'Winning Time' HBO: How NBA got from Showtime Lakers to 2022
LA TimesAll good things must come to an end. Maddox: So, “The Last Dance” was about the last season that Michael Jordan played with the Chicago Bulls — and this cast of characters which was pretty entertaining, between Dennis Rodman and my favorite player of all time, Scottie Pippen — that team fighting to stay together and win one last championship before Michael Jordan retired and they kind of broke up the gang that had just dominated the ’90s in basketball. And I quoted this scene where they have videotape of Jerry Seinfeld courtside, and someone asks him, “What do ‘Seinfeld’ and the Chicago Bulls have in common?” And he goes, “The show of the ’90s, the team of the ’90s.” Brennan: The Showtime Lakers’ last NBA Finals appearance — Magic Johnson’s last NBA Finals appearance — was against the Chicago Bulls in 1991. Maddox: Yeah, I mean, what we saw in the beginning of “Winning Time” was: They pull up for Norm Nixon’s movie debut and one of the organizers was like, “Oh, who are you guys? You get these huge audiences for these TV moments in the ’90s, like the “Seinfeld” finale, like special episodes of “ER,” like the NBA Finals, like Tiger Woods winning the Masters.
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