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You’ve won six NBA championships. You’ve been an MVP, an All-Star MVP, an Olympic gold medalist, a short-lived cartoon on NBC and a star of both an animated AND an IMAX movie. The whole world considers you the greatest basketball player in history. Of course, the whole world forgets how much more dominant Wilt Chamberlain was. But you’ve fooled most...
...under-the-radar” act didn’t last for long—the fans and the media couldn’t let it. When Jordan decided to take a shot at minor-league baseball, it seemed his every at-bat was more closely scrutinized than the NBA finals between the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks...
...when he retired again in 1998, claiming he was “99.9 percent” gone, we believed it to be true and started to give other players a chance to keep us interested. Please, we all begged, make us want to keep watching the NBA...
...know I was not alone when I heard the NBA owners were definitely going to lock out the players and jumped for joy. With the 1998-99 season sure to be shortened, maybe, just maybe, Jordan would want to play one last time...
...intense speculation surrounding the possibility of a short Jordan return overshadowed the actual story of the lockout. It had only been six months, but already most fans, reporters and, more generally, Americans everywhere realized the true post-Jordan NBA world would need years before it was fun again...