Jordan, Michael BrE AmE
(1963–) a US ↑ basketball player who was considered to be the best player of the 1980s and 1990s, helping his Chicago Bulls team win five ↑ NBA ↑ championship s . He was often known as ‘Air Jordan’ because he jumped very high when he ↑ score d points. He was also known to be one of the most highly-paid sports players in the world. In 1997 he appeared in the film Space Jam with the ↑ cartoon character Bugs Bunny. He ↑ retire d from basketball in 1999.