Michael air jordan biography

Professional basketball player

A Slow Starter

Talent, Desire, Success

Life in a Fishbowl

Personal Tragedy and Its Aftermath

Announced Retirement in October of 1993

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Michael Jordan needs no introduction anywhere in the world.

Prior to his retirement in 1993, he was one of the highest paid and certainly one of the best-known athletes in the history of organized sports. The intensely competitive guard for the Chicago Bulls dominated the National Basketball Association (NBA) for almost a decade, most notably in the Bulls’ three consecutive NBA championship years of 1991-93.

Sports Illustrated contributor Jack McCallum called Jordan“unquestionably the most famous athlete on the planet and one of its most famous citizens of any kind,” a sportsman who “has surpassed every standard by which we gauge the fame of an athlete and, with few exceptions, has handled the adulation with a preternatural grace and ease that have cut