Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963, also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman and former professional basketball player.
Michael Jordan Net Worth
The 2009 Hall of Famer is estimated to have a net worth of around $1.7 billion.
The billion dollar man lives a luxurious life in his Florida mansion.
In fact, Jordan himself designed his own house worth $7.6 million. He purchased the land for construction at $4.8 million. The home features 11 bedrooms, a basketball court, and a lavish workout facility valued at $12.4 million in today’s market.
Michael Jordan Stats
He is 1.98 meters tall.
How old is Michael Jordan?
He is 59 years old.
Michael Jordan Biography
He was born at Cumberland Hospital in the Fort Greene neighborhood of New York City’s Brooklyn borough on February 17, 1963, and he is the son of bank clerk Deloris (born Pueblos) and computer supervisor James R. Jordan Sr.
In 1968, he was moving with his family to Wilmington, North Carolina. He was attending Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, where he highlighted his athletic career playing basketball, baseball, and football.
He tried out for the varsity basketball team during his sophomore year, but, at 5’11” (1.80 m), he was deemed too short to play at that level. His taller friend, Harvest Leroy Smith, was the only one sophomore to make the team.
Motivated to prove himself, he became the star of Laney’s junior varsity team and scored multiple 40-point games. The following summer, he grew four inches (10 cm) and trained rigorously.
Earning a spot on the varsity roster, Jordan averaged more than 25 points per game (ppg) during his last two seasons of high school play. As a senior, he was selected to play in the 1981 McDonald’s All-American Game and scored 30 points, after averaging 27 points, 12 rebounds, and 6 assists per game of the season.
He was recruited by numerous college basketball programs, including Duke, North Carolina, South Carolina, Syracuse, and Virginia. In 1981, he accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in cultural geography.
Michael Jordan Career
The Chicago Bulls was selecting him with the third overall pick in the 1984 NBA draft, after Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston Rockets) and Sam Bowie (Portland Trail Blazers). One of the main reasons he wasn’t drafted earlier was because the top two teams needed a center.
However, Trail Blazers general manager Stu Inman maintained that the point was not to select a center, but rather to bring Sam Bowie over Jordan, in part because Portland already had Clyde Drexler, who was a guard with similar abilities. to Jordan.
ESPN, citing Bowie’s injury-plagued college career, named Bowie’s pick from the Blazers as the worst draft pick in North American professional sports history.
During his rookie season with the Bulls, his averaged 28.2 points per game on 51.5% shooting,and helped build a team that had won 35% of games the previous three seasons, contending for the playoffs. He quickly became a fan favorite even on opposite stages.
Roy S. Johnson of The New York Times described him as “the Bulls’ phenomenal rookie” in November, and Jordan appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline “A Star Born in December.” Fans also voted Jordan as an All-Star starter during his rookie season.
Controversy arose prior to the All-Star Game when news broke that several veteran players, led by Isiah Thomas, were upset at the amount of attention Jordan was receiving.
This led to a so-called “freeze” in Jordan, where players refused to pass the ball to him for the entire game.
The controversy left him relatively unmoved when he was returning to regular season play, and he would be voted Rookie of the Year. The Bulls finished the season 38-44 and lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in four games in the first round of the playoffs.
Michael Jordan Business Companies
In June 2010, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 20th most powerful celebrity in the world with $55 million earned between June 2009 and June 2010. According to the Forbes article , the Jordan brand generates $1 billion in sales for Nike. 
In June 2014, he was named the first NBA player to become a billionaire, after he increased his stake in the Charlotte Hornets from 80% to 89.5%.
On January 20, 2015, he was awarded Charlotte Business Journal ‘s Business Person of the Year for 2014. In 2017, he became part owner of the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball.
Forbes designated him as the highest-earning athlete in his career in 2017. Of his Jordan Brand income and endorsements, his income in 2015 was an estimated $110 million, the most ever any retired athlete.
He is co-owner of an automotive group that bears his name. The company has a Nissan dealership in Durham, North Carolina, acquired in 1990, and previously had a Lincoln-Mercury dealership from 1995 until its closure in June 2009. The company also owned a Nissan franchise in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
The catering industry is another of Jordan’s business interests. His restaurants include a steak house in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, among others. He is the majority investor in a golf course, Grove XXIII, under construction in Hobe Sound, Florida. 
In September 2020, he was becoming an investor and advisor to DraftKings.
Michael Jordan Philanthropy
From 2001 to 2014, he was hosting an annual golf tournament, the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational, which raised money for various charities.
In 2006, him and his wife Juanita pledged $5 million for Franciscan Hales High School in Chicago. The Jordan Brand has made donations to Habitat for Humanity and a Louisiana chapter of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation wich was named Jordan its Chief Wish Ambassador in 2008. Five years later, he was granting his 200th wish for the organization. As of 2019, he was raising more than $5 million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
In 2015, he was donating an undisclosed-size settlement from a lawsuit against supermarkets that had used his name without permission to 23 different Chicago charities. He was funding two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Clinics in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2017 by giving $7 million, the largest donation he had made at the time. 
A year later, after Hurricane Florence damaged parts of North Carolina, including his former hometown of Wilmington, Jordan donated $2 million to relief efforts. He gave $1 million to help the Bahamas recover from Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
On June 5, 2020, in the wake of the protests following the murder of George Floyd, Jordan and his brand announced in a joint statement that they will donate $100 million over the next 10 years to organizations dedicated to “ensuring racial equality, social justice”. and increased access to education.”
Michael Jordan Television
He was playing himself in the 1996 comedy film Space Jam . The film received mixed reviews, but was a box office success, grossing $230 million worldwide and grossing over $1 billion through merchandise sales.
In 2000, he was the subject of an IMAX documentary about his career with the Chicago Bulls, especially the 1998 championship season, titled Michael Jordan to the Max .
Two decades later, the same period of Jordan’s life was covered in much more detail and more personally by the Emmy Award-winning The Last Dance , a 10-part television documentary that began on ESPN in April and May 2020. 
The last Dance relied heavily on some 500 hours of candid footage of Jordan and his teammates’ off-court activities that an NBA Entertainment team had filmed during the 1997-1998 NBA season for use in a documentary.
The project was delayed for many years because Jordan had not yet given his permission for the images to be used.
He was interviewed in three homes associated with the production and did not want cameras in his home or on his plane, as “there are certain aspects of his life that he wants to keep private”, according to director Jason Hehir.
His granted rapper Travis Scott permission to film a music video for his single “Franchise” at his home in Highland Park, Illinois “without hesitation”.
Michael Jordan Wife
He married Juanita Vanoy in September 1989. They had two sons, Jeffrey and Marcus, and a daughter, Jasmine. The Jordans filed for divorce on January 4, 2002, citing irreconcilable differences, but reconciled soon after.
They again filed for divorce and were granted a final decree dissolving the marriage on December 29, 2006, commenting that the decision was made “mutually and amicably”. 
Juanita is reported to have received a settlement of $168 million (equivalent to $213 million in 2019), making it the largest celebrity divorce settlement on public record at the time.
He was proposing to his longtime girlfriend, Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto, on Christmas 2011, and they were married on April 27, 2013, at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church.
They was announcing on November 30, 2013 that the two were expecting their first child together. On February 11, 2014, Prieto gave birth to identical twin daughters named Victoria and Ysabel.
He was becoming a grandfather in 2019 when his daughter Jasmine gave birth to a son, whose father is professional basketball player Rakeem Christmas.
