“The Last Dance” will be a Chicago Bulls history lesson

ESPN is set to debut the highly anticipated Chicago Bulls documentary titled “The Last Dance” on Sunday.

Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s. The legend that defines an era in Chicago that rivals the ‘85 Chicago Bears.

Unlike the ‘85 Bears, Jordan and dynasty that was the Chicago Bulls are about to be reborn and on display for an entirely new generation. ESPN will be premiering the debut episode of their highly anticipated documentary series titled “The Last Dance.”

The series will air in 10 parts and provide an inside look into the final season of the Bulls’ dynasty in the ‘90s. The season, of course, being the 1997-1998 NBA season. Otherwise know as, the last chapter of the Bulls’ second three-peat as NBA champions.

The series is certainly going to be a nostalgia trip for the City of Chicago and any fan of basketball. Any Chicagoan that you ask will be able to vividly tell you where’re they were as the Bulls won each of their six championships during the 1990s.

Where was I?

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At the grizzled age of five years old, I was in the front yard of my childhood home, riding my big wheel up and down the driveway.

The only reason I knew the Bulls won the NBA championship was due to my neighbors celebrating in the streets while they clash together pots and pans. What a time to be alive, and for me, I didn’t even realize how true that statement would become.

That is my fondest memory of the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s. Not Michael Jordan; not the rockstar status of the core players on the roster; not the six championships, but as the time my neighbors went crazy and clashed pans together in the streets.

As I grew past my big wheel days, the substance of how great Jordan and the Bulls of the ‘90s were was shared with me by stories that my father or grandfather would share. But, even then, my greatest personal memory of Jordan was how he defeated the Monstars in “Space Jam”. Despite seeing highlights of “The Shot” against the Utah Jazz, Jordan, to me, was the guy who extended his arm to have a game winning dunk against the aforementioned Monstars. What a feat that was.

That brings me to 2020 and the release of “The Last Dance”. Jordan and the Bulls of ‘90s are about to be introduced to two entirely new generation. There is my generation, who were big-wheel riding Outlaws with so little sports intellect, that we could not truly understand the era of Bulls basketball that we were born into. After all, we yelled “Kobe” as we shot our crumpled up homework into the trash can.

Then, there is the generation was not alive during the Bulls’ run in the ‘90s. To them, Jordan and the dynasty Bulls are nothing but a myth. That is why they choose LeBron James over Jordan. But, this documentary will allow them to see who Jordan was and why LeBron is fortunate just to be mentioned in the same breath as him.

That will be the true beauty of this documentary series. The beauty being for so many people of a new generation, the legend of Jordan and the dynasty Chicago Bulls will be born.