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The NBA fit/e up for grabs,

beginning Wednesday n/ghf
in salt lake city.

Utah jazz!

Part two between the defending champs
and the mailman's crew.

Super Mike and the gang looking human,

working on just two days'rest
in the thin air of salt lake city.

After they lost the year before,
Utah came back.

They were better the next year.

The atmosphere in Utah was,
"this is it.

We can finally vanquish them."

Utah was waiting for us.

We basically had to fly
to salt lake the next day,

and it just seemed like we were,
kind of, running on fumes.

Most people
struggle to be present.

People go and sit in ashrams
for 20 years in India,

trying to be present.

Do yoga, meditate,
trying to get here now.

Mj, what you listening to?

- What are you listening to?
- Huh?

What are you listening to?

Kenny lattimore, brand-new,
not even out yet.

He's a friend of mine, you know.

Most people live in fear

because we project the past
into the future.

Michael's a mystic.

He was never anywhere else.

His gift was not
that he could jump high,

run fast, shoot a basketball.

- Can I walk in peace?
- Go ahead.

Yeah, go.

- I love you guys.
- There you go.

His gift was that
he was completely present.

And that was the separator.

Go ahead.

J“ / knew that there
would be a day like this j“

Mj, you got four?

Kb's got none.

Come on. Get on the board, baby.

Get on the board.

Get on the board.
Go down there and rebound.

Big downfall of a lot
of players who are otherwise gifted

is thinking about failure.

Goddamn!

It's thin air right there.
That's like coors stadium.

Michael didn't allow
what he couldn't control

to get inside his head.

He would say, "why would I think about
missing a shot I haven't taken yet?"

Garbage.

You can open up...
You can open up a nice lead.

Uh-oh.

Goddamn!

Damn!

Put him away, mj.

I just told him
he could get a nice lead.

- Deep in the hole now.
- Whoo, I just love it!

- Deep in the hole now.
- Whoo!

A spectacular move/

And the game's over/

Chicago stadium is going wild

First of all,
there's no backstabbing going on here.

It's time for me to move on.

This will be Phil's last year
as the coach of the bulls.

Are the expectations
way too h/gh 7

Where do we go from here?

The only question:
How long can it last?

This year's finals
has a familiar fee/ to it.'

same time, same teams, same places,
same h/gh stakes.

But Utah is hoping for a different
end result this year.

No, my mom didn't let us go.

- Downstairs in the basement.
- Exactly.

Watching the game. We had school.

She felt like Utah was a little hostile
for us as young kids.

I don't remember much of,
like, the games.

I can actually see him play.

But I remember the fans, and so loud.

I mean, the screaming was just nonstop.

It was... it was brutal.

We didn't like the jazz at all,
like, as a family.

We would just get down there
and just talk so much trash.

Those games would get crazy.

This Utah team is vastly
improved from last year's finalist

better skills and much more confidence.

The bulls have beaten
every team in the league this season

except for the Utah jazz.

Let's get ready to rumble!

P/ppen working on Russell.
Double-teamed

stockton comes over and steals.

And stockton waltzes in
up the left side of the Lane.

I never said, "oh, my goodness,
this is the bulls."

Great team, all the respect that
they deserved they get from me,

but I sure didn't feel an aura
about Michael Jordan or the bulls.

I don't know how you would play
against somebody with that.

We were there to win.

Kukoc.
Has it picked off by Russell.

Ahead to stockton, now ll/la/one.

Twenty-second time-out, Chicago.

Guys, this is a scary fucking situation.

And this game should be
dead fucking meat.

Now, goddamn it,
get yourselves serious on this.

Come on, come on, come on.
Think positive, man.

It's scottie
back to Michael Russell's on him.

Around a tangle y screen.
Ll/lichae/ dishes to long/e y.

Up with the shot... 7'o tie the game/

And it's overtime in game 7.

Come on, now. Let's go.

Twenty-one for Malone.
Poked a way by hornacek.

Taken by stockton,

who's chased by Jordan but lays it in
anyway, and he was fouled by k err/

And game 7 goes to Utah in overtime.

Knowing that
this is the last dance,

I'm trying to muster up the energy
to finish this off.

We were mentally, physically exhausted,

but we didn't lose focus
of what we were trying to achieve.

Hornacek on Michael fadeaway.

Got it.

P/ppen slices through the defense
and slams it.

K ukoc hits off the baseline.

Michael, with the shot clock
winding down, against hornacek.

Michael's gonna do it, two defenders.
A whistle.

Count the basket, plus the foul.

Chicago comes into salt lake city,

weary or not, and gets out with a split.

People don't understand.

Huh?

The jazz won game 1
in overtime at home.

The bulls won a close game to even it.

It was a hard-fought series,
except for game 3 in Chicago.

J“ right here, right now j“

j“ right here, right now j“

j“ right here j“

Gentlemen, game 3.
Have a great game.

Careful.

Here's scottie.
Into the Lane, another runner.

He hits it.
Plus, he's coming to the line.

Eis/e y has it blocked by Harper.

K ad on the run, a little hook.
Is an airba/I.

Michael spins around hornacek
to the left hand an absolute beauty/

J“ right here, right now j“

Jordan to the Lane. I/I/rapped up...

Somehow, some way, he scores.

The Utah jazz of Malone and stockton,

the jazz who managed
to get to the finals two years in a row,

were held to 54 points,

the lowest point total since the advent
of the shot clock in any game,

not just a playoff game.

Ridiculous.

Wennington the only bull
who hasn't scoreo'.

So, let him do it.

Well, the evening is complete.

A total humiliation for the Utah jazz,
beaten by 42.

Chicago leads the series
two games to one.

But somehow,
it seems like more than that.

Hey, coach.

This was actually the score?

- Is this the final?
- That's the final.

In sports, Dennis rodman
is in more hot water this morning.

The talk at practice Monday
wasn't just about what the jazz

was missing in game 3, but who the bulls
were missing the day after.

Dennis rodman once again
was nowhere to be found

That's true.

No, it's not.

What... what transpired?

I don't know. He's not here.

I got the world heavyweight title,

and with rodzilla in the house,

there will be no stopping
nwo Hollywood now.

So, Dennis rodman ran off after game 3.

He took a detour, um,

from playing with the bulls
to become a wrestler with hulk hogan.

And, by the way, big dog,

I just love the way you threw Malone
around like a dishrag.

You just beat a bomb, brah.

I wasn't trying to do anything.
I was just trying to play basketball,

party, duh-duh-duh-duh,
fuck all the girls.

And so, it just happened
to just be me, Dennis. Shit, you know?

There are some things
worth missing practice for, brother.

He has a chartered plane ready
and waiting to whisk him off

to some wrestling deal,
where the scripted action called for him

to bust some guy
over the head with a chair.

Oh, my goodness.
That was rodman!

Dennis's sideshow,
is it a reality check for the bulls?

Oh, I think they're all very disturbed,
the coaches and the players.

Of course, he'll be fined
for this latest offense.

Rodman faces punishment by the bulls
for missing practice.

Let's go.

Big guys at this end.

The bad-boy reputation that, frankly,
Dennis carefully cultivated,

overshadowed his contributions
as a player.

But Phil knew that he was
a singular defensive player

who contributed mightily
to the success of that team.

No, he's only taking your focus away
from the finals, not ours.

I just think that Phil realized
that I needed to always do me,

just go do what I do.

You know, like you said,
a playoff game, I went to go wrestle.

If I do this, I go over here. If!
Do that, I got to go do this. You know?

They're gonna get the 100%
when I'm on the court.

When they see him,
they'll think he'll go out that way.

He needs to just go this way.

He closes the door, they just think...

So, here's the problem.

You got 300 freaking media out there.

Dennis blew off practice,
and he got fined,

and he's got nothing to say to nobody,

as he would say, in his words.

So, we got to try
to sneak him out gate 3 1/2,

while 300 media are in the main hallway
in front of the locker room.

I don't know
if we're gonna get that done.

Michael?

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Has there been a rodman s/ghting,

or is he off wrestling
with hulk hogan ton/ght?

Eis/ey, got to get rid of it.

Rebound to rodman.

It's a two-point game.

And it stays there as p/ppen misses.
But rodman chases it down.

Rodman is there.

Scottie for three.

Rodman is there.
And Anderson fouled him.

Now the worm
is a poor free-throw shooter,

certainly not the guy you want
on the line in this situation

if you're Phil Jackson.

He rolls the dice. He makes them both.
Who needs practice?

Off the court,
his tired freak show continues.

But on the court,
he brings tremendous energy and heart,

and Chicago wins it by four.

They're poised to finish Utah off
on Friday n/ght.

What are your thoughts?

It might not only be your last game
with the bulls but your last game ever.

You know, you're sitting
on the fence a little here,

and obviously it's a thing
that the world wants to know.

Well, I mean, the world
basically is gonna have to wait

and see what happens. I mean...

The job is not done.
So, let's not celebrate yet.

- Do you have time?
- In my locker.

You talking to me?

You know what I mean?

Ton/ght, game 5 of the 7998 NBA finals,

and a win for the bulls
caps the repeat ”three-peat. ”

The stage is set for a celebration.

When Michael smells the finish line,
he knows how to close.

If this is the last dance, you m/ght as
well have it on your own dance fioor.

Malone's first shot is there.

Stockton gives it to Malone.

I sense a little anxiety,

a little t/ghtness here in Chicago.

Doug, it may be a lack of focus,

preparing for the parade
and the celebration

and forgetting that you got to
come out and play a game.

Malone.

39 points and personally
pushing back to ward Utah.

70.4 seconds remaining.

K ukoc will play it in.

P/ppen out to k ukoc for three.

He hits it!

Five seconds.

It's a one-point game.

A two-point Utah lead, time-out,
Chicago, bulls' ball at half-court.

For the bulls
to win this at home,

the y're gonna have to finish
with a bang... and a giant bang.

Harper.

Into Jordan, a prayer/

We go to Utah.

R/p up the headlines.

It is very much a series.

Well, I mean, I would have
loved to have won it here at home,

but it didn't happen.

Everyone thought I could make the shot,
and that's the beauty of the game.

For 1.1 second, I mean,
everybody was holding their breath,

which is kind of cute.

The bulls know how to close,

but last n/ght the jazz held their own.

Utah knew
it was going to salt lake city

after Friday n/ght's game 5.

The jazz just didn't know Chicago
would also be along for the ride.

The bulls now 5-4
in title-clinching games,

and if they hope to win it this year,
it'll have to be in Utah.

This is it, baby.
The jazz have forced a game 6.

Can they stay alive and take it to 77

both games here in salt lake city.

The crowd is going nuts.

You know how, like, in those movies

where you see the lion just sitting in
the shade and it's just staring?

Some injury news,

and it's not good news
for bulls forward scottie p/ppen.

After a great
defensive effort in game 3,

during which he drew numerous charges,

p/ppen has been experiencing
stiffness in his back.

Earlier, we spoke with...

Man, this is it.
Let's go out and give our best.

- [What time is it?
- Lplayers] Game time/ whoo/

And we welcome you back
to salt lake city for game 6,

and should the jazz win ton/ght
and force a game 7,

then it would be worth noting

that very few teams have ever won a
seventh game on the road in the finals.

Utah would have a sl/ght edge,
it would seem, in that scenario.

So, if the bulls want to
bring the hammer down,

game 6 is the time to do it.

Jordan guarded by Russell.

Hornacek will open on p/ppen.

The y'i/ try and post scottie on him.
They go to it right away.

Stockton comes over on the double-team.

Now back to scottie.

And they couldn't reco ver,
and an easy two for scottie.

I started the game,

and the first play of the game, I went
for a dunk, and itjammed my back.

I was done after that.

Like, I'm telling mj I can't go no more.

Like, "dude, I'm done."

It looks like
scottie p/ppen is laboring

as he moves up and down the court.

A back injury is one of
the most cnpp/ing of injuries.

Malone.

Gets his first.

Jordan for three. Got it/

the bulls lead by nine,
but here's the bad news for them.

Moments ago, scottie p/ppen,
accompanied by trainer ch/p schaefer,

leaves the bench
and heads for the locker room.

He was in such pain, so disabled.

He had continued loss of function.

He was losing mobility,
and his pain was increasing.

It was just, sort of, kind of spiraling.

[Announced
scottie's telling the medical staff

that he is not able to play.

So, that could be the end of it
for scottie ton/ght.

Malone in traffic.

Got his own and put it back in.

Malone against wennington.

Off-balance. Hit it, plus the foul/

when scottie left,
we were just kind of holding on.

Shot clock violation.

Michael ga ve it up.

They weren't even close
to hoisting a shot before 24 seconds.

It's Malone.

And it's Utah with the lead

only moments ago, they trailed by nine.

This will be
a very wearing game for Jordan.

The y'i/ try to tire him down
and wear him out.

It'll be interesting to see if he will
have enough at the end of the game

because of the minutes
he's gonna have to play.

During the break,
I was in the locker room,

trying to get some heat
and steam and stuff put on

and try to see if I can,
you know, do something.

Ahmad Rashad
back at the delta center

where the jazz lead the bulls by four.

Now, the b/g story here
in the first half

has been the condition
of scottie p/ppen's back.

He has really been hurting.

And scottie p/ppen
is back out here on the fioor.

Whether or not he ll be able to play
and play effectively, we'll find out.

Utah in possession
as we start the third quarter.

Malone fight to work.

Rodman battling like crazy,
but can't quite hold onto it.

And rodman just tr/ps Malone up.

They got to call a fiagrant here.
The y've got to call a fiagrant.

Lte/I you what.

I/ove what I'm seeing,
the battle between these two guys.

They're fighting,
giving it everything the y've got.

Rodman.

Drills a 20-footer
and gives it that ”go figure ” gesture.

This is scottie out h/gh,
immediately returns it to Harper.

A little jump-hook is good

ls p/ppen anything more than a decoy
now on offense for Chicago 7

I was a decoy that whole game,
but they didn't know it.

Michael said, "you just stay out here
and do what you can do.

You're better being out here
than in the locker room."

So, I gutted myself through that game.

P/ppen giving it his best.

And that time it was good enough.

Pippen is barely getting up
and down the floor.

So, I'm taking all the shots.

I'm bringing all the energy.

And I got very little left in the tank.

As we start the fourth quarter,
Michael Jordan has scored 29 points.

He's played 34 of the 36 minutes so far,
after playing 45 on Friday n/ght.

You have to believe fat/gue
is an important factor now.

Out to mj for three/

its short.

Michael. Short.

The jumpers come up short
when fat/gue is a factor.

There's p/ppen heading back
to the locker room again

to try to stretch out that ailing back.

We had our massage therapist working
with him and using medication

and doing everything we could to try
to relieve his pain and his symptoms.

Treat him for five minutes
so that he could get

maybe five minutes of pain relief
and play for five minutes.

They had him in the back.

They were putting ice on his back and
electrical stimulation for pain relief

and they were trying to bide their time
up until the ten-minute Mark

to bring him back out and see if he can
play the last ten minutes of the game.

As you can see, he's back.

He's on the fioor.
We '/I just ha ve to see how it goes.

Anybody that would have a notion

that scottie pippen was a soft player

is patently absurd.

He's as tough a player

and intense a competitor
as anybody that I've worked with.

What he did in game 6 was extraordinary.

I know so many players

that would have tapped out
without hesitation in that situation.

And he was gonna just throw it
out there and finish it no matter what.

Malone, three defenders on him,
and they take it away.

It's p/ppen wincing
as he comes up with the loose ball.

Scottie just hobbling around

Jordan with the jumper.

And with 37 points,

as Utah falls behind now for the first
time since the second quarter.

Stockton has a little dayl/ght,
and Utah has a three-point lead

p/ppen in the Lane.

Connects on the turnaround,
playing through clenched teeth.

Game 6 is going back and forth
and back and forth.

And I just didn't see any way
this wasn't going seven.

Utah was really mentally tough.

Fifty seconds.

Malone.

Crosscourt, stockton.

A three/

it's there/

There was less than a minute to play.

We're down three.

Phil calls time-out.

This is a b/g
20-second time-out for Chicago

because it allows
Jordan to get some rest.

Michael Jordan,
at this advanced stage of his career,

has to carry the team.

He has to play extra minutes
in a grueling series.

And that last sequence,
in the final half-minute-plus,

is one of the greatest sequences
you'll ever see in any sport.

The bulls would
like to get two-for-one possession here.

Try to get a quick score
and get to the free-throw line

to give them two opportunities for one.

P/ppen into Jordan.

Michael working on Russell.

Brings them to within one.

Michael takes it
right to the rim and lays it in.

So, now we need a stop.

Went and made a layup
and then went back down.

I knew they were gonna run their
patented play through Karl Malone.

They ran that play a couple times prior.

And Dennis and Malone
had been fighting all game.

And Karl just totally forgot
that I was on the weak side.

Malone is doubled.
They SWAT at it and steal it/

Michael never clears.

So, Malone doesn't see him.

He comes from the blind side
and str/ps him.

Now I got the ball,
and I can see Phil

basically out of the corner of my eye.

He wasn't gonna call a time-out.

If we could do something
without them talking about it,

working against a set defense, we'd
rather go with a live-ball situation.

Seventeen seconds from game 7
or from championsh/p number six.

Get the hell out the way.

"Get the hell out the way“
only thing I was thinking.

I didn't even have to do shit.

All I did was plant myself
right down there. I knew.

I said, "he's gonna shoot this fucker.

He is not gonna pass this fucking ball."

I don't give a fuck if it was John
paxson or fucking, you know, Steve kerr.

Hell, no. This is his turn.

When I scoped over the floor,

I felt like I can get a jump shot off,
or I can get all the way to the basket.

So, it's just a matter of me
picking the right time when to attack.

Jordan.

Open.

Chicago with the lead/

Time-out, Utah, 5.2 seconds left.

Michael Jordan,
running on fumes, with 45 points.

At the end of the game,
you got to get it out of his hands.

He's a killer.

Watch Jordan's left hand here
as he gives Russell the push.

The referee can't see that.

Jordan frees himself up
for a clean look.

Everybody said I pushed off.

Bullshit. The man was...
His energy was going that way.

I didn't have to push him that way.

Russell was already stumbling away.

That hand on his backside

was the equivalent of a maitre d'
showing someone to their table.

When he took that shot,

you could just hear the energy just
get sucked right out of the building.

That may ha ve been the last shot

Michael Jordan will ever take
in the NBA.

If that's the last image
of Michael Jordan,

how magnificent is it?

And those devastated fans were
just groaning this collective groan,

as the jazz take time-out.

I'm tired as hell.

I'm exhausted.

But I have one more stop.

One more stop, man. One more stop, baby.

Great "d," guys. Great "d."

Way to go, babe.

Come on, baby. One more stop.

I'm collecting my thoughts,
but I'm tired.

I'm trying to muster up the energy...

To finish this off.

If they score, there's a game 7.

If they don't, for the second
stra/ght year, they go out in six

stockton, Harper's on him.

Behind the screen.
Harper got a piece of it/

it comes off

the Chicago Bulls
have won their sixth NBA championsh/p,

and it's their second three-peat.

The Chicago Bulls,

the 1998 NBA champion,
and a team for the ages.

1998 NBA finals mvp, Michael Jordan.

Michael's a hero.

He's a guy that delivered
every time he was asked to

in these type of situations.

Can you believe it?

Six.

Six!

- Six.
- Six of them!

Six of them!

Yes, sir!

Six of them!

Man, y'all can say whatever you want,
but they can't win till we quit.

Ha ha ha!

Whoo-hoo!

- Shake that out.
- Oh, yeah.

Look at that.
That's waterproof goggles right there.

That's waterproof.

I did. I'm not kidding.

Can you continue this, Jerry,
with these championship runs?

I'm not even gonna think about this.

All I'm gonna think about
is tonight have fun.

Tomorrow morning,
we'll worry about anything else.

Okay, but, scottie, now that you're
celebrating, you're feeling good,

you're coming back next year, right?

I'll answer that in a couple days.

Maybe at Grant park.

All right.

This was great.

This was the greatest.

Dennis, good job.

Fellas.

Great job.

Thank you, man.

Take care, man.
Tell the wife I said hello, okay?

See you guys. Excuse me.

Upon arrival at the hotel,

we just had cameras in front of us
and people waiting for autographs.

That was so amazing,
just being with the group

and feeling that rush of adrenaline

because of people's adoration
for Michael, mainly.

I'm sorry. Is this the smoking floor?

Yes. It is now.

Kiss it.

Kiss the trophy?

Yeah! Damn right.

Phil say, "can you play 48 minutes?“

I said, "whatever it takes."

It didn't help much
when scottie went down.

I wasn't expecting him to go down.
That scared the shit out of me.

How good did thatjumper
feel? I see you gave the look, though.

I had to. Everything was short.

I was flicking my wrist.
Everything was short.

I had great looks.

That time...

All the way.

You know, fundamentals.
Throw your two fingers at you.

Pronate.

Moment, man.
It's the moment. It's the moment.

That zen buddhism shit...
You all get in the moment and stay here.

Now the championship's gone.

- Stay in the moment.
- In the moment.

Till next October.
Then we know where the hell we are.

Champs, world champs,
NBA mack daddies.

Chicago completing its second
three-peat this decade.

Tens of thousands of fans in Chicago's
Grant park chanting, ”one more year. ”

One more year!

I want to tell Jerry reinsdorf
he better bring them back

because if he doesn't, we're gonna
ride him out of town on a rail.

And now your six-time
world-champion

Chicago bulls/

About a year ago,

Jerry reinsdorf called me and asked me
did I think we could do it again?

I said, "yes."

Without scottie coming back,
we never would have got it done.

And Michael loaded us up
on his shoulders and carried us home.

And I want to thank Jerry krause
for giving us the opportunity to do it.

He had another plan,
but he put it aside.

Thanks, Jerry.

Well, you can't knock him.

We got to give him credit,

and he deserves the credit because he
was the general manager of those teams.

I've had a lot of
great people in my life,

and that's why my success happened.

I played with Phil Jackson,
the greatest coach in the game,

Michael Jordan,
the greatest player in the game,

Jerry krause, obviously the greatest
general manager in the game.

I want to thank all my teammates,
the organization.

It's been a great run.

Thank you for our last dance.

I know a lot of people didn't think we'd
end up back in Grant park this year.

Nobody knows if we're gonna be
in Grant park next year.

But the one thing I do know
is my heart, my soul,

and my love has always
gone to the city of Chicago.

And I do know
that no matter what happens,

my heart and my soul and my love
will still be in the city of Chicago.

You have to almost appreciate
his celebrity even more

because he didn't have those
platforms to be known worldwide.

There was no ability to promote yourself
through social media,

to post videos, no tweets,
nothing like that.

He was known for his play and for having
this larger-than-life persona.

I'm most proud of the impact
that those teams had

on the city of Chicago and the fans.

When we had the celebrations after each
of the championships in Grant park,

and to look out over a crowd of
faces as far as you could see,

and they're all happy.

They're all happy.

I mean, it makes you feel good
that you played some role

in bringing happiness to these people.

In '92, the NBA
was in 80 countries.

And now the NBA is in 215 countries.

Anyone who understands that
phenomenon of that historical arc

will understand
that Michael Jordan and his era

played an incredibly important
part in it.

He advanced us tremendously.

There are great players who don't
have an impact beyond their sport.

And then there are
certain sports figures

who become a larger cultural force.

Michael Jordan helped
to create a different way

in which people thought about
the African-American athlete,

a different way in which
people saw athletics

as part of the entertainment business.

He became an extraordinary ambassador,

not just for basketball but I think
for the United States overseas

and part of American culture
sweeping the globe.

Michael Jordan and the bulls
changed the culture.

That night,

Jerry reinsdorf called me up
and asked me to come back.

After the sixth championship,

I... I offered him
the opportunity to come back.

"You've earned
the opportunity to come back,

regardless of what was said before now."

I said, "well, I think
I should just take a break."

I said,
"I don't think it's fair to Jerry,

and I know it'd be
difficult for him to accept that."

- Reinsdorf?
- Yeah.

I can't wait to hear this.

I never underst... we have never
had any dialogue about why.

I've made my own assumptions why.

Now,
after the sixth championsh/p,

things were beyond our control

because it would have been suicidal

at that point in their careers
to bring back

pippen, Steve kerr, rodman,

Ron Harper.

Their market value individually
was gonna be too high.

They weren't gonna be worth the money
they were gonna get in the market.

So, when we real/zed

that we were gonna
have to go into a rebuild,

I went to Phil and sai...
To offer him the opportunity

to come back the next year.

But he said, ”/ don't want
to go through a rebuild

I don't want to coach a bad team. ”

You know. That was the end
it just came to an end on its own.

Had Michael been healthy
and wanted to come back,

I don't doubt that k rause could have
rebuilt another championsh/p team

in a couple years.

But it wasn't gonna happen instantly.

In '98, krause already said
at the beginning of the season,

"Phil can go 82-0,
and he was never gonna be the coach."

So, when Phil said it was
the last dance, it was the last dance.

We knew they weren't
gonna keep the team.

Now, they could have
nixed all of it at the beginning of '98.

Why say that statement
at the beginning of '98?

If you ask all the guys who won in '98...

Steve kerr, jud buechler,
blah, blah, blah...

"We give you a one-year contract
to try for the seventh."

Do you think they would have signed?
Yes, they would have signed.

Would I have signed for one year?
Yes, I would have signed for one year.

I'd been signing one-year
contracts up to that.

Would Phil have done it?

Yes.

Now, pip, you would have had
to do some convincing.

But if Phil was gonna be there,
if Dennis was gonna be there,

if mj was gonna be there,
to win that seventh?

Pip is not gonna miss on out in that.

You know, '91-92, I was...

I was young, full of energy, hungry.

In '98, when you're winning
six out of eight...

And yet being just as dominant
as you were in '91

that's where the craftsmanship came in.

And I think '98 was much better
than any of the other years

because of how I was able
to use my mind as well as my body.

It's maddening because
I felt like we could have won seven.

I... I really believe that.

We may not have, but, man,
just not to be able to try,

that's... that's something that,

you know, I just can't accept,
for whatever reason.

I just can't accept it.

This was a good time to go.

It's a great run.

We'd had a wonderful time, good team.

Time to go.

I remember there was
this team meeting with Phil...

And he was like, "this is it."

My wife had gotten her
master's in social work,

and she was part of a group

that went in to help people
that were grieving.

One of the things they did was a ritual

in which they kind of
put things to rest.

J“ do you see the way that tree j“

He says, "this is it.

This is the last dance,
last time we're ever gonna be together."

He asked everybody to bring in

anything that you want to write
about what the team means to you.

Write what being on this team
has meant to you during this year,

and read it,
and we'll burn it in a coffee can.

And every guy had
emotional words to say.

And I remember Michael
actually wrote a poem.

It was a depth of emotion
that you never thought he had.

Phil had this knack,

no matter how big you are
or how big you think you are,

to always draw you in
to be a part of the process.

I'm not a poet.

I just spoke what I felt at the time.

We're always gonna be bonded.

You say thanks for the past,
enjoy the moment.

Let's make sure we end it right.

We saw him
as this bully sometimes.

But that day, he showed his compassion
and his empathy for all of us.

Then everybody put the paper in the can,
and at the end of the session,

Phil turned out the lights,
and he lit the paper in the can.

One of the most powerful things
I've ever seen.

J“ you can spend your time alone j“

j“ red/gesting past regrets j“

When I look back,
it's very gratifying

to come from Wilmington, north Carolina,
and never been in Chicago.

Well, that became my home
and became a part of my history.

My passion on the basketball
court should have been infectious

because that's how I tried to play.

I played for them.

Started with hope.

It started with hope.

J“ in the present tense j“

we went from a shitty team
to one of the all-time-best dynasties.

All you needed was one little match
to start that whole fire.

Stolen by p/ppen.

Scottie p/ppen on a breakaway.

Here's Michael at the foul line.

A shot on eh/o... good/

bulls win/ they win/

What a pass from jordan/

great passing.

Oh, my/

oh/

a spectacular mo ve by Michael jordan/

I just want the franchise
and Chicago Bulls to be respected,

like the Lakers
or the Philadelphia '76ers

or the Boston celtics.

Hopefully, I could...

That this team and this organization
can build a program like that.