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Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a former American professional basketball player, active businessman, and majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. After a standout career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Tar Heels' National Championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record, at the time, 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards. Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP awards, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He holds the NBA records for highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game). In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press's list of athletes of the century. He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 6, 2009 and was inducted on September 11, 2009. Jordan is also noted for his product endorsements. He fueled the success of Nike's Air Jordan sneakers, which were introduced in 1985 and remain popular today. Jordan also starred in the 1996 feature film Space Jam as himself. He is the majority owner and head of basketball operations for the NBA's Charlotte Hornets; he recently won a bidding war to buy controlling interest in the team from founding owner Robert L. Johnson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Michael Jordan
OTHER 19 PLAYERS OF FORMER SEATTLE MARLINS
for OTHER 19 PLAYERS OF FORMER SEATTLE MARLINS in Gameball: Future Sport
Suggested by jakubduda
The film takes place in the future. The whole world is ruled by one sport that combines American football and basketball, namely Gameball. It is played since 2025 with a football ball, which is also round in the middle and you can dribble, it´s also played with the rules of these sports, but it´s very contact and hard, played 10 vs 10. The sport was invented by Hank Elway, he also founded the first team Denver Marlins, he played there and won with them first five seasons and then another five titles over the next 10 years, also reached record 2,250 Touchballs/750 matches. there were other champs, as Boston Indians, LA Patriots, Paris Musketeers, Chicago Deers and SF Bulls. Elway didn´t start in 16th Season (2041) and decided to end career, then by Dimitri Maximov, captain of Moscow Red Star, ridiculed him and said that Elway decided to end his career only because he is old and they haven´t chance beat Moscow. Moscow won this season, and then the red stars have won every season. After winning five titles, they became unstoppable (2045), Marlins where eventually disbanded, Moscow ruled Gameball for another 4 years. 2049, after the 9th Title, they declared it´s time for world to forget about Marlins. Elway trying to find talents to form new Marlins with trident on jersey and returns them to league, they´re outsiders, and ridiculed by Moscow. The team won hearts of public. In Play-off, they defeated the best from all continents, the played final against Moscow and won.
