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Perhaps the best part of The Last Dance, ESPN’s 10-part docuseries about the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, is the sheer number of incredible stories that get told by guys like Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Scottie Pippen, and the rest of the squad. One such story got told on Sunday evening during the first chapter of the story, and it involved Jordan making the jump from the University of North Carolina to the NBA.
Jordan stressed that legendary Tar Heels coach Dean Smith ran a “clean program,” which was not necessarily the case in Chicago, a team for which “drugs were prevalent” and the roster was composed of “a lot of partiers.” The camera then cut to Jordan in his living room being interviewed for the series, where he was asked about an old article in which the squad was referred to as “the Bulls traveling cocaine circus.”
After hearing this, Jordan tipped his head back and let out a hearty laugh, and while he did not explicitly say that was accurate, he laid out why that wasn’t necessarily far from the truth.
Look, guys were doing things that I didn’t see. I had one event, preseason, I think we were in Peoria. It was in the hotel, so I’m trying to find my teammates. I started knocking on doors. I get to this one door, and I knock on the door and I can hear someone says, “Shh shh shh, someone’s outside.” And then you hear this deep voice say, “Who is it?” I say, “MJ.” And then they all say, “Aw f*ck, he’s just a rookie, don’t worry about it.” So they open up the door, I walk in and practically the whole team was in there. And it was like, things I’ve never seen in my life as a young kid. You got your lines over here, your weed smokers over here, you’ve got your women over here. So, the first thing I said, “Look, man, I’m out.” Cause all I can about think is, if they come and raid this place right about now, I am just as guilty as everyone else that’s in this room. And from that point on, I was more or less on my
own.
Here’s the video of Jordan telling the story.
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The entire first episode is fantastic, which is not unexpected, considering it is a tell-all series into one of the most captivating teams in the history of American sports. But it is probably fair to say that The Last Dance would still be outstanding if it was just 10 hours of Michael Jordan telling stories about Bulls things that made him laugh extremely hard. This one highlights an interesting part of Jordan’s backstory — the dude was so hyper-focused on basketball and had such a sheltered upbringing that he was mortified of getting arrested at a party in the 1980s — but above everything else, this was the single-funniest story of the episode.
“It felt a little bit like something out of a movie, but it is our reality and it would be funny if it weren’t so serious.”
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were two of the first celebrities to test positive for COVID-19, and though they got through it, it wasn’t easy, the former has now revealed. As per Entertainment Weekly, the two-time Oscar-winner appeared on The National Defense Radio Show, on which he opened up about the ordeal, which happened in early March while they were in Australia, prepping to shoot a Baz Luhrmann-directed movie about Elvis Presley.
Hanks was to play his (in)famous manager, Colonel Tom Parker, but then he and his wife succumbed to the virus, forcing them to go into lockdown inside a hospital. The two periodically posted pictures of their two-week stay, which seemed to look relatively chipper and stiff upper lip-ish, but the truth was a bit more grim, with Hanks saying he had “bad body aches and was very fatigued.”
Still, he didn’t have it as bad as Wilson did. “Rita went through a tougher time than I did,” Hanks revealed. “She had a much higher fever. She had lost her sense of taste and sense of smell. She got absolutely no joy from food for a better part of three weeks.” He added that she “was so nauseous, she had to crawl on the floor from the bed to the facilities.”
Hanks also spoke about trying to exercise while in quarantine, but that he felt “wiped” 12 minutes into what was supposed to be a 30-minute set. He eventually told a nurse:
“Whoever it was, a doctor or nurse, would come into our air pressurized, isolation rooms. She said, ‘How are you feeling?’ and I said, ‘I just had the weirdest thing. I just tried to do basic stretches and exercises on the floor and I couldn’t even get halfway through … And she looked at me through her glasses like she was talking to the dumbest human being. And she said, ‘You have COVID-19.’”
Hanks and Wilson were able to return to their home in Los Angeles in late March. Last week, Hanks appeared, from his home, on the “at home” episode of SNL.
(Via EW)