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迈克尔乔丹（Michael Jordan）出生于美国纽约布鲁克林，毕业于北卡罗莱纳大学。美国NBA篮球明星。1991-1993年率公牛完成NBA总冠军“三边冠”霸业。之后1996-1998年又带领公牛队3次夺得NBA年度最佳新人奖，6次当选NBA最有价值球员，3次当选NBA全明星赛最有价值球员。1999年1月13日，乔丹宣布正式退役，他的23号球衣也在联合中心体育馆永久退役。本文为他退役时的演说。

I am here to 1）_____ my retirement from the game of basketball. It won’t be another announcement to baseball or anything to that nature.

Mentally, I’m 2) ______. I don’t feel I have a challenge. Physically, I feel great. The last time in 1993 I had other agendas. I felt that I wanted to play baseball and I felt that at my age, it was a good 3）____ and time to do it. And with the death of my father, and I was basically trying to deal with that.

4)______ I talked to Jerry last year once the season ended and I told Jerry at that time, mentally, I was a little exhausted. I didn’t know if I would play next year. I wanted to put him on awareness so that he could possibly prepare going into next season. And Jerry, once we had our 5)____, wanted me to take time as I did in 1993 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the final decision.

I retired the first time when Phil Jackson was the coach. And I think that even with Phil being the coach I would have had a tough time, 6) ____ finding the challenge for myself. Although he can somehow present challenges for me , I don’t know if he could have 7)_____ the challenge for me to continue on to this season. Even though middle way of this season I wanted to continue to play a couple more years, but at the end of this season I was mentally drained and tired. So I can’t say that he would have 8) _ _ that.

I will support the Chicago Bulls. I think the game itself is a lot bigger than Michael Jordan. I’ve been given an opportunity by people before me ,to name a few, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Doctor J, Eljohn Baylor, Jerry West. These guys played the game way before Michael Jordan was born and Michael Jordan came on the heels of all that activity. Mr. Stern and what he’s done for the 9) ____, gave me an opportunity to play the game of basketball. I played it to the best I could play it. I tried to 10) ____the game itself. I’ve tried to be the best basketball player that I could be .