<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Trip:</div><div class="quote_post">I think that since he came back in the middle of the season, the #23 was already retired to him. It was probably some stupid rule the NBA had that forced him to pick another number. I think the next season the Bulls unretired the number, so Jordan could go back to wearing it...or something like that.</div>
Partly correct. He wore it for most of the season, but then during a play-off game, someone commented that "#45 isn't like #23", so he went back. They un-retired it, and he went on to lead the bulls to the Championship.