Michael Jordan, the basketball star who won six NBA crowns and improved in the professional sports world, celebrates its 50th anniversary on Sunday with a powerful legacy 10 years after his last match.
Jordan cut from his high school team as a sophomore, who used the brightness and contrast as inspiration for a career like no other in turn, and was considered by many as the best player dribbling a basketball again.
"It's simple," Miami Heat star guard Dwyane Wade said. "There will never be another Michael Jordan. He was the first to do a lot of things to do. If you are the first, there can never be another. "
Jordan dunks high jump, winning clutch baskets and performance art defensive determination allowed for the Chicago Bulls, NBA titles which makes for 1991-1993 and 1996-1998 with a retreat in the middle.
When the Stars American academics were not able to win Olympic gold in Seoul in 1988, Jordan led a "Dream Team" team of NBA stars icons in Barcelona in 1992, and launched a new era for the sport with an effort dominant rock-star treatment from the fans.
"Air Jordan" sneakers are among the most sold, the impact of Jordan in the sports marketing thanks to Nike and others that are just as innovative as its commitment in the field.
The memory of the exploits of Jordan is so great and more recently as 28 years LeBron James, director of current top of the NBA, whose acrobatic jumps and spectacular movements comparisons to Jordan, he was tired of the obligation .
"Happy Birthday to him. We wish him the best," James said. "There is no comparison. People always want to find a way to compare anyone to find anyone. But Mike is Mike and LeBron and I'm trying to get my name, my own statement."
When asked if he was the Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant or James as the most successful in this area, said Jordan took Bryant NBA TV.
"Five beats you every time I look at it," Jordan said, referring to Bryant NBA championships one in five James.
More than 22 million people have "liked" the Facebook page of Jordan and more than 1,700, the "Happy Birthday" messages - a technology that did not even exist when Jordan was in his early 20 years ago.
Jordan Sports Illustrated on the cover of this week, the 50th time Jordan has been so honored.
Jordan was named player of the NBA Finals Most Valuable each year his team won a title and won the regular season version of the award five times. Jordan also won 10 NBA scoring crowns, 1987-1993 and 1996-1998.
After a brilliant academic career of North Carolina, Jordan was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1985 and was a legend with the Bulls.
But in July 1993, disaster struck his father, James Jordan Jordan, was killed in motorway service area. Three months later, Jordan shocked the sports world by withdrawing from the NBA first.
Jordan started playing baseball, the American pastime, the pursuit of a dream that his late father had for his son to play in the major leagues. Jordan signed with the Chicago White Sox and played with a team of two minor league levels below the elite league.
In 1994, the Bulls retired jersey number 23 in Jordan, and a statue of Jordan outside the home arena of the team remains a popular tourist destination.
In March 1995, however, Jordan had his dream of baseball with a simple explanation of two words - "I'm back" - and 19 points in his return to the Bulls in Indiana. He wore uniform number 45, what was the number of baseball.
The Bulls lost in the second round of the playoffs, making Jordan ready to his old number 23, and for the next three full seasons to recover, Jordan used his common sense and leadership to replace the time took his body to lift the Bulls back in form in the league until his retirement in 1999.
But his second pension will not last. Jordan in 2001 for the Washington Wizards NBA playing for two seasons, but ways with the team after pieces are not allowed to return to his position as senior director of basketball operations.
In 2010, Jordan returned to the NBA as an owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, but was able to work the same magic with them as he did on the field with the Bulls.
In a block-shortened 2011-2012 season in the NBA, the Bobcats have a painful 7-59, the worst record in NBA history.
"I'm not really happy with the book landscape last year. It's very frustrating," said Jordan.
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