Happy Birthday Michael Jordan!

[Parker 1st MRB]

The greatest NBA player to ever play the game turned 50 today.


Michael Jordan

NBA Achievements
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2009
6-time NBA champion: 1991-93, 1996-98
6 NBA Finals appearances: 1991-93, 1996-98
5-time NBA Most Valuable Player: 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998
10-time scoring champion: 1987-93, 1996-98
3-time steals leader: 1988, 1990, 1993
3-time minutes leader: 1987-89
14-time NBA All-Star: 1985-93, 1996-98, 2002-03
3-time NBA All-Star Game MVP: 1988, 1996, 1998
6-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player: 1991-93, 1996-98
1-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year: 1987-88
11-time All-NBA selection:
First Team: 1987-93, 1996-98
Second Team: 1985
9-time All-Defensive selection:
First Team: 1988-93, 1996-98
NBA All-Rookie selection:
First Team: 1985
NBA Rookie of the Year: 1985
2-time NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion: 1987, 1988
Runner-up in 1985
7-time The Sporting News Most Valuable Player
Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year: 1991
Ranked #1 by SLAM Magazine's Top 75 Players of All-time
Ranked #1 by ESPN Sportscentury's Top 100 Athletes of the 20th Century
Selected in 1996 as one of the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History"
Selected in 1996 as member of two of the "Top 10 Teams in NBA History"
1991-92 Chicago Bulls
1995-96 Chicago Bulls

United States National Team
2x Olympic gold medals: 1984, 1992
Pan American Games gold medal: 1983
3x USA Basketball male athlete of the year: 1983, 1984 (with Sam Perkins), 1992 (as a part of the 1992 Olympic Team)

College
NCAA National Championship - University of North Carolina: 1981-82
3x Atlantic Coast Conference regular season champions (undefeated)
1982 ACC Tournament champions
ACC Rookie of the Year: 1982
Naismith College Player of the Year: 1984
John R. Wooden Award: 1984
Adolph Rupp Trophy: 1984
USBWA College Player of the Year: 1984
ACC Athlete of the Year: 1984
ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year: 1984
2x The Sporting News College Player of the Year: 1983, 1984
2x Consensus First Team All-American: 1983, 1984

And he's been on the cover of Sports Illustrated 50 times, check them all out here.

[M. Johnson 1st MRB]

also SPACE JAM

[Kanganis]

You can just get rid of all of those achievements and replace them with: HE MADE BASKETBALL EXCITING.

also SPACE JAM

We will never speak of that. EVER

[Kabasares]

Greatest player of all-time.

[Englebretson 1st MRB]

God I remember going to Bulls games like it was yesterday. Cockiest mother fucker of all time, but was one of the few who could back it up.