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The Last Dance is a 2020 American sports television documentary miniseries co-produced by ESPN Films and Netflix. Directed by Jason Hehir, the series revolves around Michael Jordan's career, with particular focus on the 1997–98 season, his final season with the Chicago Bulls.

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00:00Let's go.
00:30I do remember being in Vegas with him.
00:36It was on the party was starting right away.
00:40Big city love, bring on the sugar.
00:44That's whores and sluts.
00:45That's not a record.
00:48One thing about Dennis, he had to escape.
00:55He'd like to go out.
00:57He'd like to go to clubs.
00:59We'd go to his favorite restaurant, then we'd go to a nightclub, then we'd go to after
01:04hours.
01:05It didn't stop.
01:09It was definitely an occupational hazard to be Dennis' girlfriend.
01:16He was wild.
01:17It's time of coffee time.
01:22It's time to blow your mind.
01:25It's time of coffee time.
01:27It's time.
01:28Suck it down, brother.
01:32But to be honest, I didn't realize what the team's schedule was.
01:35I didn't know he took a detour.
01:45He didn't come back on time.
01:48Way to go get his ass out of bed.
01:50And I'm not going to say what's in his bed and where he was and blah, blah, blah.
01:55There's a knock on the door.
01:57It's Michael Jordan.
01:59And I hid.
02:01I didn't want him to see me like that.
02:04So I'm just hiding behind the couch with covers over me.
02:08Come on.
02:09We've got to get to practice.
02:11Dennis came back and joined the team.
02:14And that's the way it went that year.
02:21Did you get your body through anything today, Dennis?
02:23You've got to put your body through things so the muscles of them ever take you, too.
02:27Not just a month.
02:29You're a body baby.
02:30You're a little big girl.
02:31You got to pay you.
02:34Michael and Scott accepted me for who I am.
02:37They said, you know what?
02:39He does what he does, but he cares a lot.
02:43I go party hard.
02:44I work hard.
02:45I think that we get along so well because we want to win.
02:49We want to win the championship.
02:55Come across.
02:59First of all, there's no backstabbing going on.
03:10It's time for me to move on.
03:12This will be Phil's last year as the coach of the Bulls.
03:16Are the expectations way too high?
03:18Where do we go from here?
03:19The only question, how long can it last?
03:29We'll see you in the middle.
03:34We'll go play again.
03:44Oh God!
03:51After his vacation, Dennis comes back to practice.
04:09Phil, now, his whole motive is to get Dennis back in shape.
04:13So we start this drill called the Indian drill.
04:17Everybody starts running in a line.
04:19And Phil blows a whistle.
04:22Whoever's at the back, run to the front.
04:24Now, you can't stop.
04:26Whoever's in front controls the pace.
04:28So I'm saying, well, fuck, this is kind of messed up
04:31because now I'm getting caught up in Dennis getting in shape drill.
04:35When in essence, I haven't taken a vacation.
04:37So I tell everybody in that group, say, look,
04:39whoever gets in the front of that row, slow down to a fucking walk.
04:43We're just going to jog and jog and jog and jog.
04:45So Steve Kerr and Judd Boosley, they all get to the line.
04:52We just slowly, we just running, slowly just running,
04:55slowly just running, and then Dennis takes off.
04:58Boom.
04:58Now, he blows a whistle.
04:59Now, we cannot stop until we get back in front of Dennis.
05:03It took us four laps to catch up to Dennis.
05:06It was like in his psyche.
05:08He needed to get away.
05:09But in all honesty, Dennis was always there.
05:11He was always on point.
05:18Phil realized that I was different, man.
05:22Phil knew me so well because he knew that I needed to do it, right,
05:25because so much shit I was doing, but I had to get my head right.
05:29But that's what's so cool about playing with that team, man.
05:32They was all about anybody need to do something.
05:35They was all about it.
05:36And Phil was cool about it.
05:38Dennis is always a rebel.
05:41At some point, you know, he wants to join the group,
05:43but the other part of him wants to be autonomous.
05:46So we appreciate the fact that he's a maverick.
05:50But yet, when it comes time for him to perform,
05:53he's always on the court for us, always playing hard for us.
05:56Dennis and I have this Native American bond between us.
06:04He comes in one day, and Dennis and I met in the team room.
06:09In the team room, I have a bear claw necklace,
06:11turtle shell that came from another Indian reservation,
06:14and various other Indian artifacts.
06:17And so Dennis is like, wow.
06:22He said, I have this necklace from the Ponca Indians in Oklahoma.
06:27I can, I'm hip to that.
06:28And I say, well, Dennis, in their tradition,
06:31and the tradition that I knew,
06:33you would be a hayoka, a backward walking person.
06:36There were people that were different, and you're a hayoka.
06:39So you're this hayoka in this tribe.
06:41He don't look at me as a basketball player.
06:45He look at me as a great friend.
06:48He realized that I probably need him for inspiration.
06:53He wants to see me persevere.
06:57I had never met a coach who was that different and genuine
07:03when it came to bringing the group together.
07:08He had this real interest in Native American history.
07:11And he would weave that into our own culture.
07:16I mean, he brought in Zen Buddhism
07:18and Native American Indian philosophies.
07:21Everything was about being focused, playing as one.
07:33When I was in Great Falls as a kid growing up,
07:36my grandparents had this boarding house
07:38with small little cabins.
07:39And Native American people from the popular Indian reservation
07:44used to come, and they'd have their kids.
07:47And so I started learning more and more
07:49about this Native American culture.
07:53There was a certain negativity about playing with these kids.
07:56I didn't feel that at all.
07:59Cowboys and Indians was a game the kids played.
08:02I was always the Indian.
08:05My dad was a pastor.
08:08My mother was also a minister.
08:11She was an extreme belief about the second coming of Christ.
08:15So that was something that was foremost in your mind in growing up.
08:22Would you be ready if Christ came to be taken
08:24as part of that group that would be raptured?
08:28My goal was always in conflict.
08:32I would rather be playing sports than being on my knees praying.
08:37I played basketball from the time I was a little kid
08:40and eventually went to the University of North Dakota.
08:44Jackson is having a brain on the night.
08:47He scored 28 in the first half and has continued
08:49the on-slide here in the second half.
08:53Then he extracted me in the second round,
08:55and I made the all-rookie team my rookie season.
08:59I remember seeing Phil Jackson,
09:03and he's always smacking guys around.
09:07He was like an earlier version of Dennis Rodman.
09:13I was there 11 years with the Knicks.
09:15He had seven good years.
09:17He went to the finals three years.
09:18White has the ball.
09:19Stalling by Jackson!
09:20He's from the head of the field.
09:22And we won two championships.
09:29I can walk down the street, there's no one there.
09:33Though the pavement's a one huge crowd.
09:35Phil and I wrote Maverick together.
09:38And in that book, Phil talks about taking acid.
09:45And thinking he was a lion,
09:47roaring up and down the beach in L.A.
09:50Phil was like a hippie.
09:52And different from the NBA fraternity.
09:56When I was playing as a pro,
09:59Red Holtzman encouraged me to think about coaching,
10:01and particularly in Puerto Rico,
10:03where I ended up coaching for a while.
10:06I spent a lot of time down there.
10:09In the superior league, it was called.
10:11They played every other day.
10:13And these players would just play ferociously.
10:17There was a local animosity among these small towns.
10:37There were fires when you're way out of town
10:40and rocks being thrown at your car.
10:41And they'd kill a chicken in the graveyard
10:45and pour the blood on the visiting team's bench.
10:50The town I went to, Kever Diaz, was ferocious.
10:53The mayor had actually shot an official one time
10:57with a gun and hit him in the lower leg.
11:00So his punishment was he wasn't allowed to go
11:02to any more home games for the rest of the season.
11:05But really, there's a lot of love about the game,
11:09and I learned a lot of things from the process.
11:13And then I got a call about coaching
11:15over in the CBA for the Albany Patroons.
11:19And now introducing the head coach of the Patroons,
11:22formerly of the New York Knickerbockers,
11:25Phil Jackson.
11:26Phil Jackson.
11:27Then in A4, we won the championship.
11:30They came together as a group,
11:32and it's been a great team effort ever since.
11:34And I think we're ecstatic right now.
11:36After that, the Bulls tracked me down,
11:39and I got up to interview for an assistant job
11:44under Stan Albeck.
11:45Jerry Krause and I had a really good relationship.
11:49I wanted to bring Phil in.
11:51And he came in not dressed real well.
11:55Stan was very conservative,
11:56and Phil looked anything but conservative at that point.
11:58And Stan quickly nixed that idea.
12:02Two years later, we had an opening.
12:03And this time, I called Phil,
12:05and I told him how to dress
12:06and how to talk to Doug.
12:10Doug Collins was our coach,
12:11and I kind of helped Doug think about it,
12:14and we hired Phil.
12:15Under Doug Collins, one of the assistant coaches
12:21was Tex Winter.
12:23Jerry Krause had the idea
12:24that Tex was going to be a mentor.
12:26Doug was going to follow kind of the things
12:28that he would teach as a coach.
12:31When I took this job 11 years ago,
12:33the first person we hired was Tex Winter.
12:35He's a brilliant man,
12:36the finest offensive mind in basketball.
12:39The triangle was formed between
12:42forward two,
12:45guard one, who is now moved to the corner,
12:48and center five, who forms the apex of the triangle.
12:52He had a system called the triangle.
12:54Jerry said,
12:55I've been listening to his basketball philosophy
12:57for years,
12:58and he's got the kind of philosophy
12:59I'd like to see happen with his team.
13:03Doug's philosophy was different.
13:05Doug had had these plays
13:06that always ended up with Michael Jordan
13:08being the recipient of the score.
13:11Tex was always like,
13:12there's a way of playing this game
13:14that's different than that.
13:16Tex Winter
13:16would berate Doug about,
13:19you should institute the triangle.
13:21Doug would not hear of it.
13:23Doug finally had heard it enough
13:24and said, you know,
13:25I'm tired of hearing that,
13:26and then the argument escalated a little bit,
13:28and Tex Winter was banned from the bench.
13:33He wasn't coaching on the floor anymore.
13:35He was sitting in the corner
13:36taking notes about the practice.
13:39Jerry Krause was really unhappy with it.
13:43During that period of time,
13:45Krause made the decision
13:46that I should work together
13:47as the Tex Winter.
13:48Phil was picking the brains
13:50of the best basketball man
13:51I've ever known in my life,
13:53and I was watching it.
13:55And I just thought,
13:56you know what,
13:57this is getting more and more interesting
13:58all the time.
14:00Is there anything that you've missed?
14:03You still got a little bit more room.
14:06I could have gotten another tear
14:07hearing Mike.
14:08Mike, we want you to deny the ball
14:10so they can't throw the ball in
14:11easy to the blocks.
14:13So, big man,
14:14if your man clears,
14:15you must tell Michael
14:16that he's alone out there
14:17so he doesn't get naked
14:17on a backdoor situation.
14:22Midway through my second year,
14:23I sort of felt
14:24that Phil could be the coach.
14:27What gave you that sense?
14:28Just sense.
14:32Don't want to go into the defense?
14:33Just something that's just feeling.
14:35Jerry wanted to talk to me.
14:37So I go in and talk.
14:38He says,
14:38I may have to do something
14:39that's going to rock this franchise.
14:42I said,
14:42I said,
14:42I said,
14:42I'm going to have to fire
14:44Doug Collins.
14:45I said,
14:46it's going to be some fucking balls.
14:47Fire guy just took us
14:49to the Eastern Conference Final.
14:50Now,
14:50if you're getting ready
14:51for work right now,
14:52then you're probably
14:52not Doug Collins.
14:54Chicago Bulls head coach
14:55was fired in the
14:56surprise move yesterday.
14:58Well,
14:58I got the worst kept secret
14:59in town sitting next to me.
15:01You guys,
15:02as usual,
15:03got us on that one.
15:04For the last two years,
15:07Phil Jackson has been
15:08a very integral part
15:09of this organization.
15:10He's now ready
15:11to be a head coach.
15:12Welcome, coach.
15:13Thanks, Jerry.
15:15Have you talked
15:16to Michael Jordan yet?
15:17Yes, I have.
15:18What do you say?
15:20Congratulations.
15:21Let's go win a championship.
15:23Phil took over
15:25and just had
15:26a different approach.
15:28Doug's approach
15:29was more catered
15:31to Michael.
15:32and Phil's approach
15:34was more catered
15:35to the team.
15:37I wasn't a Phil Jackson fan,
15:39you know,
15:39when he first came in,
15:41you know,
15:41because he was coming in
15:43to take the ball
15:43out of my hands.
15:44Doug put the ball
15:45in my hands.
15:48Tech's winner,
15:49his right-hand man,
15:50had sold him on
15:51an offense
15:52that he believed
15:53would get us
15:55out of this
15:56one-on-one
15:57type of basketball.
15:59The triangle offense
16:00is set so that
16:01there's a key pass
16:02that creates motion.
16:05And then there's
16:0633 different types
16:07of options
16:08that come out
16:08of that single pass.
16:10Players can do
16:11spontaneous,
16:14creative things
16:15using their strengths.
16:17You know,
16:18everybody has an opportunity
16:19to touch the ball,
16:20but I didn't want
16:21Bill Cartwright
16:21to have the ball
16:22with five seconds left.
16:23Dumps into Cartwright,
16:24shoots over Rolls.
16:26Nope.
16:27That's not an
16:28equal opportunity offense.
16:29That's fucking bullshit.
16:30Oh my,
16:33Michael Jordan
16:33has 54 points,
16:3560 points for Jordan,
16:3769 points
16:39for Michael Jordan.
16:40There was so many times
16:41the Tex used to yell at me,
16:43saying,
16:43move the ball,
16:44move the ball.
16:45He says,
16:45no I on team,
16:47it's an I on win.
16:49I had a meeting
16:49with Michael
16:50and I told him
16:51what we were going to do.
16:52Obviously,
16:52you've scored
16:5337, 38 points a game
16:55the last couple years.
16:56I don't anticipate
16:58you're going to be
16:58the scoring champion
16:59in the league.
17:01The spotlight's on the ball
17:02and if you're always
17:04the guy that's going
17:04to have the ball,
17:05teams can generate
17:07a defense against that,
17:08which is what's happened
17:09with the Pistons
17:10the last couple years.
17:12He said,
17:12I'm not worried about you,
17:14but we've got to find a way
17:15to make everybody else better.
17:16We've got to create
17:17other threats.
17:17I came in the game
17:20as being a point guard,
17:22but my growth
17:24sort of grew me
17:26into a small forward.
17:28The triangle offense
17:30allowed me to be
17:31more of what I wanted to be.
17:33Scotty Pippen's
17:34turn around.
17:36Scotty kind of developed
17:37that new position
17:38called the point forward.
17:40Instead of, you know,
17:41being in Michael's shadow,
17:43Scotty was starting to blossom
17:44as one of the top players
17:45in the NBA.
17:46Beautiful move,
17:47making his all-star debut
17:49from the Chicago Bulls,
17:50Scotty Pippen.
17:57Michael Jordan is making
17:59an adjustment
17:59to this new philosophy,
18:01which tries to relieve him
18:02of the offensive burden.
18:04He realized that him playing
18:06and just scoring 30 points
18:08wasn't going to win
18:09the last game of the season.
18:11I'm not going to be
18:12the type of person
18:14who's very hungry
18:14to lead the league
18:15in scoring once again,
18:16or to chase individual accolades.
18:19He made a conscious effort
18:20to say no individual
18:22is going to beat a team.
18:24Right now, I'm more or less
18:25geared towards team success.
18:27That's a special thing
18:28to have happen
18:28when the largest icon
18:30that the NBA's ever had
18:31understands that
18:32I don't have to have
18:33the ball in my hands
18:34all the time.
18:36With the triangle offense,
18:38certainly it needed
18:39some little time
18:40to adjust for everyone
18:41to adjust to it
18:42at their own pace.
18:42And it took us
18:45about a year,
18:46a year or so,
18:47as a team to do it.
18:48But by the 1990 playoffs,
18:51we all felt
18:52that we were ready
18:53to beat the Detroit Pistons.
18:55The hurdle that comes up now
18:56is the big one.
18:57And we know that,
18:59you know,
18:59the challenge
19:00of the Detroit Pistons
19:01is immense.
19:02And it's one
19:03that we've been waiting
19:03for all season long.
19:05Chicago was the only team
19:07to beat the Pistons
19:07in the playoffs last year.
19:09And they're a deeper
19:09and more balanced team
19:11this time around.
19:12I felt like we were
19:13in a position to win,
19:15you know,
19:15and we pushed them
19:17to a game seven
19:18in their building.
19:19That's the sky
19:20in my grand game, right?
19:22Yeah.
19:25The defending world champions,
19:28the Detroit Pistons,
19:29extended to a seventh game.
19:31And 21,500
19:34are gathered here
19:35for a very special afternoon.
19:38When I got up that morning
19:40and went down for breakfast,
19:42I had a headache.
19:45I started feeling
19:45like I wanted to throw up.
19:48I went to the arena,
19:51you know,
19:51did my regular routine,
19:53warming up,
19:54and I was just, like, blind.
19:57I couldn't see.
20:00How old time it is, fellas?
20:02How old time it is, man?
20:04You got Scottie, BJ?
20:06Scottie, guys, horse.
20:09Let's go, man.
20:10You know, we got to go.
20:12You don't have anything
20:13I've done.
20:13Let's go.
20:14All out.
20:15All out.
20:16Let's go.
20:17All teams for this guy.
20:18Let's play hard.
20:19Let's go.
20:19Leave it all on the floor.
20:20Let's go.
20:21Let's go.
20:21Let's go.
20:22Let's go.
20:22Let's go.
20:23Let's go.
20:23Let's go.
20:24Come back.
20:28Aim to seven from the palace.
20:34Piston ball.
20:35As the game started,
20:39I couldn't focus.
20:41Everything was blurry.
20:42I was seeing double, blind,
20:43and I just, like,
20:44I couldn't get my eyesight.
20:47Pippen is one of five
20:48to the field.
20:50One of six.
20:51I told him I can't see.
20:57I was taken out of the game.
21:02He said he had a migraine.
21:04I don't, I can't,
21:05I can't argue the point
21:06that he had a migraine.
21:07It was just one of those things
21:08that, you know,
21:09is so unfortunate.
21:11When you can't see,
21:12and you're seeing double,
21:13and you want to vomit,
21:15and you got to play
21:16against Dennis Rodman.
21:16Pippen passes inside.
21:29Lambeer knocks it away.
21:314.10 to go.
21:34Here's Isaiah.
21:36The plays of the ball right now
21:38are plays of desperation.
21:40Guys are trying to do more
21:41than they're capable of doing,
21:42and that includes Michael Jordan.
21:46The lead is 20,
21:51and they, the Detroit Pistons,
21:53will meet the Portland Trailblazers
21:54in the best of seven
21:55beginning Tuesday night
21:57on CBS.
22:06Michael Jordan at 31,
22:08and he's with Matt O'Brien.
22:10Right?
22:11Heard Michael Jordan here
22:12in the midst of the celebration.
22:13What are you saying
22:14to the other players, Mike?
22:15All you can do
22:16is wish some good luck.
22:16I mean, you know,
22:17we fought hard.
22:18You know, they were the better team.
22:19You know, we want to be where they are.
22:21But we still got to win our turn.
22:22We're still trying to improve our team.
22:24They were the better team,
22:25and they play better today.
22:29We were sitting in the locker room
22:31after the game,
22:32and nothing was said.
22:35Everyone just sat there
22:36for a moment.
22:39We had a chance to beat them.
22:41We just didn't respond.
22:42You know, we got to that hill.
22:44We almost looked over the hill.
22:47I was devastated.
22:48I was absolutely devastated.
22:52I cried on the bus.
22:53My father came home and said,
22:54look, it's just one game.
22:57Bounce back.
22:57Come back next year.
22:58I remember losing to the Pistons.
23:05Damn Pistons.
23:08God, that shit hurt.
23:11You couldn't deny
23:12that they were a great team.
23:14We had to either change
23:16something about ourselves,
23:17or we weren't going to beat them.
23:19Can't touch this!
23:20Can't touch this!
23:20Congratulations.
23:21Can't touch this!
23:22Thanks, Pat.
23:23Can't touch this!
23:24After that game,
23:26instead of us all going on vacation,
23:28we all showed up
23:29and we started working out.
23:33And everybody,
23:34starting with Michael,
23:36changed.
23:37Before the Pistons,
23:38Michael didn't weight train.
23:40He didn't go in much
23:41for strength training,
23:42and after getting
23:42the shit beat out of him,
23:44the Pistons finally decided,
23:45I got to put some muscle on.
23:46I was getting brutally beaten up.
23:50And I want to administer pain.
23:54You know, I want to start,
23:55you know, fighting back.
23:57It's very difficult to add muscle
23:59for an athlete
24:00that's constantly burning calories
24:01and running up and down
24:02all the time.
24:04We started at 200.
24:06We added five pounds
24:09until he got to 215.
24:14One, two, three, four,
24:16I put it in
24:21just to get myself
24:23physically strong enough
24:24to go against Detroit.
24:25I was a slender, skiddy kid.
24:27You know, now,
24:28if I put on a couple pounds,
24:30I can throw my weight around
24:31a little bit more now.
24:32I would give him
24:33a certain amount of reps to do.
24:35He would never stop
24:36at that number.
24:37If I asked for six,
24:39I know he was going to do 12.
24:40He got to the point
24:43where he was just like,
24:44instead of them dishing it to me,
24:48I'm going to dish it back to them.
24:49One of the criticisms has been,
24:54you know, Michael Jordan's
24:54a great player,
24:55but he can't lead his teammates
24:57to a championship.
24:58He can't make them
24:59better players.
25:01You were known
25:01at that time
25:02as the guy
25:03who was a spectacular performer,
25:05but not the winner
25:06that Magic and Larry were.
25:08Which ate at me.
25:10It didn't.
25:11It didn't.
25:12My energy
25:14started to
25:16gear towards
25:17my teammates
25:18and pushing them
25:19to excel.
25:21Michael forced
25:21the hand of a lot
25:23of the players
25:23to really dedicate themselves
25:25to off-season training.
25:27Like, okay,
25:28we're going to spend
25:28the summer dedicated
25:29to this proposition
25:30that we're not going to be
25:32runners-up.
25:33We're going to be champions.
25:35Michael was on us.
25:38No mistakes allowed.
25:40Man, I see
25:40a screaming
25:41devil.
25:42You make a mistake.
25:44He's going to scream at you.
25:46He's going to belittle you.
25:48He demands
25:49almost perfection.
25:51Man, when you see
25:52your leader
25:53working extremely hard
25:55in practice,
25:57you feel like,
25:59oh, man,
25:59if I don't give it my all,
26:01I shouldn't be here.
26:02He taught me
26:03how to stay
26:05in the gym,
26:06and he spent
26:07a lot of time
26:08starting to build
26:09the confidence
26:10that I needed.
26:11Pippen became
26:12my focal point.
26:14More than any other player,
26:15Scottie benefited
26:16from playing
26:16with Michael Jordan
26:17because Scottie
26:20had this raw
26:21athletic ability.
26:25What he didn't have
26:26was what Michael
26:27brought every day,
26:28which was the drive
26:30to be the very best
26:31every single day,
26:32the mental focus
26:34of the game.
26:37I got to help.
26:38I got to give him
26:39the fuck.
26:40I'm going to get
26:40to the smoke.
26:41I'm going to go.
26:43The thing about Pipp
26:44is, you know,
26:45you stand next to him,
26:47you make him stronger.
26:49All the Detroit times
26:51when Robyn
26:52wanted to pick on him,
26:54he needed someone there
26:55to stand there
26:56and say,
26:57look, I'll fight with you.
26:57Just fight.
26:59Scottie and I bonded,
27:01you know,
27:01because he felt like,
27:03okay, he has someone
27:03that he can count on.
27:05And I'm looking at,
27:06okay, I got someone
27:07who I can actually count on.
27:09And then Horace
27:10came right behind that.
27:12During the time
27:12that the Pistons
27:13ran over us,
27:15every time they'd
27:16do something to us,
27:17we would complain
27:18to the referee
27:18or we would try
27:19to go back at them.
27:22Horace used to get
27:22beaten up.
27:24I think he got Grinch
27:25with the elbow
27:26on the side.
27:27He would come back
27:27whining.
27:29I just,
27:29don't fucking whine.
27:31Don't let them
27:31see you whine.
27:32That's when they know
27:33they got you.
27:34With them being more
27:35mentally dominant
27:36than we were,
27:37they knew
27:38as soon as we
27:39started complaining,
27:40they had us
27:41and they did.
27:42Horace Grant
27:43has got to realize
27:44this game is not over.
27:45You can't give
27:46the world champions
27:47anything.
27:49Just be strong.
27:50You know,
27:50we're going to beat
27:51these Bullets.
27:52In 91,
27:53the Bulls were determined
27:55to be the tougher team.
27:57The pain of losing
27:58to Detroit again
28:00the year before
28:01brought a fury
28:03into that season
28:04that they had not had.
28:07Jordan knocks
28:08the ball out of bounds.
28:09No, he didn't.
28:10He saved it
28:10and played the fifth.
28:11Oh, what a hundred!
28:12You've been cranking
28:12into the fifth
28:13and played by Jordan.
28:14Here's a pass stolen by Jordan.
28:16Being around Michael
28:17every day like that,
28:19it just brought it out of us.
28:21Scotty evolved,
28:22Horace evolved,
28:23I evolved.
28:24It was just a great feeling.
28:27We had matured
28:27in a lot of ways,
28:28physically,
28:29mentally.
28:31Jordan dribbles out,
28:32hook past the Clippin'
28:32underneath for the dunk.
28:33It was time for us
28:35to become the top team
28:37in the game.
28:47And now,
28:48the starting lineup
28:50for your Chicago Bulls!
28:56Everybody in Chicago
28:57hated the Pistons.
28:59This was personal.
29:00Like, if anybody says
29:01it wasn't personal,
29:02it was personal.
29:04In the end,
29:05of the best of seven.
29:07I didn't even really want
29:08to deal with my relatives
29:09in Detroit
29:10during that period.
29:11I didn't want to go
29:12stay with them.
29:13My first cousins,
29:14yeah, yeah, yeah,
29:14whatever.
29:15Well, you know,
29:16we don't like you right now.
29:17They don't like us.
29:17We had a character challenge
29:22the last two years
29:23and we failed.
29:24But that third year,
29:27we put them
29:28in our rearview mirror.
29:30Lampea.
29:31Jordan with the steal.
29:33Jordan.
29:35We're going to the call.
29:36Michael Jordan
29:37is not going to back down
29:38from anyone right now.
29:39He's the leader
29:39for that team.
29:40He understands
29:41what to expect
29:42during the series.
29:42He's going to hold
29:43his ground
29:43and make a statement.
29:47I thought we were
29:50a good enough team
29:52to at least
29:54make the series
29:55a little bit more
29:56competitive
29:56and we didn't.
29:58Tipping against Vinny
29:59up the right side
30:00to the baseline.
30:01Fills it up
30:02and a foul.
30:03All right, Ahmad.
30:11Game four
30:11of the best of seven.
30:14Nice fake by Jordan.
30:16Goes to the scoge.
30:17Do you know something's
30:29coming?
30:31This team's desperate.
30:32They've done
30:33everything they can.
30:34Now they're really desperate.
30:36Tom Strong
30:37and Greg Codgers
30:38now in the backcourt.
30:39Cliff Levin's
30:39field front right.
30:40And Scottie Pippen
30:41up for a beautiful
30:42backcourt pass
30:43from Pippen.
30:43And he has walloped.
30:45And that will be
30:45a flagrant foul.
30:46And it's getting
30:48very, very tough
30:49out there.
30:51Dennis,
30:51Ahmad,
30:52Bush, Scottie
30:52and could have
30:54injured him
30:55pretty severely.
30:58It was clearly
30:59a flagrant foul.
31:02It's a clear-cut
31:03cheap shot.
31:04All right,
31:04no question.
31:05Clear-cut.
31:06Scottie Pippen
31:06was racked up.
31:09When Pippen
31:10didn't respond
31:11to that abuse,
31:14there's nothing
31:14they could do
31:15to beat us in.
31:16Scottie was
31:21unshakable.
31:23Didn't even
31:23want a band-aid.
31:24When we saw that,
31:25it was over.
31:26You know,
31:27it was just like,
31:27okay,
31:28it's a foul.
31:29Let's go ahead
31:30and finish
31:30kicking their ass
31:31and, you know.
31:32And put them
31:33out of their misery.
31:34Short rebound.
31:36He has Pippen.
31:37Chicago Bulls
31:40about to put the
31:42Pistons away
31:43in four.
31:44And Pippen
31:46is going to
31:46feed it off
31:47to Jordan.
31:48And Chuck is now
31:49clearing the fence.
31:51Still a genuine
31:51draft player
31:52of the game.
31:53Scottie Pippen
31:54of the Chicago Bulls.
31:55We were tasting
31:56victory
31:57over a team
31:59that just
31:59kicked your butt
32:00for the last
32:01three or four years.
32:03I mean,
32:03the gratification,
32:04you truly
32:05cannot put it
32:07into words.
32:11So there's all over.
32:15That was the only time
32:16that I think
32:17I had ever been swept
32:19in the series.
32:21I was normally
32:22the one doing
32:22the sweeping.
32:27Their time
32:28had arrived
32:28and ours was over.
32:32As we're coming
32:33out of the game,
32:35Lambeer said,
32:36you know,
32:36we're not shaking
32:38their hands.
32:39This is how
32:40we're leaving.
32:42Contestant wasting
32:43full time
32:43and getting out
32:44of here
32:44as they are
32:46headed off.
32:47We didn't shake
32:47hands and we just
32:48walked off the court.
32:49Fuck you guys.
32:50Thank you for
32:50kicking high ass.
32:51They left the bench
32:53over 7 and 9
32:5410 seconds remaining.
32:55The Pistons just left.
32:57I think it was
32:58very difficult
32:58for them because
32:59they were two-time
33:01champions.
33:02But, you know,
33:03there certainly
33:03has to be
33:04some respect.
33:06Straight up bitches.
33:09That's what
33:09they walked off like.
33:12Now,
33:12we just kicked your ass.
33:13Go ahead and go.
33:15Detroit had a
33:16similar thing
33:16with Boston
33:18that we had
33:18with them.
33:19They had to
33:19overcome Boston
33:20and they did.
33:21And I can still
33:22remember
33:22it was the first
33:23time that
33:24Detroit beat them.
33:26And I can
33:27see Kevin McHale
33:28coming out
33:29to half court
33:29and shaking hands
33:30and things like that.
33:31now, Adrian Dantley
33:35was shooting
33:36a free throw
33:37and the Boston Celtics
33:39were walking
33:39off during the game
33:42and I grabbed
33:44McHale
33:45and then he stopped
33:48as he was walking
33:49off the floor.
33:51That's how they
33:52left the floor.
33:53and to us
33:54that was okay.
33:57Knowing what
33:58we know now
33:59and the aftermath
34:01of what took place,
34:04I think all of us
34:05would have stopped
34:05and said,
34:06hey,
34:06congratulate,
34:07like they do now.
34:08Hey,
34:08congratulate,
34:09love you,
34:09man,
34:09love you.
34:10Hey,
34:10congratulate you.
34:11I mean,
34:11we would have did it.
34:12Of course we would have
34:12done it.
34:14But during that
34:15period of time,
34:16that's just not
34:18how it was passed.
34:20When you lost,
34:21you left the floor.
34:22How's it?
34:23This is Isaiah
34:24talking about
34:26the walk-off.
34:28Well,
34:29I know it's all bullshit.
34:31Whatever he says now,
34:32you know it wasn't
34:32his true actions then.
34:34You know,
34:34it's time enough
34:35to think about it
34:35or the reaction
34:37of the public
34:37that's kind of
34:38changed his perspective
34:39of it.
34:41You can show me
34:42anything you want.
34:43There's no way
34:44you can convince me
34:45he wasn't an asshole.
34:48Knowing what we know now
34:50and the aftermath
34:53of what took place,
34:55but during that
34:56period of time,
34:57that's just not
34:59how it was passed.
35:01Just wasn't.
35:02And you can go back
35:03and you can look at
35:03any of those old games
35:05or whatever.
35:06When you lost,
35:06you left the floor.
35:08All you got to do
35:09is you go back
35:10to us losing
35:12in Game 7.
35:15I shook everybody's hand.
35:17Two years
35:17in a row.
35:18We shook their hands
35:20when they beat us.
35:21There was a certain
35:22respect to the game
35:23that we paid
35:24to them.
35:27That's sportsmanship.
35:28No matter how much
35:29it hurts,
35:30and believe me,
35:31it fucking hurt,
35:32but they didn't have
35:33to shake our hands.
35:34We knew we whipped
35:35their ass already.
35:36We'd gotten past them,
35:38and that was the most,
35:39that's, to me,
35:39that was better than,
35:40you know,
35:40in some ways,
35:41winning a championship.
35:42See you,
36:04you see me.
36:05Hittin' you just like a home run
36:07Slammin' like a slam dunk
36:08Ride the wave
36:09James Brown gay fuck
36:10It happened to James
36:11Like it happened to me
36:12How you think you feel
36:14To see another MC get paid
36:15Cause I'm using my rap style
36:17And I'm playing the background
36:19Meanwhile, I ain't with that
36:21You can't forget that
36:22You took style
36:23I'm taking it back
36:24Coming back
36:25Like a turn of the jazz
36:26Suck the MC's in the place
36:28That's how it's coming
36:29And I'm gonna rock
36:31Never rock records
36:32How you like me now?
36:34How you like me now?
36:43Bunk, bunk, bunk
36:44Bunk, bunk
36:48Now, brothers, I'm riding in
36:53Like a party
36:54To a party, watch me
36:55Stand around and judge me
36:56Become a rapper
36:57Then try to rock me
36:59How you like me now?
37:08How you like me now?
37:08In sports, the stage is set
37:27For the Air Magic Show
37:28In the NBA Finals
37:29Starting Sunday
37:30It'll be Michael Jordan
37:31And the Chicago Bulls
37:32Against Magic Johnson
37:33And the L.A. Lakers
37:35You know, when you're a competitor
37:37You want to play against the best
37:39I played against Larry
37:41And I've always wanted to play
37:43Against Michael
37:43Up until that point
37:46It was a stigma that
37:47Michael Jordan
37:48All he does is win scoring titles
37:50He never wins championships
37:51That was my chance
37:53To get in
37:55The category of Larry Bird
37:57And Magic Johnson
37:58I guess this is something that
38:00I've been winning
38:01This team has won it the most
38:03I've been in the league
38:05Even though they may have that experience
38:07They may have that home
38:08The NBA is a league of stars
38:11And none shine brighter
38:12Than Magic Johnson
38:13And Michael Jordan
38:14And while much has been said
38:16About their respective teams
38:17Nothing has been more anticipated
38:19Than their individual matchup
38:21And we're set
38:26For the start of game one
38:28And the opening tip
38:29Controlled by
38:30The L.A. Lakers
38:31And Magic Johnson
38:32Moves across
38:33Against Michael Jordan
38:35You know, we were nervous
38:37You know, the first time
38:39And we didn't even play well
38:40Now Magic got it out
38:41For Worthy
38:42What a play
38:43Magic Johnson
38:44You know, Sam Perkins
38:45Hits a three at the end
38:46The Bulls lose game one
38:49Everybody
38:50Including me
38:51Goes, okay
38:52The Lakers gonna win this thing
38:53They beat us on our home court
38:54But in our minds
38:56We had a chance
38:57To beat these guys
38:58And we didn't even play good
38:59So we're looking forward
39:01To game two
39:01And we are set
39:02For game two
39:03Of the NBA Finals
39:05So game two
39:07Jordan goes nuts
39:08Overstock
39:10Michael Jordan
39:12On fire
39:13He's got it
39:13With a straight field goal
39:15For Michael Jordan
39:17Magic Johnson's the greatest point guard
39:42I've ever seen
39:42And Scottie Pippen
39:44Was picking Magic Johnson
39:45Up full court
39:45Nobody did that
39:48Scottie accepted that challenge
39:51And I knew
39:52What Scottie was gonna do
39:53I see it in practice
39:54All the time
39:55It gets up in your face
39:56And it harasses you
39:58And Pippen
39:58Never let him get started
40:00Once we did that
40:11In game two
40:12We never looked back
40:14And it's this simple
40:39The Lakers have to win
40:41Three in a row
40:42Game five moments away
40:44Hello everybody
40:45I'm Bob Costas
40:46This is the Larry O'Brien Trophy
40:48All indications are
40:50That by evening's end
40:51It'll be in the possession
40:52Of the Chicago Bulls
40:53Game five
40:57Is a great back and forth
40:59Back and forth
41:00Back and forth game
41:01Magic fires for Smith
41:04Good recovery
41:05It comes
41:06Lakers with a one point lead
41:09Jordan with a gorgeous move
41:11The Bulls lead it
41:12By three
41:12Patrick
41:13Right there
41:14Ducks it off
41:15At the three
41:17The Bulls
41:18And the Lakers
41:19Are tied at 80
41:21So the fourth quarter
41:25It's a precarious lead
41:27So during a timeout
41:29Phil asks Michael
41:31MJ who's open
41:32And he goes
41:33Paxson
41:33He goes
41:34All right
41:34Then get him the ball
41:35You don't have to shoot
41:36That shot
41:37John's open right there
41:39He's hitting shots
41:43Phil said
41:45You know
41:45Forcefully
41:46Paxson is open
41:47Get him the ball
41:48And I started looking
41:50For Paxson
41:50Everybody
41:51You know
41:52In the world
41:52Is expecting Jordan
41:53To force something
41:54Through a double team
41:55He doesn't do it
41:57He draws and dishes
41:58He trusts his teammate
42:03To make the shot
42:05Once Pax hits that first shot
42:07He says
42:07Oh okay
42:08Fine
42:08Let me do this again
42:10Penetrate
42:11Find Pax
42:12And he just kept hitting him
42:13Kept hitting him
42:14Kept hitting him
42:14Again
42:15That was exactly
42:18What Phil was trying
42:19To get Michael
42:19To understand
42:20And believe in
42:21Over the couple years
42:22Is that
42:23Hey these other guys
42:24Can help you out
42:24It's a two point lead
42:26For Chicago
42:27John Paxson
42:28Yes
42:29John Paxson
42:31Again
42:31And the Chicago Bulls
42:34Have won
42:35Their first ever
42:36NBA championship
42:38Let's go
43:08When you get to that finish line
43:25And you know that you won
43:26All those emotions
43:28That you wrapped up into
43:29You can just kind of let go
43:30I mean everybody knows
43:36Has the picture of
43:37In their mind
43:39When we beat Cleveland
43:40On that last shot
43:41And he's punching the air
43:42And he's all excited
43:43That's who we knew
43:44The competitive Michael Jordan
43:47The win at all cost
43:50Michael Jordan
43:51Sometimes we question
43:54Whether he was human
43:55Whether he had feelings
43:58Just a guy that was
44:00Totally focused on one thing
44:01And one thing only
44:02The only emotion
44:04We had ever seen out of him
44:05Was anger or frustration
44:07We were literally stunned
44:09To see those emotions
44:10When they beat us
44:19Well we met in between
44:22Both locker rooms
44:23And he just
44:24Put his arms
44:25And just started crying
44:27And he was so happy
44:28That he had won
44:29That he busted through
44:30That was a special moment
44:32For him and myself
44:35It's a beautiful feeling
44:37But if you're gonna lose
44:38You're gonna lose to them
44:39You know
44:39And I'm gonna lose to Michael
44:40And that's how it should be
44:43At last
44:46I fit somewhere
44:47In the category of Larry Bird
44:49And Magic Johnson
44:50Bruce
44:56And
45:09What leels
45:09With
45:11And
45:12What leels
45:13With
45:14On
45:16My
45:17My
45:18The
45:19The
45:19The
45:20Shit, come on, drop my money down.
45:23You told me I can't show nobody what I can use.
45:25No, we're here. Don't show it to anybody.
45:27Let me show it.
45:29Yeah.
45:31Denver, Denver.
45:35How about them barcode?
45:37Hey, there he is.
45:38Hey, hey.
45:39Hey.
45:40Cheesehead.
45:42Security.
45:44Security.
45:46This man will never get sleep.
45:49Dennis Rodman.
45:50Hey, don't say that on camera, yo.
45:53Yeah, he's never been a single man and he thinks he can hang out all night.
45:57Hey, hey, don't put that on tape.
45:59Don't put that on tape.
46:00If he's admitted to one girl, Em, Em, come on.
46:03That's a lie.
46:04He's a lie.
46:05He dialed out every night.
46:06Do not put this on tape right here, Em.
46:08Why not?
46:09That's messed up.
46:10Get some sleep, man.
46:11I did get it.
46:12I got a whole lot of sleep.
46:13You got a hangover this morning?
46:14No, Em.
46:15Mom and Dad are going to watch this now.
46:17Mom and Dad, he's an alcoholic.
46:18Hey.
46:19Hey, Phil.
46:20Hey, Phil.
46:21Hey, Phil.
46:22He can't work for the media to be on this plane.
46:25Right here.
46:26See him?
46:27The highest paid media guy in the world.
46:29Come on, Ahmad makes more than me.
46:31No.
46:32He wishes, though.
46:33He wishes he does.
46:34Believe in you.
46:39KFC finally won.
46:41It's actually kind of like a sign of times are changing.
46:44Might be changing in the NBA, too.
46:45While the Chicago Bulls were on the road, their GM took his shot back home.
46:57Jerry Krause again made his plans for next season very clear.
47:00Coach Phil Jackson won't be back, and with Michael Jordan on record as saying he won't
47:04play for anyone other than Jackson, Krause told the Chicago Tribune, quote, if Michael chooses
47:09to leave because there's another coach here, then it's his choice, not ours.
47:13We would love to have Michael back, but Michael is going to have to play for someone else.
47:17It isn't going to be Phil.
47:19If Phil's not back, then certainly I'm not back.
47:22So, I mean, you know, it doesn't leave me with any other choices, but not to play next year.
47:27There's absolutely no room at all for you coming back under any other circumstances.
47:30None.
47:31None.
47:32None at all.
47:33The Bulls were dominating the East.
47:38The East didn't seem to be a question.
47:40The question was out West with the team that they had met in the finals the year before,
47:44Utah.
47:45Now, keep in mind, this was probably a finals preview.
47:51This is the litmus test.
47:54Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Delta Center.
47:57And the thing that's really surprising is the timing of that story by Jerry Krause.
48:03Yeah, Dick.
48:04Unfortunately, it's very cold.
48:06It's sad.
48:07And if you really think about this, performance and loyalty by the coaches and players are being
48:13just thrown out the window.
48:16And the Bulls starting out sharply, lead 8-2.
48:20Here is Rodman, and Pippen got the East ball.
48:23And Jordan hits the open shot.
48:25The Bulls are doing it all.
48:27It has been all Bulls.
48:28Great pass from Longley to a cutting, Scottie Pippen.
48:32And it's a 47-24 lead.
48:35The Chicago Bulls are running the Jazz while on the Jazz home court.
48:40East ball, Karl Malone.
48:42So, Dennis, Dennis, Dennis, Dennis, here it is.
48:44Now, Bernie Miron and Rodman, and the double foul is going to be called.
48:47You can see that this could ignite something here that we don't need.
48:51The Jazz with a 7-0 run of their own here.
48:54And it's an 8-point game, believe it or not.
48:57This is as close as the Jazz have come.
48:59Malone over Pippen.
49:01He's got it.
49:02He's got it.
49:03He's right.
49:04He's unfit.
49:05Yeah, unstoppable.
49:06Nice.
49:07Here's the line.
49:08Yes!
49:09And the Jazz have come back in.
49:12And a standing ovation for the Jazz who had a fight way back in this game.
49:16Utah Jazz ending up sweeping the Chicago Bulls this year, winning here in Salt Lake City.
49:24But, Jerry Krause, the big question is why?
49:26Why now come out with a statement like this here at the All-Star break?
49:29I mean, this is something for after the season.
49:30You know, I think it's just a bad case of judgment on his part.
49:34Well, Reggie, this looks like a reality check for everybody.
49:36Is this the end of the Bulls as we know them?
50:06Yeah.
50:07Yeah.
50:08The end of the Bulls as we know them are.
50:09Yeah.
50:10Yeah.
50:11Yeah.
50:12They're all right.
50:13Yeah!
50:14I think it's false.
50:15Yeah.
50:17Yeah.
50:19Yeah.
50:20Yeah.
50:21Yeah.
50:23Yeah.
50:24Yeah.
50:26Yeah.
50:27Yeah.
50:29Yeah.
50:30Yeah.
50:31Yeah.
50:32Yeah.
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