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I started watching it without much enthusiasm and without the slightest expectation.
I expected the classic sports celebration of a champion, of a winner.
If I'm here writing a few lines instead, it's because I recommend watching it.
You don't need to love basketball or the NBA (an incorrect expression because Basketball is the NBA), Michael Jordan or the Chicago Bulls to enjoy this docu-series... and that's exactly what convinced me to watch it.
By nature, I am inclined to be excited by people and special situations, often losers or involved in a thousand troubles; lives on the edge, "wasted" talents, and problematic existences.
MJ and the Chicago Bulls are the classic exception that proves the rule.
It's useless for me to explain the series to you because the beauty is precisely discovering that it's not just about sport but especially about interpersonal relationships, stories of lived life, of friends, enemies, companions, rivals, and these multiple personalities inserted into the context are the most noble thing.
Of course, it's the story of one of the greatest athletes of all time, the most decisive basketball player of every era, and the strongest team ever and it can't be normal. However, here you also touch on his human side, and everyone can form their own opinion on it.
Many of those matches between legendary teams I watched in those years, live at night, and seeing some pieces again, spiced with backgrounds I didn't know - or knew in a limited way - is what made me finish the series in two days.
At certain moments, you get excited and moved... or maybe it only happened to me, who, as usual, doesn't count.
The question I was already asking myself then is now more real than ever: "Do we realize that this man, besides having incredible sports talent and charisma... was playing psychologically for 10 people?!"
"Beautiful but a bit hagiographic" I've heard said... sure Michael Jordan and the Bulls with Pippen, Rodman, and Jackson didn't suffer many defeats, eh... it's hard not to be. The most winning team and player of all time but overcoming a thousand difficulties... maybe that's why they are the exception that confirms the rule.
Very nice are the interventions of the opponents of the time and the great bond of esteem with the two old Larry and Magic.
Then I think of the Golden Warriors and its "champions" of today. Three great players on the same very strong team, who lose to Cleveland/LeBron up three to one and in the summer they convince a fourth great player like Durant to join them... to avoid losing again. Ridiculous is an understatement. MJ wouldn't have gone to call anyone; simply the next day he would have had a thousand more personal motivations to get back at it.
This is the real difference between him and the other greats.
Don't pay attention to this review done in ten minutes but watch it if you trust me.
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