles in his life.[102]

Gambling

During the Bulls' 1993 NBA playoffs, Jordan was seen gambling in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the night before Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the New York Knicks.[103] The previous year, he admitted that he had to cover $57,000 in gambling losses,[104] and author Richard Esquinas wrote a book in 1993 claiming he had won $1.25 million from Jordan on the golf course.[105] David Stern, the commissioner of the NBA, denied in 1995 and 2006 that Jordan's 1993 retirement was a secret suspension by the league for gambling,[106][107] but the rumor spread widely.[108]

In 2005, Jordan discussed his gambling with Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes and admitted that he made reckless decisions. Jordan stated: "Yeah, I've gotten myself into situations where I would not walk away and I've pushed the envelope. Is that compulsive? Yeah, it depends on how you look at it. If you're willing to jeopardize your livelihood and your family, then yeah." When Bradley asked him if his gambling ever got to the level where it jeopardized his livelihood or family, Jordan replied: "No."[109] In 2010, Ron Shelton, director of Jordan Rides the Bus, said that he began working on the documentary believing that the NBA had suspended him, but that research "convinced [him it] was nonsense".[108]

First retirement and stint in Minor League Baseball (1993–1995)

Michael Jordan
 
Jordan in training with the Scottsdale Scorpions in 1994
Birmingham Barons – No. 45, 35
Outfielder
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Professional debut
Southern League: April 8, 1994, for the Birmingham Barons
Arizona Fall League: 1994, for the Scottsdale Scorpions
Last Southern League appearance
March 10, 1995, for the Birmingham Barons
Southern League statistics
(through 1994)
Batting average.202
Home runs3
Runs batted in51
Arizona Fall League statistics
Batting average.252
Runs batted in8
Teams

On October 6, 1993, Jordan announced his retirement, saying that he lost his desire to play basketball. Jordan later said that the murder of his father three months earlier helped shape his decision.[110] James R. Jordan Sr. was murdered on July 23, 1993, at a highway rest area in Lumberton, North Carolina, by two teenagers, Daniel Green and Larry Martin Demery, who carjacked his Lexus bearing the license plate "UNC 0023".[111][112] His body, dumped in a South Carolina swamp, was not discovered until August 3.[112] Green and Demery were found after they made calls on James Jordan's cell phone,[113] convicted at a trial, and sentenced to life in prison.[114]

Jordan was close to his father; as a child, he imitated the way his father stuck out his tongue while absorbed in work. He later adopted it as his own signature, often displaying it as he drove to the basket.[5] In 1996, he founded a Chicago-area Boys & Girls Club and dedicated it to his father.[115][116] In his 1998 autobiography For the Love of the Game, Jordan wrote that he was preparing for retirement as early as the summer of 1992.[117] The added exhaustion due to the "Dream Team" run in the 1992 Summer Olympics solidified Jordan's feelings about the game and his ever-growing celebrity status. Jordan's announcement sent shock waves throughout the NBA and appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world.[118]

Jordan further surprised the sports world by signing a Minor League Baseball contract with the Chicago White Sox on February 7, 1994.[119] He reported to spring training in Sarasota, Florida, and was assigned to the team's minor league system on March 31, 1994.[120] Jordan said that this decision was made to pursue the dream of his late father, who always envisioned his son as a Major League Baseball player.[121] The White Sox were owned by Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who continued to honor Jordan's basketball contract during the years he played baseball.[122]

In 1994, Jordan played for the Birmingham Barons, a Double-A minor league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, batting .202 with three home runs, 51 runs batted in, 30 stolen bases, 114 strikeouts, 51 bases on balls, and 11 errors.[123][124] His strikeout total led the team and his games played tied for the team lead. His 30 stolen bases were second on the team only to Doug Brady.[125] He also appeared for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the 1994 Arizona Fall League, batting .252 against the top prospects in baseball.[120] On November 1, 1994, his No. 23 was retired by the Bulls in a ceremony that included the erection of a permanent sculpture known as The Spirit outside the new United Center.[126][127][128]

"I'm back": Return to the NBA (1995)

The Bulls went 55–27 in 1993–94 without Jordan in the lineup,[63] and lost to the New York Knicks in the second round of the playoffs.[129] The 1994–95 Bulls were a shell of the championship team of just two years earlier. Struggling at mid-season to ensure a spot in the playoffs, Chicago was 31–31 at one point in mid-March;[130] the team received help when Jordan decided to return to the Bulls.[131]

In March 1995, Jordan decided to quit baseball because he feared he might become a replacement player during the Major League Baseball strike.[132] On March 18, 1995, Jordan announced his return to the NBA through a two-word press release: "I'm back."[133] The next day, Jordan took to the court with the Bulls to face the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis, scoring 19 points.[134] The game had the highest Nielsen rating of any regular season NBA game since 1975.[135] Although he could have worn his original number even though the Bulls retired it, Jordan wore No. 45, his baseball number.[134]

Despite his eighteen-month hiatus from the NBA, Jordan played well, making a game-winning jump shot against Atlanta in his fourth game back. He scored 55 points in his next game, against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on March 28, 1995.[62] Boosted by Jordan's comeback, the Bulls went 13–4 to make the playoffs and advanced to the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Orlando Magic.[136] At the end of Game 1, Orlando's Nick Anderson stripped Jordan from behind, leading to the game-winning basket for the Magic; he later commented that Jordan "didn't look like the old Michael Jordan",[137] and said that "No. 45 doesn't explode like No. 23 used to".[138]

Jordan responded by scoring 38 points in the next game, which Chicago won. Before the game, Jordan decided that he would immediately resume wearing his former No. 23. The Bulls were fined $25,000 for failing to report the impromptu number change to the NBA.[138] Jordan was fined an additional $5,000 for opting to wear white sneakers when the rest of the Bulls wore black.[139] He averaged 31 ppg in the playoffs, but Orlando won the series in six games.[140]

Second three-peat (1995–1998)

Jordan was freshly motivated by the playoff defeat, and he trained aggressively for the 1995–96 season.[141] The Bulls were strengthened by the addition of rebound specialist Dennis Rodman, and the team dominated the league, starting the season at 41–3.[142] The Bulls eventually finished with the best regular season record in NBA history, 72–10, a mark broken two decades later by the 2015–16 Golden State Warriors.[143] Jordan led the league in scoring with 30.4 ppg,[144] and he won the league's regular season and All-Star Game MVP awards.[13]

In the playoffs, the Bulls lost only three games in four series (Miami Heat 3–0, New York Knicks 4–1, and Orlando Magic 4–0), as they defeated the Seattle SuperSonics 4–2 in the NBA Finals to win their fourth championship.[142] Jordan was named Finals MVP for a record fourth time, surpassing Magic Johnson's three Finals MVP awards;[92] he also achieved only the second sweep of the MVP awards in the All-Star Game, regular season, and NBA Finals after Willis Reed in the 1969–70 season.[62] Upon winning the championship, his first since his father's murder, Jordan reacted emotionally, clutching the game ball and crying on the locker room floor.[5][93]

In the 1996–97 season, the Bulls stood at a 69–11 record but ended the season by losing their final two games to finish the year 69–13, missing out on a second consecutive 70-win season.[145] The Bulls again advanced to the Finals, where they faced the Utah Jazz.[146] That team included Karl Malone, who had beaten Jordan for the NBA MVP award in a tight race (986–957).[147][148][149] The series against the Jazz featured two of the more memorable clutch moments of Jordan's career. He won Game 1 for the Bulls with a buzzer-beating jump shot. In Game 5, with the series tied at 2, Jordan played despite being feverish and dehydrated from a stomach virus. In what is known as "The Flu Game", Jordan scored 38 points, including the game-deciding 3-pointer with 25 seconds remaining.[146] The Bulls won 90–88 and went on to win the series in six games.[145] For the fifth time in as many Finals appearances, Jordan received the Finals MVP award.[92] During the 1997 NBA All-Star Game, Jordan posted the first triple-double in All-Star Game history in a victorious effort, but the MVP award went to Glen Rice.[150]

 
Jordan with coach Phil Jackson in 1997

Jordan and the Bulls compiled a 62–20 record in the 1997–98 season.[63] Jordan led the league with 28.7 ppg,[78] securing his fifth regular season MVP award, plus honors for All-NBA First Team, First Defensive Team, and the All-Star Game MVP.[13] The Bulls won the Eastern Conference Championship for a third straight season, including surviving a seven-game series with the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals; it was the first time Jordan had played in a Game 7 since the 1992 Eastern Conference Semifinals with the New York Knicks.[151][152] After winning, they moved on for a rematch with the Jazz in the Finals.[153]

The Bulls returned to the Delta Center for Game 6 on June 14, 1998, leading the series 3–2. Jordan executed a series of plays, considered to be one of the greatest clutch performances in NBA Finals history.[154] With 41.9 seconds remaining and the Bulls trailing 86–83, Phil Jackson called a timeout. When play resumed, Jordan received the inbound pass, drove to the basket, and sank a shot over several Jazz defenders, cutting Utah's lead to 86–85.[154] The Jazz brought the ball upcourt and passed the ball to Malone, who was set up in the low post and was being guarded by Rodman. Malone jostled with Rodman and caught the pass, but Jordan cut behind him and stole the ball out of his hands.[154]

Jordan then dribbled down the court and paused, eyeing his defender, Jazz guard Bryon Russell. With 10 seconds remaining, Jordan started to dribble right, then crossed over to his left, possibly pushing off Russell, although the officials did not call a foul.[155][156][157][158] With 5.2 seconds left, Jordan made the climactic shot of his Bulls career,[159] a top-key jumper over a stumbling Russell to give Chicago an 87–86 lead. Afterwards, the Jazz' John Stockton narrowly missed a game-winning three-pointer, and the buzzer sounded as Jordan and the Bulls won their sixth NBA championship,[160] achieving a second three-peat in the decade.[161] Once again, Jordan was voted Finals MVP,[92] having led all scorers by averaging 33.5 ppg, including 45 in the deciding Game 6.[162] Jordan's six Finals MVPs is a record.[163] The 1998 Finals holds the highest television rating of any Finals series in history,[164] and Game 6 holds the highest television rating of any game in NBA history.[165]

Second retirement (1999–2001)

 
Plaque at the United Center that chronicles Jordan's career achievements

With Phil Jackson's contract expiring, the pending departures of Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman looming, and being in the latter stages of an owner-induced lockout of NBA players, Jordan retired for the second time on January 13, 1999.[166][167][168] On January 19, 2000, Jordan returned to the NBA not as a player but as part owner and president of basketball operations for the Washington Wizards.[169] Jordan's responsibilities with the Wizards were comprehensive, as he controlled all aspects of the Wizards' basketball operations, and had the final say in all personnel matters; opinions of Jordan as a basketball executive were mixed.[170][171] He managed to purge the team of several highly paid, unpopular players (like forward Juwan Howard and point guard Rod Strickland)[172][173] but used the first pick in the 2001 NBA draft to select high schooler Kwame Brown, who did not live up to expectations and was traded away after four seasons.[170][174]

Despite his January 1999 claim that he was "99.9% certain" he would never play another NBA game,[93] Jordan expressed interest in making another comeback in the summer of 2001, this time with his new team.[175][176] Inspired by the NHL comeback of his friend Mario Lemieux the previous winter,[177] Jordan spent much of the spring and summer of 2001 in training, holding several invitation-only camps for NBA players in Chicago.[178] In addition, Jordan hired his old Chicago Bulls head coach, Doug Collins, as Washington's coach for the upcoming season, a decision that many saw as foreshadowing another Jordan return.[175][176]

Washington Wizards (2001–2003)

On September 25, 2001, Jordan announced his return to the NBA to play for the Washington Wizards, indicating his intention to donate his salary as a player to a relief effort for the victims of the September 11 attacks.[179][180] In an injury-plagued 2001–02 season, Jordan led the team in scoring (22.9 ppg), assists (5.2 apg), and steals (1.4 spg),[5] and was an MVP candidate, as he led the Wizards to a winning record and playoff contention;[181][182] he would eventually finish 13th in the MVP ballot.[183] After suffering torn cartilage in his right knee,[184] and subsequent knee soreness,[185] the Wizards missed the playoffs,[186] and Jordan's season ended after only 60 games, the fewest he had played in a regular season since playing 17 games after returning from his first retirement during the 1994–95 season.[44] Jordan started 53 of his 60 games for the season, averaging 24.3 ppg, 5.4 apg, and 6.0 rpg, and shooting 41.9% from the field in his 53 starts. His last seven appearances were in a reserve role, in which he averaged just over 20 minutes per game.[187] The Wizards finished the season with a 37–45 record, an 18-game improvement.[186]

 
Jordan as a member of the Washington Wizards, April 14, 2003

Playing in his 14th and final NBA All-Star Game in 2003, Jordan passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the all-time leading scorer in All-Star Game history, a record since broken by Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.[188][189] That year, Jordan was the only Washington player to play in all 82 games, starting in 67 of them, and coming from off the bench in 15. He averaged 20.0 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 3.8 assists, and 1.5 spg per game.[5] He also shot 45% from the field, and 82% from the free-throw line.[44] Even though he turned 40 during the season, he scored 20 or more points 42 times, 30 or more points nine times, and 40 or more points three times.[62] On February 21, 2003, Jordan became the first 40-year-old to tally 43 points in an NBA game.[190] During his stint with the Wizards, all of Jordan's home games at the MCI Center were sold out and the Wizards were the second most-watched team in the NBA, averaging 20,172 fans a game at home and 19,311 on the road.[191] Jordan's final two seasons did not result in a playoff appearance for the Wizards, and he was often unsatisfied with the play of those around him.[192][193] At several points, he openly criticized his teammates to the media, citing their lack of focus and intensity, notably that of Kwame Brown, the number-one draft pick in the 2001 NBA draft.[192][193]

Final retirement (2003)

With the recognition that 2002–03 would be Jordan's final season, tributes were paid to him throughout the NBA. In his final game at the United Center in Chicago, which was his old home court, Jordan received a four-minute standing ovation.[194] The Miami Heat retired the No. 23 jersey on April 11, 2003, even though Jordan never played for the team.[195] At the 2003 All-Star Game, Jordan was offered a starting spot from Tracy McGrady and Allen Iverson but refused both;[196] in the end, he accepted the spot of Vince Carter.[197] Jordan played in his final NBA game on April 16, 2003, in Philadelphia. After scoring 13 points in the game, Jordan went to the bench with 4 minutes and 13 seconds remaining in the third quarter and his team trailing the Philadelphia 76ers 75–56. Just after the start of the fourth quarter, the First Union Center crowd began chanting "We want Mike!" After much encouragement from coach Doug Collins, Jordan finally rose from the bench and re-entered the game, replacing Larry Hughes with 2:35 remaining. At 1:45, Jordan was intentionally fouled by the 76ers' Eric Snow, and stepped to the line to make both free throws. After the second foul shot, the 76ers in-bounded the ball to rookie John Salmons, who in turn was intentionally fouled by Bobby Simmons one second later, stopping time so that Jordan could return to the bench. Jordan received a three-minute standing ovation from his teammates, his opponents, the officials, and the crowd of 21,257 fans.[198]

National team career

 
Jordan on the "Dream Team" in 1992

Jordan made his debut for the U.S. national basketball team at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela. He led the team in scoring with 17.3 ppg as the U.S., coached by Jack Hartman, won the gold medal in the competition.[199][200] A year later, he won another gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics. The 1984 U.S. team was coached by Bob Knight and featured players such as Patrick Ewing, Sam Perkins, Chris Mullin, Steve Alford, and Wayman Tisdale. Jordan led the team in scoring, averaging 17.1 ppg for the tournament.[201]

In 1992, Jordan was a member of the star-studded squad that was dubbed the "Dream Team", which included Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. The team went on to win two gold medals: the first one in the 1992 Tournament of the Americas,[202] and the second one in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He was the only player to start all eight games in the Olympics, averaged 14.9 ppg, and finished second on the team in scoring.[203] Jordan was undefeated in the four tournaments he played for the United States national team, winning all 30 games he took part in.[15]

Player profile

 
Jordan dunking the ball, 1987–88

Jordan was a shooting guard who could also play as a small forward, the position he would primarily play during his second return to professional basketball with the Washington Wizards,[13] and as a point guard.[82] Jordan was known throughout his career as a strong clutch performer. With the Bulls, he decided 25 games with field goals or free throws in the last 30 seconds, including two NBA Finals games and five other playoff contests.[204] His competitiveness was visible in his prolific trash talk and well-known work ethic.[205][206][207] Jordan often used perceived slights to fuel his performances. Sportswriter Wright Thompson described him as "a killer, in the Darwinian sense of the word, immediately sensing and attacking someone's weakest spot".[3] As the Bulls organization built the franchise around Jordan, management had to trade away players who were not "tough enough" to compete with him in practice. To help improve his defense, he spent extra hours studying film of opponents. On offense, he relied more upon instinct and improvization at game time.[208]

Noted as a durable player, Jordan did not miss four or more games while active for a full season from 1986–87 to 2001–02, when he injured his right knee.[13][209] Of the 15 seasons Jordan was in the NBA, he played all 82 regular season games nine times.[13] Jordan has frequently cited David Thompson, Walter Davis, and Jerry West as influences.[210][211] Confirmed at the start of his career, and possibly later on, Jordan had a special "Love of the Game Clause" written into his contract, which was unusual at the time, and allowed him to play basketball against anyone at any time, anywhere.[212]

Jordan had a versatile offensive game and was capable of aggressively driving to the basket as well as drawing fouls from his opponents at a high rate. His 8,772 free throw attempts are the 11th-highest total in NBA history.[213] As his career progressed, Jordan also developed the ability to post up his opponents and score with his trademark fadeaway jump shot, using his leaping ability to avoid block attempts. According to Hubie Brown, this move alone made him nearly unstoppable.[214] Despite media criticism by some as a selfish player early in his career, Jordan was willing to defer to this teammates, with a career average of 5.3 apg and a season-high of 8.0 apg.[44] For a guard, Jordan was also a good rebounder, finishing with 6.2 rpg. Defensively, he averaged 2.3 spg and 0.8 bpg.[44]

Three-point field goal was not Jordan's strength, especially in his early years. Later on in Jordan's career, he improved his three-point shooting, and finished his career with a respectable 32% success rate.[44] His three-point field-goal percentages ranged from 35% to 43% in seasons in which he attempted at least 230 three-pointers between 1989–90 and 1996–97.[13] Jordan's effective field goal percentage was 50%, and he had six seasons with at least 50% shooting, five of which consecutively (1988–1992); he also shot 51% and 50%, and 30% and 33% from the three-point range, throughout his first and second retirements, respectively, finishing his Chicago Bulls career with 31.5 points per game on 50.5 FG% shooting and his overall career with 49.7 FG% shooting.[13]

Unlike NBA players often compared to Jordan, such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, who had a similar three-point percentage, he did not shoot as many threes as they did, as he did not need to rely on the three-pointer in order to be effective on offense. Three-point shooting was only introduced in 1979 and would not be a more fundamental aspect of the game until the first decades of the 21st century,[215] with the NBA having to briefly shorten the line to incentivize more shots.[216] Jordan's three-point shooting was better selected, resulting in three-point field goals made in important games during the playoffs and the Finals, such as hitting six consecutive three-point shots in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals. Jordan shot 37%, 35%, 42%, and 37% in all the seasons he shot over 200 three-pointers, and also shot 38.5%, 38.6%, 38.9%, 40.3%, 19.4%, and 30.2% in the playoffs during his championship runs, improving his shooting even after the three-point line reverted to the original line.[217][218][219]

In 1988, Jordan was honored with the NBA Defensive Player of the Year and the Most Valuable Player awards, becoming the first NBA player to win both awards in a career let alone season. In addition, he set both seasonal and career records for blocked shots by a guard,[220] and combined this with his ball-thieving ability to become a standout defensive player. He ranks third in NBA history in total steals with 2,514, trailing John Stockton and Jason Kidd.[221] Jerry West often stated that he was more impressed with Jordan's defensive contributions than his offensive ones.[222] Doc Rivers declared Jordan "the best superstar defender in the history of the game".[223]

Jordan was known to have strong eyesight. Broadcaster Al Michaels said that he was able to read baseball box scores on a 27-inch (69 cm) television clearly from about 50 feet (15 m) away.[224] During the 2001 NBA Finals, Phil Jackson compared Jordan's dominance to Shaquille O'Neal, stating: "Michael would get fouled on every play and still have to play through it and just clear himself for shots instead and would rise to that occasion."[225]

Legacy

Jordan's talent was clear from his first NBA season; by November 1984, he was being compared to Julius Erving.[57][59] Larry Bird said that rookie Jordan was the best player he ever saw, and that he was "one of a kind", and comparable to Wayne Gretzky as an athlete.[226] In his first game in Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks, Jordan received a near minute-long standing ovation.[59] After establishing the single game playoff record of 63 points against the Boston Celtics on April 20, 1986, Bird described him as "God disguised as Michael Jordan".[73]

Jordan led the NBA in scoring in 10 seasons (NBA record) and tied Wilt Chamberlain's record of seven consecutive scoring titles.[5] He was also a fixture of the NBA All-Defensive First Team, making the roster nine times (NBA record shared with Gary Payton, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant).[227] Jordan also holds the top career regular season and playoff scoring averages of 30.1 and 33.4 ppg, respectively.[16][228] By 1998, the season of his Finals-winning shot against the Jazz, he was well known throughout the league as a clutch performer. In the regular season, Jordan was the Bulls' primary threat in the final seconds of a close game and in the playoffs; he would always ask for the ball at crunch time.[229] Jordan's total of 5,987 points in the playoffs is the second-highest among NBA career playoff scoring leaders.[230] He retired with 32,292 points in regular season play,[231] placing him fifth on the NBA all-time scoring list behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LeBron James, Karl Malone, and Bryant.[231]

With five regular season MVPs (tied for second place with Bill Russell—only Abdul-Jabbar has won more, with six), six Finals MVPs (NBA record), and three NBA All-Star Game MVPs, Jordan is the most decorated player in NBA history.[13][232] Jordan finished among the top three in regular season MVP voting 10 times.[13] He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996,[233] and selected to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021.[23] Jordan is one of only seven players in history to win an NCAA championship, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal (doing so twice with the 1984 and 1992 U.S. men's basketball teams).[234] Since 1976, the year of the ABA–NBA merger,[235] Jordan and Pippen are the only two players to win six NBA Finals playing for one team.[236] In the All-Star Game fan ballot, Jordan received the most votes nine times, more than any other player.[237]

"There's Michael Jordan and then there is the rest of us."

—Magic Johnson[5]

Many of Jordan's contemporaries have said that Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.[222] In 1999, an ESPN survey of journalists, athletes and other sports figures ranked Jordan the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century, above Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali.[238] Jordan placed second to Ruth in the Associated Press' December 1999 list of 20th century athletes.[239] In addition, the Associated Press voted him the greatest basketball player of the 20th century.[240] Jordan has also appeared on the front cover of Sports Illustrated a record 50 times.[241] In the September 1996 issue of Sport, which was the publication's 50th-anniversary issue, Jordan was named the greatest athlete of the past 50 years.[242]

Jordan's athletic leaping ability, highlighted in his back-to-back Slam Dunk Contest championships in 1987 and 1988, is credited by many people with having influenced a generation of young players.[243][244] Several NBA players, including James and Dwyane Wade, have stated that they considered Jordan their role model while they were growing up.[245][246] In addition, commentators have dubbed a number of next-generation players "the next Michael Jordan" upon their entry to the NBA, including Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, Allen Iverson, Bryant, Vince Carter, James, and Wade.[247][248][249] Some analysts, such as The Ringer's Dan Devine, drew parallels between Jordan's experiment at point guard in the 1988–89 season and the modern NBA; for Devine, it "inadvertently foreshadowed the modern game's stylistic shift toward monster-usage primary playmakers", such as Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Luka Dončić, and James.[250] Don Nelson stated: "I would've been playing him at point guard the day he showed up as a rookie."[251]

Although Jordan was a well-rounded player, his "Air Jordan" image is also often credited with inadvertently decreasing the jump shooting skills, defense, and fundamentals of young players,[243] a fact Jordan himself has lamented, saying: "I think it was the exposure of Michael Jordan; the marketing of Michael Jordan. Everything was marketed towards the things that people wanted to see, which was scoring and dunking. That Michael Jordan still played defense and an all-around game, but it was never really publicized."[243] During his heyday, Jordan did much to increase the status of the game; television ratings increased only during his time in the league.[252] The popularity of the NBA in the U.S. declined after his last title.[252] As late as 2020, NBA Finals television ratings had not returned to the level reached during his last championship-winning season.[253]

In August 2009, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, opened a Michael Jordan exhibit that contained items from his college and NBA careers as well as from the 1992 "Dream Team"; the exhibit also has a batting baseball glove to signify Jordan's short career in the Minor League Baseball.[254] After Jordan received word of his acceptance into the Hall of Fame, he selected Class of 1996 member David Thompson to present him.[255] As Jordan would later explain during his induction speech in September 2009, he was not a fan of the Tar Heels when growing up in North Carolina but greatly admired Thompson, who played for the rival NC State Wolfpack. In September, he was inducted into the Hall with several former Bulls teammates in attendance, including Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Charles Oakley, Ron Harper, Steve Kerr, and Toni Kukoč.[17] Dean Smith and Doug Collins, two of Jordan's former coaches, were also among those present. His emotional reaction during his speech when he began to cry was captured by Associated Press photographer Stephan Savoia and would later go viral on social media as the "Crying Jordan" Internet meme.[256][257] In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Jordan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[28] In October 2021, Jordan was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.[23] In September 2022, Jordan's jersey in which he played the opening game of the 1998 NBA Finals was sold for $10.1 million, making it the most expensive game-worn sports memorabilia in history.[258]

NBA career statistics

Further information: List of career achievements by Michael Jordan § NBA career statistics
See also: List of career achievements by Michael Jordan § College statistics
Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
 †  Won an NBA championship  *  Led the league     NBA record

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1984–85 Chicago 82* 82* 38.3 .515 .173 .845 6.5 5.9 2.4 .8 28.2
1985–86 Chicago 18 7 25.1 .457 .167 .840 3.6 2.9 2.1 1.2 22.7
1986–87 Chicago 82* 82* 40.0 .482 .182 .857 5.2 4.6 2.9 1.5 37.1*
1987–88 Chicago 82 82* 40.4* .535 .132 .841 5.5 5.9 3.2* 1.6 35.0*
1988–89 Chicago 81 81 40.2* .538 .276 .850 8.0 8.0 2.9 .8 32.5*
1989–90 Chicago 82* 82* 39.0 .526 .376 .848 6.9 6.3 2.8* .7 33.6*
1990–91† Chicago 82* 82* 37.0 .539 .312 .851 6.0 5.5 2.7 1.0 31.5*
1991–92† Chicago 80 80 38.8 .519 .270 .832 6.4 6.1 2.3 .9 30.1*
1992–93† Chicago 78 78 39.3 .495 .352 .837 6.7 5.5 2.8* .8 32.6*
1994–95 Chicago 17 17 39.3 .411 .500 .801 6.9 5.3 1.8 .8 26.9
1995–96† Chicago 82 82* 37.7 .495 .427 .834 6.6 4.3 2.2 .5 30.4*
1996–97† Chicago 82 82* 37.9 .486 .374 .833 5.9 4.3 1.7 .5 29.6*
1997–98† Chicago 82* 82* 38.8 .465 .238 .784 5.8 3.5 1.7 .5 28.7*
2001–02 Wash­ington 60 53 34.9 .416 .189 .790 5.7 5.2 1.4 .4 22.9
2002–03 Wash­ington 82 67 37.0 .445 .291 .821 6.1 3.8 1.5 .5 20.0
Career[13] 1,072 1,039 38.3 .497 .327 .835 6.2 5.3 2.3 .8 30.1 
All-Star[13] 13 13 29.4 .472 .273 .750 4.7 4.2 2.8 .5 20.2

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1985 Chicago 4 4 42.8 .436 .125 .828 5.8 8.5 2.8 1.0 29.3
1986 Chicago 3 3 45.0 .505 1.000 .872 6.3 5.7 2.3 1.3 43.7
1987 Chicago 3 3 42.7 .417 .400 .897 7.0 6.0 2.0 2.3 35.7
1988 Chicago 10 10 42.7 .531 .333 .869 7.1 4.7 2.4 1.1 36.3
1989 Chicago 17 17 42.2 .510 .286 .799 7.0 7.6 2.5 .8 34.8
1990 Chicago 16 16 42.1 .514 .320 .836 7.2 6.8 2.8 .9 36.7
1991† Chicago 17 17 40.5 .524 .385 .845 6.4 8.4 2.4 1.4 31.1
1992† Chicago 22 22 41.8 .499 .386 .857 6.2 5.8 2.0 .7 34.5
1993† Chicago 19 19 41.2 .475 .389 .805 6.7 6.0 2.1 .9 35.1
1995 Chicago 10 10 42.0 .484 .367 .810 6.5 4.5 2.3 1.4 31.5
1996† Chicago 18 18 40.7 .459 .403 .818 4.9 4.1 1.8 .3 30.7
1997† Chicago 19 19 42.3 .456 .194 .831 7.9 4.8 1.6 .9 31.1
1998† Chicago 21 21 41.5 .462 .302 .812 5.1 3.5 1.5 .6 32.4
Career[13] 179 179 41.8 .487 .332 .828 6.4 5.7 2.1 .8 33.4 

Awards and honors

Further information: List of career achievements by Michael Jordan
 
James Worthy, Jordan, and Dean Smith in 2007 at a North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball game honoring the 1957 and 1982 men's basketball teams
NBA
USA Basketball
NCAA
High school
Halls of Fame
Media
National
State/local

Post-retirement

 
Jordan on a golf course in 2007

After his third retirement, Jordan assumed that he would be able to return to his front office position as Director of Basketball Operations with the Wizards.[276] His previous tenure in the Wizards' front office had produced mixed results and may have also influenced the trade of Richard "Rip" Hamilton for Jerry Stackhouse, although Jordan was not technically Director of Basketball Operations in 2002.[170] On May 7, 2003, Wizards owner Abe Pollin fired Jordan as the team's president of basketball operations.[170] Jordan later stated that he felt betrayed, and that if he had known he would be fired upon retiring, he never would have come back to play for the Wizards.[109]

Jordan kept busy over the next few years. He stayed in shape, played golf in celebrity charity tournaments, and spent time with his family in Chicago. He also promoted his Jordan Brand clothing line and rode motorcycles.[277] Since 2004, Jordan has owned Michael Jordan Motorsports, a professional closed-course motorcycle road racing team that competed with two Suzukis in the premier Superbike championship sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) until the end of the 2013 season.[278][279]

Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets

On June 15, 2006, Jordan bought a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats (known as the Hornets since 2013), becoming the team's second-largest shareholder behind majority owner Robert L. Johnson. As part of the deal, Jordan took full control over the basketball side of the operation, with the title Managing Member of Basketball Operations.[280][281] Despite Jordan's previous success as an endorser, he has made an effort not to be included in Charlotte's marketing campaigns.[282] A decade earlier, Jordan had made a bid to become part-owner of Charlotte's original NBA team, the Charlotte Hornets, but talks collapsed when owner George Shinn refused to give Jordan complete control of basketball operations.[283]

In February 2010, it was reported that Jordan was seeking majority ownership of the Bobcats.[284] As February wore on, it became apparent that Jordan and former Houston Rockets president George Postolos were the leading contenders for ownership of the team. On February 27, the Bobcats announced that Johnson had reached an agreement with Jordan and his group, MJ Basketball Holdings, to buy the team from Johnson pending NBA approval.[285] On March 17, the NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved Jordan's purchase, making him the first former player to become the majority owner of an NBA team.[286] It also made him the league's only African-American majority owner.[287]

During the 2011 NBA lockout, The New York Times wrote that Jordan led a group of 10 to 14 hardline owners who wanted to cap the players' share of basketball-related income at 50 percent and as low as 47. Journalists observed that, during the labor dispute in 1998, Jordan had told Washington Wizards then-owner Abe Pollin: "If you can't make a profit, you should sell your team."[288] Jason Whitlock of FoxSports.com called Jordan "a hypocrite sellout who can easily betray the very people who made him a billionaire global icon" for wanting "current players to pay for his incompetence".[289] He cited Jordan's executive decisions to draft disappointing players Kwame Brown and Adam Morrison.[289]

During the 2011–12 NBA season that was shortened to 66 games by the lockout, the Bobcats posted a 7–59 record. The team closed out the season with a 23-game losing streak; their .106 winning percentage was the worst in NBA history.[290] Before the next season, Jordan said: "I'm not real happy about the record book scenario last year. It's very, very frustrating."[291]

During the 2019 NBA offseason, Jordan sold a minority piece of the Hornets to Gabe Plotkin and Daniel Sundheim, retaining the majority of the team for himself,[292] as well as the role of chairman.[293]

23XI Racing

On September 21, 2020, Jordan and NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin announced they would be fielding a NASCAR team with Bubba Wallace driving, beginning competition in the 2021 season. [294] On October 22, the team's name was confirmed to be 23XI Racing (pronounced twenty-three eleven) and the team's entry would bear No. 23.[295] As of the end of the 2022 season, 23XI Racing have 3 wins, 2 of them coming from Wallace, and 1 coming from Kurt Busch.[296]

Personal life

 
Jordan receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama at the White House

Jordan is the fourth of five children. He has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. Jordan Jr., one older sister, Deloris, and one younger sister, Roslyn.[297][298] James retired in 2006 as the command sergeant major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S. Army.[299] Jordan's nephew through Larry, Justin Jordan, played NCAA Division I basketball for the UNC Greensboro Spartans and is a scout for the Charlotte Hornets.[300][301]

Jordan married Juanita Vanoy on September 2, 1989, at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.[302][303] They had two sons, Jeffrey and Marcus, and a daughter, Jasmine.[304] The Jordans filed for divorce on January 4, 2002, citing irreconcilable differences, but reconciled shortly thereafter. They again filed for divorce and were granted a final decree of dissolution of marriage on December 29, 2006, commenting that the decision was made "mutually and amicably".[305][306] It is reported that Juanita received a $168 million settlement (equivalent to $226 million in 2021), making it the largest celebrity divorce settlement on public record at the time.[307][308]

In 1991, Jordan purchased a lot in Highland Park, Illinois, where he planned to build a 56,000 square-foot (5,200 m2) mansion. It was completed in 1995. He listed the mansion for sale in 2012.[309] He also owns homes in North Carolina and Jupiter Island, Florida.[310] His two sons attended Loyola Academy, a private Catholic school in Wilmette, Illinois.[311] Jeffrey graduated in 2007 and played his first collegiate basketball game for the University of Illinois on November 11, 2007. After two seasons, he left the Illinois basketball team in 2009. He later rejoined the team for a third season,[312][313] then received a release to transfer to the University of Central Florida, where Marcus was attending.[314][315] Marcus transferred to Whitney Young High School after his sophomore year at Loyola Academy and graduated in 2009. He began attending UCF in the fall of 2009,[316] and played three seasons of basketball for the school.[317]

On July 21, 2006, a judge in Cook County, Illinois, determined that Jordan did not owe his alleged former lover Karla Knafel $5 million in a breach of contract claim.[318] Jordan had allegedly paid Knafel $250,000 to keep their relationship a secret.[319][320][321] Knafel claimed Jordan promised her $5 million for remaining silent and agreeing not to file a paternity suit after Knafel learned she was pregnant in 1991; a DNA test showed Jordan was not the father of the child.[318]

Jordan proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto, on Christmas 2011,[322] and they were married on April 27, 2013, at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church.[323][324] It was announced on November 30, 2013, that the two were expecting their first child together.[325][326] On February 11, 2014, Prieto gave birth to identical twin daughters named Victoria and Ysabel.[327] In 2019, Jordan became a grandfather when his daughter Jasmine gave birth to a son, whose father is professional basketball player Rakeem Christmas.[328]

Media figure and business interests

Endorsements

 
Jordan in 2008

Jordan is one of the most marketed sports figures in history. He has been a major spokesman for such brands as Nike, Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, Gatorade, McDonald's, Ball Park Franks, Rayovac, Wheaties, Hanes, and MCI.[329] Jordan has had a long relationship with Gatorade, appearing in over 20 commercials for the company since 1991, including the "Be Like Mike" commercials in which a song was sung by children wishing to be like Jordan.[329][330]

Nike created a signature shoe for Jordan, called the Air Jordan, in 1984.[331] One of Jordan's more popular commercials for the shoe involved Spike Lee playing the part of Mars Blackmon. In the commercials, Lee, as Blackmon, attempted to find the source of Jordan's abilities and became convinced that "it's gotta be the shoes".[329] The hype and demand for the shoes even brought on a spate of "shoe-jackings" where people were robbed of their sneakers at gunpoint. Subsequently, Nike spun off the Jordan line into its own division named the "Jordan Brand". The company features an impressive list of athletes and celebrities as endorsers.[332][333] The brand has also sponsored college sports programs such as those of North Carolina, UCLA, California, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgetown, and Marquette.[334][335]

Jordan also has been associated with the Looney Tunes cartoon characters. A Nike commercial shown during 1992's Super Bowl XXVI featured Jordan and Bugs Bunny playing basketball.[336] The Super Bowl commercial inspired the 1996 live action/animated film Space Jam, which starred Jordan and Bugs in a fictional story set during the former's first retirement from basketball.[337] They have subsequently appeared together in several commercials for MCI.[337] Jordan also made an appearance in the music video for Michael Jackson's "Jam" (1992).[338]

Since 2008, Jordan's yearly income from the endorsements is estimated to be over $40 million.[339][340] In addition, when Jordan's power at the ticket gates was at its highest point, the Bulls regularly sold out both their home and road games.[341] Due to this, Jordan set records in player salary by signing annual contracts worth in excess of US$30 million per season.[342] An academic study found that Jordan's first NBA comeback resulted in an increase in the market capitalization of his client firms of more than $1 billion.[343]

Most of Jordan's endorsement deals, including his first deal with Nike, were engineered by his agent, David Falk.[344] Jordan has described Falk as "the best at what he does" and that "marketing-wise, he's great. He's the one who came up with the concept of 'Air Jordan.'"[345]

Business ventures

In June 2010, Jordan was ranked by Forbes as the 20th-most powerful celebrity in the world with $55 million earned between June 2009 and June 2010. According to Forbes, Jordan Brand generates $1 billion in sales for Nike.[346] In June 2014, Jordan was named the first NBA player to become a billionaire, after he increased his stake in the Charlotte Hornets from 80% to 89.5%.[347][348] On January 20, 2015, Jordan was honored with the Charlotte Business Journal's Business Person of the Year for 2014.[349] In 2017, he became a part owner of the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball.[350]

Forbes designated Jordan as the athlete with the highest career earnings in 2017.[351] From his Jordan Brand income and endorsements, Jordan's 2015 income was an estimated $110 million, the most of any retired athlete.[352] As of 2022, his net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion by Forbes,[29] making him the sixth-richest African-American, behind Robert F. Smith, David Steward, Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, and Rihanna.[353]

Jordan co-owns an automotive group which bears his name. The company has a Nissan dealership in Durham, North Carolina, acquired in 1990,[354] and formerly had a Lincoln–Mercury dealership from 1995 until its closure in June 2009.[355][356] The company also owned a Nissan franchise in Glen Burnie, Maryland.[355] The restaurant industry is another business interest of Jordan's. Restaurants he has owned include a steakhouse in New York City's Grand Central Terminal, among others;[357] that restaurant closed in 2018.[358] Jordan is the majority investor in a golf course, Grove XXIII, under construction in Hobe Sound, Florida.[359]

In September 2020, Jordan became an investor and advisor for DraftKings.[360]

Philanthropy

From 2001 to 2014, Jordan hosted an annual golf tournament, the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational, that raised money for various charities.[361] In 2006, Jordan and his wife Juanita pledged $5 million to Chicago's Hales Franciscan High School.[362] The Jordan Brand has made donations to Habitat for Humanity and a Louisiana branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.[363]

The Make-A-Wish Foundation named Jordan its Chief Wish Ambassador in 2008.[361] In 2013, he granted his 200th wish for the organization.[364] As of 2019, he has raised more than $5 million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.[361]

In 2015, Jordan donated a settlement of undisclosed size from a lawsuit against supermarkets that had used his name without permission to 23 different Chicago charities.[365] In 2017, Jordan funded two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Clinics in Charlotte, North Carolina, by giving $7 million, the biggest donation he had made at the time.[366] In 2018, after Hurricane Florence damaged parts of North Carolina, including his former hometown of Wilmington, Jordan donated $2 million to relief efforts.[367] He gave $1 million to aid the Bahamas' recovery following Hurricane Dorian in 2019.[368]

On June 5, 2020, in the wake of the protests following the murder of George Floyd, Jordan and his brand announced in a joint statement that they would be donating $100 million over the next 10 years to organizations dedicated to "ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education".[369] In February 2021, Jordan funded two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Clinics in New Hanover County, North Carolina, by giving $10 million.[370][371]

Film and television

Jordan played himself in the 1996 comedy film Space Jam. The film received mixed reviews,[26] but it was a box office success, making $230 million worldwide, and earned more than $1 billion through merchandise sales.[372]

In 2000, Jordan was the subject of an IMAX documentary about his career with the Chicago Bulls, especially the 1998 NBA playoffs, entitled Michael Jordan to the Max.[373] Two decades later, the same period of Jordan's life was covered in much greater and more personal detail by the Emmy Award-winning The Last Dance, a 10-part TV documentary which debuted on ESPN in April and May 2020. The Last Dance relied heavily on about 500 hours of candid film of Jordan's and his teammates' off-court activities which an NBA Entertainment crew had shot over the course of the 1997–98 NBA season for use in a documentary. The project was delayed for many years because Jordan had not yet given his permission for the footage to be used.[374][375] He was interviewed at three homes associated with the production and did not want cameras in his home or on his plane, as according to director Jason Hehir "there are certain aspects of his life that he wants to keep private".[376]

Jordan granted rapper Travis Scott permission to film a music video for his single "Franchise" at his home in Highland Park, Illinois.[377] Jordan appeared in the 2022 miniseries The Captain, which follows the life and career of Derek Jeter.[378]

Books

Jordan has authored several books focusing on his life, basketball career, and world view.

  • Rare Air: Michael on Michael, with Mark Vancil and Walter Iooss (Harper San Francisco, 1993).[379][380]
  • I Can't Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence, with Mark Vancil and Sandro Miller (Harper San Francisco, 1994).[381]
  • For the Love of the Game: My Story, with Mark Vancil (Crown Publishers, 1998).[382]
  • Driven from Within, with Mark Vancil (Atria Books, 2005).[383]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Jordan's weight fluctuated from 195 lb (88 kg) to 218 lb (99 kg) during the course of his professional career;[1][2][3] his NBA listed weight was 216 lb (98 kg).[4][5][6]
  2. ^ Jordan wore a nameless No. 12 jersey in a February 14, 1990, game against the Orlando Magic because his No. 23 jersey had been stolen.[7] Jordan scored 49 points, setting a franchise record for players wearing that jersey number.[8]

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This article is about the American basketball player For other people with the same name see Michael Jordan disambiguation Michael Jeffrey Jordan born February 17 1963 also known by his initials MJ 9 is an American businessman and former professional basketball player His biography on the official NBA website states By acclamation Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time 10 He played fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association NBA winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls Jordan is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA and of 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series He was integral in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s 11 becoming a global cultural icon in the process 12 Michael JordanJordan in 2014Charlotte HornetsPositionOwnerLeagueNBAPersonal informationBorn 1963 02 17 February 17 1963 age 59 Brooklyn New York U S Listed height6 ft 6 in 1 98 m Listed weight216 lb 98 kg a Career informationHigh schoolEmsley A Laney Wilmington North Carolina CollegeNorth Carolina 1981 1984 NBA draft1984 Round 1 Pick 3rd overallSelected by the Chicago BullsPlaying career1984 1993 1995 1998 2001 2003PositionShooting guardNumber23 12 b 45Career history1984 1993 1995 1998Chicago Bulls2001 2003Washington WizardsCareer highlights and awards6 NBA champion 1991 1993 1996 1998 6 NBA Finals MVP 1991 1993 1996 1998 5 NBA Most Valuable Player 1988 1991 1992 1996 1998 14 NBA All Star 1985 1993 1996 1998 2002 2003 3 NBA All Star Game MVP 1988 1996 1998 10 All NBA First Team 1987 1993 1996 1998 All NBA Second Team 1985 NBA Defensive Player of the Year 1988 9 NBA All Defensive First Team 1988 1993 1996 1998 NBA Rookie of the Year 1985 NBA All Rookie First Team 1985 10 NBA scoring champion 1987 1993 1996 1998 3 NBA steals leader 1988 1990 1993 2 NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion 1987 1988 No 23 retired by Chicago Bulls No 23 retired by Miami Heat 3 AP Athlete of the Year 1991 1993 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year 1991 2 IBM Award 1985 1989 NBA anniversary team 50th 75th NCAA champion 1982 National college player of the year 1984 2 Consensus first team All American 1983 1984 ACC Player of the Year 1984 2 First team All ACC 1983 1984 ACC Rookie of the Year 1982 No 23 retired by North Carolina Tar Heels 2 USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year 1983 1984 McDonald s All American 1981 First team Parade All American 1981 Presidential Medal of Freedom 2016 Career NBA statisticsPoints32 292 30 1 ppg Rebounds6 672 6 2 rpg Assists5 633 5 3 apg Stats at NBA comStats at Basketball Reference comBasketball Hall of Fame as playerFIBA Hall of Fame as playerMedals Men s basketballRepresenting the United StatesOlympic Games1984 Los Angeles Men s basketball1992 Barcelona Men s basketballTournament of the Americas1992 Portland Men s basketballPan American Games1983 Caracas Men s basketballJordan played college basketball for three seasons under coach Dean Smith with the North Carolina Tar Heels As a freshman he was a member of the Tar Heels national championship team in 1982 5 Jordan joined the Bulls in 1984 as the third overall draft pick 5 13 and quickly emerged as a league star entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring while gaining a reputation as one of the game s best defensive players 14 His leaping ability demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in Slam Dunk Contests earned him the nicknames Air Jordan and His Airness 5 13 Jordan won his first NBA title with the Bulls in 1991 and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993 securing a three peat Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the 1993 94 NBA season to play Minor League Baseball but returned to the Bulls in March 1995 and led them to three more championships in 1996 1997 and 1998 as well as a then record 72 regular season wins in the 1995 96 NBA season 5 He retired for the second time in January 1999 but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards 5 13 During the course of his professional career he was also selected to play for the United States national team winning four gold medals at the 1983 Pan American Games 1984 Summer Olympics 1992 Tournament of the Americas and 1992 Summer Olympics while also being undefeated 15 Jordan s individual accolades and accomplishments include six NBA Finals Most Valuable Player MVP awards ten NBA scoring titles both all time records five NBA MVP awards ten All NBA First Team designations nine All Defensive First Team honors fourteen NBA All Star Game selections three NBA All Star Game MVP awards three NBA steals titles and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award 13 He holds the NBA records for career regular season scoring average 30 12 points per game and career playoff scoring average 33 4 points per game 16 In 1999 he was named the 20th century s greatest North American athlete by ESPN and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press list of athletes of the century 5 Jordan was twice inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame once in 2009 for his individual career 17 and again in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States men s Olympic basketball team The Dream Team 18 He became a member of the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 2009 19 a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 20 and an individual member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015 and a Dream Team member in 2017 21 22 In 2021 Jordan was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team 23 One of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation 11 Jordan is known for his product endorsements 24 He fueled the success of Nike s Air Jordan sneakers which were introduced in 1984 and remain popular today 25 Jordan also starred as himself in the 1996 live action animation hybrid film Space Jam and is the central focus of the Emmy Award winning documentary miniseries The Last Dance 2020 26 He became part owner and head of basketball operations for the Charlotte Bobcats now named the Hornets in 2006 25 and bought a controlling interest in 2010 In 2016 Jordan became the first billionaire player in NBA history 27 That year President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom 28 As of 2022 Jordan s net worth is estimated at 1 7 billion 29 Contents 1 Early life 2 College career 3 Professional career 3 1 Chicago Bulls 1984 1993 1995 1998 3 1 1 Early NBA years 1984 1987 3 1 2 Pistons roadblock 1987 1990 3 1 3 First three peat 1991 1993 3 1 4 Gambling 3 1 5 First retirement and stint in Minor League Baseball 1993 1995 3 1 6 I m back Return to the NBA 1995 3 1 7 Second three peat 1995 1998 3 1 8 Second retirement 1999 2001 3 2 Washington Wizards 2001 2003 3 2 1 Final retirement 2003 4 National team career 5 Player profile 6 Legacy 7 NBA career statistics 7 1 Regular season 7 2 Playoffs 8 Awards and honors 9 Post retirement 9 1 Charlotte Bobcats Hornets 9 2 23XI Racing 10 Personal life 11 Media figure and business interests 11 1 Endorsements 11 2 Business ventures 11 3 Philanthropy 11 4 Film and television 11 5 Books 12 See also 13 Notes 14 References 15 Sources 16 Further reading 17 External linksEarly lifeJordan was born at Cumberland Hospital in Fort Greene Brooklyn New York City on February 17 1963 30 the son of bank employee Deloris nee Peoples and equipment supervisor James R Jordan Sr 30 31 In 1968 he moved with his family to Wilmington North Carolina 32 Jordan attended Emsley A Laney High School in Wilmington where he highlighted his athletic career by playing basketball baseball and football He tried out for the basketball varsity team during his sophomore year at 5 feet 11 inches 1 80 m he was deemed too short to play at that level His taller friend Harvest Leroy Smith was the only sophomore to make the team 33 34 Motivated to prove his worth Jordan became the star of Laney s junior varsity team and tallied some 40 point games 33 The following summer he grew four inches 10 cm and trained rigorously 34 Upon earning a spot on the varsity roster Jordan averaged more than 25 points per game ppg over his final two seasons of high school play 35 As a senior he was selected to play in the 1981 McDonald s All American Game and scored 30 points 36 37 after averaging 27 ppg 35 12 rebounds rpg 38 39 and six assists per game apg for the season 39 40 41 Jordan was recruited by numerous college basketball programs including Duke North Carolina South Carolina Syracuse and Virginia 42 In 1981 he accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he majored in cultural geography 43 College career Jordan going in for a slam dunk for the Laney High School varsity basketball team 1979 80 Jordan in action for North Carolina in 1983 As a freshman in coach Dean Smith s team oriented system Jordan was named ACC Freshman of the Year after he averaged 13 4 ppg on 53 4 shooting field goal percentage 44 He made the game winning jump shot in the 1982 NCAA Championship game against Georgetown which was led by future NBA rival Patrick Ewing 45 Jordan later described this shot as the major turning point in his basketball career 46 47 During his three seasons with the Tar Heels he averaged 17 7 ppg on 54 0 shooting and added 5 0 rpg and 1 8 apg 13 Jordan was selected by consensus to the NCAA All American First Team in both his sophomore 1983 and junior 1984 seasons 48 49 After winning the Naismith and the Wooden College Player of the Year awards in 1984 Jordan left North Carolina one year before his scheduled graduation to enter the 1984 NBA draft Jordan returned to North Carolina to complete his degree in 1986 50 when he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography 51 In 2002 Jordan was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men s basketball team honoring the 50 greatest players in ACC history 52 Professional careerChicago Bulls 1984 1993 1995 1998 Early NBA years 1984 1987 The Chicago Bulls selected Jordan with the third overall pick of the 1984 NBA draft after Hakeem Olajuwon Houston Rockets and Sam Bowie Portland Trail Blazers One of the primary reasons why Jordan was not drafted sooner was because the first two teams were in need of a center 53 Trail Blazers general manager Stu Inman contended that it was not a matter of drafting a center but more a matter of taking Bowie over Jordan in part because Portland already had Clyde Drexler who was a guard with similar skills to Jordan 54 Citing Bowie s injury laden college career ESPN named the Blazers choice of Bowie as the worst draft pick in North American professional sports history 55 Jordan made his NBA debut at Chicago Stadium on October 26 1984 and scored 16 points In 2021 a ticket stub from the game sold at auction for 264 000 setting a record for a collectible ticket stub 56 During his rookie 1984 85 season with the Bulls Jordan averaged 28 2 ppg on 51 5 shooting 44 and helped make a team that had won 35 of games in the previous three seasons playoff contenders He quickly became a fan favorite even in opposing arenas 57 58 59 Roy S Johnson of The New York Times described him as the phenomenal rookie of the Bulls in November 59 and Jordan appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the heading A Star Is Born in December 60 61 The fans also voted in Jordan as an All Star starter during his rookie season 5 Controversy arose before the 1985 NBA All Star Game when word surfaced that several veteran players led by Isiah Thomas were upset by the amount of attention Jordan was receiving 5 This led to a so called freeze out on Jordan where players refused to pass the ball to him throughout the game 5 The controversy left Jordan relatively unaffected when he returned to regular season play and he would go on to be voted the NBA Rookie of the Year 62 The Bulls finished the season 38 44 63 and lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in four games in the first round of the playoffs 62 An often cited moment was on August 26 1985 35 64 when Jordan shook the arena during a Nike exhibition game in Trieste Italy by shattering the glass of the backboard with a dunk 65 66 The moment was filmed and is often referred to worldwide as an important milestone in Jordan s rise 66 67 The shoes Jordan wore during the game were auctioned in August 2020 and sold for 615 000 a record for a pair of sneakers 68 69 Jordan s 1985 86 season was cut short when he broke his foot in the third game of the year causing him to miss 64 games 70 The Bulls made the playoffs despite Jordan s injury and a 30 52 record 63 at the time the fifth worst record of any team to qualify for the playoffs in NBA history 71 Jordan recovered in time to participate in the postseason and performed well upon his return Against a Boston Celtics team that is often considered one of the greatest in NBA history 72 Jordan set the still unbroken record for points in a playoff game with 63 in Game 2 73 but the Celtics managed to sweep the series 62 Jordan completely recovered in time for the 1986 87 season 74 and had one of the most prolific scoring seasons in NBA history he became the only player other than Wilt Chamberlain to score 3 000 points in a season averaging a league high 37 1 ppg on 48 2 shooting 44 75 In addition Jordan demonstrated his defensive prowess as he became the first player in NBA history to record 200 steals and 100 blocked shots in a season 76 Despite Jordan s success Magic Johnson won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award 77 The Bulls reached 40 wins 63 and advanced to the playoffs for the third consecutive year but were again swept by the Celtics 62 Pistons roadblock 1987 1990 Jordan again led the league in scoring during the 1987 88 season averaging 35 0 ppg on 53 5 shooting 44 and he won his first league MVP Award He was also named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year as he averaged 1 6 blocks per game bpg a league high 3 1 steals per game spg 78 and led the Bulls defense to the fewest points per game allowed in the league 79 The Bulls finished 50 32 63 and made it out of the first round of the playoffs for the first time in Jordan s career as they defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games 80 In the Eastern Conference Semifinals the Bulls lost in five games to the more experienced Detroit Pistons 62 who were led by Isiah Thomas and a group of physical players known as the Bad Boys 81 In the 1988 89 season Jordan again led the league in scoring averaging 32 5 ppg on 53 8 shooting from the field along with 8 rpg and 8 apg 44 During the season Sam Vincent Chicago s point guard was having trouble running the offense and Jordan expressed his frustration with head coach Doug Collins who would put Jordan at point guard In his time as a point guard Jordan averaged 10 triple doubles in eleven games with 33 6 ppg 11 4 rpg 10 8 apg 2 9 spg and 0 8 bpg on 51 shooting 82 The Bulls finished with a 47 35 record 63 and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals defeating the Cavaliers and New York Knicks along the way 83 The Cavaliers series included a career highlight for Jordan when he hit The Shot over Craig Ehlo at the buzzer in the fifth and final game of the series 84 In the Eastern Conference Finals the Pistons again defeated the Bulls this time in six games 62 by utilizing their Jordan Rules method of guarding Jordan which consisted of double and triple teaming him every time he touched the ball 5 The Bulls entered the 1989 90 season as a team on the rise with their core group of Jordan and young improving players like Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant and under the guidance of new coach Phil Jackson 85 On March 28 1990 Jordan scored a career high 69 points in a 117 113 road win over the Cavaliers 86 He averaged a league leading 33 6 ppg on 52 6 shooting to go with 6 9 rpg and 6 3 apg 44 in leading the Bulls to a 55 27 record 63 They again advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals after beating the Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers 87 despite pushing the series to seven games the Bulls lost to the Pistons for the third consecutive season 62 First three peat 1991 1993 In the 1990 91 season Jordan won his second MVP award after averaging 31 5 ppg on 53 9 shooting 6 0 rpg and 5 5 apg for the regular season 44 The Bulls finished in first place in their division for the first time in sixteen years and set a franchise record with 61 wins in the regular season 63 With Scottie Pippen developing into an All Star the Bulls had elevated their play The Bulls defeated the New York Knicks and the Philadelphia 76ers in the opening two rounds of the playoffs They advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals where their rival the Detroit Pistons awaited them 88 this time the Bulls beat the Pistons in a four game sweep 89 The Bulls advanced to the Finals for the first time in franchise history to face the Los Angeles Lakers who had Magic Johnson and James Worthy two formidable opponents The Bulls won the series four games to one and compiled a 15 2 playoff record along the way 88 Perhaps the best known moment of the series came in Game 2 when attempting a dunk Jordan avoided a potential Sam Perkins block by switching the ball from his right hand to his left in mid air to lay the shot into the basket 90 In his first Finals appearance Jordan had 31 2 ppg on 56 shooting from the field 11 4 apg 6 6 rpg 2 8 spg and 1 4 bpg 91 Jordan won his first NBA Finals MVP award 92 and he cried while holding the Finals trophy 93 Jordan and the Bulls continued their dominance in the 1991 92 season establishing a 67 15 record topping their franchise record from 1990 91 63 Jordan won his second consecutive MVP award with averages of 30 1 ppg 6 4 rbg and 6 1 apg on 52 shooting 78 After winning a physical seven game series over the New York Knicks in the second round of the playoffs and finishing off the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Conference Finals in six games the Bulls met Clyde Drexler and the Portland Trail Blazers in the Finals The media hoping to recreate a Magic Bird rivalry highlighted the similarities between Air Jordan and Clyde The Glide during the pre Finals hype 94 In the first game Jordan scored a Finals record 35 points in the first half including a record setting six three point field goals 95 After the sixth three pointer he jogged down the court shrugging as he looked courtside Marv Albert who broadcast the game later stated that it was as if Jordan was saying I can t believe I m doing this 96 The Bulls went on to win Game 1 and defeat the Blazers in six games Jordan was named Finals MVP for the second year in a row 92 and finished the series averaging 35 8 ppg 4 8 rpg and 6 5 apg while shooting 52 6 from the floor 97 Jordan in 1992 In the 1992 93 season despite a 32 6 ppg 6 7 rpg and 5 5 apg campaign including a second place finish in Defensive Player of the Year voting 78 98 Jordan s streak of consecutive MVP seasons ended as he lost the award to his friend Charles Barkley 77 which upset him 99 Coincidentally Jordan and the Bulls met Barkley and his Phoenix Suns in the 1993 NBA Finals The Bulls won their third NBA championship on a game winning shot by John Paxson and a last second block by Horace Grant but Jordan was once again Chicago s leader He averaged a Finals record 41 0 ppg during the six game series 100 and became the first player in NBA history to win three straight Finals MVP awards 92 He scored more than 30 points in every game of the series including 40 or more points in four consecutive games 101 With his third Finals triumph Jordan capped off a seven year run where he attained seven scoring titles and three championships but there were signs that Jordan was tiring of his massive celebrity and all of the non basketball hassles in his life 102 Gambling During the Bulls 1993 NBA playoffs Jordan was seen gambling in Atlantic City New Jersey the night before Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the New York Knicks 103 The previous year he admitted that he had to cover 57 000 in gambling losses 104 and author Richard Esquinas wrote a book in 1993 claiming he had won 1 25 million from Jordan on the golf course 105 David Stern the commissioner of the NBA denied in 1995 and 2006 that Jordan s 1993 retirement was a secret suspension by the league for gambling 106 107 but the rumor spread widely 108 In 2005 Jordan discussed his gambling with Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes and admitted that he made reckless decisions Jordan stated Yeah I ve gotten myself into situations where I would not walk away and I ve pushed the envelope Is that compulsive Yeah it depends on how you look at it If you re willing to jeopardize your livelihood and your family then yeah When Bradley asked him if his gambling ever got to the level where it jeopardized his livelihood or family Jordan replied No 109 In 2010 Ron Shelton director of Jordan Rides the Bus said that he began working on the documentary believing that the NBA had suspended him but that research convinced him it was nonsense 108 First retirement and stint in Minor League Baseball 1993 1995 Michael Jordan Jordan in training with the Scottsdale Scorpions in 1994Birmingham Barons No 45 35OutfielderBatted RightThrew RightProfessional debutSouthern League April 8 1994 for the Birmingham BaronsArizona Fall League 1994 for the Scottsdale ScorpionsLast Southern League appearanceMarch 10 1995 for the Birmingham BaronsSouthern League statistics through 1994 Batting average 202Home runs3Runs batted in51Arizona Fall League statisticsBatting average 252Runs batted in8TeamsBirmingham Barons 1994 1995 Scottsdale Scorpions 1994 On October 6 1993 Jordan announced his retirement saying that he lost his desire to play basketball Jordan later said that the murder of his father three months earlier helped shape his decision 110 James R Jordan Sr was murdered on July 23 1993 at a highway rest area in Lumberton North Carolina by two teenagers Daniel Green and Larry Martin Demery who carjacked his Lexus bearing the license plate UNC 0023 111 112 His body dumped in a South Carolina swamp was not discovered until August 3 112 Green and Demery were found after they made calls on James Jordan s cell phone 113 convicted at a trial and sentenced to life in prison 114 Jordan was close to his father as a child he imitated the way his father stuck out his tongue while absorbed in work He later adopted it as his own signature often displaying it as he drove to the basket 5 In 1996 he founded a Chicago area Boys amp Girls Club and dedicated it to his father 115 116 In his 1998 autobiography For the Love of the Game Jordan wrote that he was preparing for retirement as early as the summer of 1992 117 The added exhaustion due to the Dream Team run in the 1992 Summer Olympics solidified Jordan s feelings about the game and his ever growing celebrity status Jordan s announcement sent shock waves throughout the NBA and appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world 118 Jordan further surprised the sports world by signing a Minor League Baseball contract with the Chicago White Sox on February 7 1994 119 He reported to spring training in Sarasota Florida and was assigned to the team s minor league system on March 31 1994 120 Jordan said that this decision was made to pursue the dream of his late father who always envisioned his son as a Major League Baseball player 121 The White Sox were owned by Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf who continued to honor Jordan s basketball contract during the years he played baseball 122 In 1994 Jordan played for the Birmingham Barons a Double A minor league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox batting 202 with three home runs 51 runs batted in 30 stolen bases 114 strikeouts 51 bases on balls and 11 errors 123 124 His strikeout total led the team and his games played tied for the team lead His 30 stolen bases were second on the team only to Doug Brady 125 He also appeared for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the 1994 Arizona Fall League batting 252 against the top prospects in baseball 120 On November 1 1994 his No 23 was retired by the Bulls in a ceremony that included the erection of a permanent sculpture known as The Spirit outside the new United Center 126 127 128 I m back Return to the NBA 1995 The Bulls went 55 27 in 1993 94 without Jordan in the lineup 63 and lost to the New York Knicks in the second round of the playoffs 129 The 1994 95 Bulls were a shell of the championship team of just two years earlier Struggling at mid season to ensure a spot in the playoffs Chicago was 31 31 at one point in mid March 130 the team received help when Jordan decided to return to the Bulls 131 In March 1995 Jordan decided to quit baseball because he feared he might become a replacement player during the Major League Baseball strike 132 On March 18 1995 Jordan announced his return to the NBA through a two word press release I m back 133 The next day Jordan took to the court with the Bulls to face the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis scoring 19 points 134 The game had the highest Nielsen rating of any regular season NBA game since 1975 135 Although he could have worn his original number even though the Bulls retired it Jordan wore No 45 his baseball number 134 Despite his eighteen month hiatus from the NBA Jordan played well making a game winning jump shot against Atlanta in his fourth game back He scored 55 points in his next game against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on March 28 1995 62 Boosted by Jordan s comeback the Bulls went 13 4 to make the playoffs and advanced to the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Orlando Magic 136 At the end of Game 1 Orlando s Nick Anderson stripped Jordan from behind leading to the game winning basket for the Magic he later commented that Jordan didn t look like the old Michael Jordan 137 and said that No 45 doesn t explode like No 23 used to 138 Jordan responded by scoring 38 points in the next game which Chicago won Before the game Jordan decided that he would immediately resume wearing his former No 23 The Bulls were fined 25 000 for failing to report the impromptu number change to the NBA 138 Jordan was fined an additional 5 000 for opting to wear white sneakers when the rest of the Bulls wore black 139 He averaged 31 ppg in the playoffs but Orlando won the series in six games 140 Second three peat 1995 1998 Jordan was freshly motivated by the playoff defeat and he trained aggressively for the 1995 96 season 141 The Bulls were strengthened by the addition of rebound specialist Dennis Rodman and the team dominated the league starting the season at 41 3 142 The Bulls eventually finished with the best regular season record in NBA history 72 10 a mark broken two decades later by the 2015 16 Golden State Warriors 143 Jordan led the league in scoring with 30 4 ppg 144 and he won the league s regular season and All Star Game MVP awards 13 In the playoffs the Bulls lost only three games in four series Miami Heat 3 0 New York Knicks 4 1 and Orlando Magic 4 0 as they defeated the Seattle SuperSonics 4 2 in the NBA Finals to win their fourth championship 142 Jordan was named Finals MVP for a record fourth time surpassing Magic Johnson s three Finals MVP awards 92 he also achieved only the second sweep of the MVP awards in the All Star Game regular season and NBA Finals after Willis Reed in the 1969 70 season 62 Upon winning the championship his first since his father s murder Jordan reacted emotionally clutching the game ball and crying on the locker room floor 5 93 In the 1996 97 season the Bulls stood at a 69 11 record but ended the season by losing their final two games to finish the year 69 13 missing out on a second consecutive 70 win season 145 The Bulls again advanced to the Finals where they faced the Utah Jazz 146 That team included Karl Malone who had beaten Jordan for the NBA MVP award in a tight race 986 957 147 148 149 The series against the Jazz featured two of the more memorable clutch moments of Jordan s career He won Game 1 for the Bulls with a buzzer beating jump shot In Game 5 with the series tied at 2 Jordan played despite being feverish and dehydrated from a stomach virus In what is known as The Flu Game Jordan scored 38 points including the game deciding 3 pointer with 25 seconds remaining 146 The Bulls won 90 88 and went on to win the series in six games 145 For the fifth time in as many Finals appearances Jordan received the Finals MVP award 92 During the 1997 NBA All Star Game Jordan posted the first triple double in All Star Game history in a victorious effort but the MVP award went to Glen Rice 150 Jordan with coach Phil Jackson in 1997 Jordan and the Bulls compiled a 62 20 record in the 1997 98 season 63 Jordan led the league with 28 7 ppg 78 securing his fifth regular season MVP award plus honors for All NBA First Team First Defensive Team and the All Star Game MVP 13 The Bulls won the Eastern Conference Championship for a third straight season including surviving a seven game series with the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals it was the first time Jordan had played in a Game 7 since the 1992 Eastern Conference Semifinals with the New York Knicks 151 152 After winning they moved on for a rematch with the Jazz in the Finals 153 The Bulls returned to the Delta Center for Game 6 on June 14 1998 leading the series 3 2 Jordan executed a series of plays considered to be one of the greatest clutch performances in NBA Finals history 154 With 41 9 seconds remaining and the Bulls trailing 86 83 Phil Jackson called a timeout When play resumed Jordan received the inbound pass drove to the basket and sank a shot over several Jazz defenders cutting Utah s lead to 86 85 154 The Jazz brought the ball upcourt and passed the ball to Malone who was set up in the low post and was being guarded by Rodman Malone jostled with Rodman and caught the pass but Jordan cut behind him and stole the ball out of his hands 154 Jordan then dribbled down the court and paused eyeing his defender Jazz guard Bryon Russell With 10 seconds remaining Jordan started to dribble right then crossed over to his left possibly pushing off Russell although the officials did not call a foul 155 156 157 158 With 5 2 seconds left Jordan made the climactic shot of his Bulls career 159 a top key jumper over a stumbling Russell to give Chicago an 87 86 lead Afterwards the Jazz John Stockton narrowly missed a game winning three pointer and the buzzer sounded as Jordan and the Bulls won their sixth NBA championship 160 achieving a second three peat in the decade 161 Once again Jordan was voted Finals MVP 92 having led all scorers by averaging 33 5 ppg including 45 in the deciding Game 6 162 Jordan s six Finals MVPs is a record 163 The 1998 Finals holds the highest television rating of any Finals series in history 164 and Game 6 holds the highest television rating of any game in NBA history 165 Second retirement 1999 2001 Plaque at the United Center that chronicles Jordan s career achievements With Phil Jackson s contract expiring the pending departures of Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman looming and being in the latter stages of an owner induced lockout of NBA players Jordan retired for the second time on January 13 1999 166 167 168 On January 19 2000 Jordan returned to the NBA not as a player but as part owner and president of basketball operations for the Washington Wizards 169 Jordan s responsibilities with the Wizards were comprehensive as he controlled all aspects of the Wizards basketball operations and had the final say in all personnel matters opinions of Jordan as a basketball executive were mixed 170 171 He managed to purge the team of several highly paid unpopular players like forward Juwan Howard and point guard Rod Strickland 172 173 but used the first pick in the 2001 NBA draft to select high schooler Kwame Brown who did not live up to expectations and was traded away after four seasons 170 174 Despite his January 1999 claim that he was 99 9 certain he would never play another NBA game 93 Jordan expressed interest in making another comeback in the summer of 2001 this time with his new team 175 176 Inspired by the NHL comeback of his friend Mario Lemieux the previous winter 177 Jordan spent much of the spring and summer of 2001 in training holding several invitation only camps for NBA players in Chicago 178 In addition Jordan hired his old Chicago Bulls head coach Doug Collins as Washington s coach for the upcoming season a decision that many saw as foreshadowing another Jordan return 175 176 Washington Wizards 2001 2003 On September 25 2001 Jordan announced his return to the NBA to play for the Washington Wizards indicating his intention to donate his salary as a player to a relief effort for the victims of the September 11 attacks 179 180 In an injury plagued 2001 02 season Jordan led the team in scoring 22 9 ppg assists 5 2 apg and steals 1 4 spg 5 and was an MVP candidate as he led the Wizards to a winning record and playoff contention 181 182 he would eventually finish 13th in the MVP ballot 183 After suffering torn cartilage in his right knee 184 and subsequent knee soreness 185 the Wizards missed the playoffs 186 and Jordan s season ended after only 60 games the fewest he had played in a regular season since playing 17 games after returning from his first retirement during the 1994 95 season 44 Jordan started 53 of his 60 games for the season averaging 24 3 ppg 5 4 apg and 6 0 rpg and shooting 41 9 from the field in his 53 starts His last seven appearances were in a reserve role in which he averaged just over 20 minutes per game 187 The Wizards finished the season with a 37 45 record an 18 game improvement 186 Jordan as a member of the Washington Wizards April 14 2003 Playing in his 14th and final NBA All Star Game in 2003 Jordan passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar as the all time leading scorer in All Star Game history a record since broken by Kobe Bryant and LeBron James 188 189 That year Jordan was the only Washington player to play in all 82 games starting in 67 of them and coming from off the bench in 15 He averaged 20 0 ppg 6 1 rpg 3 8 assists and 1 5 spg per game 5 He also shot 45 from the field and 82 from the free throw line 44 Even though he turned 40 during the season he scored 20 or more points 42 times 30 or more points nine times and 40 or more points three times 62 On February 21 2003 Jordan became the first 40 year old to tally 43 points in an NBA game 190 During his stint with the Wizards all of Jordan s home games at the MCI Center were sold out and the Wizards were the second most watched team in the NBA averaging 20 172 fans a game at home and 19 311 on the road 191 Jordan s final two seasons did not result in a playoff appearance for the Wizards and he was often unsatisfied with the play of those around him 192 193 At several points he openly criticized his teammates to the media citing their lack of focus and intensity notably that of Kwame Brown the number one draft pick in the 2001 NBA draft 192 193 Final retirement 2003 With the recognition that 2002 03 would be Jordan s final season tributes were paid to him throughout the NBA In his final game at the United Center in Chicago which was his old home court Jordan received a four minute standing ovation 194 The Miami Heat retired the No 23 jersey on April 11 2003 even though Jordan never played for the team 195 At the 2003 All Star Game Jordan was offered a starting spot from Tracy McGrady and Allen Iverson but refused both 196 in the end he accepted the spot of Vince Carter 197 Jordan played in his final NBA game on April 16 2003 in Philadelphia After scoring 13 points in the game Jordan went to the bench with 4 minutes and 13 seconds remaining in the third quarter and his team trailing the Philadelphia 76ers 75 56 Just after the start of the fourth quarter the First Union Center crowd began chanting We want Mike After much encouragement from coach Doug Collins Jordan finally rose from the bench and re entered the game replacing Larry Hughes with 2 35 remaining At 1 45 Jordan was intentionally fouled by the 76ers Eric Snow and stepped to the line to make both free throws After the second foul shot the 76ers in bounded the ball to rookie John Salmons who in turn was intentionally fouled by Bobby Simmons one second later stopping time so that Jordan could return to the bench Jordan received a three minute standing ovation from his teammates his opponents the officials and the crowd of 21 257 fans 198 National team career Jordan on the Dream Team in 1992 Jordan made his debut for the U S national basketball team at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas Venezuela He led the team in scoring with 17 3 ppg as the U S coached by Jack Hartman won the gold medal in the competition 199 200 A year later he won another gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 U S team was coached by Bob Knight and featured players such as Patrick Ewing Sam Perkins Chris Mullin Steve Alford and Wayman Tisdale Jordan led the team in scoring averaging 17 1 ppg for the tournament 201 In 1992 Jordan was a member of the star studded squad that was dubbed the Dream Team which included Larry Bird and Magic Johnson The team went on to win two gold medals the first one in the 1992 Tournament of the Americas 202 and the second one in the 1992 Summer Olympics He was the only player to start all eight games in the Olympics averaged 14 9 ppg and finished second on the team in scoring 203 Jordan was undefeated in the four tournaments he played for the United States national team winning all 30 games he took part in 15 Player profile Jordan dunking the ball 1987 88 Jordan was a shooting guard who could also play as a small forward the position he would primarily play during his second return to professional basketball with the Washington Wizards 13 and as a point guard 82 Jordan was known throughout his career as a strong clutch performer With the Bulls he decided 25 games with field goals or free throws in the last 30 seconds including two NBA Finals games and five other playoff contests 204 His competitiveness was visible in his prolific trash talk and well known work ethic 205 206 207 Jordan often used perceived slights to fuel his performances Sportswriter Wright Thompson described him as a killer in the Darwinian sense of the word immediately sensing and attacking someone s weakest spot 3 As the Bulls organization built the franchise around Jordan management had to trade away players who were not tough enough to compete with him in practice To help improve his defense he spent extra hours studying film of opponents On offense he relied more upon instinct and improvization at game time 208 Noted as a durable player Jordan did not miss four or more games while active for a full season from 1986 87 to 2001 02 when he injured his right knee 13 209 Of the 15 seasons Jordan was in the NBA he played all 82 regular season games nine times 13 Jordan has frequently cited David Thompson Walter Davis and Jerry West as influences 210 211 Confirmed at the start of his career and possibly later on Jordan had a special Love of the Game Clause written into his contract which was unusual at the time and allowed him to play basketball against anyone at any time anywhere 212 Jordan had a versatile offensive game and was capable of aggressively driving to the basket as well as drawing fouls from his opponents at a high rate His 8 772 free throw attempts are the 11th highest total in NBA history 213 As his career progressed Jordan also developed the ability to post up his opponents and score with his trademark fadeaway jump shot using his leaping ability to avoid block attempts According to Hubie Brown this move alone made him nearly unstoppable 214 Despite media criticism by some as a selfish player early in his career Jordan was willing to defer to this teammates with a career average of 5 3 apg and a season high of 8 0 apg 44 For a guard Jordan was also a good rebounder finishing with 6 2 rpg Defensively he averaged 2 3 spg and 0 8 bpg 44 Three point field goal was not Jordan s strength especially in his early years Later on in Jordan s career he improved his three point shooting and finished his career with a respectable 32 success rate 44 His three point field goal percentages ranged from 35 to 43 in seasons in which he attempted at least 230 three pointers between 1989 90 and 1996 97 13 Jordan s effective field goal percentage was 50 and he had six seasons with at least 50 shooting five of which consecutively 1988 1992 he also shot 51 and 50 and 30 and 33 from the three point range throughout his first and second retirements respectively finishing his Chicago Bulls career with 31 5 points per game on 50 5 FG shooting and his overall career with 49 7 FG shooting 13 Unlike NBA players often compared to Jordan such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James who had a similar three point percentage he did not shoot as many threes as they did as he did not need to rely on the three pointer in order to be effective on offense Three point shooting was only introduced in 1979 and would not be a more fundamental aspect of the game until the first decades of the 21st century 215 with the NBA having to briefly shorten the line to incentivize more shots 216 Jordan s three point shooting was better selected resulting in three point field goals made in important games during the playoffs and the Finals such as hitting six consecutive three point shots in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals Jordan shot 37 35 42 and 37 in all the seasons he shot over 200 three pointers and also shot 38 5 38 6 38 9 40 3 19 4 and 30 2 in the playoffs during his championship runs improving his shooting even after the three point line reverted to the original line 217 218 219 In 1988 Jordan was honored with the NBA Defensive Player of the Year and the Most Valuable Player awards becoming the first NBA player to win both awards in a career let alone season In addition he set both seasonal and career records for blocked shots by a guard 220 and combined this with his ball thieving ability to become a standout defensive player He ranks third in NBA history in total steals with 2 514 trailing John Stockton and Jason Kidd 221 Jerry West often stated that he was more impressed with Jordan s defensive contributions than his offensive ones 222 Doc Rivers declared Jordan the best superstar defender in the history of the game 223 Jordan was known to have strong eyesight Broadcaster Al Michaels said that he was able to read baseball box scores on a 27 inch 69 cm television clearly from about 50 feet 15 m away 224 During the 2001 NBA Finals Phil Jackson compared Jordan s dominance to Shaquille O Neal stating Michael would get fouled on every play and still have to play through it and just clear himself for shots instead and would rise to that occasion 225 LegacyJordan s talent was clear from his first NBA season by November 1984 he was being compared to Julius Erving 57 59 Larry Bird said that rookie Jordan was the best player he ever saw and that he was one of a kind and comparable to Wayne Gretzky as an athlete 226 In his first game in Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks Jordan received a near minute long standing ovation 59 After establishing the single game playoff record of 63 points against the Boston Celtics on April 20 1986 Bird described him as God disguised as Michael Jordan 73 Jordan led the NBA in scoring in 10 seasons NBA record and tied Wilt Chamberlain s record of seven consecutive scoring titles 5 He was also a fixture of the NBA All Defensive First Team making the roster nine times NBA record shared with Gary Payton Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant 227 Jordan also holds the top career regular season and playoff scoring averages of 30 1 and 33 4 ppg respectively 16 228 By 1998 the season of his Finals winning shot against the Jazz he was well known throughout the league as a clutch performer In the regular season Jordan was the Bulls primary threat in the final seconds of a close game and in the playoffs he would always ask for the ball at crunch time 229 Jordan s total of 5 987 points in the playoffs is the second highest among NBA career playoff scoring leaders 230 He retired with 32 292 points in regular season play 231 placing him fifth on the NBA all time scoring list behind Kareem Abdul Jabbar LeBron James Karl Malone and Bryant 231 With five regular season MVPs tied for second place with Bill Russell only Abdul Jabbar has won more with six six Finals MVPs NBA record and three NBA All Star Game MVPs Jordan is the most decorated player in NBA history 13 232 Jordan finished among the top three in regular season MVP voting 10 times 13 He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996 233 and selected to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021 23 Jordan is one of only seven players in history to win an NCAA championship an NBA championship and an Olympic gold medal doing so twice with the 1984 and 1992 U S men s basketball teams 234 Since 1976 the year of the ABA NBA merger 235 Jordan and Pippen are the only two players to win six NBA Finals playing for one team 236 In the All Star Game fan ballot Jordan received the most votes nine times more than any other player 237 There s Michael Jordan and then there is the rest of us Magic Johnson 5 Many of Jordan s contemporaries have said that Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time 222 In 1999 an ESPN survey of journalists athletes and other sports figures ranked Jordan the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century above Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali 238 Jordan placed second to Ruth in the Associated Press December 1999 list of 20th century athletes 239 In addition the Associated Press voted him the greatest basketball player of the 20th century 240 Jordan has also appeared on the front cover of Sports Illustrated a record 50 times 241 In the September 1996 issue of Sport which was the publication s 50th anniversary issue Jordan was named the greatest athlete of the past 50 years 242 Jordan s athletic leaping ability highlighted in his back to back Slam Dunk Contest championships in 1987 and 1988 is credited by many people with having influenced a generation of young players 243 244 Several NBA players including James and Dwyane Wade have stated that they considered Jordan their role model while they were growing up 245 246 In addition commentators have dubbed a number of next generation players the next Michael Jordan upon their entry to the NBA including Penny Hardaway Grant Hill Allen Iverson Bryant Vince Carter James and Wade 247 248 249 Some analysts such as The Ringer s Dan Devine drew parallels between Jordan s experiment at point guard in the 1988 89 season and the modern NBA for Devine it inadvertently foreshadowed the modern game s stylistic shift toward monster usage primary playmakers such as Russell Westbrook James Harden Luka Doncic and James 250 Don Nelson stated I would ve been playing him at point guard the day he showed up as a rookie 251 Although Jordan was a well rounded player his Air Jordan image is also often credited with inadvertently decreasing the jump shooting skills defense and fundamentals of young players 243 a fact Jordan himself has lamented saying I think it was the exposure of Michael Jordan the marketing of Michael Jordan Everything was marketed towards the things that people wanted to see which was scoring and dunking That Michael Jordan still played defense and an all around game but it was never really publicized 243 During his heyday Jordan did much to increase the status of the game television ratings increased only during his time in the league 252 The popularity of the NBA in the U S declined after his last title 252 As late as 2020 NBA Finals television ratings had not returned to the level reached during his last championship winning season 253 In August 2009 the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield Massachusetts opened a Michael Jordan exhibit that contained items from his college and NBA careers as well as from the 1992 Dream Team the exhibit also has a batting baseball glove to signify Jordan s short career in the Minor League Baseball 254 After Jordan received word of his acceptance into the Hall of Fame he selected Class of 1996 member David Thompson to present him 255 As Jordan would later explain during his induction speech in September 2009 he was not a fan of the Tar Heels when growing up in North Carolina but greatly admired Thompson who played for the rival NC State Wolfpack In September he was inducted into the Hall with several former Bulls teammates in attendance including Scottie Pippen Dennis Rodman Charles Oakley Ron Harper Steve Kerr and Toni Kukoc 17 Dean Smith and Doug Collins two of Jordan s former coaches were also among those present His emotional reaction during his speech when he began to cry was captured by Associated Press photographer Stephan Savoia and would later go viral on social media as the Crying Jordan Internet meme 256 257 In 2016 President Barack Obama honored Jordan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom 28 In October 2021 Jordan was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team 23 In September 2022 Jordan s jersey in which he played the opening game of the 1998 NBA Finals was sold for 10 1 million making it the most expensive game worn sports memorabilia in history 258 NBA career statisticsFurther information List of career achievements by Michael Jordan NBA career statistics See also List of career achievements by Michael Jordan College statistics Legend GP Games played GS Games started MPG Minutes per game FG Field goal percentage 3P 3 point field goal percentage FT Free throw percentage RPG Rebounds per game APG Assists per game SPG Steals per game BPG Blocks per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high Won an NBA championship Led the league NBA recordRegular season Year Team GP GS MPG FG 3P FT RPG APG SPG BPG PPG1984 85 Chicago 82 82 38 3 515 173 845 6 5 5 9 2 4 8 28 21985 86 Chicago 18 7 25 1 457 167 840 3 6 2 9 2 1 1 2 22 71986 87 Chicago 82 82 40 0 482 182 857 5 2 4 6 2 9 1 5 37 1 1987 88 Chicago 82 82 40 4 535 132 841 5 5 5 9 3 2 1 6 35 0 1988 89 Chicago 81 81 40 2 538 276 850 8 0 8 0 2 9 8 32 5 1989 90 Chicago 82 82 39 0 526 376 848 6 9 6 3 2 8 7 33 6 1990 91 Chicago 82 82 37 0 539 312 851 6 0 5 5 2 7 1 0 31 5 1991 92 Chicago 80 80 38 8 519 270 832 6 4 6 1 2 3 9 30 1 1992 93 Chicago 78 78 39 3 495 352 837 6 7 5 5 2 8 8 32 6 1994 95 Chicago 17 17 39 3 411 500 801 6 9 5 3 1 8 8 26 91995 96 Chicago 82 82 37 7 495 427 834 6 6 4 3 2 2 5 30 4 1996 97 Chicago 82 82 37 9 486 374 833 5 9 4 3 1 7 5 29 6 1997 98 Chicago 82 82 38 8 465 238 784 5 8 3 5 1 7 5 28 7 2001 02 Wash ington 60 53 34 9 416 189 790 5 7 5 2 1 4 4 22 92002 03 Wash ington 82 67 37 0 445 291 821 6 1 3 8 1 5 5 20 0Career 13 1 072 1 039 38 3 497 327 835 6 2 5 3 2 3 8 30 1 All Star 13 13 13 29 4 472 273 750 4 7 4 2 2 8 5 20 2Playoffs Year Team GP GS MPG FG 3P FT RPG APG SPG BPG PPG1985 Chicago 4 4 42 8 436 125 828 5 8 8 5 2 8 1 0 29 31986 Chicago 3 3 45 0 505 1 000 872 6 3 5 7 2 3 1 3 43 71987 Chicago 3 3 42 7 417 400 897 7 0 6 0 2 0 2 3 35 71988 Chicago 10 10 42 7 531 333 869 7 1 4 7 2 4 1 1 36 31989 Chicago 17 17 42 2 510 286 799 7 0 7 6 2 5 8 34 81990 Chicago 16 16 42 1 514 320 836 7 2 6 8 2 8 9 36 71991 Chicago 17 17 40 5 524 385 845 6 4 8 4 2 4 1 4 31 11992 Chicago 22 22 41 8 499 386 857 6 2 5 8 2 0 7 34 51993 Chicago 19 19 41 2 475 389 805 6 7 6 0 2 1 9 35 11995 Chicago 10 10 42 0 484 367 810 6 5 4 5 2 3 1 4 31 51996 Chicago 18 18 40 7 459 403 818 4 9 4 1 1 8 3 30 71997 Chicago 19 19 42 3 456 194 831 7 9 4 8 1 6 9 31 11998 Chicago 21 21 41 5 462 302 812 5 1 3 5 1 5 6 32 4Career 13 179 179 41 8 487 332 828 6 4 5 7 2 1 8 33 4 Awards and honorsFurther information List of career achievements by Michael Jordan James Worthy Jordan and Dean Smith in 2007 at a North Carolina Tar Heels men s basketball game honoring the 1957 and 1982 men s basketball teams NBASix time NBA champion 1991 1992 1993 1996 1997 1998 5 Six time NBA Finals MVP 1991 1992 1993 1996 1997 1998 13 Five time NBA MVP 1988 1991 1992 1996 1998 5 NBA Defensive Player of the Year 1987 88 259 NBA Rookie of the Year 1984 85 5 10 time NBA scoring leader 1987 1993 1996 1998 13 Three time NBA steals leader 1988 1990 1993 13 14 time NBA All Star 1985 1993 1996 1998 2002 2003 13 Three time NBA All Star Game MVP 1988 1996 1998 13 10 time All NBA First Team 1987 1993 1996 1998 5 One time All NBA Second Team 1985 5 Nine time NBA All Defensive First Team 1988 1993 1996 1998 5 NBA All Rookie First Team 1985 13 Two time NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion 1987 1988 5 Two time IBM Award winner 1985 1989 259 Named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996 5 Selected on the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021 23 No 23 retired by the Chicago Bulls 260 No 23 retired by the Miami Heat 260 NBA MVP trophy renamed in Jordan s honor Michael Jordan Trophy in 2022 261 USA BasketballTwo time Olympic gold medal winner 1984 1992 5 Tournament of the Americas gold medal winner 1992 262 Pan American Games gold medal winner 1983 263 NCAANCAA national championship 1981 82 259 ACC Freshman of the Year 1981 82 264 Two time Consensus NCAA All American First Team 1982 83 1983 84 264 ACC Men s Basketball Player of the Year 1983 84 264 USBWA College Player of the Year 1983 84 265 Naismith College Player of the Year 1983 84 5 Adolph Rupp Trophy 1983 84 266 John R Wooden Award 1983 84 5 No 23 retired by the North Carolina Tar Heels 267 High schoolMcDonald s All American 1981 36 Parade All American First Team 1981 268 Halls of FameTwo time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Class of 2009 individual 17 Class of 2010 as a member of the Dream Team 18 United States Olympic Hall of Fame Class of 2009 as a member of the Dream Team 19 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2010 20 Two time FIBA Hall of Fame inductee Class of 2015 individual 21 Class of 2017 as a member of the Dream Team 22 MediaThree time Associated Press Athlete of the Year 1991 1992 1993 269 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year 1991 270 Ranked No 1 by Slam magazine s Top 50 Players of All Time 271 Ranked No 1 by ESPN SportsCentury s Top North American Athletes of the 20th Century 238 10 time ESPY Award winner in various categories 272 1997 Marca Leyenda winner 273 National2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom 28 State localStatue inside the United Center 274 Section of Madison Street in Chicago renamed Michael Jordan Drive 1994 275 Post retirement Jordan on a golf course in 2007 After his third retirement Jordan assumed that he would be able to return to his front office position as Director of Basketball Operations with the Wizards 276 His previous tenure in the Wizards front office had produced mixed results and may have also influenced the trade of Richard Rip Hamilton for Jerry Stackhouse although Jordan was not technically Director of Basketball Operations in 2002 170 On May 7 2003 Wizards owner Abe Pollin fired Jordan as the team s president of basketball operations 170 Jordan later stated that he felt betrayed and that if he had known he would be fired upon retiring he never would have come back to play for the Wizards 109 Jordan kept busy over the next few years He stayed in shape played golf in celebrity charity tournaments and spent time with his family in Chicago He also promoted his Jordan Brand clothing line and rode motorcycles 277 Since 2004 Jordan has owned Michael Jordan Motorsports a professional closed course motorcycle road racing team that competed with two Suzukis in the premier Superbike championship sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association AMA until the end of the 2013 season 278 279 Charlotte Bobcats Hornets On June 15 2006 Jordan bought a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats known as the Hornets since 2013 becoming the team s second largest shareholder behind majority owner Robert L Johnson As part of the deal Jordan took full control over the basketball side of the operation with the title Managing Member of Basketball Operations 280 281 Despite Jordan s previous success as an endorser he has made an effort not to be included in Charlotte s marketing campaigns 282 A decade earlier Jordan had made a bid to become part owner of Charlotte s original NBA team the Charlotte Hornets but talks collapsed when owner George Shinn refused to give Jordan complete control of basketball operations 283 In February 2010 it was reported that Jordan was seeking majority ownership of the Bobcats 284 As February wore on it became apparent that Jordan and former Houston Rockets president George Postolos were the leading contenders for ownership of the team On February 27 the Bobcats announced that Johnson had reached an agreement with Jordan and his group MJ Basketball Holdings to buy the team from Johnson pending NBA approval 285 On March 17 the NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved Jordan s purchase making him the first former player to become the majority owner of an NBA team 286 It also made him the league s only African American majority owner 287 During the 2011 NBA lockout The New York Times wrote that Jordan led a group of 10 to 14 hardline owners who wanted to cap the players share of basketball related income at 50 percent and as low as 47 Journalists observed that during the labor dispute in 1998 Jordan had told Washington Wizards then owner Abe Pollin If you can t make a profit you should sell your team 288 Jason Whitlock of FoxSports com called Jordan a hypocrite sellout who can easily betray the very people who made him a billionaire global icon for wanting current players to pay for his incompetence 289 He cited Jordan s executive decisions to draft disappointing players Kwame Brown and Adam Morrison 289 During the 2011 12 NBA season that was shortened to 66 games by the lockout the Bobcats posted a 7 59 record The team closed out the season with a 23 game losing streak their 106 winning percentage was the worst in NBA history 290 Before the next season Jordan said I m not real happy about the record book scenario last year It s very very frustrating 291 During the 2019 NBA offseason Jordan sold a minority piece of the Hornets to Gabe Plotkin and Daniel Sundheim retaining the majority of the team for himself 292 as well as the role of chairman 293 23XI Racing On September 21 2020 Jordan and NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin announced they would be fielding a NASCAR team with Bubba Wallace driving beginning competition in the 2021 season 294 On October 22 the team s name was confirmed to be 23XI Racing pronounced twenty three eleven and the team s entry would bear No 23 295 As of the end of the 2022 season 23XI Racing have 3 wins 2 of them coming from Wallace and 1 coming from Kurt Busch 296 Personal life Jordan receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama at the White House Jordan is the fourth of five children He has two older brothers Larry Jordan and James R Jordan Jr one older sister Deloris and one younger sister Roslyn 297 298 James retired in 2006 as the command sergeant major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U S Army 299 Jordan s nephew through Larry Justin Jordan played NCAA Division I basketball for the UNC Greensboro Spartans and is a scout for the Charlotte Hornets 300 301 Jordan married Juanita Vanoy on September 2 1989 at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas Nevada 302 303 They had two sons Jeffrey and Marcus and a daughter Jasmine 304 The Jordans filed for divorce on January 4 2002 citing irreconcilable differences but reconciled shortly thereafter They again filed for divorce and were granted a final decree of dissolution of marriage on December 29 2006 commenting that the decision was made mutually and amicably 305 306 It is reported that Juanita received a 168 million settlement equivalent to 226 million in 2021 making it the largest celebrity divorce settlement on public record at the time 307 308 In 1991 Jordan purchased a lot in Highland Park Illinois where he planned to build a 56 000 square foot 5 200 m2 mansion It was completed in 1995 He listed the mansion for sale in 2012 309 He also owns homes in North Carolina and Jupiter Island Florida 310 His two sons attended Loyola Academy a private Catholic school in Wilmette Illinois 311 Jeffrey graduated in 2007 and played his first collegiate basketball game for the University of Illinois on November 11 2007 After two seasons he left the Illinois basketball team in 2009 He later rejoined the team for a third season 312 313 then received a release to transfer to the University of Central Florida where Marcus was attending 314 315 Marcus transferred to Whitney Young High School after his sophomore year at Loyola Academy and graduated in 2009 He began attending UCF in the fall of 2009 316 and played three seasons of basketball for the school 317 On July 21 2006 a judge in Cook County Illinois determined that Jordan did not owe his alleged former lover Karla Knafel 5 million in a breach of contract claim 318 Jordan had allegedly paid Knafel 250 000 to keep their relationship a secret 319 320 321 Knafel claimed Jordan promised her 5 million for remaining silent and agreeing not to file a paternity suit after Knafel learned she was pregnant in 1991 a DNA test showed Jordan was not the father of the child 318 Jordan proposed to his longtime girlfriend Cuban American model Yvette Prieto on Christmas 2011 322 and they were married on April 27 2013 at Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church 323 324 It was announced on November 30 2013 that the two were expecting their first child together 325 326 On February 11 2014 Prieto gave birth to identical twin daughters named Victoria and Ysabel 327 In 2019 Jordan became a grandfather when his daughter Jasmine gave birth to a son whose father is professional basketball player Rakeem Christmas 328 Media figure and business interestsEndorsements Jordan in 2008 Jordan is one of the most marketed sports figures in history He has been a major spokesman for such brands as Nike Coca Cola Chevrolet Gatorade McDonald s Ball Park Franks Rayovac Wheaties Hanes and MCI 329 Jordan has had a long relationship with Gatorade appearing in over 20 commercials for the company since 1991 including the Be Like Mike commercials in which a song was sung by children wishing to be like Jordan 329 330 Nike created a signature shoe for Jordan called the Air Jordan in 1984 331 One of Jordan s more popular commercials for the shoe involved Spike Lee playing the part of Mars Blackmon In the commercials Lee as Blackmon attempted to find the source of Jordan s abilities and became convinced that it s gotta be the shoes 329 The hype and demand for the shoes even brought on a spate of shoe jackings where people were robbed of their sneakers at gunpoint Subsequently Nike spun off the Jordan line into its own division named the Jordan Brand The company features an impressive list of athletes and celebrities as endorsers 332 333 The brand has also sponsored college sports programs such as those of North Carolina UCLA California Oklahoma Florida Georgetown and Marquette 334 335 Jordan also has been associated with the Looney Tunes cartoon characters A Nike commercial shown during 1992 s Super Bowl XXVI featured Jordan and Bugs Bunny playing basketball 336 The Super Bowl commercial inspired the 1996 live action animated film Space Jam which starred Jordan and Bugs in a fictional story set during the former s first retirement from basketball 337 They have subsequently appeared together in several commercials for MCI 337 Jordan also made an appearance in the music video for Michael Jackson s Jam 1992 338 Since 2008 Jordan s yearly income from the endorsements is estimated to be over 40 million 339 340 In addition when Jordan s power at the ticket gates was at its highest point the Bulls regularly sold out both their home and road games 341 Due to this Jordan set records in player salary by signing annual contracts worth in excess of US 30 million per season 342 An academic study found that Jordan s first NBA comeback resulted in an increase in the market capitalization of his client firms of more than 1 billion 343 Most of Jordan s endorsement deals including his first deal with Nike were engineered by his agent David Falk 344 Jordan has described Falk as the best at what he does and that marketing wise he s great He s the one who came up with the concept of Air Jordan 345 Business ventures In June 2010 Jordan was ranked by Forbes as the 20th most powerful celebrity in the world with 55 million earned between June 2009 and June 2010 According to Forbes Jordan Brand generates 1 billion in sales for Nike 346 In June 2014 Jordan was named the first NBA player to become a billionaire after he increased his stake in the Charlotte Hornets from 80 to 89 5 347 348 On January 20 2015 Jordan was honored with the Charlotte Business Journal s Business Person of the Year for 2014 349 In 2017 he became a part owner of the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball 350 Forbes designated Jordan as the athlete with the highest career earnings in 2017 351 From his Jordan Brand income and endorsements Jordan s 2015 income was an estimated 110 million the most of any retired athlete 352 As of 2022 update his net worth is estimated at 1 7 billion by Forbes 29 making him the sixth richest African American behind Robert F Smith David Steward Oprah Winfrey Kanye West and Rihanna 353 Jordan co owns an automotive group which bears his name The company has a Nissan dealership in Durham North Carolina acquired in 1990 354 and formerly had a Lincoln Mercury dealership from 1995 until its closure in June 2009 355 356 The company also owned a Nissan franchise in Glen Burnie Maryland 355 The restaurant industry is another business interest of Jordan s Restaurants he has owned include a steakhouse in New York City s Grand Central Terminal among others 357 that restaurant closed in 2018 358 Jordan is the majority investor in a golf course Grove XXIII under construction in Hobe Sound Florida 359 In September 2020 Jordan became an investor and advisor for DraftKings 360 Philanthropy From 2001 to 2014 Jordan hosted an annual golf tournament the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational that raised money for various charities 361 In 2006 Jordan and his wife Juanita pledged 5 million to Chicago s Hales Franciscan High School 362 The Jordan Brand has made donations to Habitat for Humanity and a Louisiana branch of the Boys amp Girls Clubs of America 363 The Make A Wish Foundation named Jordan its Chief Wish Ambassador in 2008 361 In 2013 he granted his 200th wish for the organization 364 As of 2019 he has raised more than 5 million for the Make A Wish Foundation 361 In 2015 Jordan donated a settlement of undisclosed size from a lawsuit against supermarkets that had used his name without permission to 23 different Chicago charities 365 In 2017 Jordan funded two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Clinics in Charlotte North Carolina by giving 7 million the biggest donation he had made at the time 366 In 2018 after Hurricane Florence damaged parts of North Carolina including his former hometown of Wilmington Jordan donated 2 million to relief efforts 367 He gave 1 million to aid the Bahamas recovery following Hurricane Dorian in 2019 368 On June 5 2020 in the wake of the protests following the murder of George Floyd Jordan and his brand announced in a joint statement that they would be donating 100 million over the next 10 years to organizations dedicated to ensuring racial equality social justice and greater access to education 369 In February 2021 Jordan funded two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Clinics in New Hanover County North Carolina by giving 10 million 370 371 Film and television Jordan played himself in the 1996 comedy film Space Jam The film received mixed reviews 26 but it was a box office success making 230 million worldwide and earned more than 1 billion through merchandise sales 372 In 2000 Jordan was the subject of an IMAX documentary about his career with the Chicago Bulls especially the 1998 NBA playoffs entitled Michael Jordan to the Max 373 Two decades later the same period of Jordan s life was covered in much greater and more personal detail by the Emmy Award winning The Last Dance a 10 part TV documentary which debuted on ESPN in April and May 2020 The Last Dance relied heavily on about 500 hours of candid film of Jordan s and his teammates off court activities which an NBA Entertainment crew had shot over the course of the 1997 98 NBA season for use in a documentary The project was delayed for many years because Jordan had not yet given his permission for the footage to be used 374 375 He was interviewed at three homes associated with the production and did not want cameras in his home or on his plane as according to director Jason Hehir there are certain aspects of his life that he wants to keep private 376 Jordan granted rapper Travis Scott permission to film a music video for his single Franchise at his home in Highland Park Illinois 377 Jordan appeared in the 2022 miniseries The Captain which follows the life and career of Derek Jeter 378 Books Jordan has authored several books focusing on his life basketball career and world view Rare Air Michael on Michael with Mark Vancil and Walter Iooss Harper San Francisco 1993 379 380 I Can t Accept Not Trying Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence with Mark Vancil and Sandro Miller Harper San Francisco 1994 381 For the Love of the Game My Story with Mark Vancil Crown Publishers 1998 382 Driven from Within with Mark Vancil Atria Books 2005 383 See alsoForbes list of the world s highest paid athletes List of athletes who came out of retirement List of NBA teams by single season win percentage Michael Jordan s Restaurant Michael Jordan Chaos in the Windy City Michael 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