michael jordan biography

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, born February 17, 1963 in the borough of Brooklyn in New York, is a former basketball player has evolved in the American Championship North American professional basketball, the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2003. The British Broadcasting Corporation or the NBA, "Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time" [1], [8]. Indeed, it is considered one of the greatest champions of all time in any sport [8], and helped popularize international basketball and the NBA around the world in the years 1980 and 1990 [ 8].

He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he led the Tar Heels to victory in the championship final University, 1982. Michael Jordan then joined the Chicago Bulls in the NBA in 1984. It is fast becoming a star in the league thanks to its excellent statistics. His jumping ability, illustrated by his slam dunks [Footnote 1] from the free throw line during the contest slam dunks earned him the nicknames of Air Jordan [1] and His Airness [2], [Note 2]. He is reputed to be one of the best defenders in the league [9]. In 1991 he won his first NBA title with the Bulls, and then follows this success with two new titles in 1992 and 1993. Although Jordan has retired from basketball abruptly at the beginning of the 1993-1994 season after the assassination of his father, he pursued a brief career in baseball and the Bulls finally found in 1995. They led to three additional championships (1996, 1997 and 1998) and an NBA record 72 games during the regular season wins during the season 1995-1996. Jordan retired for the second time in 1999, but returned again for two more seasons in the NBA in 2001 as a player for the Washington Wizards.

The individual awards and honors include five of Michael Jordan the best player trophy of the season, ten first team selections in the team's best players in the league and nine in the first team of the team of the best defenders League, fourteen appearances in the All-Star games, three awards of best player of All-Star games, ten securities for its number of points scored, three titles of best interceptor, six trophies best player in the league final and the title of best defender in the league in 1988. He holds the record for highest average points scored per game during the regular season throughout his career (30.12 ppg) and in the playoffs (33.4 ppg). He also has two Olympic championships with the United States. In 1999 he was named Best North American athlete of the twentieth century by the television network ESPN on Sport [1] and finished second behind the baseball player Babe Ruth on the list of athletes of the century according to news agency Associated Press [10]. He joined in 2009 the Hall of Fame basketball.

Jordan is also famous for the products to which he lends his image, like perfume, or footwear, which proves the success of sport shoes "Air Jordan" Nike [8]. These contracts allow it to amass a fortune rarely achieved by an athlete. After co-owner and manager of the franchise the Charlotte Bobcats in North Carolina in 2006, he became the owner since March 2010 and also has its own stable of superbike.