BetOnline’s ‘Final Dance’ offers the perfect follow-up to popular Michael Jordan documentary
By SDS Staff
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While the sports world is concluding the five week focus on NBA superstar Michael Jordan and the 1990’s Chicago Bulls, not everyone is ready to close the book on the discussion.
While most fans and media thoroughly enjoyed ESPN’s “The Last Dance” documentary that has aired in recent weeks, some observers have noticed that the documentary is somewhat one-sided in its portrayal of Michael Jordan. The reason here, of course, is that Michael Jordan was essentially given approval over the contents of the documentary.
As fans debate which portions of the documentary may or may not have been exaggerated or portrayed in an inaccurate manner, some of the players involved in the documentary have offered their own opinions. Our friends at BetOnline conducted an interview with a number of Jordan’s former teammates including Horace Grant, Ron Harper and Bill Cartwright.
In “The Final Dance,” Horace Grant hits back on one of the more controversial parts of “The Last Dance” when the documentary named Horace Grant as the person who leaked much of the information that was included in Sam Smith’s famous “The Jordan Rules” book. In BetOnline’s interview, Horace Grant aims to provide his own side to the story. To sum up, Grant says that it’s a “damn lie.”
Grant also made an effort to explain that “The Last Dance” isn’t a true documentary because of Jordan’s personal oversight of the end result.
“When that so-called documentary is about one person, basically, and he has the last word on what’s going to be put out there … it’s not a documentary,” Grant said. “It’s his narrative of what happens in the last, quote-unquote, dance. That’s not a documentary, because a whole bunch of things was cut out, edited out. So that’s why I call it a so-called documentary.”
“The Final Dance” airs tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern on BetOnline.ag.
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