With a six letter long statement, Michael “Air” Jordan announced one of the most spectacular comeback in sports history 30 years ago.
Michael Jordan had a sense of how to announce a big message.
“The following statement was published today by Michael Jordan, by his personal lawyer and agent David B. Falk, Chairman of Falk Associates Management Enterprises, Inc. (” Fame “) in Washington DC, in response to his future career plans”, the most famous fax in sports history was initiated.
The announced statement sent to the offices of various sports editors was then exactly six letters long: “I’m back.”
On March 18, 1995, which celebrates the 30th time on Tuesday, the spectacular comeback of the NBA icon began – which had withdrawn from his sport a year and a half with an equally large bang.
Michael Jordan withdrew after the stroke of fate
Back then, in October 1993, Jordan was already a three-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls, Olympic champion with the legendary “Dream Team”, world-famous advertising medium of basketball and the sporting goods giant Nike. But Jordan, then 30 years old, was also in the middle of a personal life crisis: father James was shot by street robbers three months earlier.
Son Michael decided to a radical cut as a result of the stroke of fate – and probably also because of the physical and mental robber in his previous life in the glistening of the spot: he had the NBA whiz and instead devoted himself to a heart of the deceased dad. He tried in the baseball, the favorite sport of father Jordan, who also dared a great career for his son.
Jordan hired Barons at the Minor League team Birmingham and attracted curious masses there. After almost a year and a half in Jordan, however, the thought that his story in basketball was not yet said.
Even after the number 2 resignation, he couldn’t leave it
What followed is known: at the side of Scottie Pippen (no longer speaking well on him today), Dennis Rodman and Co., Jordan, directed three more NBA titles and three other awards for the Finals MVP, crowned by the now also documentary “Last Dance”. Legend of the Jordan era)
At the beginning of the following year – in the middle of a lockout and an oncoming departure of pippings and Rodman – Jordan stepped back again. And never got rid of it again: Between 2001 and 2003 there was another – less memorable – comeback for the Washington Wizards.
It has not reduced the gigantic legacy of the 62-year-old today: Jordan’s career is still the measure of things for all players after him.