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"I'm Back" - Michael Jordan's famous return to basketball

Michael Jordan made his famous return to the hardwood in Indiana, letting the world know of his return by simply saying, "I'm Back."

Camera flashbulbs were blinking so incessantly it seemed like the sun exploded. No one had seen anything like that before as the Bulls prepared for the March 19, 1995 game in Market Square Arena. "It was strange," recalled Steve Kerr. "No one had ever taken photos of me like that."

They still weren't. It was that other Bulls guard whom the cameras—and the largest regular-season game TV audience in NBA history—were watching, Michael Jordan in his first game back in the NBA after a nearly two-year "retirement.