Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American former basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "by acclamation, Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and has helped in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. After a stand-out career at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as one of the stars of the league, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His ability to bounce by dunking from the free throw line Slam Dunk illustrated Contests, earned him the nickname "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also acquired in a reputation as one of the best defensive player basketball. In 1991 he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, andfollowed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat." Though Jordan abruptly ended pursue basketball at the start of the NBA 1993-94 season for a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997 and 1998) and an NBA-record 72 regular season wins in the season, 199 596. Jordan moved for the second time in 1999, but he returned for two more seasons in the NBA in 2001 as a member of the WashingtonWizards ...
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