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“I’m speechless,” he began. I sense the day is coming when Mr. Met will be pinched at JFK attempting to board a flight to the Cayman Islands. His head will be cut open to reveal purloined cash and stock certificates that he’ll claim he never knew he was carrying — someone must’ve switched heads on …
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Sandy Alderson’s Tim Tebow signing as Mets general manager was deemed by some as purely a publicity stunt. But that doesn’t come close to another move Alderson tried to make that didn’t come to fruition. With Michael Jordan a constant topic these days as ESPN airs “The Last Dance” documentary about the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, …
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Knicks legend Walt Frazier doesn’t remember making this remark about Michael Jordan in 1984, but he isn’t surprised he did. During “The Last Dance’’ ESPN documentary premiere Sunday, a snippet showed Frazier opining about Jordan after he was drafted by the Bulls with the No. 3 pick. “He’s not 7-foot. So he’s not going to …
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Like its main subject, ESPN’s “The Last Dance” is quickly putting up the numbers of an all-time great. The documentary on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Bulls debuted Sunday night and pulled in record viewership, averaging 6.1 million viewers for the first two episodes — instantly becoming the most-watched documentary in ESPN history, the network …
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Amid the biggest dearth of sports in a century, ESPN has swooped in to rescue us with “The Last Dance,” a docuseries about Michael Jordan’s final year with the Chicago Bulls. While the highly anticipated show’s first installment doesn’t offer too much that wasn’t already public knowledge, it’s still a fascinating look into perhaps the …
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Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls have long been considered the NBA’s model franchise. But before he got there, they were far from it — both on and off the court. When the Bulls drafted Jordan out of the University of North Carolina in 1984, Chicago had missed the playoffs in seven of the previous nine seasons, …
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In order to become the best player of all-time, Michael Jordan was willing to be perceived as the worst teammate. In the highly-anticipated documentary “The Last Dance” — focusing on Michael Jordan’s final season with the Bulls (1997-98) — premiering this weekend on ESPN, the six-time NBA champion was asked whether it bothered him that …
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ABC/ESPN’s highly anticipated 10-part Michael Jordan documentary, “The Last Dance,” is being moved up to April, The Post has learned. Sources said the start date will be Sunday, April 19. It was originally slated for June. ABC/ESPN plans to make an announcement on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, according to sources. ESPN declined to confirm …