{"id":20481,"date":"2021-05-17T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=20481"},"modified":"2021-05-17T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:21:37","slug":"air-jordan-iii-the-shoe-that-kept-the-goat-of-the-nba-michael-jordan-at-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=20481","title":{"rendered":"Air Jordan III, THE SHOE THAT KEPT THE &#8220;GOAT&#8221; OF THE NBA, &#8220;MICHAEL JORDAN&#8221;,  AT NIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h1 class=\"huwp7ir\">Air Jordan III: The Shocking Story of the Greatest Shoe Jordan Never Wanted<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18248\" src=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jordan-brand-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jordan-brand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jordan-brand-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jordan-brand-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jordan-brand-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jordan-brand.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"dbjv4gk\">Michael Jordan was about to ditch Nike \u2014 until an inexperienced designer created the shoe he\u2019d always dreamed of.<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<aside class=\"sx3hrcw top\"><\/aside>\n<header class=\"m176e2k4\">\n<div class=\"spacing\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<article class=\"m176e2k4\">\n<article class=\"a1ne38gy\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"rph6o54\">\n<section class=\"ch4les4\">\n<div class=\"body story-image\" data-index=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pocket-image-cache.com\/direct?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpocket-syndicated-images.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5d1627818fbfa.jpg\" alt=\"GettyImages-244773.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Something strange was in the air at the Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. It wasn\u2019t just that deadlines loomed\u2014that was typical. A shareholders meeting was just around the corner, which never brightened the mood, but that wasn\u2019t it, either. Tinker Hatfield Jr., a 35-year-old sneaker designer, couldn\u2019t quite put his finger on it. His boss, Nike\u2019s creative director and lead shoe designer, Peter Moore, typically blasted music in his office while he sketched new ideas for shoes. But this summer morning in 1987, the music wasn\u2019t playing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>A few weeks prior, Rob Strasser, Nike\u2019s vice president, suddenly handed in his resignation. Nobody had seen it coming. Strasser was an industry veteran who\u2019d spent nearly two decades as Phil Knight\u2019s marketing guru. He\u2019d become a local legend, \u201cthe man who saved Nike.\u201d In three years, he\u2019d turned the company\u2019s fortunes around by signing Michael Jordan to the most high-profile and successful athlete endorsement deal in history. Soon, Jordan\u2019s contract would be coming up for renegotiation. Wherever Strasser was about to go, he seemed poised to take Jordan with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Moore, who\u2019d designed the first two iterations of the Air Jordan, was clearly frustrated. Suddenly, he called Hatfield into his office. Sketches for a new shoe were scattered around the desk. Handing Hatfield a thin sheet of tracing paper, Moore said, \u201cYou do it. Design Michael Jordan\u2019s next basketball shoe.\u201d A week later, Moore followed Strasser\u2019s lead and walked out the door, leaving behind a thin file filled with those same sketches. The deadline to present the new Air Jordan was a few weeks away, and the company\u2019s fate seemed tethered to the deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Hatfield had never even worked on an Air Jordan, let alone designed one. In fact, he was new to the field: He\u2019d barely worked on sneakers for two years. But now, with Nike reeling from the loss of its design and marketing leadership and with its relationship with Jordan on the line, Tinker had a lot riding on this one shoe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"i5vnl\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18111\" src=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-exact-moment-Michael-Jordan-went-from-_Mike-to-Michael_-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-exact-moment-Michael-Jordan-went-from-_Mike-to-Michael_-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-exact-moment-Michael-Jordan-went-from-_Mike-to-Michael_-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-exact-moment-Michael-Jordan-went-from-_Mike-to-Michael_-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-exact-moment-Michael-Jordan-went-from-_Mike-to-Michael_-1080x606.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-exact-moment-Michael-Jordan-went-from-_Mike-to-Michael_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2\">\n<div class=\"css-901oao css-bfa6kz r-m0bqgq r-18u37iz r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">@Jumpman23<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>In high school, Hatfield had been a standout track athlete. He was part of Oregon\u2019s robust amateur-sports culture (near the center of which was his father, a legendary track coach). He attended the University of Oregon on a track-and-field scholarship and held the school\u2019s pole-vaulting record for a while, but his teammate, Steve Prefontaine\u2014who would go on to become one of the most celebrated track stars in history\u2014got most of the attention. That was fine by Hatfield. He\u2019d chosen Oregon because the school offered a bachelor\u2019s degree in architecture\u2014his true passion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Four years after graduation, Hatfield was floundering at a corporate architecture job. Then his former track coach, Bill Bowerman, called. The company Bowerman had helped start, Nike, was beginning to flourish and it needed some help designing marketing materials. In 1980, Bowerman brought Hatfield in to work on an internal marketing manual. A year later, the position had bloomed into a full-time role. Hatfield worked on showrooms, offices, retail-space concepts: the kinds of things that ultimately mattered much less than the way everything else there was designed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Then, in 1985, Rob Strasser asked Hatfield to compete in a company-wide design contest. The challenge was to design a shoe you could wear as easily on the track as you could fashionably on the street\u2014such a crossover didn\u2019t exist. Nike would never do anything with it, probably. It was a lark, a theoretical, an exercise to get Nike\u2019s shoe designers thinking bigger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Hatfield took it seriously. He stayed up all night, drawing a colorful upper with a low-profile midsole and a visible airbag in the shoe itself. Hatfield was inspired by Paris\u2019s Centre Georges Pompidou\u2014a building turned inside out\u2014and its designers, the bad-boy architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, whom he counted as personal heroes. In his sketch, he positioned the shoes not on a runner but next to a European motor scooter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>This was a renegade move at a company whose mission was mainly to service runners\u2019 needs. The more conservative minds at Nike saw this as a sign that Hatfield didn\u2019t understand the brand\u2019s mission. Some of his colleagues thought he should be fired. Hatfield didn\u2019t care. He knew the company made purely utilitarian shoes, but he just wasn\u2019t interested in designing purely utilitarian shoes. \u201cWhen I came in,\u201d he remembered later, \u201cI had stories to tell.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Moore was amused by his moxie and wowed by his design: It won the contest. Nobody at the top was entirely sure what to make of Hatfield, but they knew that he shouldn\u2019t be designing marketing materials anymore. Just like that, he\u2019d become a shoe designer. He didn\u2019t know that, in just two years, he\u2019d be faced with the biggest challenge of his career, nor did he realize just whom he\u2019d need to win over.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"body story-image\" data-index=\"1\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17737\" src=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/michael-jordan-collage-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/michael-jordan-collage-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/michael-jordan-collage-1024x720.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/michael-jordan-collage-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/michael-jordan-collage-1080x760.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/michael-jordan-collage.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Michael Jordan had come to Nike as a last resort. When he signed with the Chicago Bulls in 1984, he desperately wanted an Adidas endorsement. The German company had enough athletes on its books, however, and was reluctant to sign another. Even after Nike offered to tailor shoes to his liking, with his name on them\u2014something no other company was doing at the time\u2014and sign him to an eye-popping five-year, $500,000 contract (also unheard of at the time), Jordan wasn\u2019t entirely sold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Five years later, Jordan\u2019s kicks were some of the most successful athlete-endorsed shoes ever. But as his contract neared its end, Jordan was looking for an out. Moore and Strasser, who\u2019d signed him, were gone. The pair were hoping to lure Jordan to their upstart competitor, Sports Inc., where they wanted to give him his own shoe and apparel line. Adidas was beckoning too. At this point, Jordan could go wherever he wanted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Nike had just one shot to salvage its deal with Michael Jordan: The Air Jordan III, which was now in Hatfield\u2019s hands. Nike president Phil Knight didn\u2019t know Hatfield well\u2014and he didn\u2019t necessarily trust him, since he\u2019d worked for Moore. Jordan didn\u2019t know Hatfield either. That was the first thing Hatfield had to change.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>As soon as he could, Hatfield jumped on a plane to meet with Jordan. He needed to get a sense of who he was as a human, outside of basketball. Lately, Jordan had been buying suits, plus high-end leather shoes to go with them. Hatfield could see he had an eye for style and design that wasn\u2019t entirely obvious to the public or reflected in the previous Air Jordans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>When Jordan talked about the styles and performance elements that he wanted in a shoe, Hatfield did something no other designer and executive had: He listened. A basic principle in architecture states that you can\u2019t design a great house without knowing the people who will live in it. Hatfield applied this with Jordan. \u201cI don\u2019t think Michael had ever been worked with that way,\u201d he told the Portland Tribune in 2005, \u201cIn fact, I don\u2019t think anybody in the footwear business had done it that way.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Both the Air Jordan and Air Jordan II were high-tops. Chatting with Hatfield, Jordan threw out an idea for a shoe that was less restrictive. Mid-tops existed, but they weren\u2019t popular as far as basketball shoes went. They were seen as a compromise: less stable for the ankles than a high-top. But Jordan dreamed of a lighter shoe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Hatfield kept hunting for inspiration wherever he could find it. Among Moore\u2019s few prototype designs, Hatfield saw something exciting. The photo of Jordan that had been used to promote the last two shoes\u2014jumping to dunk, legs split outward, ball in hand extended toward the basket\u2014had been penciled out by Moore as a logo. The logo was buried in the files, never intended for use on apparel. Hatfield loved it and, without consulting anyone, he placed it on one of his first Jordan III designs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Hatfield crafted a rough sample as quickly as he could. Another designer, Ron Dumas, took the sample and clarified Hatfield\u2019s ideas. As Hatfield recalled: \u201cNo one slept for days.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>On the day of the presentation, Hatfield and Knight flew to California, where Jordan was golfing. When they arrived, they found Jordan\u2019s parents waiting for them in a conference room. Jordan was still out on the fairways. Sitting next to the president of the company, Hatfield felt the enormity of what was about to happen start to sink in: \u201cThis,\u201d he remembered, \u201cis the biggest presentation of my life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pocket-syndicated-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/5ebcbb4203987.jpg\" alt=\"airj.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Four hours later, Michael Jordan walked into the room. He wasn\u2019t happy to be there. He had been golfing with Strasser and Moore, who\u2019d recently given an incredible presentation on the new brand they wanted to launch. Now, they were on the verge of signing. \u201cAll right, show me what you got,\u201d Jordan grumbled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Hatfield stood up and started asking Jordan questions. He asked him to recall what he\u2019d said earlier about the shoe\u2019s height, its weight, about his Italian shoes and leather patterns. Hatfield started showing the sketches to Jordan, who was beginning to warm up: For the first time, someone had actually paid attention to what he wanted and needed. Jordan asked to see the sample.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Hatfield pulled a black cover off a lump on the table, and there it was: the concrete-elephant print lining. The soft, sturdy leather, the Nike Air bubble on the bottom. A lower, mid-rise cuff that distinguished it from virtually every other shoe on the planet. Instead of a giant Nike swoosh on the side, the side was clean. The swoosh had been relegated to the back. And in the front, on that oversize, plush shoe tongue: the Jumpman silhouette. It was a symbol, Hatfield explained, of who was at the forefront of the shoe\u2014and the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Jordan grabbed the sneaker, smiling. He\u2019d never seen the Jumpman logo as anything other than an idea. Now it beamed from the front of the sneaker, and Jordan loved it. But perhaps most important, someone had found a way to take his needs as a basketball player and his ideas as a fashion connoisseur and meld them into a single design, one that was distinct from anything else on the market. When Jordan started talking about different colorways for the shoe, Hatfield knew he was in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>\u201cPhil Knight thinks I helped save Nike that day,\u201d Hatfield has since said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true or not, but that\u2019s his perception.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>The Air Jordan III hit shelves in February 1988, retailing for $100. They were the shoes Michael Jordan wore while famously winning the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest\u2014flying from the free throw line to the rim. They were also the shoes he donned for that year\u2019s All-Star and league MVP awards. And, before long, they\u2019d yielded one of the most iconic tag lines (\u201cIt\u2019s gotta be the shoes!\u201d) of any ad campaign in the Spike Lee\u2013directed Mars Blackmon spots, starring Lee himself as Blackmon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Jordan, of course, remained with Nike and has since collaborated with Hatfield on 19 iterations of Air Jordans (or \u201cJs,\u201d as they\u2019re known), which have remained the most popular basketball shoe line in the history of the market and the most coveted sneakers in the known universe. The Jordan Brand subdivision of Nike made $2.25 billion in 2013 alone and accounts for nearly 60 percent of the American basketball shoe market. Today, Jordan refers to Hatfield as his \u201cright-hand man\u201d in all things design-related. Hatfield has since become vice president of design at Nike. He\u2019s still taking inspiration from unconventional places (for the Jordan XI, he consistently cites a lawn mower).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18232\" src=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Michael-Jordan-tiger-woods-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Michael-Jordan-tiger-woods-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Michael-Jordan-tiger-woods.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>As for the original Air Jordan III, it\u2019s been galvanized in rap and pop songs and is regularly ranked by sneakerhead publications as the greatest Air Jordan of all time. And in 2001, the Air Jordan III became the first Jordan to be rereleased (or \u201cretroed,\u201d in sneaker parlance) and sell out in full. In fact, the highly coveted limited-availability III is the shoe that sparked the robust sneaker-collecting culture that exists today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>None of this would have happened had Hatfield followed convention. Instead, he went rogue in the simple, revolutionary way that is shrugging off common wisdom: Maybe athletic shoes can be more than just functional, and stylish shoes can function beyond their form. It took an architect to bring that idea to light.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Years later, Hatfield would ask Jordan why he ended up staying with Nike. Jordan replied that two factors swayed his decision: the advice of his father\u2014who told him to stay the course\u2014and a gut feeling. Jordan could feel that someone had managed to tap into him as a three-dimensional human being and translate that personality into a pair of shoes. And that, to Jordan, was special. In other words? It\u2019s gotta be the shoes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"bodyContent\" class=\"mw-body-content\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n<table class=\"infobox vcard\">\n<caption class=\"infobox-title fn summary\"><strong>Michael Jordan<\/strong><\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-image\" colspan=\"2\"><strong><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ae\/Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg\/220px-Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ae\/Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg\/330px-Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/ae\/Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg 2x\" alt=\"Michael Jordan in 2014.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"314\" data-file-width=\"398\" data-file-height=\"568\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"infobox-caption\"><strong>Jordan in April 2014<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-header\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Charlotte Hornets<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>Position<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data role\"><strong>Owner<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>League<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"NBA\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA\">NBA<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-header\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Personal information<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>Born<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>February 17, 1963<span class=\"noprint ForceAgeToShow\"> (age\u00a058)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a title=\"Brooklyn\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\">Brooklyn, New York<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>Nationality<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>American<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>Listed height<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>6\u00a0ft 6\u00a0in (1.98\u00a0m)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>Listed weight<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>216\u00a0lb (98\u00a0kg)<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan#cite_note-7\">[a]<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-header\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Career information<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>High school<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data plainlist\"><strong><a title=\"Emsley A. Laney High School\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emsley_A._Laney_High_School\">Emsley A. Laney<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(<a title=\"Wilmington, North Carolina\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilmington,_North_Carolina\">Wilmington, North Carolina<\/a>)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>College<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data plainlist\"><strong><a title=\"North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina_Tar_Heels_men%27s_basketball\">North Carolina<\/a> (1981\u20131984)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong><a title=\"NBA draft\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_draft\">NBA draft<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong><a title=\"1984 NBA draft\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984_NBA_draft\">1984<\/a> \/ Round: 1 \/ Pick: 3rd overall<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Selected by the <a title=\"Chicago Bulls\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Bulls\">Chicago Bulls<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>Playing career<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>1984\u20131993, 1995\u20131998, 2001\u20132003<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>Position<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong><a title=\"Shooting guard\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_guard\">Shooting guard<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong>Number<\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>23, 12,<sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan#cite_note-10\">[b]<\/a><\/sup> 45<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-header\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Career history<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong><a title=\"1984\u201385 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984%E2%80%9385_NBA_season\">1984<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1992\u201393 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992%E2%80%9393_NBA_season\">1993<\/a>,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a title=\"1994\u201395 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1994%E2%80%9395_NBA_season\">1995<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1997\u201398 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997%E2%80%9398_NBA_season\">1998<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong><a title=\"Chicago Bulls\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Bulls\">Chicago Bulls<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong><a title=\"2001\u201302 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2001%E2%80%9302_NBA_season\">2001<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"2002\u201303 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2002%E2%80%9303_NBA_season\">2003<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong><a title=\"Washington Wizards\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Wizards\">Washington Wizards<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-header\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Career highlights and awards<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>6\u00d7 <a title=\"List of NBA champions\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_NBA_champions\">NBA champion<\/a> (<a title=\"1991 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1991_NBA_Finals\">1991<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1993 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993_NBA_Finals\">1993<\/a>, <a title=\"1996 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_NBA_Finals\">1996<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1998 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_NBA_Finals\">1998<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>6\u00d7 <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Russell_NBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">NBA Finals MVP<\/a> (<a title=\"1991 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1991_NBA_Finals\">1991<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1993 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993_NBA_Finals\">1993<\/a>, <a title=\"1996 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_NBA_Finals\">1996<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1998 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_NBA_Finals\">1998<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>5\u00d7 <a title=\"NBA Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">NBA Most Valuable Player<\/a> (<a title=\"1987\u201388 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season\">1988<\/a>, <a title=\"1990\u201391 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1990%E2%80%9391_NBA_season\">1991<\/a>, <a title=\"1991\u201392 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1991%E2%80%9392_NBA_season\">1992<\/a>, <a title=\"1995\u201396 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995%E2%80%9396_NBA_season\">1996<\/a>, <a title=\"1997\u201398 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997%E2%80%9398_NBA_season\">1998<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>14\u00d7 <a title=\"List of NBA All-Stars\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_NBA_All-Stars\">NBA All-Star<\/a> (<a title=\"1985 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1985_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1985<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1993 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1993<\/a>, <a title=\"1996 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1996<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1998 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1998<\/a>, <a title=\"2002 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2002_NBA_All-Star_Game\">2002<\/a>, <a title=\"2003 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2003_NBA_All-Star_Game\">2003<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3\u00d7 <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Star_Game_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">NBA All-Star Game MVP<\/a> (<a title=\"1988 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1988_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1988<\/a>, <a title=\"1996 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1996<\/a>, <a title=\"1998 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1998<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>10\u00d7 <a title=\"All-NBA Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-NBA_Team\">All-NBA First Team<\/a> (<a title=\"1986\u201387 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1986%E2%80%9387_NBA_season\">1987<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1992\u201393 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992%E2%80%9393_NBA_season\">1993<\/a>, <a title=\"1995\u201396 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995%E2%80%9396_NBA_season\">1996<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1997\u201398 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997%E2%80%9398_NBA_season\">1998<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"All-NBA Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-NBA_Team\">All-NBA Second Team<\/a> (<a title=\"1984\u201385 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984%E2%80%9385_NBA_season\">1985<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Defensive_Player_of_the_Year_Award\">NBA Defensive Player of the Year<\/a> (<a title=\"1987\u201388 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season\">1988<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>9\u00d7 <a title=\"NBA All-Defensive Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Defensive_Team\">NBA All-Defensive First Team<\/a> (<a title=\"1987\u201388 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season\">1988<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1992\u201393 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992%E2%80%9393_NBA_season\">1993<\/a>, <a title=\"1995\u201396 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995%E2%80%9396_NBA_season\">1996<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1997\u201398 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997%E2%80%9398_NBA_season\">1998<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"NBA Rookie of the Year Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award\">NBA Rookie of the Year<\/a> (<a title=\"1984\u201385 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984%E2%80%9385_NBA_season\">1985<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"NBA All-Rookie First Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Rookie_First_Team\">NBA All-Rookie First Team<\/a> (<a title=\"1984\u201385 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984%E2%80%9385_NBA_season\">1985<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>10\u00d7 <a title=\"List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_scoring_leaders\">NBA scoring champion<\/a> (<a title=\"1986\u201387 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1986%E2%80%9387_NBA_season\">1987<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1992\u201393 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992%E2%80%9393_NBA_season\">1993<\/a>, <a title=\"1995\u201396 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995%E2%80%9396_NBA_season\">1996<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1997\u201398 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997%E2%80%9398_NBA_season\">1998<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3\u00d7 <a title=\"List of National Basketball Association annual steals leaders\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_steals_leaders\">NBA steals leader<\/a> (<a title=\"1987\u201388 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season\">1988<\/a>, <a title=\"1989\u201390 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1989%E2%80%9390_NBA_season\">1990<\/a>, <a title=\"1992\u201393 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992%E2%80%9393_NBA_season\">1993<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2\u00d7 <a title=\"Slam Dunk Contest\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slam_Dunk_Contest\">NBA Slam Dunk Contest<\/a> champion (<a title=\"1987 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1987_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1987<\/a>, <a title=\"1988 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1988_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1988<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No. 23 <a title=\"Chicago Bulls\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Bulls#Retired_numbers_and_honorees\">retired by Chicago Bulls<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No. 23 <a title=\"Miami Heat\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miami_Heat#Retired_numbers\">retired by Miami Heat<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3\u00d7 <a title=\"Associated Press Athlete of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Associated_Press_Athlete_of_the_Year\">AP Athlete of the Year<\/a> (<a title=\"1990\u201391 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1990%E2%80%9391_NBA_season\">1991<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"1992\u201393 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992%E2%80%9393_NBA_season\">1993<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sports_Illustrated_Sportsperson_of_the_Year\"><i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> Sportsperson of the Year<\/a> (1991)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA%27s_50th_Anniversary_All-Time_Team\">NBA&#8217;s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team<\/a> (1996)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"List of NCAA Division I men's basketball champions\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_champions\">NCAA champion<\/a> (<a title=\"1982 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1982_NCAA_Division_I_Men%27s_Basketball_Tournament\">1982<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"List of U.S. men's college basketball national player of the year awards\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_U.S._men%27s_college_basketball_national_player_of_the_year_awards\">National college player of the year<\/a> (<a title=\"1983\u201384 NCAA Division I men's basketball season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1983%E2%80%9384_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_season\">1984<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2\u00d7 Consensus first-team <a title=\"NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans\">All-American<\/a> (<a title=\"1983 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1983_NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans\">1983<\/a>, <a title=\"1984 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984_NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans\">1984<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Coast_Conference_Men%27s_Basketball_Player_of_the_Year\">ACC Player of the Year<\/a> (1984)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2\u00d7 First-team <a title=\"List of All-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball teams\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_All-Atlantic_Coast_Conference_men%27s_basketball_teams\">All-ACC<\/a> (1983, 1984)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Rookie of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Coast_Conference_Men%27s_Basketball_Rookie_of_the_Year\">ACC Rookie of the Year<\/a> (1982)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No. 23 <a title=\"North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina_Tar_Heels_men%27s_basketball#Retired_numbers\">retired by North Carolina Tar Heels<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2\u00d7 <a title=\"USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USA_Basketball_Male_Athlete_of_the_Year\">USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year<\/a> (1983, 1984)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"McDonald's All-American Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McDonald%27s_All-American_Game\">McDonald&#8217;s All-American<\/a> (<a title=\"1981 McDonald's All-American Boys Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1981_McDonald%27s_All-American_Boys_Game\">1981<\/a>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Presidential Medal of Freedom\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom\">Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a> (2016)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-header\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Career NBA statistics<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong><a title=\"Point (basketball)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_(basketball)\">Points<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>32,292 (30.1 ppg)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong><a title=\"Rebound (basketball)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebound_(basketball)\">Rebounds<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>6,672 (6.2 rpg)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"infobox-label\" scope=\"row\"><strong><a title=\"Assist (basketball)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assist_(basketball)\">Assists<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td class=\"infobox-data\"><strong>5,633 (5.3 apg)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><strong><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/player\/893\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stats<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Edit this at Wikidata\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q41421#P3647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/8a\/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg\/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/8a\/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg\/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/8a\/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg\/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x\" alt=\"Edit this at Wikidata\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-file-width=\"20\" data-file-height=\"20\" \/><\/a> at NBA.com<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><strong><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jordami01.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stats<\/a> at Basketball-Reference.com<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><strong><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoophall.com\/hall-of-famers\/michael-jordan\" rel=\"nofollow\">Basketball Hall of Fame as player<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><strong><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.com\/hall-of-fame\/Michael-JORDAN\" rel=\"nofollow\">FIBA Hall of Fame as player<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-below\" colspan=\"2\">\n<div class=\"mw-collapsible mw-made-collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table class=\"infobox vcard\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"infobox-below\" colspan=\"2\">\n<div class=\"mw-collapsible mw-made-collapsible\">\n<div>\n<div><strong>Medals<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mw-collapsible-content\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><strong><span class=\"nowrap\">Men&#8217;s <a title=\"Basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball\">basketball<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"adr\" colspan=\"3\"><strong>Representing <span class=\"country-name\">the <span class=\"flagicon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbborder\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/a4\/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg\/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/a4\/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg\/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/a4\/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg\/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"23\" height=\"12\" data-file-width=\"1235\" data-file-height=\"650\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><strong><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"Basketball at the Summer Olympics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics\">Olympic Games<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gold medal \u2013 first place\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x\" alt=\"Gold medal \u2013 first place\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" data-file-width=\"16\" data-file-height=\"16\" \/><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"1984 Summer Olympics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984_Summer_Olympics\">1984 Los Angeles<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><a title=\"1984 United States men's Olympic basketball team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984_United_States_men%27s_Olympic_basketball_team\">Men&#8217;s basketball<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gold medal \u2013 first place\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x\" alt=\"Gold medal \u2013 first place\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" data-file-width=\"16\" data-file-height=\"16\" \/><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"1992 Summer Olympics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_Summer_Olympics\">1992 Barcelona<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><a title=\"1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_United_States_men%27s_Olympic_basketball_team\">Men&#8217;s basketball<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><strong><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"FIBA AmeriCup\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FIBA_AmeriCup\">Tournament of the Americas<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gold medal \u2013 first place\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x\" alt=\"Gold medal \u2013 first place\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" data-file-width=\"16\" data-file-height=\"16\" \/><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"1992 Tournament of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_Tournament_of_the_Americas\">1992 Portland<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><a title=\"1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_United_States_men%27s_Olympic_basketball_team\">Men&#8217;s basketball<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><strong><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"Pan American Games\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pan_American_Games\">Pan American Games<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gold medal \u2013 first place\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg\/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x\" alt=\"Gold medal \u2013 first place\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" data-file-width=\"16\" data-file-height=\"16\" \/><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"1983 Pan American Games\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1983_Pan_American_Games\">1983 Caracas<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><a title=\"Basketball at the 1983 Pan American Games\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball_at_the_1983_Pan_American_Games\">Men&#8217;s basketball<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16657\" src=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-Jordan-Tongue-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-Jordan-Tongue-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-Jordan-Tongue-400x250.jpg 400w, https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-Jordan-Tongue.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ,<sup id=\"cite_ref-11\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan#cite_note-11\">[9]<\/a><\/sup> is an American businessman and former professional <a title=\"Basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball\">basketball<\/a> player. He is the principal owner and chairman of the <a title=\"Charlotte Hornets\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlotte_Hornets\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> of the <a title=\"National Basketball Association\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Basketball_Association\">National Basketball Association<\/a> (NBA) and of <a title=\"23XI Racing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/23XI_Racing\">23XI Racing<\/a> in the <a title=\"NASCAR Cup Series\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASCAR_Cup_Series\">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a>. He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the <a title=\"Chicago Bulls\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Bulls\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>. His biography on the official <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"NBA\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA\">NBA<\/a> website states: &#8220;By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> He was integral in helping to popularize the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a global <a title=\"Cultural icon\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_icon\">cultural icon<\/a> in the process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan played <a title=\"College basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/College_basketball\">college basketball<\/a> for three seasons under coach <a title=\"Dean Smith\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dean_Smith\">Dean Smith<\/a> with the <a title=\"North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina_Tar_Heels_men%27s_basketball\">North Carolina Tar Heels<\/a>. As a freshman, he was a member of the Tar Heels&#8217; national championship team in <a title=\"1982 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1982_NCAA_Division_I_Men%27s_Basketball_Tournament\">1982<\/a>. Jordan joined the Bulls in <a title=\"1984\u201385 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984%E2%80%9385_NBA_season\">1984<\/a> as the third overall draft pick, and quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring while gaining a reputation as one of the game&#8217;s best defensive players.<sup id=\"cite_ref-defensive_players_14-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing <a title=\"Slam dunk\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slam_dunk\">slam dunks<\/a> from the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Free throw line\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_throw_line\">free throw line<\/a> in <a title=\"Slam Dunk Contest\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slam_Dunk_Contest\">Slam Dunk Contests<\/a>, earned him the nicknames &#8220;Air Jordan&#8221; and &#8220;His Airness&#8221;. Jordan won his first NBA championship with the Bulls in 1991, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a &#8220;<a title=\"Three-peat\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three-peat\">three-peat<\/a>&#8220;. Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the <a title=\"1993\u201394 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993%E2%80%9394_NBA_season\">1993\u201394 NBA season<\/a> to play <a title=\"Minor League Baseball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minor_League_Baseball\">Minor League Baseball<\/a>, 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\u201396 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 <a title=\"Washington Wizards\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Wizards\">Washington Wizards<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan&#8217;s individual accolades and accomplishments include six <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Russell_NBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards<\/a>, ten <a title=\"List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_scoring_leaders\">scoring titles<\/a> (both all-time records), five <a title=\"NBA Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">MVP Awards<\/a>, ten <a title=\"All-NBA Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-NBA_Team\">All-NBA<\/a> First Team designations, nine <a title=\"NBA All-Defensive Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Defensive_Team\">All-Defensive<\/a> First Team honors, fourteen <a title=\"NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Star_Game\">NBA All-Star Game<\/a> selections, three <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Star_Game_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">All-Star Game MVP Awards<\/a>, three <a title=\"List of National Basketball Association annual steals leaders\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_steals_leaders\">steals titles<\/a>, and the 1988 <a title=\"NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Defensive_Player_of_the_Year_Award\">NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award<\/a>. He holds the NBA records for career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game). In 1999, he was named the 20th century&#8217;s greatest North American athlete by <a title=\"ESPN\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESPN\">ESPN<\/a>, and was second to <a title=\"Babe Ruth\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babe_Ruth\">Babe Ruth<\/a> on the <a title=\"Associated Press\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Associated_Press\">Associated Press<\/a>&#8216; list of athletes of the century. Jordan was twice inducted into the <a title=\"Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame\">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame<\/a>, once in 2009 for his individual career and again in 2010 as part of the <a title=\"1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_United_States_men%27s_Olympic_basketball_team\">1992 United States men&#8217;s Olympic basketball team<\/a> (&#8220;The Dream Team&#8221;). He became a member of the <a title=\"FIBA Hall of Fame\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FIBA_Hall_of_Fame\">FIBA Hall of Fame<\/a> in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation,<sup id=\"cite_ref-Markovits_12-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> Jordan is also known for his product endorsements. He fueled the success of <a title=\"Nike, Inc.\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nike,_Inc.\">Nike<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"Air Jordan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Jordan\">Air Jordan<\/a> sneakers, which were introduced in 1984 and remain popular today.<sup id=\"cite_ref-remain_popular_15-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan#cite_note-remain_popular-15\">[13]<\/a><\/sup> Jordan also starred as himself in the 1996 live-action animated film <i><a title=\"Space Jam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Jam\">Space Jam<\/a><\/i>, and is the central focus of the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Emmy Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emmy_Award\">Emmy Award<\/a>-winning documentary miniseries <i><a title=\"The Last Dance (miniseries)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Dance_(miniseries)\">The Last Dance<\/a><\/i> (2020). He became part-owner and head of basketball operations for the Charlotte Bobcats (now named the Hornets) in 2006, and bought a controlling interest in 2010. In 2014, Jordan became the first billionaire player in NBA history. With a net worth of $2.1\u00a0billion, he is the fourth-richest African American, behind <a title=\"Robert F. Smith (investor)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_F._Smith_(investor)\">Robert F. Smith<\/a>, <a title=\"David Steward\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Steward\">David Steward<\/a>, and <a title=\"Oprah Winfrey\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oprah_Winfrey\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Awards_and_honors\" class=\"mw-headline\">Awards and honors<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<p><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:JordanSmithWorthy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimage\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/71\/JordanSmithWorthy2.jpg\/170px-JordanSmithWorthy2.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/71\/JordanSmithWorthy2.jpg\/255px-JordanSmithWorthy2.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/71\/JordanSmithWorthy2.jpg\/340px-JordanSmithWorthy2.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"254\" data-file-width=\"1648\" data-file-height=\"2464\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">\n<div class=\"magnify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\"><strong><a title=\"James Worthy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Worthy\">James Worthy<\/a>, Jordan, and <a title=\"Dean Smith\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dean_Smith\">Dean Smith<\/a> in 2007 at a <a title=\"North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina_Tar_Heels_men%27s_basketball\">North Carolina Tar Heels men&#8217;s basketball<\/a> game honoring the 1957 and 1982 men&#8217;s basketball teams.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hatnote navigation-not-searchable\" role=\"note\"><strong>Further information: <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_career_achievements_by_Michael_Jordan\">List of career achievements by Michael Jordan<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"College\" class=\"mw-headline\">College<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"div-col\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NCAA_Division_I_Men%27s_Basketball_Tournament\">NCAA national championship<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <a title=\"1982 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1982_NCAA_Division_I_Men%27s_Basketball_Tournament\">1981\u201382<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-honors_212-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Atlantic Coast Conference\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Coast_Conference\">ACC Freshman of the Year<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1981\u201382<sup id=\"cite_ref-ACC_213-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two-time Consensus <a title=\"NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans\">NCAA All-American First Team<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1982\u201383, 1983\u201384<sup id=\"cite_ref-ACC_213-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ACC_Men%27s_Basketball_Player_of_the_Year\">ACC Men&#8217;s Basketball Player of the Year<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1983\u201384<sup id=\"cite_ref-ACC_213-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Oscar Robertson Trophy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oscar_Robertson_Trophy\">USBWA College Player of the Year<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1983\u201384<sup id=\"cite_ref-214\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Naismith College Player of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naismith_College_Player_of_the_Year\">Naismith College Player of the Year<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1983\u201384<sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-12\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Adolph Rupp Trophy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolph_Rupp_Trophy\">Adolph Rupp Trophy<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1983\u201384<sup id=\"cite_ref-215\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"John R. Wooden Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_R._Wooden_Award\">John R. Wooden Award<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1983\u201384<sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-13\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Number 23 <a title=\"North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina_Tar_Heels_men%27s_basketball#Retired_numbers\">retired by the North Carolina Tar Heels<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-216\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"NBA\" class=\"mw-headline\">NBA<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"div-col\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Six-time <a title=\"NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Finals\">NBA champion<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <a title=\"1991 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1991_NBA_Finals\">1991<\/a>, <a title=\"1992 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_NBA_Finals\">1992<\/a>, <a title=\"1993 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993_NBA_Finals\">1993<\/a>, <a title=\"1996 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_NBA_Finals\">1996<\/a>, <a title=\"1997 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997_NBA_Finals\">1997<\/a>, <a title=\"1998 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_NBA_Finals\">1998<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-14\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Six-time <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Russell_NBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">NBA Finals MVP<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <a title=\"1991 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1991_NBA_Finals\">1991<\/a>, <a title=\"1992 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_NBA_Finals\">1992<\/a>, <a title=\"1993 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993_NBA_Finals\">1993<\/a>, <a title=\"1996 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_NBA_Finals\">1996<\/a>, <a title=\"1997 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997_NBA_Finals\">1997<\/a>, <a title=\"1998 NBA Finals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_NBA_Finals\">1998<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-br_33-13\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Five-time <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Basketball_Association_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">NBA MVP<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <a title=\"1987\u201388 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season\">1988<\/a>, <a title=\"1990\u201391 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1990%E2%80%9391_NBA_season\">1991<\/a>, <a title=\"1991\u201392 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1991%E2%80%9392_NBA_season\">1992<\/a>, <a title=\"1995\u201396 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995%E2%80%9396_NBA_season\">1996<\/a>, <a title=\"1997\u201398 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997%E2%80%9398_NBA_season\">1998<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-15\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Defensive_Player_of_the_Year_Award\">NBA Defensive Player of the Year<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <a title=\"1987\u201388 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season\">1987\u201388<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-honors_212-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"NBA Rookie of the Year Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award\">NBA Rookie of the Year<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <a title=\"1984\u201385 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984%E2%80%9385_NBA_season\">1984\u201385<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-16\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>10-time <a title=\"List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_scoring_leaders\">NBA scoring leader<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1987\u20131993, 1996\u20131998<sup id=\"cite_ref-br_33-14\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3-time <a title=\"List of National Basketball Association annual steals leaders\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_steals_leaders\">NBA steals leader<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1988, 1990, 1993<sup id=\"cite_ref-br_33-15\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>14-time <a title=\"NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Star_Game\">NBA All-Star<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1985\u20131993, 1996\u20131998, 2002, 2003<sup id=\"cite_ref-br_33-16\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three-time <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Star_Game_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\">NBA All-Star Game MVP<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <a title=\"1988 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1988_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1988<\/a>, <a title=\"1996 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1996_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1996<\/a>, <a title=\"1998 NBA All-Star Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_NBA_All-Star_Game\">1998<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-br_33-17\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>11-time <a title=\"All-NBA Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-NBA_Team\">All-NBA Team<\/a>:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First team\u00a0\u2013 1987\u20131993, 1996\u20131998<sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-17\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Second team\u00a0\u2013 1985<sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-18\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nine-time <a title=\"NBA All-Defensive Team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_All-Defensive_Team\">NBA All-Defensive First Team<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1988\u20131993, 1996\u20131998<sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-19\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two-time <a title=\"Slam Dunk Contest\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slam_Dunk_Contest#NBA_Slam_Dunk_Contest_champions\">NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1987, 1988<sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-20\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two-time <a title=\"IBM Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_Award\">IBM Award<\/a> winner\u00a0\u2013 1985, 1989<sup id=\"cite_ref-honors_212-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Named one of the <a title=\"50 Greatest Players in NBA History\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/50_Greatest_Players_in_NBA_History\">50 Greatest Players in NBA History<\/a> in 1996<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Number 23 <a title=\"Chicago Bulls\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Bulls#Retired_numbers_and_honorees\">retired by the Chicago Bulls<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-numbers_217-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Number 23 <a title=\"Miami Heat\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miami_Heat#Retired_numbers\">retired by the Miami Heat<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-numbers_217-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"Other\" class=\"mw-headline\">Other<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"div-col\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two-time <a title=\"List of players in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_players_in_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame\">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame<\/a><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>class of 2009 \u2013 individual<sup id=\"cite_ref-Sam_208-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>class of 2010 \u2013 as a member of the &#8220;Dream Team&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-218\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"United States Olympic Hall of Fame\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Olympic_Hall_of_Fame\">United States Olympic Hall of Fame<\/a> \u2013 class of 2009 (as a member of the &#8220;Dream Team&#8221;)<sup id=\"cite_ref-219\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two-time <a title=\"FIBA Hall of Fame\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FIBA_Hall_of_Fame\">FIBA Hall of Fame<\/a><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>class of 2015 \u2013 individual<sup id=\"cite_ref-220\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>class of 2017 \u2013 as a member of the &#8220;Dream Team&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-221\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two-time <a title=\"Basketball at the Summer Olympics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics\">Olympic<\/a> gold medal winner \u2013 <a title=\"Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball_at_the_1984_Summer_Olympics\">1984<\/a>, <a title=\"Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics\">1992<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-nbah_5-22\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"FIBA AmeriCup\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FIBA_AmeriCup\">Tournament of the Americas<\/a> gold medal winner \u2013 <a title=\"1992 Tournament of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_Tournament_of_the_Americas\">1992<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-222\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Pan American Games\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pan_American_Games\">Pan American Games<\/a> gold medal winner \u2013 <a title=\"Basketball at the 1983 Pan American Games\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basketball_at_the_1983_Pan_American_Games\">1983<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-223\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three-time <a title=\"Associated Press Athlete of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Associated_Press_Athlete_of_the_Year\">Associated Press Athlete of the Year<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1991, 1992, 1993<sup id=\"cite_ref-224\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sports_Illustrated_Sportsperson_of_the_Year\"><i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> Sportsperson of the Year<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1991<sup id=\"cite_ref-225\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Section of <a title=\"Madison Street (Chicago)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madison_Street_(Chicago)\">Madison Street<\/a> in Chicago renamed Michael Jordan Drive\u00a0\u2013 1994<sup id=\"cite_ref-226\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ranked No.1 by <i><a title=\"Slam (magazine)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slam_(magazine)\">Slam<\/a><\/i> magazine&#8217;s Top 50 Players of All-Time<sup id=\"cite_ref-227\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ranked No.1 by <i>ESPN <a title=\"SportsCentury\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SportsCentury\">SportsCentury<\/a>&#8216;<\/i>s Top North American Athletes of the 20th century<sup id=\"cite_ref-century_192-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"List of members of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_members_of_the_North_Carolina_Sports_Hall_of_Fame\">North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-228\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1997 <a title=\"Marca Leyenda\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marca_Leyenda\">Marca Leyenda<\/a> winner<sup id=\"cite_ref-229\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>10-time <a title=\"ESPY Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESPY_Award\">ESPY Award<\/a> winner (in various categories)<sup id=\"cite_ref-230\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Michael Jordan statue\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan_statue\">Statue<\/a> in front of the <a title=\"United Center\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Center\">United Center<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-231\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2016 <a title=\"Presidential Medal of Freedom\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom\">Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-Freedom_211-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong><span id=\"Post-retirement\" class=\"mw-headline\">Post-retirement<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<p><strong><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:MJ_golf_course.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimage\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0d\/MJ_golf_course.jpg\/220px-MJ_golf_course.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0d\/MJ_golf_course.jpg\/330px-MJ_golf_course.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0d\/MJ_golf_course.jpg\/440px-MJ_golf_course.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" data-file-width=\"3481\" data-file-height=\"2331\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">\n<div class=\"magnify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\"><strong>Jordan on a golf course in 2007<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>After his third retirement, Jordan assumed that he would be able to return to his front office position as Director of Basketball Operations with the Wizards.<sup id=\"cite_ref-232\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> However, his previous tenure in the Wizards&#8217; front office had produced the aforementioned mixed results and may have also influenced the trade of <a title=\"Richard Hamilton (basketball)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Hamilton_(basketball)\">Richard &#8220;Rip&#8221; Hamilton<\/a> for <a title=\"Jerry Stackhouse\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Stackhouse\">Jerry Stackhouse<\/a>, although Jordan was not technically Director of Basketball Operations in 2002.\u00a0 On May 7, 2003, Wizards owner <a title=\"Abe Pollin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abe_Pollin\">Abe Pollin<\/a> fired Jordan as the team&#8217;s president of basketball operations. Jordan later stated that he felt betrayed, and that if he had known he would be fired upon retiring he never would have come back to play for the Wizards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan kept busy over the next few years. He stayed in shape, played golf in celebrity charity tournaments, and spent time with his family in Chicago. He also promoted his Jordan Brand clothing line and rode motorcycles.\u00a0 <sup id=\"cite_ref-233\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Since 2004, Jordan has owned Michael Jordan Motorsports, a professional closed-course motorcycle road racing team that competed with two <a title=\"Suzuki\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suzuki\">Suzukis<\/a> in the <a title=\"AMA Superbike Championship\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AMA_Superbike_Championship\">premier Superbike championship<\/a> sanctioned by the <a title=\"American Motorcyclist Association\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Motorcyclist_Association\">American Motorcyclist Association<\/a> (AMA) until the end of the 2013 season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"Charlotte_Bobcats_.2F_Hornets\"><\/span><span id=\"Charlotte_Bobcats_\/_Hornets\" class=\"mw-headline\">Charlotte Bobcats \/ Hornets<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>On June 15, 2006, Jordan bought a minority stake in the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Charlotte Bobcats\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlotte_Bobcats\">Charlotte Bobcats<\/a> (now known as the <a title=\"Charlotte Hornets\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlotte_Hornets\">Hornets<\/a>), becoming the team&#8217;s second-largest shareholder behind majority owner <a title=\"Robert L. Johnson\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_L._Johnson\">Robert L. Johnson<\/a>. As part of the deal, Jordan took full control over the basketball side of the operation, with the title &#8220;Managing Member of Basketball Operations&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-236\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> Despite Jordan&#8217;s previous success as an endorser, he has made an effort not to be included in Charlotte&#8217;s marketing campaigns. A decade earlier, Jordan had made a bid to become part-owner of Charlotte&#8217;s original NBA team, the Charlotte Hornets, but talks collapsed when owner <a title=\"George Shinn\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Shinn\">George Shinn<\/a> refused to give Jordan complete control of basketball operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In February 2010, it was reported that Jordan was seeking majority ownership of the Bobcats.<sup id=\"cite_ref-240\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan#cite_note-240\">[238]<\/a><\/sup> As February wore on, it became apparent that Jordan and former <a title=\"Houston Rockets\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Houston_Rockets\">Houston Rockets<\/a> president <a title=\"George Postolos\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Postolos\">George Postolos<\/a> were the leading contenders for ownership of the team. On February 27, the Bobcats announced that Johnson had reached an agreement with Jordan and his group, MJ Basketball Holdings, to buy the team from Johnson pending NBA approval.<sup id=\"cite_ref-241\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> On March 17, the NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved Jordan&#8217;s purchase, making him the first former player to become the majority owner of an NBA team. It also made him the league&#8217;s only African-American majority owner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>During the 2019 NBA offseason, Jordan sold a minority piece of the Hornets to Gabe Plotkin and Daniel Sundheim, retaining the majority of the team for himself,<sup id=\"cite_ref-248\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> as well as the role of chairman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"23XI_Racing\" class=\"mw-headline\">23XI Racing<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>On September 21, 2020, Jordan and <a title=\"NASCAR\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASCAR\">NASCAR<\/a> driver <a title=\"Denny Hamlin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denny_Hamlin\">Denny Hamlin<\/a> announced they would be fielding a NASCAR team with <a title=\"Bubba Wallace\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bubba_Wallace\">Bubba Wallace<\/a> driving, beginning competition in the <a title=\"2021 NASCAR Cup Series\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2021_NASCAR_Cup_Series\">2021 season<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-250\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> On October 22, the team&#8217;s name was confirmed to be <a title=\"23XI Racing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/23XI_Racing\">23XI Racing<\/a> (pronounced twenty-three eleven) and the team&#8217;s entry will bear the number 23.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span id=\"Personal_life\" class=\"mw-headline\">Personal life<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<p><strong><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Michael_Jordan_and_Barack_Obama_at_the_White_House.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimage\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6d\/Michael_Jordan_and_Barack_Obama_at_the_White_House.jpg\/170px-Michael_Jordan_and_Barack_Obama_at_the_White_House.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6d\/Michael_Jordan_and_Barack_Obama_at_the_White_House.jpg\/255px-Michael_Jordan_and_Barack_Obama_at_the_White_House.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6d\/Michael_Jordan_and_Barack_Obama_at_the_White_House.jpg\/340px-Michael_Jordan_and_Barack_Obama_at_the_White_House.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"212\" data-file-width=\"1080\" data-file-height=\"1349\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">\n<div class=\"magnify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\"><strong>Jordan receiving the <a title=\"Presidential Medal of Freedom\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom\">Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a> from President <a title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> at the <a title=\"White House\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\">White House<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>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.<sup id=\"cite_ref-252\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> James retired in 2006 as the <a title=\"Sergeant major\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergeant_major\">Command Sergeant Major<\/a> of the <a title=\"35th Signal Brigade (United States)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/35th_Signal_Brigade_(United_States)\">35th Signal Brigade<\/a> of the <a title=\"XVIII Airborne Corps\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XVIII_Airborne_Corps\">XVIII Airborne Corps<\/a> in the U.S. Army. Jordan&#8217;s nephew through Larry, Justin Jordan, played <a title=\"NCAA Division I\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NCAA_Division_I\">Division I<\/a> basketball at <a title=\"UNC Greensboro Spartans men's basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UNC_Greensboro_Spartans_men%27s_basketball\">UNC Greensboro<\/a> and is a scout for the Charlotte Hornets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan married Juanita Vanoy in September 1989. They had two sons, <a title=\"Jeffrey Jordan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeffrey_Jordan\">Jeffrey<\/a> and <a title=\"Marcus Jordan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcus_Jordan\">Marcus<\/a>, and a daughter, Jasmine. The Jordans filed for divorce on January 4, 2002, citing irreconcilable differences, but reconciled shortly thereafter. They again filed for divorce and were granted a final decree of dissolution of marriage on December 29, 2006, commenting that the decision was made &#8220;mutually and amicably&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Divorce_257-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> It is reported that Juanita received a $168\u00a0million settlement (equivalent to $213 million in 2019), making it the largest celebrity divorce settlement on public record at the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1991, Jordan purchased a lot in <a title=\"Highland Park, Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Highland_Park,_Illinois\">Highland Park, Illinois<\/a>, on which he planned to build a 56,000 square-foot (5,200\u00a0m<sup>2<\/sup>) mansion. It was completed in 1995. He listed the mansion for sale in 2012.\u00a0 <sup id=\"cite_ref-mansion_261-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> His two sons attended <a title=\"Loyola Academy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loyola_Academy\">Loyola Academy<\/a>, a private <a title=\"Catholic school\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_school\">Catholic school<\/a> in <a title=\"Wilmette, Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilmette,_Illinois\">Wilmette, Illinois<\/a>.\u00a0 Jeffrey graduated in 2007 and played his first collegiate basketball game for the <a title=\"Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois_Fighting_Illini_men%27s_basketball\">University of Illinois<\/a> on November 11, 2007. After two seasons, he left the Illinois basketball team in 2009. He later rejoined the team for a third season, then received a release to transfer to the <a title=\"UCF Knights men's basketball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UCF_Knights_men%27s_basketball\">University of Central Florida<\/a>, where Marcus was attending. Marcus transferred to <a title=\"Whitney M. Young Magnet High School\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_M._Young_Magnet_High_School\">Whitney Young High School<\/a> after his sophomore year at Loyola Academy and graduated in 2009. He began attending UCF in the fall of 2009,\u00a0 and played three seasons of basketball for the school.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Cuban-American model <a title=\"Yvette Prieto\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yvette_Prieto\">Yvette Prieto<\/a>, on Christmas 2011, <sup id=\"cite_ref-273\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and they were married on April 27, 2013, at <a title=\"Bethesda-by-the-Sea\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bethesda-by-the-Sea\">Bethesda-by-the-Sea<\/a> 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 named Victoria and Ysabel.\u00a0 Jordan became a grandfather in 2019 when his daughter Jasmine gave birth to a son, whose father is professional basketball player <a title=\"Rakeem Christmas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rakeem_Christmas\">Rakeem Christmas<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span id=\"Media_figure_and_business_interests\" class=\"mw-headline\">Media figure and business interests<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"Endorsements\" class=\"mw-headline\">Endorsements<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<p><strong><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_www.Army.mil_(273).jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimage\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/68\/Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_www.Army.mil_%28273%29.jpg\/170px-Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_www.Army.mil_%28273%29.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/68\/Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_www.Army.mil_%28273%29.jpg\/255px-Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_www.Army.mil_%28273%29.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/68\/Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_www.Army.mil_%28273%29.jpg\/340px-Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_www.Army.mil_%28273%29.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"212\" data-file-width=\"1205\" data-file-height=\"1506\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">\n<div class=\"magnify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\"><strong>Jordan in 2008<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Jordan is one of the most marketed sports figures in history. He has been a major spokesman for such brands as <a title=\"Nike, Inc.\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nike,_Inc.\">Nike<\/a>, <a title=\"Coca-Cola\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coca-Cola\">Coca-Cola<\/a>, <a title=\"Chevrolet\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chevrolet\">Chevrolet<\/a>, <a title=\"Gatorade\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gatorade\">Gatorade<\/a>, <a title=\"McDonald's\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McDonald%27s\">McDonald&#8217;s<\/a>, <a title=\"Ball Park Franks\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ball_Park_Franks\">Ball Park Franks<\/a>, <a title=\"Spectrum Brands\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spectrum_Brands\">Rayovac<\/a>, <a title=\"Wheaties\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheaties\">Wheaties<\/a>, <a title=\"Hanes\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanes\">Hanes<\/a>, and <a title=\"MCI Communications\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MCI_Communications\">MCI<\/a>.\u00a0 <sup id=\"cite_ref-rov_280-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Jordan has had a long relationship with Gatorade, appearing in over 20 commercials for the company since 1991, including the &#8220;<a title=\"Be Like Mike\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Be_Like_Mike\">Be Like Mike<\/a>&#8221; commercials in which a song was sung by children wishing to be like Jordan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nike created a signature shoe for Jordan, called the <a title=\"Air Jordan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Jordan\">Air Jordan<\/a>, in 1984.<sup id=\"cite_ref-282\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> One of Jordan&#8217;s more popular commercials for the shoe involved <a title=\"Spike Lee\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spike_Lee\">Spike Lee<\/a> playing the part of <a title=\"Mars Blackmon\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_Blackmon\">Mars Blackmon<\/a>. In the commercials, Lee, as Blackmon, attempted to find the source of Jordan&#8217;s abilities and became convinced that &#8220;it&#8217;s gotta be the shoes&#8221;. The hype and demand for the shoes even brought on a spate of &#8220;shoe-jackings&#8221; where people were robbed of their sneakers at gunpoint. Subsequently, Nike spun off the Jordan line into its own division named the &#8220;Jordan Brand&#8221;. The company features an impressive list of athletes and celebrities as endorsers. The brand has also sponsored college sports programs such as those of <a title=\"North Carolina Tar Heels\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina_Tar_Heels\">North Carolina<\/a>, <a title=\"California Golden Bears\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Golden_Bears\">California<\/a>, <a title=\"Georgetown Hoyas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgetown_Hoyas\">Georgetown<\/a>, and <a title=\"Marquette Golden Eagles\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marquette_Golden_Eagles\">Marquette<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan also has been associated with the <a title=\"Looney Tunes\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Looney_Tunes\">Looney Tunes<\/a> cartoon characters. A Nike commercial shown during 1992&#8217;s <a title=\"Super Bowl XXVI\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Bowl_XXVI\">Super Bowl XXVI<\/a> featured Jordan and <a title=\"Bugs Bunny\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bugs_Bunny\">Bugs Bunny<\/a> playing basketball.<sup id=\"cite_ref-286\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> The Super Bowl commercial inspired the 1996 <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Films with live action and animation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Films_with_live_action_and_animation\">live action\/animated<\/a> film <i><a title=\"Space Jam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Jam\">Space Jam<\/a><\/i>, which starred Jordan and Bugs in a fictional story set during the former&#8217;s first retirement from basketball.\u00a0 They have subsequently appeared together in several commercials for MCI.\u00a0 Jordan also made an appearance in the music video for <a title=\"Michael Jackson\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jackson\">Michael Jackson<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a title=\"Jam (song)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jam_(song)\">Jam<\/a>&#8221; (1992).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan&#8217;s yearly income from the endorsements is estimated to be over $40 million.\u00a0 <sup id=\"cite_ref-ausport_289-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> In addition, when Jordan&#8217;s power at the ticket gates was at its highest point, the Bulls regularly sold out both their home and road games. Due to this, Jordan set records in player salary by signing annual contracts worth in excess of US$30 million per season.\u00a0 An academic study found that Jordan&#8217;s first NBA comeback resulted in an increase in the market capitalization of his client firms of more than $1\u00a0billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most of Jordan&#8217;s endorsement deals, including his first deal with Nike, were engineered by his agent, <a title=\"David Falk\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Falk\">David Falk<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-executiveofyear_294-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> Jordan has described Falk as &#8220;the best at what he does&#8221; and that &#8220;marketing-wise, he&#8217;s great. He&#8217;s the one who came up with the concept of &#8216;Air Jordan.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"Business_ventures\" class=\"mw-headline\">Business ventures<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>In June 2010, Jordan was ranked by <i><a title=\"Forbes\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forbes\">Forbes<\/a><\/i> magazine as the 20th-most powerful celebrity in the world with $55\u00a0million earned between June 2009 and June 2010. According to the <i>Forbes<\/i> article, Jordan Brand generates $1 billion in sales for Nike.\u00a0 <sup id=\"cite_ref-296\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> In June 2014, Jordan was named the first NBA player to become a billionaire, after he increased his stake in the Charlotte Hornets from 80% to 89.5%. On January 20, 2015, Jordan was honored with the <i>Charlotte Business Journal&#8217;<\/i>s Business Person of the Year for 2014.\u00a0 In 2017, he became a part owner of the <a title=\"Miami Marlins\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miami_Marlins\">Miami Marlins<\/a> of <a title=\"Major League Baseball\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_League_Baseball\">Major League Baseball<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Forbes<\/i> designated Jordan as the athlete with the highest career earnings in 2017.\u00a0 <sup id=\"cite_ref-301\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> From his Jordan Brand income and endorsements, Jordan&#8217;s 2015 income was an estimated $110 million, the most of any retired athlete.\u00a0 As of 2020, his net worth is estimated at $2.1\u00a0billion by <i>Forbes<\/i>,\u00a0 making him the <a title=\"Black billionaires\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_billionaires\">fourth-richest African-American<\/a>, behind <a title=\"Robert F. Smith (investor)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_F._Smith_(investor)\">Robert F. Smith<\/a>, <a title=\"David Steward\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Steward\">David Steward<\/a>, and <a title=\"Oprah Winfrey\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oprah_Winfrey\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan co-owns an automotive group which bears his name. The company has a <a title=\"Nissan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nissan\">Nissan<\/a> dealership in <a title=\"Durham, North Carolina\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Durham,_North_Carolina\">Durham, North Carolina<\/a>, acquired in 1990, <sup id=\"cite_ref-305\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and formerly had a <a title=\"Lincoln Motor Company\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincoln_Motor_Company\">Lincoln<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"Mercury (automobile)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury_(automobile)\">Mercury<\/a> dealership from 1995 until its closure in June 2009.\u00a0 The company also owned a Nissan franchise in <a title=\"Glen Burnie, Maryland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glen_Burnie,_Maryland\">Glen Burnie, Maryland<\/a>.\u00a0 The restaurant industry is another business interest of Jordan&#8217;s. His restaurants include a <a title=\"Michael Jordan's Steakhouse\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan%27s_Steakhouse\">steakhouse<\/a> in New York City&#8217;s <a title=\"Grand Central Terminal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Central_Terminal\">Grand Central Terminal<\/a>, among others.\u00a0 Jordan is the majority investor in a golf course, Grove XXIII, under construction in <a title=\"Hobe Sound, Florida\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hobe_Sound,_Florida\">Hobe Sound, Florida<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In September 2020, Jordan became an investor and advisor for <a title=\"DraftKings\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DraftKings\">DraftKings<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-310\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"Philanthropy\" class=\"mw-headline\">Philanthropy<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>From 2001 to 2014, Jordan hosted an annual golf tournament, the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational, that raised money for various charities.\u00a0 <sup id=\"cite_ref-philanthropic_311-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> In 2006, Jordan and his wife Juanita pledged $5\u00a0million to Chicago&#8217;s <a title=\"Hales Franciscan High School\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hales_Franciscan_High_School\">Hales Franciscan High School<\/a>.\u00a0 The Jordan Brand has made donations to <a title=\"Habitat for Humanity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habitat_for_Humanity\">Habitat for Humanity<\/a> and a <a title=\"Louisiana\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\">Louisiana<\/a> branch of the <a title=\"Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of America\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boys_%26_Girls_Clubs_of_America\">Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of America<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The <a title=\"Make-A-Wish Foundation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Make-A-Wish_Foundation\">Make-A-Wish Foundation<\/a> named Jordan its Chief Wish Ambassador in 2008.<sup id=\"cite_ref-philanthropic_311-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> Five years later, he granted his 200th wish for the organization. As of 2019, he has raised more than $5\u00a0million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2015, Jordan donated a settlement of undisclosed size from a lawsuit against supermarkets that had used his name without permission to 23 different Chicago charities.<sup id=\"cite_ref-315\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> Jordan funded two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Clinics in <a title=\"Charlotte, North Carolina\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlotte,_North_Carolina\">Charlotte, North Carolina<\/a>, in 2017 by giving $7\u00a0million, the biggest donation he had made at the time. One year later, after <a title=\"Hurricane Florence\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Florence\">Hurricane Florence<\/a> damaged parts of North Carolina, including his former hometown of Wilmington, Jordan donated $2\u00a0million to relief efforts. He gave $1\u00a0million to aid the Bahamas&#8217; recovery following <a title=\"Hurricane Dorian\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Dorian\">Hurricane Dorian<\/a> in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On June 5, 2020, in the wake of the <a title=\"George Floyd protests\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Floyd_protests\">protests<\/a> following the <a title=\"Murder of George Floyd\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murder_of_George_Floyd\">murder of George Floyd<\/a>, Jordan and his brand announced in a joint statement that they will be donating $100\u00a0million over the next 10 years to organizations dedicated to &#8220;ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-319\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"Film_and_television\" class=\"mw-headline\">Film and television<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jordan played himself in the 1996 comedy film <i><a title=\"Space Jam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Jam\">Space Jam<\/a><\/i>. The film received mixed reviews,<sup id=\"cite_ref-320\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> but it was a box office success, making $230\u00a0million worldwide, and earned more than $1\u00a0billion through merchandise sales.<sup id=\"cite_ref-321\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan#cite_note-321\">[319]<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2000, Jordan was the subject of an <a title=\"IMAX\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMAX\">IMAX<\/a> documentary about his career with the Chicago Bulls, especially the <a title=\"1998 NBA playoffs\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1998_NBA_playoffs\">1998 championship season<\/a>, entitled <i><a title=\"Michael Jordan to the Max\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan_to_the_Max\">Michael Jordan to the Max<\/a><\/i>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-322\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> Two decades later, the same period of Jordan&#8217;s life was covered in much greater and more personal detail by the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Emmy Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emmy_Award\">Emmy Award<\/a>-winning <i><a title=\"The Last Dance (miniseries)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Dance_(miniseries)\">The Last Dance<\/a><\/i>, a 10-part TV documentary which debuted on <a title=\"ESPN\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESPN\">ESPN<\/a> in April and May 2020. <i>The Last Dance<\/i> relied heavily on about 500 hours of candid film of Jordan&#8217;s and his teammates&#8217; off-court activities which an <a title=\"NBA Entertainment\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBA_Entertainment\">NBA Entertainment<\/a> crew had shot over the course of the <a title=\"1997\u201398 NBA season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1997%E2%80%9398_NBA_season\">1997\u201398 NBA season<\/a> for use in a documentary. The project was delayed for many years because Jordan had not yet given his permission for the footage to be used. He was interviewed at three homes associated with the production and did not want cameras in his home or on his plane as &#8220;there are certain aspects of his life that he wants to keep private&#8221;, according to director Jason Hehir. Jordan granted rapper <a title=\"Travis Scott\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Travis_Scott\">Travis Scott<\/a> permission to film a music video for his single <a title=\"Franchise (song)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franchise_(song)\">&#8220;Franchise&#8221;<\/a> at his home in <a title=\"Highland Park, Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Highland_Park,_Illinois\">Highland Park, Illinois<\/a> &#8220;without hesitation.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span id=\"Books\" class=\"mw-headline\">Books<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jordan has authored several books focusing on his life, basketball career, and world view.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><i>Rare Air: Michael on Michael<\/i>, with Mark Vancil and <a title=\"Walter Iooss\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Iooss\">Walter Iooss<\/a> (Harper San Francisco, 1993).<sup id=\"cite_ref-327\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><i>I Can&#8217;t Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence<\/i>, with Mark Vancil and Sandro Miller (Harper San Francisco, 1994).<sup id=\"cite_ref-329\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><i>For the Love of the Game: My Story<\/i>, with Mark Vancil (Crown Publishers, 1998).<sup id=\"cite_ref-330\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><i>Driven from Within<\/i>, with Mark Vancil (Atria Books, 2005).<sup id=\"cite_ref-331\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"s19lk486\">\n<div class=\"s1akuukz r1aq9vft\">\n<div class=\"p1sg4vac syndication-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<footer class=\"fwtxdy0 with-border\">\n<div class=\"p16bck5y footer-container\">\n<div class=\"fsyu1m\">\n<div class=\"l1ilsfnb\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Jordan III: The Shocking Story of the Greatest Shoe Jordan Never Wanted Michael Jordan was about to ditch Nike \u2014 until an inexperienced designer created the shoe he\u2019d always dreamed of. 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