The success of Michael Jordan's career and the greatest basketball player of all time

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. He played fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.

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Michael Jordan is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA and 23XI Racing of the NASCAR Cup Series. His biography on the official NBA website states, "Undoubtedly, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." He was an integral part of the NBA worldwide in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a global cultural icon in the process.

Michael Jordan played college basketball for three seasons under coach Dean Smith with the North Carolina Tar Heels. As a freshman, he was a member of the Tar Heels' 1982 national championship team. Jordan joined the Bulls in 1984 as the third overall pick and quickly emerged as a league star, delighting fans with his prolific scoring while gaining a reputation as one of the game's best defensive players. His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness."

Jordan won his first NBA title with the Bulls in 1991, and followed that feat with titles in 1992 and 1993, winning three consecutive championships. Jordan abruptly 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, in addition to a 72-win regular season in the 1995–96 NBA season. He retired for a second time in January 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.

Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1963. He was the third child of James and Delores Jordan. They moved to Wilmington, North Carolina. Jordan had two older brothers, an older sister, and a younger sister. In high school, he became a three-sport star: American football, baseball, and basketball. He then dropped out of basketball practice because he was too short (5' 175"). However, in the summer, he grew 10 inches taller and trained hard. For the next two seasons, he averaged 25 points per game. He began to focus on basketball, practicing every day before school with his high school coach. In his senior year of high school, he averaged 29.2 points per game, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.3 assists. Michael Jordan is the only player in 20 years to score 3,000 points, which he did in the 1986/87 season. He also won the Slam Dunk Award in 1988 after a fierce competition with Danny Wilkins.

Jordan earned a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in geography. In his first season with the University team under the legendary Dean Smith, Jordan was named the most valuable rookie. In 1982, Jordan scored the winning shot that led the University team to a victory over Patrick Ewing's Georgetown team, which won the NCAA Division I title. He was named the College Football Playoff Most Valuable Player in 1984.

After being cut from his middle school basketball team, he went home and locked himself in his room to cry and scream.

His sports career Jordan played 13 seasons with the Chicago Bulls and two seasons with the Washington Wizards. His height (198 cm), skills, and physical condition were the reasons why opponents were afraid of him. He won six NBA championships (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, and 1998).

He was named the league's Most Valuable Player five times (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, and 1998). He was named Defensive Player of the Year in 1988, and was named Stats MVP every time the Chicago Bulls won the title.

Beginnings in the NBA After scoring 16 points in his NBA debut, his first season averaged 28.2 points per game, 6.5 steals per game, 5.9 assists per game, and 2.4 steals per game.

In his second season in the NBA, he scored 3,041 points, a record only Wilt Chamberlain had ever achieved. Michael Jordan's scoring average in his third season in the NBA was 35 points, and he won the league's Defensive Player of the Year award that season (259 steals and 131 blocks).

In the 1988-89 season, Jordan averaged 32.5 points per game. In the 1989-90 season, the team reached the Eastern Conference Finals but lost to Detroit 4-3. With Phil Jackson taking over as coach, Jordan averaged 33.6 points per game. On March 28, Jordan scored the highest number of points of his professional career, scoring 69 points in a single game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

On October 6, 1993, Michael Jordan announced his retirement from basketball, citing a loss of interest in the game. Many believed that the assassination of his father, James Jordan, in July 1993 had influenced this decision. The decision rocked the NBA, and there had been no such uproar since Jim Brown retired from baseball in 1966.

Jordan is the fourth of five children. He has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. Jordan Jr., one older sister, Deloris, and one younger sister, Roslyn. James retired in 2006 as a sergeant major with the 35th Signal Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, U.S. Army. Jordan's nephew through Larry, Justin Jordan, played NCAA Division I basketball for the UNC Greensboro Spartans and is a scout for the Charlotte Hornets.

Jordan married Juanita Vanoy on September 2, 1989, at a small white wedding chapel (wedding venue) in Las Vegas, Nevada. They had two sons, Jeffrey and Marcus, and a daughter, Jasmine. The couple filed for divorce on January 4, 2002, citing irreconcilable differences, but reconciled shortly thereafter. They refiled and were granted a final decree of dissolution of marriage on December 29, 2006, stating that the decision was made "mutually and amicably."

Jordan proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto, on Christmas Day 2011, and they were married on April 27, 2013, at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. It was announced on November 30, 2013, that the two were expecting their first child together. On February 11, 2014, Prieto gave birth to identical twin daughters, Victoria and Ysabel. In 2019, Jordan became a grandfather when his daughter, Jasmine, gave birth to a son, fathered by professional basketball player Rakeem Christmas.

In 1991, he voiced his own character in the cartoon series Pro Stars with his friends Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky. In 1996, he starred in the movie Space Jam with the Looney Tunes characters led by Bugs Bunny.

ESPN, the sports network, in partnership with Netflix, has produced a ten-episode, hour-long documentary about the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan during the 1990s, the Bulls' road to the 1997-98 NBA title, and the passing of Jordan and coach Phil Jackson. The film premiered on Netflix on April 19, 2020.