Well not everything blows chunks these days as the Jordan "Last Dance" documentary on ESPN this past Sunday nite was a very good distraction from what's going on in our country as it documents the 96-97 Bulls season as they go for their 6th title of the decade which is sick if you think about...talk about dynasties.
Being a longtime Knicks fan and suffering way too many beat downs than I care to recall as there were so many wars with Jordan as Knicks played Bulls pretty much every year in in the early to mid 90's in the playoffs.
And of course those really good Riley coached Ewing,Starks,Oakley Knicks would give it 1000% punish the shit out of Jordan but we would lose every stinken time except once and that was when Jordan went to play baseball. So even when Knicks finally f'n beat the Bulls, it didn't have the same kind of luster had Jordan been there to feel the loss.
And still the Knicks still couldn't win the f'n NBA title.
Not that I didn't know this having lived thru the Bird/Magic era and seeing them hand the torch over to Jordan. But watching the documentary reminded me once again how magical and great he truly was. He was for the most part unstoppable.
I recall Riley would come up with every defense he could think of...having an Anthony Mason or Oakley beating the living shit out of him everytime he drove the lane as the main one. It didn't matter as Jordan would hang in the air an extra half second or make some ridiculous move to score or dish off for the easy bucket. It was pretty nuts watching him game in game out and this documentary brings all of that back home.
And by the way, no offense but anyone who says Lebron is better than Jordan is on drugs. And it's mostly peeps in the media who aren't yet 40 years old and never were around for Jordan when Jordan was Jordan. They are the ones who keep touting Lebron over Jordan....sorry but no chance in hell. Jordan is the best there ever was and ever will be.
If you haven't seen it yet, ESPN has the first two episodes out and it's really very well done.