10 Fun Facts !
- He attended the Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington where he began his athletic career. He tried several sports apart from basketball at school.
- In 1981, Michael Jordan earned a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in cultural geography.
- (NBA) termed him as the 'By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time'.
- Michael Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984.
- 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.
- He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
- Michael Jordan also starred in the 1996 feature film Space Jam as himself.
- He played on two olympic gold medal-winning American basketball teams.
- Nike created a signature Shoe for him called the Air Jordan