The Last Dance
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The opening round of the NBA playoffs is seldom the most compelling.
The less competitive matchups are a different sort of experience.
There are no NBA playoff games happening right now or likely to happen in the foreseeable future.
There are a lot of anecdotes like this.)
I was trying to get the guys to understand it from my standpoint, Jordan tells Herir.
I let my anger motivate the players by saying,I want this, do you guys want it?
Jordan has talked about this in the past I cant help myself, hetoldESPNs Wright Thompson in 2017.
If I could, then I could breathe.
The legend again crowds out the insight; the rocks glass next to his chair fills and empties.
This was obvious even then.
Its just that Pippen had decided he no longer wanted to be with the Bulls.
What initially looks like The Scottie Pippen Episode, though, is pulled inexorably back toward Jordan himself.
The Celtics swept the Bulls in three games, as expected, en route to a NBA championship.
That wasnt Michael Jordan, Larry Bird says after the game.
That was God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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