Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a former NBA star who won six championships and six NBA Finals MVP awards with the Chicago Bulls. His skills and competitiveness on the court helped him notch achievements that cemented his status as one of the best players of all time. He’s now the chairman of the Charlotte Hornets.
During his sophomore year of high school, he tried out for the varsity basketball team, but he didn’t make the cut. He instead became the star of the junior varsity team and landed a spot on varsity the following year. He went on to play for the North Carolina Tar Heels in college and hit the winning basket in the 1982 NCAA Championship game.
The Last Dance, a 10-part docuseries, gives additional insight into Michael Jordan’s life and final season with the Bulls.
After leading the Bulls to their third consecutive title following the 1992-93 season, Jordan famously retired from the NBA and spent his time playing minor league baseball in 1994.
- Birthday: February 17, 1963
- Born in: Brooklyn, New York
- Raised in: Wilmington, North Carolina
- Jersey number: 23
- Height: 6’6”
- Position: Shooting guard
- College: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Net worth: $2.1 billion
- Children: Jasmine M. Jordan, Jeffrey Michael Jordan, Marcus Jordan, Ysabel Jordan, Victoria Jordan
- Spouse: Yvette Prieto (married in 2013), Juanita Vanoy (married from 1989–2006)
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Michael Jordan was a great basketball player and mediocre baseball player. He thought about trying to play football too, though.
Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing have a long history with one another. They were two of the greatest players in the country while in college at the same time and were part of some epic battles between the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks at the pro level. But Ewing could just never beat Jordan, […]
“The Last Dance” director says that Michael Jordan wouldn’t let film crews into his own house for interviews for the ESPN docuseries.
Retired NFL quarterback Peyton Manning has expressed an interest in running an NFL team under the same model that Michael Jordan operates in the NBA.
ESPN has firmed up its lineup of documentaries that will follow ‘The Last Dance’ on its Sunday schedule beginning later this month,
Michael Jordan wouldn’t let teammate Horace Grant eat after bad performances, players told the author of the 1991 book about the Chicago Bulls.
On May 7, 1995, Michael Jordan looked ordinary in Orlando while Reggie Miller looked superhuman more than 1,000 miles away.
Michael Jordan retired from the NBA in 2003. Despite that, Michael Jordan’s shoes generate more annually for the star than the world’s highest paid athlete makes in annual earnings.
A photographer says her work is being used improperly by Michael Jordan, Jeanie Buss, and owners of two other NBA teams.
