
Did you know that Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born February 17, 1963?
Did you know that Jordan is a former American
professional basketball player, active businessman, and majority owner of the
Charlotte Bobcats?
Did you know that Jordans biography on the
National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time?"
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Did you know that 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?
Did you know the only basketball award that Jordan did not win was high school state championship?
Did you know that Jordan had a standout career at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Tar Heels'
National Championship?

Did you know that Jordan 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"?
Did you know that In
1991, Jordan won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in
1992 and
1993, securing a "
three-peat"?

Did you know that Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the
1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in
baseball?
Did you know that Jordan rejoined the Bulls in
1995 and led them to three additional championships (
1996,
1997, and
1998) as well as an NBA-record
72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season?
Did you know that Jordan retired for a second time in
1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons in
2001 as a member of the
Washington Wizards?
Did you know that 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?
Did you know that He holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and 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?
Did you know that Jordan was elected to the
Basketball Hall of Fame on April 6, 2009 and was inducted on September 11, 2009?
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Did you know that Michael Jordan was not the
number one draft pick?
Did you know what NBA player has won the most MVP?

Now if you didn't know, now you know...