In the 1990s, the NBA saw the emergence of one of the best basketball teams of all time: Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. That generation of players became a legend in world sport. They captured six NBA championship rings in nine seasons and established a style of play that fans of the sport will always remember.
The documentary series The Last Dance, which premieres on DMAX (10:30 p.m.), reveals how NBA stars captained by Michael Jordan lived their golden age as professional players. Throughout ten chapters, Air Jordan and the rest of the legends of those unbeatable Bulls narrate their experiences on and off the court.
A legendary team
His voracity, talent, demand and ambition made the Chicago Bulls a dominant team in the NBA in the 90s. A dream team that became a benchmark and legend for the following generations of players.
In just nine seasons, the Bulls were NBA champions six times, doing so consecutively between 1990-1993 and 1995-1998. Added to these collective successes were all kinds of individual awards such as MVPs for the team’s stars and even the award for Best Coach awarded to Phil Jackson.
A golden age for the Bulls squad, which had in its ranks a true legend of the field who wore the number ’23’. He is one of the biggest stars in the history of world sports and, at that time, he emerged as the leader and benchmark of a franchise that took basketball to another level thanks to his talent, charisma and effort.
Considered one of the best players in the history of basketball, if not the best, Jordan shared a locker room with top-level players who accompanied the ’23’ to the top. Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, Steve Kerr, Bill Paxton, Dennis Rodman or Toni Kukoc are just some of the great players who are part of the history not only of that team, but of the history of sport in general.
Eccentricities and rivalries
But what was happening off the court as Phil Jackson’s team won six national titles with the Jordan-led dream team alongside Rodman, Pippen or Kerr?
In The Last Dance, the extra-sports facet of that unrepeatable generation of players is shown from the mouths of its protagonists. From Rodman’s eccentricities, rivalries, Scottie Pippen’s medical contingencies, and Michael Jordan’s controversial confessions, to the controversy surrounding elite sports figures and their controversial hobbies outside the clues, such as the fans for the ’23’ game.
