The Last Dance: In Praise of One Lone Gold Hoop Earring

1st retirement: dad murdered, burnt out on the hoops
2nd retirement: Phil Jackson wasn't gonna be coach, burnt out on the hoopla

he still avg'd over 20ppg but his FG% nose-dived as a Wizard. He def had his moments tho.

had 3 games of 40+ in his final season

when they talked about 1st title, was it mentioned that MJ had more assists than Magic in the Finals?

the narrative is more about how MJ focuses on team rather than personal achievements to get a chip so it's sorta implied. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Magic doesn't get too much playing era screen time in this.

i am now watching episode 1 of the last dance

i'm just a year or two too young to remember v much about pre-title jordan other than he was the best in the world and the pistons kept beating him down so this is going to be fun!

lmao at the lingering shots on the lit cigar in the opening my man okay i will stop liveblogging this

no go for it! it's very joyous

the needledrops in this thing are absolutely perfect

ha im watching too clay, jordan shows up in a corvette, thats not a sports car for the most famous man in the world get a fararri or smth ffs

i was happy they did not linger on the sam bowie thing bc if they had i would have been very angry!!!!!!

lol

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these jerseys were very good why did they ever change it

ha that was in the one of the first shots and i thought oh great this is starting out w me mad about a jersey

and now im agreeing completely w everything jordan is saying about the team/management feud, fucked up movie

jordan's kids shooting hoops with looney toons branded jean jackets tied around the waist is hardcore 90's adolesence shit

when corona is over i'm gonna get a taz tat with the letters MJ in copperplate gothic right above it you guys can hold me to this

its a good idea you cant argue with it

bulls management breaking up that team is one of the craziest things in human history

its transcendently crazy i believe even if they didnt themselves realize it they were seeking a higher plane of consciousness

krause's arrogance and the reinsdorf deference to management was a bad combination

rodman gets all the hype for being a madman but some of the ties mike was wearing in the second run reveal the truly twisted mind here

lmao bill clinton checking on pippen in college is a nice footnote

hah i loved that

https://tribthegame.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/john_paxson.jpg

john paxson has aged into full supervillain form

Lol MJ did have a Ferrari but he signed endorsement deal early on with Chevrolet. I have a signed photo of him in a tux posing by a corvette.

these jerseys were very good why did they ever change it

Agreed! Think I mentioned in ILH that I bought one online to wear to Bulls game when I was in town in Feb. $48, I thought it was a steal.

That iconic shot of him in that jersey doing the cradle rock jam was taken during his very 1st game at MSG. Lemme find the highlights of that game, it's ridic

https://youtu.be/GnAFWxtT5W8

is this show okay for kids? my 11 yo is getting super into basketball

it just has a bunch of cussing, but i think that may only be left in during the initial broadcast. my wife was getting into the doc so we rewatched ep 4 last night on the espn app and it was all bleeped out.

ahh. in the UK it's on Netflix.

i don't mind cussing - but would prefer no n-words or f**gots which were rife in those days iirc

none of that so far

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he still avg'd over 20ppg but his FG% nose-dived as a Wizard. He def had his moments tho.

It really sucks that he didn’t pick Pau, Pau and ancient Jordan would have been so fucking cool

ha im watching too clay, jordan shows up in a corvette, thats not a sports car for the most famous man in the world get a fararri or smth ffs

is this show okay for kids? my 11 yo is getting super into basketball

there are two different versions of each episode with different age ratings (M and 14-L)

i didn't realize that phil jackson was such a cool guy! at least, he seems like a cool guy to me

lol c'mon KARL MALONE. that was phil's whole USP. mr zen. mr goatee. the sensei.

espn2 runs the tv-14 version concurrently with no F or S words but ass-holes and sons of bitches etc.green light. espn airing the regular unedited version.

would love to watch some of these games that they're just glossing over.
everything is on youtube, it's great. I watched game 2 of '92 Finals last night. Lil interview with MJ about his 3pt shooting in game 1, him saying he doesn't like to shoot many 3s cause it "hurts his all around game". Such a different game back then.

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oh nice thx. i only really remember the 2nd three peat really well. I got way more into the nba around 93-94

haha wait a minute i just realised KARL MALONE was pulling our legs. sorry for humour fail - that's what i get for ilx0ring and "working" at the same time

sadly, i wasn't! i don't actually know much about basketball. the little i know came from watching nba on nbc all the time in the 90s (which is why i'm watching this doc series), and although i think i understood back then that phil jackson was a relatively free spirit compared to like, pat riley, i didn't understand the extent of it.

not mr zen the ZEN MASTAH

If you wanted to watch some of the 1st 3peat on youtube I'd go with the '93 series vs PHX. MJ and Barkley were phenomenal, and there were some good games. I was down in FL for my cousin's wedding, and game 6 was on the night of the wedding. I figured the newlyweds wouldn't want to watch it, but they invited a bunch of us over to watch in their hotel's lobby. Good lil memory, everyone went nuts when Pax hit shot that sealed it.

what was the playoff game where they basically doubled the jazz's score?

i think it was this one. 54 points in a playoff game!
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/199806070CHI.html