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Biography

He is university champion NCAA ( National College Athletic Association ) in 1982 with the North Carolina Tar Heels against the Georgetown university of Patrick Ewing. In 1984, it gains the gold medal with the Olympic Games with the American team made up amongst other things of the best academics. It does not carry out its last academic year and is presented to the draft, where it is selected in third position (behind Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie) by the Chicago bulldozers, team of NBA of which it very quickly will become the leader. Elected official Rookie of the season 1984 - 1985, Jordan is one of the three players in the history of the NBA (with Oscar Robertson and LeBron James) on average, to have marked more than 20 points, taken more than 5 rebounds, to have distributed more than 5 decisive master keys per match during his season of rookie.

Even if Jordan arrived very quickly at the more high level, its team and he do not manage to gain title NBA at the time of the first years. bulldozers are indeed always beaten in playoffs before reaching the finales, on several occasions against the Detroit Pistons equipped with a very good defense.

It is in 1991 that it gains its first title against the Los Angeles Lakers of Magic Johnson (4-1), then a second in 1992 against the Portland Blazers of Clyde Drexler (4-2) - as well as a new Olympic title with the “Dream TEAM” of the United States with Barcelona - and a third in 1993 against the Phoenix Suns of Charles Barkley (4-2).

At the time of the summer 1993, his/her father, James Jordan, is assassinated. Very affected, Jordan then decides to put a term at its career.

After having tried to make its beginnings in the Baseball, it ends up returning to the Basket-ball it then carries number 45 during one moment and makes a return awaited with the bulldozers at the time of the season 1994 - 1995. The bulldozers are eliminated in playoffs by the Orlando Magic from Shaquille O'Neal but the following season, Jordan takes along its team until the finales to gain its fourth championship NBA against the Seattle Sonics (4-2), after having signed the best regular season of the history of the NBA (72 victories for only 10 defeats, within a team of Chicago which also counts Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Toni Kukoč, Ron Harper, Steve Kerr and Luc Longley, pulled by Phil Jackson).

It gains thereafter two other titles in two seasons, each time against the Utah Jazz of Karl Malone and John Stockton (4-2, 4-2), before taking its second retirement.

In 2001, at 38 years, pushed by the desire to return on the American parquet floors, it makes a second return with the Washington Wizards in a manpower which it practically created itself the former season when it occupied the place of General Manager . He plays two seasons with Wizards and turns to a little more than 20 points of average without gaining title again. At the end of the season 2002 - 03, then 40 years old, it takes its final retirement.

In June 2006, he announces to have taken shares in the capital of the Charlotte Bobcats, becoming one of the two principal shareholders of the club. At the time of the Draft NBA 2006, it chooses the best scorer of NCAA, Adam Morrison de Gonzaga, in third position.

Married during 17 years with Juanita (they divorce by mutual agreement in December 2006), Michael Jordan is father of three children: Jeffrey, Marcus and Jasmine.

The world icon of the modern basketball

Michael Jordan represents the modern basketball. Its image is such as everyone, and especially the young people, take example on him. “Air Jordan” as it is called, takes off very high and even seems to defy the laws of gravity: at the time of the play-offs 1989 vis-a-vis the Cleveland Riders, it makes a success of the basket of the victory. During the shooting, it continues to rise whereas its defender, Craig Ehlo, goes down again impotent on the parquet floor. The shooting is all the more spectacular as Jordan seems to rise in two times.

As of its arrival in NBA, it starts its fulgurating rise. The sponsors and magazines tear off it. It is at the head with the classification of the sportsmen the best paid several consecutive times in the Années 1990. In 1994, it gains 166 million frankly S. the essence of this money comes from a contract from 100 million francs with Nike, which transfers 6% to him on the sale of the baptized shoes “Nike air Jordan”. This did of him one of the pioneers of the “Sport-business”; it thus took part largely in the commercial rise of the Sponsoring to large scales.

Its number of shirt fetish is 23 qu ' it carried with the bulldozers and Wizards. At the time of its first return to the competition, in 1995, Jordan carry number 45. Indeed, the last number with which his/her father having seen it playing being the 23, it prefers to return with the 45. For the little story, Jordan had already wanted to play with number 45 at its beginnings, but this number being already taken, it divided it by 2 and rounded with that higher, which gives 23. It finds nevertheless its number 23 at the time of the semi-final of conference lost vis-a-vis Orlando Magics at the time of the playoffs 1995, after a player of Orlando Magic declared that " number 45 (was) less good than the number 23." The league imposed a fine with Jordan besides, to change number in the course of season being prohibited, even when one is called Michael Jordan.

It leaves behind him exceptional records: 30,1 points of average per match on all its career (record in front of Wilt Chamberlain), 33,4 points of average in playoffs, 63 points marked in a match of play-offs vis-a-vis the Boston Celtics of Larry Bird (record of the NBA), 35 points marked in only one half-time finally the June 3rd 1992 against the Portland cement Blazers, 5 times MVP ( Most Valuable Player , Better player of the regular season), 10 times AlNBA First TEAM (member of best the team-type of the regular season), 14 times All-Star including 3 times MVP (better player of the AlStar Range ), member of the 50 best players of the history of the NBA, inter alia records.

He is the hero of the film Space Jam in 1997, dividing the poster with Bugs Bunny.

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Information

Measurements : 1,98 m - 98 kg (of the time of the bulldozers)
NCAA : university Champion in 1982 with the club of North Carolina
successive Clubs : Chicago bulldozers (1984 - 1993; 1995 - 1998); Washington Wizards (2001 - 2003)
Numbers carried : 23; 45 at the time of its return in 1995; and 12 at the time of one only meeting, the February 14th 1990 vis-a-vis the Orlando Magic, where its shirt was stolen in the cloakrooms; 5 and 9 at the time of its two Olympic campaigns (1984 and 1992)

Record of points in a match : 69 points in 1990 against the Cleveland Riders.
Many seasons in NBA : 15

Prize list

NBA

Better “ rookie ”: 1985.
Champion of the NBA (6 times): 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998 (Chicago bulldozers).
Better marker of the season (10 times): 1987 (37,1 pts of average), 1988 (35 pts), 1989 (32,5 pts), 1990 (33,6 pts), 1991 (31,5 pts), 1992 (30,1 pts), 1993 (32,6 pts), 1996 (30,4 pts), 1997 (29,6 pts), and 1998 (28,7 pts).
Better player of the season (MVP): 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996 and 1998.
Better player of the final stage (playoffs) (6 times): 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998.
Better defender of the season: 1988.
AlStar Range: 13 participations (3 times MVP: 1988, 1996, 1998).
Victorious of the Slam Dunk Contest: 1987 and 1988 .face in Dominique Wilkins.
10 selections in the AlNBA First TEAM (better equips with the year).
9 selections in the AlDefensive First TEAM (better equips defensive with the year).

American selection

Olympic Sacrings: Double champion: 1984 in Los Angeles, then in 1992 in Barcelona.

Quotations

If you return in a wall, do not give up. Find a means of climbing it, of crossing it, or work around.

It is necessary to set a goal before being able to reach it.

I leave the principle that everyone flies. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Afterwards, some fly longer than the others.

The talent saves matches, but team work and the intelligence save championships.

Anecdotes

When it was young, Jordan was judged several times too frail and weak to play tennis shoe. It is while playing of against one with his/her brother that it improved.
to welcome his/her friend Dikembe Mutombo (ex-player of Nuggets) of return of wound, “His Airness” makes a success of a throw-franc the closed eyes and would have said to him: " good return, that there is for toi"
In 2002, John Schultz carries out a film (Magic tennis shoes - Like Mike in original version) with the young rappor Lil Bow Wow. A child sees his dream becoming reality when the destiny offers the chance to him to become a star of the NBA thanks to a pair of magic shoes having belonged to Michael Jordan in person.
In the clip Jam of Michael Jackson, one sees this last playing Basket-ball with Michael Jordan.
the name of the famous mark of clothing Air Jordan is taken again nickname His Airness of Michael Jordan, nickname given besides by Michael Jackson.
With the signal of its career, Michael Jordan touched 150.000 € per day.
to put an end to the love that Michael Jordan carried to the not-American sport scars, the managing director of Cadillac in person, gave to him the keys of the news new Cadillac XLR-V bright burning coal.
the Miami Heat decided to withdraw the number 23 of Michael Jordan whereas it forever played for the frankness. It is the only frankness to have withdrawn the number of a player who was not member of his team.

See too

List of the players most titrated in NBA
Nike Air Jordan
Chicago bulldozers
Space Jam

External bonds

Air Jordan, official site
Card on NBA.com
Magazine plain athletes
Site on Michael Jordan

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Simple: Michael Jordan Zh-yue: 米高佐敦

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