Relive the top-10 moments of Michael Jordan’s basketball career:
10. (0:05) Michael Jordan hits the game-winning shot for North Carolina in the 1982 title game against Georgetown.
9. (0:27) MJ’s dunk from the free-throw line to win the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest.
8. (0:56) Michael Jordan drops 55 points against the New York Knicks at MSG in 1995.
7. (1:19) Michael Jordan scores a postseason-record 63 points against the Celtics in 1986.
6. (1:47) The “Shrug Game” in the 1992 NBA Finals
5. (2:11) MJ wins his first title with the Chicago Bulls by defeating Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers in 1991.
4. (2:36) MJ leads the Bulls past the Seattle SuperSonics for his fourth title in 1996.
3. (2:58) The infamous “Flu Game” in the 1997 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz.
2. (3:23) MJ hits “The Shot” over Craig Ehlo to propel the Bulls past the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the 1989 playoffs.
1. (3:46) Michael Jordan hits the final shot of his Bulls career over Bryon Russell to give Chicago its sixth NBA title.
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The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January 16, 1966, and played its first game during the 1966–67 NBA season.
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan is an American former professional basketball player who is the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Jordan won his first NBA championship with the Bulls in 1991, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a “three-peat”. Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the 1993–94 NBA season to play Minor League Baseball, but returned to the Bulls in March 1995 and led them to three more championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998, as well as a then-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season. He retired for a second time in January 1999 but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.
In 2014, Jordan became the first billionaire player in NBA history, with a net worth of $2.1 billion.
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Disputes between the dominant Mormon community and the federal government delayed Utah’s admission as a state; only after the outlawing of polygamy was it admitted as the 45th, in 1896.
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