For two decades, footage from the Bulls “Last Dance” sat in a vault in Secaucus, NJ. Michael Jordan controlled the rights, and wasn’t ready to make a documentary. But on the day of the Cavs championship parade in 2016, he finally said yes. https://t.co/AhmRU7ttfA
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) April 18, 2020
“It’s a documentary about one of the greatest teams of all time, the 1997-98 Bulls, with Jordan as a leading character,” writes Shelburne. “And he was ready to tell it, right after another player (James) and another team (the Warriors) got dangerously close to challenging those legacies.”
Here's Michael Tollin, executive producer of "The Last Dance" which debuts Sunday, telling @NYTSports the story of how MJ agreed to sign off on the documentary in their first face-to-face meeting in June 2016 … on the day of the Cavs' championship parade pic.twitter.com/KDr6p9fieQ
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) April 18, 2020
Jordan is super competitive.
That was his last bullet in the chamber.
And it finally airs tonight.
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