Michael Jordan's sport was basketball.
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago , Illinois . Michael Jordan . Jordan is a two-time inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame , having been enshrined in 2009 for his individual career , and again in 2010 as part of the group induction of the 1992 United States men 's Olympic basketball team ( `` The Dream Team '' ) . The North Carolina Tar Heels men 's basketball program is the intercollegiate men 's basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . 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 . Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film starring basketball player Michael Jordan and featuring the Looney Tunes cartoon characters .