I want my comrades in sports indifference to trust me: The Last Dance will blow your mind.
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It would simply be inaccurate to say I don’t know the first thing about sports. I know and have known for a long time who Michael Jordan is, what sport he played, and what team he was on. I guess I do have to admit, though, that until recently, I didn’t know thething about sports. Because I only just learned that Scottie Pippen was on that basketball team, the Chicago Bulls, with Michael Jordan.
All of this is to say that I’m not very interested in sports. So I want my comrades in sports indifference to trust me when I say, the 10-part ESPN documentary that wraps up this weekend and is responsible for teaching me that Scottie and MJ were teammates, is gripping television. I might even like it more than people who know enough about sports to see its flaws.
The story of that final season is covered in the doc, but the timeline frequently flashes backward into earlier parts of Jordan’s career, and ’97–’98 ends up being more of a jumping-off point to get into the larger story of how Michael Jordan became Michael Jordan. All of this may be the standard Jordan lore that sports fans are already familiar with—Chapel Hill, the 1984 draft, that fateful foot injury, the Dream Team—but much of it was new, and fascinating, to me.
I sometimes think sports movies secretly appeal more to people who don’t like sports than people who do: Sports fans can see all the ways in which they’re unrealistic, fake, corny, whereas I, gullible, ignorant, a sap, am free to marvel that. If the team in question is real and not fictional, many of the characters and much of the drama will be new to us ; we won’t be spoiled by knowledge of who’s going to win.
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