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His profile on the NBA website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." [12] [13] Jordan played college basketball with the North Carolina Tar Heels. As a freshman, he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982. [5]
Michael Jordan outscored all but one opponent he faced in his playoffs career. The exception was in the 1985 Eastern conference 1st round in Jordan's rookie season when Milwaukee Bucks power forward Terry Cummings outscored Jordan (29.5 ppg to Jordan's 29.3 ppg). Highest Player Efficiency Rating all time playoffs, career: 28.6
It was the last amateur-level U.S. team to win an Olympic gold medal in men's basketball. The team was considered to be one of the strongest in the U.S.A.'s history at that time, as it featured four of the five 1984 consensus first team All-Americans, in Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Wayman Tisdale, and Sam Perkins. [1]
A look at the Hall of Fame career of Michael Jordan:. Feb. 17, 1963: Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to parents James Sr. and Deloris Jordan. 1979: Cut from the varsity team at Laney High in Wilmington N ...
Jordan declined head coach Chuck Daly's suggestion that Jordan serve as the public face of the team, and Bird and Johnson were selected as co-captains. [16] Over the previous 13 NBA seasons leading up to the 1992 Olympics, these three superstars combined had won 10 NBA championships and received seven NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP ...
Considered the greatest basketball player of all time by NBA.com, [10] Jordan averaged 28.2 points per game during his first season and received the 1985 NBA Rookie of the Year Award. From 1985 onwards, the Bulls reached the playoffs every season he was on the team's roster despite having had a losing record in each of his first three years.
The 1981–82 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented University of North Carolina. The team played its home games in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Led by James Worthy, Sam Perkins and freshman Michael Jordan, the Tar Heels won the National Championship.
He and seven other college players had just beaten the Dream Team, the 1992 US men’s Olympic basketball team made up of the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, in a scrimmage ...