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

hah i loved that

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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

🤘

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.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, April 27, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

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

Jazz avg'd over 100ppg in conf finals sweep vs Lakers and then didn't crack 90 in a game vs Bulls

Competitive series tho

that last game will of course be the centerpiece of the end of the series. poor jacques vaughn.

I think a lot about how the Jazz got shellacked in that game and just went back to business in the next game. They’d been around so long that they knew one game is one game.

Jerry Sloan was a great coach, feel like ppl have forgotten about him

most wins without a ring right?

don nelson, I think

i desperately hope they got to get contemporary interviews with stockton and malone; i've never heard them talk about that series

oh man that would be excellent

Hey hoopers! I am super into this series. After ep 2 i caught myself like “oh man i hope they don’t trade Pippen”

MJ’s red eyes creep me out
I want to go on a vision quest w Phil Jackson
Carmen Electra is alive and well

I never wanted to see Laimbeer’s psychotic phantom of the opera facemask ever again but welp here I am, drinking the nightmare fuel

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WELCOME TO THE HOOPS

:D

have literally not watched basketball *since* the 98 Bulls lol

we are excited to have u back as the prodigal hoops child

i enjoyed this tweet/gif

Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn any time Jordan tried to drive pic.twitter.com/ndyld0Bv7B

— #MambaForever (@QUA150) April 27, 2020

yeah what is up with MJ's eyes. a li'l Visine for my man

anecdotally it's amazing the amount of casual and non fans that are into this doc, quarantine or no

star power, baby

michael jordan was such a phenomenon no one has come close since

it's true. and watching the doc reminds you that it made sense. he can be an asshole and we can make fun of his jeans and whatnot but he's completely magnetic at all times. just one of those people.

for real

He was 6’6” in shoes! Even a corvette is a tight fit
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hes driving a fararri in ep 4 gdamn it! lol

glad you're enjoying it, VG!

heard Ryen Rusillo say something I always bring up when fawning over MJ: dude never for 1 second looked awkward or out of control, and by comparison he made all of the most gifted basketball athletes of his and previous generations look stiff and clumsy (maybe some small guards a la Isiah were somewhat on his level of smoothness). Every generation after him has had that "MJ Starter Pack" of smooth physicality from a young age and so there's verrrry few stiff/awkward players at any level. Obv today's players have taken it to new levels, esp ball handling.