Michael Jordan was voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History
One of the major accomplishments of Michael Jordan is that Michael Jordan was voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. The 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, commonly known as the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team, were picked in 1996 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Basketball Association's creation (NBA). It was the league's third-anniversary team. A group of media representatives, past players and coaches, and current and previous general managers voted to select fifty players. As part of the celebration, media members chose the top 10 head coaches and top ten single-season teams in NBA history. The 50 players had to have spent at least part of their careers in the NBA and were chosen regardless of position.
Jordan is the most decorated player in NBA history, with five regular-season MVPs (tied for second with Bill Russell, only Abdul-Jabbar has more, with six), six Finals MVPs (NBA record), and three NBA All-Star Game MVPs. Jordan was named one of the top three regular-season MVP candidates ten times. In 1996, Michael Jordan was voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and in 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Jordan is just one of seven players in history to have won an NCAA championship, an NBA title, and an Olympic gold medal (doing so twice with the United States men's basketball teams in 1984 and 1992). Jordan and Pippen are the only two players to have won six NBA Finals while playing for the same team since the ABANBA merger in 1976.
Many of Jordan's peers believe he is the best basketball player of all time. Jordan was named the greatest North American athlete of the twentieth century by an ESPN poll of journalists, athletes, and other sports luminaries in 1999, ahead of Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali. Jordan was second to Ruth on the Associated Press's list of 20th-century athletes in December 1999. Furthermore, the Associated Press named him the greatest basketball player of the twentieth century. Jordan has also been on the front cover of Sports Illustrated 50 times. Jordan was selected as the greatest athlete of the past 50 years in the September 1996 issue of Sport, which was the publication's 50th-anniversary issue.
