Michael Jordan

ABOUT MICHAEL JORDAN

Former high-flying Chicago Bulls shooting guard known as "Air Jordan." He is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all-time. He was a 6-time NBA champion, 6-time NBA Finals MVP, and 5-time NBA MVP.

He didn't make the varsity squad as a sophomore at Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina because he was only 5'11".

He was a noted product endorser and famously dunked from the free-throw line during a slam-dunk competition, leading Gatorade to launch a marketing campaign with the slogan Like Mike.

His father, James Raymond Jordan Sr. , was tragically murdered in July 1993, causing Jordan to enter his first retirement from basketball in October. He had two sons, Jeffrey and Marcus , and a daughter, Jasmine , with his first wife, Juanita Vanoy . He then had two daughters, Victoria and Ysabel, with his second wife, Yvette Prieto .

He had a longstanding friendship with Charles Barkley . Jordan's Bulls defeated Barkley and the Phoenix Suns in the 1993 NBA finals.