Michael Jordan - The Myth, The Legend
#15 Dunks!
In his career as a pro, Michael Jordan had more than 2000 dunks. That's about 2 dunks per game played.
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Dunks!
In his career as a pro, Michael Jordan had more than 2000 dunks. That's about 2 dunks per game played.
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Home Life
Michael Jordan was married to Juanita Vanoy and has three children who all have a birthday in December.
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Always a Winner?
Not quite. In the later part of his career he played with the Washington Wizards for a season. They did not even go to the playoffs, but it was nice to see Jordan playing again.
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Hobbies
One of Jordan's biggest hobbies, especially in retirement, is golf. In a single day he once played 63 holes!
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Fears
Even the Greats have fears. Some childhood trauma involving water makes Jordan aquaphobic. He does not like to swim at all.
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Unknown Jersey Fact
In the early 90s one of his jerseys was stolen right before the game and Michael Jordan had to wear the number 12 until another jersey could be found.
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Multi-talent?
Michael Jordan decided to take a break from basketball and try his luck at baseball. His career as a baseball player was not as successful and he ended up coming back to his true calling, basketball.
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Jersey Number
He originally wanted to wear 45 when he started playing as a kid, but this was the number his brother wore, so he decided to wear the number that HE thought was half of 45... 23!
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Dreams
Michael Jordan listed Lakers legend Jerry West as the one player he would like to play basketball against.
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Broken Foot
An injury during his second season as an NBA player forced Michael to miss 60 games in a row. Regardless, he came to the playoffs better than ever and scored 63 points against Larry Bird's Celtics. This is the most points scored by a single player in a playoff game.
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Holey Table
As a way to commemorate the amount of points he made during his career, Jordan has a custom made table with exactly 32,292 holes (one for each point).
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Distinguishing Characteristic
One of the most notorious "quirks" of Michael Jordan was sticking his tongue out while playing. This was parodied in the first Cars movie.
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Impressive Stats
During his career, MJ scored 32,292 points, had 6,672 rebounds and shared 5,633 assists!
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Surprising...
Michael Jordan, an NBA legend, was not the first pick in the first round of the 1984 NBA draft. The rockets picked Akeen Olajuwon and the Blazers picked Sam Bowie. We are sure these teams regret not choosing Jordan.
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Underpants
For good luck Michael Jordan always wore UNC shorts. Maybe this was his secret for his amazing skills!
