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Michael Jeffery
Jordan
February
17, 1963 (Brooklyn, New York)
Michael Jordan is an American former basketball
player, considered by many to be the greatest
of all time. He became the most effectively
marketed athlete of his generation and was
instrumental in spreading the appeal of
the NBA to corporate America and overseas
in the 1980s and 1990s.
Considered a remarkable force at both ends
of the floor, Michael Jordan ended an NBA
career of 15 seasons with a regular-season
scoring average of 30.12 points per game,
the highest in NBA history. He won six NBA
championships with the Chicago Bulls (during
which he won all six NBA Finals MVP awards),
won 10 scoring titles, and was league MVP
five times. He was named to the All-NBA
First Team 10 times, All-Defensive First
Team nine times, and led the league in steals
three times. Since 1983, he has appeared
on the front cover of Sports Illustrated
a record 49 times, and was named the magazine's
"Sportsman of the Year" in 1991.
In 1999, he was named "the greatest
athlete of the 20th century" by ESPN,
and was second only to Babe Ruth on the
Associated Press list of top athletes of
the century. His leaping ability, vividly
illustrated by dunking from the foul line
and other feats, earned him the nicknames
"Air Jordan" and "His Airness."
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