Which is all to say The Last Dance might feel like a missed opportunity if there were even an opportunity to miss anymore. People comment over and over how Jordan, often privately, goes out of his way to make time for the common person and autograph seeker.

Even Phil Jackson betrays him (and gets away with it) by being a key source about Jordan's caustic personality in The Jordan Rules. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. From there, it's a matter of toil and trial beneath the whip hands of Celtics, Lakers, and Pistons until the elevation of Phil Jackson and maturation of Scottie Pippen allow him to evolve from all-star to threepeating champion eclipsing the legacies of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird as the new standard against whom future athletes would ever later be compared and found wanting.

I would recommend this book to anyone, and I would do that because this book can show people his motivation, and maybe the reader can take from him and apply it to their life.

Lazenby particularly shines when writing about Jordan’s early life and family history, which he covers dating back to over a century before Jordan’s birth. The book is fairly critical of his time as "The Loser" as owner of the team with the worst single-season record in league history. He describes Jordan's relationships with his extended family and the yes-men in his entourage in the same vivid detail he portrays his late-game playoff heroics. But this tome is actually very readable and I breezed through it in two weeks, which given my usual reading speed is quite impressive and speaks well to the author's straightforward, easy prose. m. to work on fundamentals as a high school junior, or spending hours with legendary designer Tinker Hatfield on the intricacies of state-of-the-art shoe design, Michael Jordan has never wavered in his desire to be the best.Air Jordan's were usually medium cut,looked futuristic, had 3 way color schemes (not seen often back then), and just had a sense of speed. Jun 1997: Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls is interviewed in the locker room after the Bulls win game 6 of the 1997 NBA Finals at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Lazenby floats others' hypotheses that Jordan would not have the competitive fire if he had grown up in the modern era like LeBron James. Halberstam’s book stands apart from other books on Jordan, and other books on sports, in its scope as it is not just a biography or the chronicle of a season, but both of those and more. With this focus, he helps readers understand the social and familial forces that helped shape him into the man he would become in a way I’m not sure any other author has.

This is one of the Michael Jordan coffee-table books (photos, magazine layouts) which will always look good because even though the 1990s are long gone, his portion of that decade still seems relevant. Me gustó que no hiciera énfasis en lo que está documentado a nivel de cancha (cosas que puedes ver en Youtube, o en su documental "The Last Dance"), sino que nos presentan los sucesos "tras bambalinas" que un aficionado de a pie (como yo) nunca supimos; y que, en efecto, nos da una buena idea de todo lo que podría rondar por la cabeza de Michael Jordan. While waiting for the next installment of The Last Dance to arrive, here are five books you can read to fill your Michael Jordan fix.At page 536, the author begins, "What made Jordan's harshness so difficult to read was that it often came wrapped in the mirth of his trash talk. A group of students from his media writing class compiled the book April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers (2007), an account of the Virginia Tech massacre.