What brings spotlight back on a NBA legend, breaking 20-year-long blank from the court.
The announcement of Rudy Gubert contracting COVID-19 had brought NBA league to a halt in the early March, discouraging global basketball audience looking forward to watch play-offs in the upcoming month. Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy of 2019-2020 season was supposed to be in the hand of a Final MVP, yet it seems the owner will not be determined until the new season begins. The birth of a new dynasty, succeeding ostensibly fallen Goldenstate Warriors dynasty in the last five years, and its new legend has been postponed indefinitely. However, the unintended vacation for basketball fans came to an abrupt end in just four weeks. The all-time legend has returned to take the empty throne and fill up the void of light-out courts.
Netflix released the first episode of ESPN docuseries The Last Dance on Sunday, April 19. Every video has begot exclamations debates, tweets, stories involving the 1990s Chicago Bulls dynasty led by The Micahel Jordan. Across ten episodes, it has attracted averaged 5.6 million viewers, beating all previous numbers put up by ESPN documentaries. The series cast a light not only on the glorious two three-peats and the exceptional star player, but on the dark side of the team and humanistic aspects of the idol. Sean Gregory of TIME megazine commented that the program gave viewers an inside look at Bulls and Jordan.
When Chicago Bulls was defeated by Utah Jazz on the first game of NBA finals in 1998, I was born in the opposite side of the earth from United Center stadium. Seo Jang Hoon was a basketball player whom I had thought to be the best player until being told the name, Michael Jordan, in 2014. Living in a country where NBA games had not been televised, I had been reluctant to familiaze myself with one of many retired players who never showed up in media or news. A modifier, "the most famous basketball player in the world," was not followed after the name Jordan for me. When he left the court leaving all of glory and fame behind, I came into the world and found none of his trace on courts but legends at distance.
The Last Dance is a memoir of the great man whose story covered one page of the world's sports history. His performance in 1998 final games was the last dance to 20th century basketball viewers but the second debut to current basketball audience. It is going to be a long journey for me to read the last page of his basketball career. The documentary comprised of 10 episodes is not sufficient to hold the entire moments of Michale Jordan. The film has sparked a new spotlight on this historic figure, leading to another documentary including Seerat Sohi's article that introduces six Michael Jordan anecdotes that the documentary did not go over.
Every Friday, a review of each episode spiced up with untold stories about 1990s Bulls and Jordan will be uploaded on this blog.
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Sean Gregory, How Michael Jordan and The Last Dance Spoke to a Nation Desperately Missing Sports. TIME, https://time.com/5838134/last-dance-michael-jordan-finale/
How Michael Jordan and 'The Last Dance' Spoke to a Nation Desperately Missing Sports
Sunday night's highly anticipated The Last Dance finale was a basketball film, and a fine one at that
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Seerat Sohi, 6 Michael Jordan anecdotes 'The Last Dance' didn't cover. Yahoo Sports, https://sports.yahoo.com/the-michael-jordan-anecdotes-the-last-dance-didnt-cover-041530473.html