Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American former professional basketball player and businessman, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. He played fifteen seasons in the NBA, chiefly with the Chicago Bulls, and later became an owner of the Charlotte Hornets.

As an author he has written a series of first-person books about competition, motivation and his own career, among them Rare Air: Michael on Michael (1993), I Can't Accept Not Trying (1994), For the Love of the Game: My Story (1998) and Driven from Within (2005), several of them produced with the editor Mark Vancil.