Jordan, Michael

Cultural  

1. A basketball player, first as a guard at the University of North Carolina and then in the National Basketball Association, mainly with the Chicago Bulls. An extraordinarily skillful and graceful shooter, Jordan is regarded as the best basketball player ever.

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Example Sentences

“I know people don’t usually talk like that. I want to be one of the greats. I’m inspired by the greats, inspired by the greats here tonight. I’m as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps — and I want to be up there. So I’m deeply grateful. This doesn’t signify that. It’s a little more fuel. It’s a little more ammo to keep going.”

From Los Angeles Times

"His tender heart lives on in someone else because of his never-ending desire to help others," the mother of Jordan Michael Cummins, who died in 2022, wrote for the United Network for Organ Sharing.

From Salon

This ethos about sharing the wealth among talent also forms the crux of the main argument in “Air,” which is delivered passionately in a climactic speech by Viola Davis, playing Deloris Jordan, Michael Jordan’s mother, who knew — and demanded — her son’s worth.

From Seattle Times

"Canada put us aside on a little chunk of land with no value and no resources. That's why we are fighting in court right now, fighting for what little is left," Jordan Michael, Chief of the Nuchatlaht, told the BBC.

From BBC

Assisted by Jordan Michael Flores with a cross following a set piece situation.

From BBC