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Because, if you haven't heard, this series may be Jordan's last. The complex derivative of keeping Jordan in the NBA probably involves the rehiring of coach Phil Jackson, who publicly feuds with both blowhard Bulls general manager Jerry Krause and cheapskate owner Jerry Reinsdorf. Jordan steadfastly refuses to play without Jackson. That could probably be resolved (suck it up for one more year, Krause). But Jordan, 35, most likely won't return without sidekick Scottie Pippen. Pippen originally refused to play this year, despises Krause even more than do Jackson and Jordan (who, high-school-style, doesn...
...care what they say," says Jordan fan Michael Sims, 27, of Detroit. "I don't think the NBA will allow it." Even in Piston country, Jordan reigns. Which is a political miracle if you remember that Jordan disrupted Detroit's dynasty, with a little help from Jackson, who taught him the importance of limiting himself for the good of the Bulls. Alan Jones, 30, also of Detroit, rants against Chicago but deifies Jordan: "He's a gentleman. He's not a boaster. He could say, 'I'm the best thing since fried ice cream.' But that's not part...
Through maturity and Jackson's required Zen meditation sessions, Jordan has bottled his frenzy, turned it into intensity and shared it with his teammates. Ex-Bull B.J. Armstrong, whom Jordan never fully embraced, said Jordan showed him how to win. "He has passion. And you have to have that same passion, that same will, to beat him," he says. "He prepares himself in a way that no one will understand because I don't think too many people are willing to pay that price...
...this time as the CEO he has been molding himself into. But even though 35 sounds too young to retire, it's old for an athlete, older for a shooting guard and ancient for the top player in the game. And, perhaps, just old. John Updike, who knows Phil Jackson, had his most famous character, Rabbit Angstrom, struggle to recapture the glory of his high school basketball days. "The fact that he peaked so early in his youth makes him true to life, truer than my own life is," Updike once told a reporter. "We all, in a way, peak...
...apiece in Stefani's restaurants this past weekend. "He's said over and over again, 'This is it. I'm leaving,'" says Stefani. If it is Pippen's last dance, chances are it's also Jordan's. "The team is like his family away from family," Bulls coach Phil Jackson told TIME. "And if [the team] changes, it brings an element in that changes dramatically for Michael...