Los Angeles (AFP)
At a time when almost all sports competitions are postponed because of the coronavirus, the broadcast of the documentary "The Last Dance" on the epic Michael Chicago's Chicago Bulls, scheduled for June, is advanced to April 19, announced Tuesday ESPN.
Broadcast on ESPN in the United States, at the rate of two episodes per Sunday, and 24 hours later on Netflix in other countries of the world including France, this river documentary in ten episodes is awaited by the whole basketball world, in full period containment.
"April 19 isn't coming fast enough. I can't wait!" Tweeted Lakers star LeBron James, who in an Instagram post recently asked producers to advance the broadcast of "The Last Dance ".
This documentary will focus on the last season of Michael Jordan with the Bulls (1997-1998) to better tell the Chicago dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 90s, with two successful "three peats", namely two successful triplets in 1991-1992-1993 and in 1996-1997-1998.
At the start of the 1997-1998 season which culminated in their 6th coronation, the Bulls - Jordan, coach Phil Jackson and owner Jerry Reinsdorf at the head - had let a production team film the team from the inside everyday, storing images never shown before and which will appear in "The Last Dance".
"Besides the players themselves, more than a hundred people close to the team and other personalities were interviewed by ESPN to tell this story from all angles," promises the American sports channel.
His "Airness" has already been the subject of numerous documentaries highlighting his genius orange ball in hand and his countless victories and exploits, which made him the greatest basketball player of all time. But none had been able to discover the phenomenon in the privacy of the cloakroom.
"Doing + The Last Dance + was a unique opportunity to explore the extraordinary impact a man and a team had" on basketball and beyond, said director Jason Hehir.
"For almost three years, we have been in the depths of our research to tell the definitive story of a dynasty that marked the era and to represent these sports heroes as human beings," he added.
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