Michael Jordan was a professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association (NBA) for fifteen seasons and was one of the best-known athletes in history.
Facts about Michael Jordan: Where was Michael Jordan born?
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 17, 1963. When he was a little child, his family relocated to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he grew up and attended school.
Deloris and James Raymond Jordan had five children in total—three brothers and two sisters—with Michael being the fourth.
The rookie third-round draft pick with superhuman leaping ability signed a $6.15 million (over seven years) contract in 1984. Jordan contributed to the Bulls’ postseason run by averaging 28.2 points per game. In addition to being chosen for the NBA All-Star Game, he won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 1985. He was off and running well.
Jordan made fourteen appearances as a member of the NBA All-Star team, earned five NBA Most Valuable Player honors, and won six NBA Championships. In 1988, he won Defensive Player of the Year.
Jordan is the NBA’s most decorated player, both historically and currently. In all but one of his games throughout the NBA Finals, he came out on top.
In its 1996 issue, Sports Illustrated named Michael Jordan the top athlete of the previous 50 years.
Jordan’s number 23 is so well-known that other athletes in different sports occasionally decide to wear it only because Jordan did.
The Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan went eight years without dropping three straight games starting in November 1990.
Jordan has a brand of athletic footwear he calls Air Jordan. They were first presented in 1985 and are still widely used today. He receives royalties from the Nike and Jordan brands that total about $60 million annually. Jordan Brand, a division of Nike, now brings nearly $1 billion annually.