The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 30 to 21
You might say it’s cheating to claim Jordan—that most famous of Tar Heels—as a Brooklynite, but the greatest basketball player of all time learned to walk on the streets of Brooklyn, and if you can’t walk, you can’t win six NBA championships (and championship MVP awards), five regular-season MVP awards, ten league scoring titles, and basically every other individual and team trophy it’s possible to win playing basketball. So, yeah, he’s a Brooklynite.