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Hartley Brent Price, better known as Brent Price (born December 9, 1968 in Shawnee, Oklahoma), is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He is the younger brother of former Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Mark Price.
Price was drafted in the second round (32nd overall pick) in the 1992 NBA draft by the Washington Bullets (now Wizards). He played for Washington for 3 years scoring an average of 3 points a game, and made 41% of his field Goals. On May 19, 1995 he was waived by the Bullets and then resigned on October 3, 1995. He was released in the end of the 1995 season, and signed with the Houston Rockets. He improved, averaging 5 points a game and made 43% of his field goals. On August 1, 1999 he was traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies for Steve Francis and Tony Massenburg. It was a two year struggle scoring only 3 points a game and 30% made field goals. On June 27, 2001 he was acquired by Sacramento Kings with Mike Bibby for Jason Williams and Nick Anderson.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
After a three-season career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.