GWSHNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2009 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1988

Michael Jordan

6'6" · 216 lbsBorn February 17, 19631985–2003College: North CarolinaDraft: 1984 · Rd 1, Pick 3 · Chicago BullsESPN ↗

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NBA profile

Peak 3Y VAL

25.6

1988, 1989, 1990 avg

Career VAL

232.9

Value Above League

Games

142

Points

3,015

Rebounds

836

Assists

621

Win Shares

10.2

Career Shape

Compiler

33% in peak 3y

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1982	North Carolina	34	32	31.7	53.4%	—	72.2%	4.4	1.8	1.2	0.2	13.5
1983	North Carolina	36	36	30.9	53.5%	44.7%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 99.7th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#1 · Chicago Bulls226.1 legacy · 87% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 4 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VAL NBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps NBA Career Arc Types NBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
1985	21–22	CHI	82	38.3	28.2	6.5	5.9	2.4	0.8	—	51.5%	17.3%	84.5%	0.22
1986	22–23	CHI	18	25.1	22.7	3.6	2.9	2.1	1.2	—	45.7%	16.7%	84.0%	0.09
1987	23–24	CHI	82	40.0	37.1	5.2	4.6	2.9	1.5	—	48.2%	18.2%	85.7%	0.23
1988	24–25	CHI	82	40.4	35.0	5.5	5.9	3.2	1.6	—	53.5%	13.2%	84.1%	0.33
1989	25–26	CHI	81	40.2	32.5	8.0	8.0	2.9	0.8	—	53.8%	27.6%	85.0%	0.33
1990	26–27	CHI	82	39.0	33.6	6.9	6.3	2.8	0.7	—	52.6%	37.6%	84.8%	0.28
1991	27–28	CHI	82	37.0	31.5	6.0	5.5	2.7	1.0	—	53.9%	31.2%	85.1%	0.28
1992	28–29	CHI	80	38.8	30.1	6.4	6.1	2.3	0.9	—	51.9%	27.0%	83.2%	0.25
1993	29–30	CHI	78	39.3	32.6	6.7	5.5	2.8	0.8	—	49.5%	35.2%	83.7%	0.22
1995	31–32	CHI	17	39.3	26.9	6.9	5.3	1.8	0.8	—	41.1%	50.0%	80.1%	0.07
1996	32–33	CHI	82	37.7	30.4	6.6	4.3	2.2	0.5	—	49.5%	42.7%	83.4%	0.21
1997	33–34	CHI	82	37.9	29.6	5.9	4.3	1.7	0.5	—	48.6%	37.4%	83.3%	0.20
1998	34–35	CHI	82	38.8	28.7	5.8	3.5	1.7	0.5	—	46.5%	23.8%	78.4%	0.14
2002	38–39	WSH	60	34.9	22.9	5.7	5.2	1.4	0.4	2.7	41.6%	18.9%	79.0%	0.08
2003	39–40	WSH	82	37.0	20.0	6.1	3.8	1.5	0.5	2.1	44.5%	29.1%	82.1%	0.09