Many people consider American sensation Michael Jordan to be one of the all – time greats in the NBA.

Playing for the Chicago Bulls, Jordan won six NBA titles over the course of an incredible career. Because of his affiliation with Nike, Jordan remained one of the most prominent athletes in the world long after he retired.

Jordan earned two gold medals at the Olympics throughout his playing career: one in Los Angeles in 1984 and another in Barcelona in 1992.

Jordan did, however, turn down an invitation to compete in the Atlanta Olympics of 1996. It was thought that Jordan’s downturn resulted from the Olympics consuming a significant portion of his typical NBA offseason recuperation.

Jordan stated, “I think it’s going to be easy to get guys to play, but your top players, it may be a different story,” as quoted by The New York Times. “I’m not sure whether the clubs will support them in doing it. You watch us players getting hammered up so early in the season, suffering from nagging injuries.

During his career, it was reported that Jordan once made Kobe Bryant so mad that he didn’t speak to his teammates for two weeks.

According to former Washington Wizards player Gilbert Arenas, Jordan annoyed Bryant after a match in which Jordan won whilst Kobe was wearing ‘Jordan 8’s’.

It is believed that Jordan said to Bryant after the match: “You can wear the shoes but you’ll never fill them.”

Arenas said, as per Essentially Sports: “So what happened next is, during that time after Kobe got, so Kobe didn’t say anything to anybody. So, for like two weeks they said, Kobe was just mute.

“Like, he didn’t talk to his players, didn’t talk to his teammates. Just, they said he was in a, like, focus mode. Like it was straight. Like practice was just so intense. Right? So, the players were like, ‘yo is he mad at us? Did we do something to him?’”