Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player. He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. Jordan holds the NBA records for career regular season scoring average and career playoff scoring average. He is the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. In 2014, Jordan became the first billionaire player in NBA history. He has a net worth of USD 2.1 billion, making him the fourth richest African American man in the history of the NBA.
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player. He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. Jordan holds the NBA records for career regular season scoring average and career playoff scoring average. In 1999, he was named the 20th century’s greatest North American athlete by ESPN. In 2014, Jordan became the first billionaire player in NBA history. He is the fourth-richest African American, behind Robert F. Smith, David Steward, and Oprah Winfrey. Jordan also starred as himself in the 1996 film Space Jam. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, once in 2009 for his individual career and again in 2010 as part of the 1992 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team. He became a member of the FIBA Hall of fame in 2015. Jordan is the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. He has a net worth of USD 2.1 billion, making him the fourth richest African American man in the history of the NBA. His son, Jordan Jordan II, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. Jordan played college basketball for three seasons under coach Dean Smith with the North Carolina Tar Heels. In 1981, he accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina, where he was selected to play in the 1981 McDonald’s All-American Game and averaged 27 points, 12 rebounds, and 6 assists per game for the season.
He also won the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. Jordan 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. In 2009, he became part-owner and head of basketball operations for the Charlotte Bobcats in 2006, and bought a controlling interest in 2010. He retired for a second time in January 1999 but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as aMember of the Washington Wizards. Jordan won six NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Awards, ten scoring titles, five MVP Awards, 10 All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game selections, three All- Star Game MVP Awards and three steals titles. He won the NBA Finals MVP Award in 1991 and 1993, securing a ‘three-peat’ with the Bulls. 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’ Jordan is also known for his product endorsements. He fueled the success of Nike’s Air Jordan sneakers, which were introduced in 1984 and remain popular today. Jordan was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press’ list of athletes of the century.
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