Michael Jordan's sport was basketball.
The National Basketball Association ( NBA ) All-Star Game is an annual exhibition basketball game played between the Eastern-Conference and the Western-Conference All-Stars . Michael Jordan . His biography on the NBA website states : `` By acclamation , Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time . '' A slam dunk , also dunk or dunk shot , is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air , controls the ball ( s ) above the horizontal plane of the rim , and scores by putting the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands .