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Michael Jordan is widely acclaimed as the greatest athlete who ever lived. The announcement of his retirement in January 1999 unleashed an unparalleled hyperbole of adjectives describing his superlative athletic accomplishments. Yet his continuing media presence and adulation after his retirement confirmed that Jordan is one of the most popular and widely known sports icons throughout the world. In China, the Beijing Morning Post ran a front paged article titled "Flying Man Jordan is Coming Back to Earth" and in Bosnia Jordan's statement declaring his retirement was the lead story on the evening television news, pushing aside the war in Kosovo.
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Michael Jeffry Jordan was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his siblings, James R. Jordan (Sergeant Major in the US Army), Larry, Delores and Roslyn. His father, James Jordan, was murdered on July 23, 1993, at a highway rest area in Lumberton, North Carolina.
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After his third season with the Tarheels, Michael was named Sporting News' Player of The Year for the second year in a row. He got the Naismith and Wooden awards. Michael left high school in his junior year.
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[T]he boot, essentially a “concept shoe,” according to Nike’s PR department, hardly became a must-have shoe like the Air Jordan sneaker. Some design fans made fun of it. “My friends called the Nike Considered boot ‘Air Hobbits,’” says Marc Alt, a sustainability consultant in New York, though he goes on to praise the initiative and Nike’s attempts to accept responsibility for its much-criticized actions in the past. “Nike was attacked for its labor practices, and now it’s turning 180 degrees,” Alt says.
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