Michael Jordan is one of the most famous player to ever retire from the NBA. He is amongst the NBA players who had actually created the name and fame for this game. With his athlete body, his dunks and art of the game, he is considered as the biggest superstar in the NBA history. Many young stars like Lebron, Kobe and Wade have taken over where he left off but he is still “The Michael Jordan”, the best all around player to ever play the game of basketball.
As his professional achievements grew, the value of his memorabilia and the endorsements grew multiple folds. MJ cards, autographs, memorabilia and his game worn jersey bagged a huge sum of money by the fans he made crazy about basketball and the Jordan brand.
There are few players for whom people are really crazy and up to extent of spending anything for obtaining their game memorabilia or the merchandise associated for the game. MJ memorabilia lead the league and most other sports franchises with sold merchandise.
The game merchandise, after his retirement were auctioned amongst the game lovers and the response and passion people carried about MJ is worth a mention. His Game Worn jersey only quoted a huge sum of USD 17,000 which was auctioned by HUNT AUCTIONS.
MJ game worn jersey featured “Jordan” lettering above his number 23 with the NBA logo patch seen into the top left shoulder area. The back of the jersey features letters both in red on black and white color design. Not only that, this MJ’s game worn jersey ranked amongst the finest ever made available given its flawless original team provenance.
Many Jordan items are actually priced less than its peak level of the mid 90’s. Jordan items might not be at their peak but his popularity is still tremendous and remarkable and will be in the heart of his fans ever and forever.
The most phenomenal basketball player of all the time, the one who staggered the world with his defensive and offensive moves and will always be known for his “SLAM DUNKS”. Jordan’s Slam dunk with his bare signature tongue is the moment every game craves to have.
MJ is the one and only who won the Slam Dunk championships back to back in 1987 and 1988. His flexible body enabled him with such fantastic moves of scoring and dunking. Eventually, people started recognizing MJ with his magnificent dunks. His Slam dunks bought him the name of “Air Jordan” and “His Airness”.
Laying down the statistics on paper it is estimated that in his career of 10 years he approximately dunked a phenomenal 2186 times in regular season and approx. 448 times in playoffs. His best dunks could be seen in the historic match of Rookie. There was hardly any competition left out in NBA beating him out with the great numbers and books of records he created for himself.
The only competition he had was with Wilkins with whom he fought for winning the Dunk title. The competitors fought for the title from 1986 champion Spud Webb, Houston Otis Smith and Portland’s high-flying Clyde Drexler to finally fight for the undisputed title. The game began and the stadium was filled with 18,000 fans to see the showcase of world’s greatest dunker. The game began and the stadium was intense with the game, performance and power demonstrated at the court. With a neck-to neck competition between the two pioneers, it was the Jordan who won the battle and crowned with the best Slam Dunk title.
MJ’s emerged as the one who is and always be symbolic and iconic to the basketball aspirants. His moves, his slam dunks, his art of the game will always be treated like a castle in the sky and the world will always know him as the best DUNKER of all the times.
Michael Jordan (MJ), a name synonym to NBA. Having credit to his account, 6 NBA championships, 14 times NBA All Star, 10 times All NBA first team and a countless never ending inventory of titles and awards, he is the greatest NBA player of all the time.
Beginning his career by joining Chicago Bulls in 1984, he lead everybody amazed with his stunning performance and art of the game with mastery in defense. His patented “Slam Dunks” bought him the title of “Air Jordan”. MJ showing the spirit of a real sports person had passion in other games like baseball, football and basketball. For realizing his passion he took a step forward to play from NBA to base ball in 1993-94. However, he returned back to the old pavilion of NBA in 1995 with the Bulls and made a conquest consequently over a period of 3 years i.e. 1996, 1997 and 1998.
MJ retired finally got retired in 1999 but only with the Bulls and not with basketball. He made a comeback in 2001 but in the court and alliance with Washington Wizard.
MJ entitles himself with the titles of All NBA first team designations, All- defensive first team honors, NBA defensive player and was framed at Basketball Hall of fame in recent, April 6, 2009.
MJ had a three tier retirement cycle. Firstly, he got himself retired in October’93. Retirement announcement shattered the NBA and was published in the newspapers across globe. Secondly, he moved himself away was in Jan’99 (final retirement from Bulls). His comeback was with Washington wizards in Sep’2001.
He was finally departed from the game he loved because of torn cartilage in his right knee.
MJ was casted on 2 Olympic Basketball games for United States, which won the Olympic Gold Medal in 1984 and 1992 in Los Angeles and Barcelona respectively.
Spreading the glory of NBA to the world, the NBA has acclaimed MJ as “By Acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all the time”.
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I Am a Michael Jordan Fan like many other people from around the world. He was one of the NBA's best players from all time.
