The "The Last Dance" Thread

The first two parts are rally well done. Don’t know when viewership numbers come out, but this will draw a huge number, i think.

 

Mine is simply viewed from the prism of being a Suns fan.

 

Shaq said the same thing years later. "Company time"

 

Fricking Bobby Knight comes off looking by far the smartest back then. He watched him in the summer of 1984 and pretty unequivocally said that Jordan is the best basketball player he's ever seen.

 

A quick reminder that Knight also cut John Stockton and Charles Barkley from that team, keeping Steve Alford, Vern Fleming and Jeff Turner, so I'd say his track record as a talent evaluator is mixed.

 

True dat.

 

Amazing how little has changed when it comes to Peoria hotels.

 

With Barkley, didn't he make some sort of off-color crack about Knight right at the end of camp?

 

Jordan has said David Thompson was the best player he'd ever seen.

 

IIRC, Barkley said he couldn’t play defense to Knight’s standards, but I think he enjoyed the experience and it gave him the confidence that he could play with anyone in the world.

Vern Fleming was a pretty good pro. Stockton over Alford easily but Knight might have realized he needed a player to translate how he was to others, so Alford stays. He also had to coach Alford for two more years.

I remember the note story...

Good read about 1984 Olympic team.

Los Angeles

 

Thompson would have stayed in the hotel room.