Michael Jordan's sport was basketball.
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago , Illinois . 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 . Jordan 's individual accolades and accomplishments include five Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) Awards , ten All-NBA First Team designations , nine All-Defensive First Team honors , fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances , three All-Star Game MVP Awards , ten scoring titles , three steals titles , six NBA Finals MVP Awards , and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award . 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 .