"The Last Dance" Michael Jordan & Chicago Bulls Docuseries

[blazers21ntnp]

I hope they talk about worms wrestling antocs during the 98 finals

They’ve got to, dude was missing Bulls obligations to attend Nitro.

WWE released a half hour doc on Rodman in the middle of March. Nothing really groundbreaking, just looking back on everything and current interviews with Rodman, Hogan & Bischoff.

 

[$tatus $ymbol]

MJ a damn fool for that property but you can’t even blame the goat. Property taxes alone are 1.6MM

 

[babyface34]

These two . Tom-foolery in the middle of a heated championship series. Loved it. Hated Jim Gray and Bob Costas, though. I remember Karl Malone genuinely looking like he was 1 more bad question away from crushing Jim's throat during the Post-championship interview in '97.

 

[SpittaJetLife]

thats why they say never meet ur heroes
great basketball player undoubtedly
but IMO
being a douche
who doesnt stand for nothing
knocks u down a lil off MY list
of GOAT

Greatest basketball player ever but also one of the biggest biscuit boys ever.

 

[SpittaJetLife]

Yup. Many millennials do not know who Dr.J even is, nor how he carried himself not only as an athlete, but as a Black man as well. Big fro, Black schoolyard game, defying that of the NBA and their old school regimented style of play. Doc was that dude.

Dr. J and AI and Lebron are my goats.

 

[SpittaJetLife]

Kobe’s views about race at first were problematic like Jordan’s views on race. He at first played the game and was on som Uncle Tom ish saying blAck people jumped to conclusions with the Trayvon situation. He then switched his public views of the situAtion when Lebron and all them came out defending Trayvon. Mike passed a lil of his biscuit behavior to Kobe.

 

[nawghtyhare]

Kobe’s views about race at first were problematic like Jordan’s views on race. He at first played the game and was on som Uncle Tom ish saying blAck people jumped to conclusions with the Trayvon situation. He then switched his public views of the situAtion when Lebron and all them came out defending Trayvon.

they still are
i aint brushing them under the rug
cause of his passing

 

[SpittaJetLife]

It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that you're claiming that he did more for black people compared to MJ yet you give no evidence. Why should I do research on it when you're the one that brought it up with little proof, what sense does that make? You just bring radical statements without any background other than your assumptions such as rocking a fro and playing a certain way.

Are you black?

 

[Master Zik]

It was Kobe’s second year in the league. I believe he was still coming off the bench at the time for the Lakers but had gained a ton of popularity around the league. It was just clear that he had “it.”

Kobe made the ASG coming off the bench?!

That cant be right.

 

[Master Zik]

Mans really handwaved Dr. J beating his black wife like that? Damn, just to big him up on being a pro black figure?

I really wish we could’ve got Spurs Bulls in 1999. Would’ve been a good matchup. Duncan and a stoll very good Robinson along with a pretty talented Spurs team would’ve made for a good series.

That Spurs team was underrated too. Swept the Lakers and Blazers and dominated the playoffs. Was unstoppable that season after an initial slow start.

Bulls in 6.

That team would've got done like the Jazz.

These two . Tom-foolery in the middle of a heated championship series. Loved it. Hated Jim Gray and Bob Costas, though. I remember Karl Malone genuinely looking like he was 1 more bad question away from crushing Jim's throat during the Post-championship interview in '97.

Costas sounding like a ****** scumbag here.

Dont even watch but trying to look down on wrestling. LAME.

 

[freeze]

tim was a loser

 

[blazers21ntnp]

Kobe made the ASG coming off the bench?!

That cant be right.

Bench the whole season outside of one game. Fan voting.

 

[Master Zik]

Bench the whole season outside of one game. Fan voting.

Oh damn. I forgot about that.

I was thinking based off a completely different criteria. Like what it takes to make the rest of the all-star roster that is decided by coaches and they're usually all starters. No way a rookie that was coming off the bench makes that.

 

[TURBO UNO]

Oh damn. I forgot about that.

I was thinking based off a completely different criteria. Like what it takes to make the rest of the all-star roster that is decided by coaches and they're usually all starters. No way a rookie that was coming off the bench makes that.

I recall getting the voting ballot from McDonalds where the had a little stand full of them where the line at the registers starts. I want to say they did that in 96, 97 and 98.

 

[KHUFU]

Mans really handwaved Dr. J beating his black wife like that? Damn, just to big him up on being a pro black figure?




Bulls in 6.

That team would've got done like the Jazz.

Costas sounding like a ****ty scumbag here.

Dont even watch but trying to look down on wrestling. LAME.

Are you Black?

 

[APLUS]

The system that LeBron has come through is vastly different than that Jordan came through. LeBron is closer to owning himself far more completely, than Jordan ever will. Therein lies the difference. Jordan wasn’t getting paid as he should have been by Nike, nor the Bulls for a very long time. There was a time that Jordan was only getting a small, very small, percentage off of his own name through Nike. Considering that LeBron came from a single parent home, a much less stable background, LeBron’s story is much more impressive, considering how much of himself not only that he owns, but how he also had his crew roll with him in that success. Black men no less.

Jordan paved the way for LeBron to be “closer to owning himself”. Jordan’s original Nike deal was weak by today’s standards but athletes weren’t signing $90 million dollar footwear deals in ‘84. Just look at Nike’s numbers compared to recent years.

Revenue
1984- $919 million
2018- $36 billion

We all know how much that guy who doesn’t own himself contributed to Nike’s massive growth.
In addition, the NBA was not the globally successful league in 1984 that we now know today. Again, I think that guy who doesn’t own himself, unlike LeBron, contributed to the NBA’s global expansion.

It would be difficult to argue against the thought that Jordan made Nike, the NBA and really the athletic footwear industry as a whole, what they are today. Sure, their respective marketing teams played a huge part but they wouldn’t have had their main icon to market without Jordan and his game. So you’re saying a guy that’s worth nearly $2 billion doesn’t “own himself”?

Personally, I’d say it’s far more impressive to change the economics and reach of a professional sports league, a global athletic brand and really an entire industry than to just stroll into them in ‘03 with the table set and no additional work needed.

 

[CJMcfly26]

tim was a loser

My Spurs in 6. Put some respect on my Spurs. KG and the Wolves, Swept Lakers and Blazers.

 

[KHUFU]

Jordan paved the way for LeBron to be “closer to owning himself”. Jordan’s original Nike deal was weak by today’s standards but athletes weren’t signing $90 million dollar footwear deals in ‘84. Just look at Nike’s numbers compared to recent years.

Revenue
1984- $919 million
2018- $36 billion

We all know how much that guy who doesn’t own himself contributed to Nike’s massive growth.
In addition, the NBA was not the globally successful league in 1984 that we now know today. Again, I think that guy who doesn’t own himself, unlike LeBron, contributed to the NBA’s global expansion.

It would be difficult to argue against the thought that Jordan made Nike, the NBA and really the athletic footwear industry as a whole, what they are today. Sure, their respective marketing teams played a huge part but they wouldn’t have had their main icon to market without Jordan and his game. So you’re saying a guy that’s worth nearly $2 billion doesn’t “own himself”?

Personally, I’d say it’s far more impressive to change the economics and reach of a professional sports league, a global athletic brand and really an entire industry than to just stroll into them in ‘03 with the table set and no additional work needed.

Jordan did not consciously pave the way for anyone. If his comments about what he supposedly was focused upon is to be taken at face value, all he cared about was winning. LeBron is indeed conscious about his decisions, and the results are clear.

 

[Grine]

tim was a loser

Whhhaaattt-He’s the best Power Forward ever

 

[CJMcfly26]

not a bad interview with Jordan’s kids. I lol at Jordan throwing away Bow Wows sneakers cause he wore Iversons at his house and not Jordan’s. That’s crazy lol

 

[getback]

I really wish they gave this doc the OJ: Made in America treatment.

I understand MJ was the executive producer on this one, so they're only going to briefly touch on the controversial stuff. But it would have been much more of a rewarding watch to get varying perspectives. In my opinion.

 

[05fordgt]

Are you Black?

What does one's race have to do with physical abuse? I'm not being funny. What does it matter? Abuse is abuse, no matter who gives it (either spouse)! And IMO, abuse should NEVER be tolerated (the abuser should be reprimanded by law) and if someone blows it off, then it tells something about that person.

 

[finessence]

None.
Now, how many white men have you slept with? Don't lie.

Edit: ..and before some mod comes in here wielding power unjustly, just note that this was not a question based upon homophobia. If that individual has the right to ask a question regarding my own sexual identity, I have an equal right to ask the same question of him.

.... says the man with an avatar of his pectorals. Who’s REALLY interested in getting the attention of men????

Bruh, I’m on your side. Always have. But you cannot expect some of these dudes beliefs to align. It is what it is. You gone drive yourself mad thinking every black person is down for the cause. Let the conditioned ones be as they may. They’re never going to change. Harness your power towards the ones who think like you and I. Stop wasting your time, wishing a 57 year old Michael Jordan would be more pro-black. Let it go.

 

[IATT]

 

[sooperhooper]

I see both sides. He stuck to his job. Could he have done more? Sure. Did he have to? No. Do i lol at him differently? No. It's not his fault. We should be putting that emphasis on politicians and community leaders, not entertainers.