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GOAT is born
Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American retired professional basketball player, businessman, and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. -
Goat Drafted
A young Michael Jordan is drafted third overall by the Chicago Bulls in 1984. He played in college for three years -
GOAT debuts his shoes
As legend has it, the iconic sneaker series almost never lifted off. Soon after Michael Jordan debuted the Air Jordan I, the NBA stepped in and banned the shoe because they featured "non-regulation" colors. Suffice it to say, Jordan didn't listen and thusly, the great basketball shoe boom began. -
Goat gets his first ring
Michael Jordan, at age 28, won his first ring in the NBA in 1991. -
goat retires for a while
Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a new venture in minor league baseball -
Goat three peat
Michael Jordan averages 41 points in the finals and beats the suns in game 7 to win back to back to back titles -
goat comes back
In the playoffs, the Bulls kept rolling, losing only one playoff game in series wins over Miami, New York and Orlando. In the Finals, the Bulls beat the Sonics in six games, finishing with a postseason record of 15-3, and an overall record of 87-13, the best in NBA history. Jordan was named the Finals MVP for the fourth time as he cemented his legend in the Windy City and in NBA annals. -
Goat wins 5
For the fifth time in five championship seasons, Jordan was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player. -
GOAT enters Hall of Fame
Michael Jordan, basketball's greatest player ever, was among a class of five enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Sept. 11, 2009. The Class of 2009, which also included Jerry Sloan, John Stockton, C. Vivian Stringer and David Robinson, was inducted during festivities in Springfield, MA. -
GOAT buys Charlotte
Jordan officially announced the organization had submitted an application to change the name of the franchise to the Charlotte Hornets for the 2014–15 NBA season, pending a majority vote for approval by the NBA Board of Governors at a meeting in Las Vegas on July 18, 2013.
