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Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ [3]]; Brooklyn, February 17, 1963), is a former American professional basketball player, as well as major shareholder and chairman of the basketball team the Charlotte Hornets. His biography on the National Basketball Association website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." [4] After a great career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he led the Tar Heels to the NCAA national championship victory in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA with the Chicago Bulls in 1984, quickly becoming one of the stars of the league, and contributing to spreading the NBA globally in the eighties and nineties. [5] [6] his outstanding athletic skills and her spectacular actions earned him, starting with the very first seasons played between professionals, the nicknames of Air Jordan [4], and his Airness. [7] Jordan was six-time NBA champion, realizing with the Chicago Bulls ben 2 Three-peat, a term which indicates the victory of the NBA Finals for the third annual editions in a row (91-92-93 and 96-97-98), Company succeeded so far only him and Scottie Pippen, who was in the team with him. After the third title victory, temporarily left the basketball to pursue a career in baseball, the results are not comparable to those obtained in basketball; He returned to the Bulls during the 1994-1995 season [8] and retired a second time after winning his sixth title in 1998. In 2001 he resumed his athletic activities, this time in the Washington Wizards, rimandendovi for two seasons before retiring definitive. In 1999 he was appointed as "the greatest North American athlete of the twentieth century" by ESPN sports television channel; chosen for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame April 6, 2009, he was officially introduced on 11 September 2009. The reputation gained in the field has made him a true sports icon, [9] to the point of pushing the Nike to dedicate a line of basketball shoes called Air Jordan, introduced since 1985 and is still very popular.
Kobe Bean Bryant (Philadelphia, August 23, 1978) is an American professional basketball player. Plays mainly in guard shooting guard role and is considered among the best basketball players in NBA history. Son of Joe Bryant cestisticamente and raised in Italy, where he learned the basics Europeans, he played for his entire NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers, the team with which he won five championships. With the US National took part in the FIBA Americas Championship 2007 and the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and London 2012, winning the gold medal in the three events. In 2015 he announced his retirement from racing at the end of the 2015-2016 season.
Wilton Norman Chamberlain said Wilt (Philadelphia, August 21, 1936 - Los Angeles, October 12, 1999) was a basketball player and trainer of American basketball professional in the NBA. Chamberlain, 2.16 meters high, known as Goliath, Wilt the Stilt, or The Big Dipper, he holds numerous NBA statistical records including that of the most points in a single game (100) [1] and that of many of rebounds in a single game (55). It is considered one of the best basketball players in history. He died of a heart attack at 63 years 12 October 1999 at his home in Bel Air. Already in 1992 he had been hospitalized for cardiac arrhythmia [2].
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.. (New York, April 16, 1947), is a former basketball player and trainer of American basketball professional in the NBA. 218 cm tall, was playing as a center. With 38,387 points is the first scorer in NBA history, and is considered one of the best players in the history of the sport. Already he distinguished himself throughout the academic year, so that it was the first pick in the draft of 1969, immediately set out for the quality of a tag, imposing its physical and technical skills. In 1971 he changed its name after converting to Islam.
Larry Joe Bird (West Baden Springs, 7 December 1956) is a former basketball player, basketball coach and US sports manager. It was, throughout his career, a player of the Boston Celtics, the NBA franchise, winning three titles. Together with rival and friend Magic Johnson marked indelibly NBA basketball during the eighties, earning himself the "The Legend" nickname. Chosen as the sixth overall pick in the draft by the Boston Celtics, alternated in the roles of power forward and small forward. When the NBA imposed a salary cap, which limited the total salaries of all players of a franchise under a cap, it was added an amendment that allowed a team to "stay within" to keep a player already on the roster. This correction was renamed "Larry Bird Rule."
William Felton "Bill" Russell (Monroe, February 12, 1934) is a former basketball player and trainer of American basketball professional in the NBA. He is remembered for his central role in the Boston Celtics of fifty to sixty years (that period "was the Dynasty"), which won eleven NBA championships in thirteen seasons also marking a streak of eight consecutive titles, a record still unbeaten. Russell is also the captain who has won more NBA titles with a single team ever. His greatest contribution to the sport was the raising of the defensive game to a new level: it is considered the best defensive center I've ever played basketball. In 1975 he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame [1], while in 1996 it was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Russell still holds the record for the most number of championships won in a North American league; the only athlete to have equalized this record is Henri Richard, star hockey NHL with the Montreal Canadiens.
Patrick Aloysius Ewing (Kingston, August 5, 1962) is a former basketball player and trainer of American basketball. It is considered one of the strongest centers in NBA history. He played from 1985 to 2000 in the New York Knicks in the 2000-01 Seattle Supersonics and the Orlando Magic in 2001-02. It's tall 2.13 meters for 109 kg of weight. Olympic champion (1984 and 1992) with the US National basketball in Los Angeles and Barcelona.