Michael Jordan won two gold medals at the Olympics

In his career, Michael Jordan won two gold medals at the Olympics. Jordan made his national basketball team debut at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela. He led the team in scoring with 17.3 points per game as the United States, coached by Jack Hartman, won the gold medal. He won another gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics a year later. Bob Knight coached the 1984 U.S. team, which included Patrick Ewing, Sam Perkins, Chris Mullin, Steve Alford, and Wayman Tisdale. In the Olympic competition, the team went 8-0, averaging 95.4 points per game. Jordan led the team in scoring, averaging 17.1 points per game during the tournament.

Jordan was a member of the star-studded group known as the "Dream Team" in 1992, which also included Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. The 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team, called the "Dream Team," was the first American Olympic team to include active National Basketball Association players (NBA). Some journalists have called the team "the greatest sports team ever assembled. The team went on to win two gold medals: one in the 1992 Tournament of the Americas and one in the 1992 Summer Olympics. The team defeated its opponents by an average of 44 points on its way to winning the gold medal against Croatia in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In 2009, the team was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010, and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2017. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame describes the team as "the greatest collection of basketball talent on the planet."

He was the first player in the Olympics to start all eight games, averaging 14.9 points per game, and finished second on the team in scoring. During Jordan's four tournament appearances in 1983, 1984, and 1992, the team never lost a single game.