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Could the Bulls have won seven championships? Or eight? After Michael Jordan and the Bulls won their sixth and final title in 1998, Chicago GM Jerry Krause dismantled the entire team. Jordan retired, head coach Phil Jackson left the team, Scottie Pippen was traded and Dennis Rodman was released. It was a flurry of moves …

Michael Jordan may have had the reputation of being a jerk to his teammates, but he showed a much kinder side to the people in his inner circle. Sunday’s episode of ESPN’s docuseries “The Last Dance” documents Jordan’s close relationship with Gus Lett, his security guard during his run with the Bulls. Jordan had “a …

Michael Jordan’s stock keeps soaring. With the massively popular series, “The Last Dance,” bringing renewed focus to the basketball icon’s career, a pair of autographed game-worn sneakers from Jordan’s 1984-85 rookie season were sold on Sunday for a record $560,000, bringing in about four times as much money as Sotheby’s anticipated. The previous all-time sales …

After Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Denis Rodman, Luc Longley was as significant as any Bull to the second three-peat, the team’s starting center and a key piece in the final season of Jordan’s time with the Bulls. But the 7-foot Australian is not heard from in “The Last Dance,” the 10-part ESPN documentary on …

As we have made our way through four-fifths of the addictively entertaining hagiography “The Last Dance,” there is one thing, I believe, that can be stated with absolute historical accuracy. Jeff Van Gundy was right. Van Gundy, you may recall, went on a Chicago radio station in the winter of 1997 – right in the …

Through what we’ve seen so far in ESPN’s “The Last Dance,” it is abundantly clear that Michael Jordan’s unparalleled “win at all costs” mentality propelled him into an echelon of greatness that only he could claim. During night four, however, it became equally clear that his hyper-competitive nature and borderline pettiness rubbed more than one …

Michael Jordan’s practice trash talk really was on another level. “He was an a—hole,” Bulls center Will Purdue said during Episode 7 of ESPN’s “The Last Dance” on Sunday night. “He was a jerk. He crossed the line numerous times.” The docuseries highlights one particular practice — after the Bulls escaped with an overtime win …

It’s well known Michael Jordan had a bit of a gambling habit, but Sunday’s episode of “The Last Dance” showed just how big the story got — with some even speculating it had something to do with his father’s murder. James Jordan was killed at 56 in July 1993 by two teens, Daniel Green and …

It already looks bad enough that the Bears drafted Mitchell Trubisky with the No. 2 pick in 2017, ahead of other quarterbacks like Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson. But if the Bears didn’t even talk to Watson before the draft? That’s how Watson claimed it went down, which would only twist the …

Here’s one anecdote you won’t be seeing in the final four installments of “The Last Dance.” While Michael Jordan’s harsh treatment of underperforming teammates is now part of his ultra-competitive legend — first publicly revealed in Sam Smith’s 1992 best-selling book, “The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of a Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and …