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Jordan during warm-ups for the last Wizards home game, on April 14, 2003. The jersey is a throwback to the Washington Bullets uniforms. Jordan announced he would return for the 2002–03 season, and this time he was determined to be equipped with reinforcements, as he traded for All-Star Jerry Stackhouse and signed budding star Larry Hughes.
The 2001–02 NBA season was the Wizards' 41st season in the National Basketball Association. [1] This season is most memorable for the return of All-Star guard and six-time champion Michael Jordan, who came out of his second retirement to play for the Wizards. [2][3][4][5][6] After finishing 19–63 the previous season, the Wizards won the ...
By the end of the season, the Wizards finished with a 37–45 record once again. [113] Jordan ended the season as the only Wizard to play in all 82 games, as he averaged 20.0 points, [114] 6.9 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 1.5 steals in 37.0 minutes per game. Jordan retired from playing for a third and final time after the season. [115]
Jordan is the only player in NBA history to record back-to-back 50-point games in the playoffs, scoring 50 and 55 in Games 1 and 2 against the Cavs. He also scored 49 points on April 17, 1986 and 63 on April 20, 1986 in back-to-back games against the Boston Celtics. Games scoring 45 or more points, career: 23.
April 20, 1986: Scores an NBA-record 63 points in a playoff game, a 135-131 overtime loss to Boston. April 16, 1987: ... an NBA record. Jordan is the league’s MVP. ...
Jordan was a fixture of the NBA All-Defensive First Team, making the roster nine times (NBA record shared with Gary Payton, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant). [233] He also holds the top career regular season and playoff scoring averages of 30.1 and 33.4 ppg, respectively.
Jordan Poole of the Washington Wizards drives to the basket past LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets in the first quarter at Spectrum Center on Nov. 8, 2023, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
During the 2004–05 regular season, Jordan's second with the Wizards, he led the team to a 45–37 record, which was the franchise's best season since 1978–79. The record established a new record for wins in a season at Verizon Center , earned the team a five seed in the Eastern Conference, and was the Wizards' first playoff berth since the ...