Michael Jeffrey Jordan
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a former NBA basketball. He was the athlete with the most efficient on the market of his generation and has contributed in spreading the appeal of
the National Association of Basketball around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. He is currently co-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.
Jordan was in Brooklyn, New York, the third son of James and Delores Jordan, who the family to Wilmington, North Carolina, moved, when Michael was young born. Jordan attended Ogden Elementary School and Junior High School Trask. Jordan has two older brothers, one older sister and a younger sister. Emsley A. Laney High School in, he became a better student performance and a three-sport star in football (quarterback), baseball and basketball. He was from the team of college basketball fired in his second year because at 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 meters), it was underdeveloped, but over the summer, it rose four inches (10 cm) and was still practicing difficult. In his next two seasons, he average 25 points per game. He began to concentrate on basketball, practicing every morning before school with his coach at University High School. In his last season at Laney High, Jordan averaged a triple-double: 29.2 points, 11.6 rebounds and 10.1 assists. It was he who selected the McDonald's All-American team as a senior.
Jordan earned a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was majoring in geography. As a rookie coach in team-oriented system, Dean Smith, Jordan was named ACC Freshman of the Year. It was an exciting player, if not dominant, but the Tar Heels were led by All-American and future Hall of Fame James Worthy. Nevertheless, Jordan made the shot of the game winner in the NCAA Basketball Championship in 1982 against Georgetown, led by future NBA rival Patrick Ewing. After winning the Naismith College Player of the Year 1984, he left school early to the NBA Draft in force and was reviewed by the Chicago Bulls in the first round, selected as the third largest overall, according to the center of Houston Rockets Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie of the Portland Trail Blazers. Jordan returned to UNC, his diploma in 1986 to quit.
Jordan played thirteen seasons for the Bulls and two seasons with the Washington Wizards.Generally used as a shooting, his height of 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m), skills and physical conditioning also made him a versatile threat point guard and wing. He won six NBA championships (1991-1993 and 1996-1998) and was the league MVP five times (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996 and 1998). He also became the Rookie of the Year (1985) and Defensive Player of the Year (1988), and won the Finals MVP each year, the Bulls have reached the final. He also earned MVP difficult Triple Crown (Regular Season, Finals, and All-Star Game) twice, 1996 and 1998. Only Willis Reed may (1970) and Shaquille O'Neal (2000) have won three MVP awards in the same season (although one can argue that Bill Russell had the feat be accomplished, the final MVP was awarded in 1963). In 1997 he also recorded the only triple-double in an All-Star Game.
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