Michael Jordan And The Chicago Bulls Play Some Good Basketball In 'The Last Dance'
The ESPN documentary series follows the Bulls and Jordan through their hugely successful run of championships in the 1990s, and through the last season they had together.
The documentary series The Last Dance, which begins Sunday night on ESPN, is about basketball.
Maybe that should be obvious, since it's the story of Michael Jordan and the dominant Chicago Bulls team that won six NBA championships in the 1990s. But understand: it's really about basketball. It's not O.J.: Made In America, which was primarily about race and policing and media. It's not like some of the documentaries in ESPN's 30 For 30 series — to which this feels like a spiritual cousin — that use sports as a way to talk about other things.
No, is really, deeply, intensely about NBA basketball. It's about why Michael Jordan was as dominant and feared as he was, and about how you build a team that can win that much.
