His real name Micheal Jeffrey Jordan, Micheal Jordan is a former player of American basketball (98 kg for 1 m 98) having played in the North American professional basketball championship, the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 1984 to 2003. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation or the NBA “Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time”. Indeed, he is considered one of the greatest champions of all time, all sports combined, and has contributed to the international popularisation of the basketball and the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.