"It was the best two hours I lived in stone", a phrase that summarized Tobias Harris, the Philadelphia American Seventh Basketball player, and the new documentary "The Last Dance", which sheds light on the epics of legend Michael Jordan, and his sixth and last title. And for Chicago Bulls in the NBA.
With the suspension of league competitions since March 11 due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus, players such as Kevin Durant and Chris Paul have tried to keep the fans in the air and entertain them while awaiting the possibility of returning to the stadiums through video games. But the best cure for boredom in basketball fans began last Sunday evening, when the ISPN network began in the United States
And "Netflix" internationally, broadcasting the expected documentary "The Last Dance", that is, the last dance, which coincides with Jordan's era in the league with the Chicago Bulls.
After the first two episodes that attracted nearly 6.1 million viewers in the United States, a record for a documentary broadcast by the sports channel, "The Last Dance" was a balm for the hearts of all "Jordan Generation" fans, in these difficult times for the whole world.
The documentary "The Last Dance" was taken from a note prepared before the 1997-1998 season by Pauls coach Phil Jackson, realizing that it will be his last season with the team, regardless of whether or not he managed to lead him to the third title. In the end, legend Jackson succeeded in leading Bulls to the third and second titles in eight seasons, but the way this epic was written must be told. In a very rare move, Jordan, Jackson, Pauls owner Jerry Rinsdorf and general manager Jerry Krause agreed to open the dressing rooms for a filming team for a daily documentation of the epic conclusion of one of the best sports clubs in history.
But unlike the documents "Zio Dan Lee Bleu", which listed the French national football team's epic winner during the same era in the 1998 World Cup title against home of the Great Brazil, basketball fans, Bulls, legend Jordan and his comrades, Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr and Dennis Rodman, 22, waited to find out What was filmed behind the scenes.
Waiting for 22 years had its benefits, as he gave The Last Dance a great added value by standing up to the opinion of all the parties involved in that era, including players, coaches, administrators, analysts and journalists.
Legend of the Los Angeles Lakers Magic Johnson was the most prominent commentator on the first two episodes of the ten-part documentary to be broadcast every Sunday in the United States, and then globally via "Netflix", from April 19 to May 17.
"The documentary was great, I loved everything! Young people who couldn't see Michael playing, now understand why he's the greatest basketball player ever," Johnson tweeted.
And then the tweets followed, most notably for the former Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade, who expressed his admiration for what he witnessed in the first two episodes of events, many of which were kept under wraps in that era, by "Jay (Michael Jordan), who owned it (absolute talent)! He owned it. The choice is the best in history. "
As for the current Chicago star, Zach Lavigne, he said, "I could have watched the ten episodes now," respectively, if all had been broadcast, while Brooklyn Nets player Spencer Dinoyidi admitted that "when they started showing the names (in preparation for the beginning of the documentary), tears were shed."
Lavigne and Dunedi were three and five years old when Jordan and his comrades were crowned the sixth and last title of Bowles in the 1997-1998 season, but they are well aware of that team's history in the game's history and Jordan's influence on successive generations of league players.