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I do remember being in Vegas with him.

It was on. The party was starting right away.

Mixing it up.

Bring on the shookers!

That's whores and sluts if you're recording.

- Definitely recording. - Wow!

One thing about Dennis, he had to escape.

He liked to go out. He liked to go to clubs.

We'd go to his favorite restaurant.

Then we'd go to a nightclub. Then we'd go to after hours.

It didn't stop.

It was definitely an occupational hazard to be Dennis' girlfriend.

He was wild.

J“ /z"s kamikaze time j“

j“ it's time to blow your mind j“

j“ it's kamikaze time j“

suck it down, motherfucker!

But, to be honest, I didn't realize what the team's schedule was.

I didn't know he took a detour.

Mm-mm.

He didn't come back on time. We had to go get his ass out of bed.

And I'm not gonna say what's in his bed and where he was and blah, blah, blah.

There's a knock on the door. It's Michael Jordan.

And I hid.

I didn't want him to see me like that, so I, like...

I'm just, like, hiding behind the couch with covers over me.

"Come on. We got to get to practice."

Dennis came back and joined the team.

And that's the way it went that year.

I wanted to tell you...

Not just the mind.

Michael and scottie accepted me for who I am and said, "you know what?

He does what he does, but he cares a lot."

I'll go party hard, but I'll work hard.

I think that we got along so well because we want to win.

We want to win a championship.

A spectacular move!

And the game's over!

Chicago stadium is going wild.

First of all, there's no backstabbing going on here.

/t is time for me to move on.

This will be Phil's last year as the coach of the bulls.

Are the expectations way too h/gh 7

Where do we go from here?

The only question: How long can it last?

After his vacation, Dennis comes back to practice.

Phil's now... his whole motive is to get Dennis back in shape.

So, we start this drill called the Indian drill.

Everybody starts running in a line.

And Phil blows a whistle. Whoever's at the back, run to the front.

Now, you can't stop.

Whoever's in front controls the pace.

So, I'm saying, "well, fuck, this is kind of messed up,"

because now I'm getting caught up in "Dennis-getting-in-shape drill,"

when, in essence, I hadn't taken a vacation.

I tell everybody in that group, “look, whoever gets in the front of that row,

slow down to a fucking walk.

We're just gonna jog and jog and jog and jog."

So, Steve kerr and jud buechler...

Shh! They all get to the line, we just slowly,

we just running, slowly just running, slowly just running, and then,

Dennis takes off. Boom! Now, he blows the whistle.

Now, we cannot stop until we get back in front of Dennis.

It took us four laps to catch up to Dennis.

It was, like, in his psyche.

He needed to get away.

But in all honesty, Dennis was always there.

He was always on point.

Phil realized that I was different, man.

Phil knew me so well, 'cause he knew I...

So much shit I was doing. But I had to get my head right.

But that's what's so cool about playing with that team,

and they was all about...

Anybody needed to do something, they was all about it.

And Phil was cool about it.

Dennis is always a rebel.

At some point, you know, he wants to join the group,

but the other part of him wants to be autonomous.

So, we appreciate the fact that he's a Maverick.

But, yet, when it comes time for him to perform,

he's always on the court for us, always playing hard for us.

Dennis and I have this native American bond between us.

He comes in one day, and Dennis and I met in the team room.

In the team room, I have a bear-claw necklace,

a turtle shell that came from another Indian reservation,

and various other Indian artifacts.

And so, Dennis was like, "wow."

He said, “I have this necklace from the ponca Indians in Oklahoma.

I'm hip to that."

And I say, "Dennis, in their tradition, and the tradition that I knew,

you would be a heyoka, a backward-walking person.

There were people that were different, and you're a heyoka.

So you're this heyoka in this tribe.

He don't look at me as a basketball player.

He look at me as a great friend.

He realized that I probably needed him for inspiration.

He wants to see me persevere.

I have never met a coach who was that different and genuine

when it came to bringing the group together.

He had this real interest in native American history,

and he would weave that into our own culture.

I mean, he brought in zen buddhism and native American Indian philosophies.

Everything was about being focused, playing as one.

When I was in great falls as a kid growing up,

my grandparents had this boardinghouse with small little cabins.

And native American people from the poplar Indian reservation

used to come, and they'd have their kids.

And, so, I started learning more and more about this native American culture.

There was a certain negativity about playing with these kids.

I didn't feel that at all.

Cowboys and Indians was a game that kids played.

You know, I was always the Indian.

My dad was a pastor.

My mother was also a minister.

And she has an extreme belief about the second coming of Christ.

So that was something that was foremost in your mind in growing up.

Would you be ready if Christ came

to be taken as part of that group that would be raptured?

My goal was always in conflict.

I would rather be playing sports than being on my knees, praying.

I played basketball from the time I was a little kid...

And eventually went to the university of north Dakota.

Jackson is having a whale of a n/ght.

He's scored 28 in the first half

and has continued the onslaught here in the second half

The Knicks drafted me in the second round.

And I'd made the all-rookie team, my rookie season.

Jackson defensively gets the bail.

I remember seeing Phil Jackson.

Jackson knocking it away...

And he's always smacking guys around.

He was like an earlier version of Dennis rodman.

I was 77 years with the Knicks.

We had seven good years. We went to the finals three years.

White has the bail. Stolen by jackson/

racing ahead of the field, no one near him/

he drives, lays it up...

And we won two championshios.

J“ /fee/ free j“

j“ /can walk down the street there's no one there j“

j“ though the pavements are one huge crowd j“

Phil and I wrote mavericktogether.

And in that book, Phil talks about taking acid.

And thinking he was a lion, roaring up and down the beach in la.

Phil was like a hippie and different from the NBA fraternity.

When I was playing as a pro,

red holzman encouraged me to think about coaching,

particularly in Puerto Rico, where I ended up coaching for a while.

I spent a lot of the time down there in the superior league, it was called.

They played every other day.

And these players would just play ferociously.

There was a local animosity among these small towns.

There were fires on your way out of town and rocks being thrown at your car.

They'd kill a chicken in a graveyard

and pour the blood on the visiting team's bench.

The town I went to, quebradillas, was ferocious.

The mayor, he had actually shot an official one time with a gun

and hit him in the lower leg.

So, his punishment was he wasn't allowed to go to any more home games

for the rest of the season.

But, really, there's a lot of love about the game,

and I learned a lot of things from the process.

And then I got a call about coaching over in the cba for the Albany patroons.

And now introducing the head coach of the patroons,

formerly of the New York k nickerbockers, Phil Jackson.

Phil Jackson.

Then in '84, we won the championship.

They came together as a group,

and it's been a great team effort ever since.

- I think we're ecstatic right now. - Whoo!

After that, the bulls tracked me down,

and I got up to interview for an assistant job under Stan albeck.

Jerry krause and I had a really good relationship.

I wanted to bring Phil in.

He came in, uh... not dressed real well.

Stan was very conservative,

and Phil looked anything but conservative at that point.

And Stan quickly nixed that idea.

Two years later, we had an opening.

And this time, I called Phil and I told him how to dress

and how to talk to Doug. Doug Collins was our coach.

And I kind of helped Doug think about it, and we hired Phil.

Under Doug Collins,

one of the assistant coaches was Tex winter.

Jerry krause had the idea that Tex was going to be a mentor.

Doug was gonna follow kind of the things that he would teach as a coach.

When I took this job 11 years ago,

the first person we hired was Tex winter.

He's a brilliant man. The finest offensive mind in basketball.

The triangle is formed between fonnard 2, guard 1,

who has now moved to the corner,

and center 5, who forms the apex of the triangle.

He had a system called "the triangle."

Jerry said, "I've been listening to his basketball philosophy for years,

and he's got the kind of philosophy I'd like to see happen with this team."

Doug's philosophy was different.

Doug would have these plays that always ended up with Michael Jordan

being the recipient of the score.

And Tex was always like,

"there's a way of playing this game that's different than that."

Tex winter would berate Doug about, "you should institute the triangle."

Doug would not hear of it.

Doug finally had heard it enough and said,

"I'm tired of hearing that," and then the argument escalated a bit,

and Tex winter was banned from the bench.

He wasn't coaching on the floor anymore.

He was sitting in the corner and taking notes about the practice.

Jerry krause was really unhappy with that.

During that period of time,

krause made the decision that I should work together with Tex winter.

Phil was picking the brains

of the best basketball man I've ever known, in my life,

and I was watching it.

And I just thought, "you know what?

This is getting more and more interesting all the time."

Mike, we want you to deny the ball

so they can't throw the ball in easy to the blocks.

So, big man, if your man clears,

you must tell Michael that he's alone out there

so he doesn't get naked on the back-door situation.

Midway through my second year, I sort of felt Phil could be the coach.

Justsense.

I just... I mean, it was just feeling.

Jerry wanted to talk to me. So I go in and talk.

He says, "I may have to do something that's gonna rock this franchise."

I said, "what?" He says, "I'm gonna have to fire Doug Collins."

I said, "there's gonna be some fucking balls

to fire a guy that just took us to the eastern conference final."

Now, if you're getting ready for work right now,

then you're probably not Doug Collins.

Chicago Bulls head coach was fired in a surprise move yesterday.

You know, I got the worst-kept secret in town sitting next to me.

You guys, as usual, got us on that one.

For the last two years,

Phil Jackson has been a very integral part of this organization,

and he's now ready to be a head coach.

Welcome, coach.

Thanks, Jerry.

Have you talked to Michael Jordan yet?

- Yes, I have. - What'd he say?

"Congratulations. Let's go win a championship."

Phil took over and just had a different approach.

Doug's approach was more catered to Michael,

and Phil's approach was more catered to the team.

I wasn't a Phil Jackson fan, you know, when he first came in,

you know, because he was coming in to take the ball out of my hands.

Doug put the ball in my hands.

Tex winter, his right-hand man,

had sold him on an offense that he believed

would get us out of this one-on-one type of basketball.

The triangle offense is set

so that there's a key pass that creates motion.

Then there's 33 different types of options

that come out of that single pass.

Players can do spontaneous, creative things, using their strengths.

You know, everybody has an opportunity to touch the ball,

but I didn't want bill Cartwright to have the ball with five seconds left.

Bounce into cartwr/ght, shoots over roi/ins. Nope.

That's not equal-opportunity offense. That's fuckin' bullshit.

Oh, my/ Michael Jordan has 54 points/

sixty points for jordan/ s/xty-nine points for Michael Jordan.

There was so many times Tex used to yell at me, saying,

"move the ball, move the ball."

He says, "no 'i' in 'team.'" I say, "there's an 'i' in win."

I met Michael and I told him what we were gonna do.

"Obviously, you've scored 37, 38 points a game last couple years.

I don't anticipate you're gonna be the scoring champion in the league.

The spotlight's on the ball,

and if you're always the guy that's gonna have the ball,

teams can generate a defense against that,

which is what's happened with the pistons the last couple years."

He said, "I'm not worried about you,

but we got to find a way to make everybody else better.

We got to create other threats."

I came in the game as being a point guard,

but my growth sort of grew me into a small fonnard.

The triangle offense allowed me to be more of what I wanted to be.

Scottie p/ppen's turnaround/

scottie kind of developed that new position called the point-fonnard.

Instead of, you know, being in Michael's shadow,

scottie was starting to blossom as one of the top players in the NBA.

Beautiful move by scottie/

Ll/laking his all-star debut from the Chicago Bulls, scottie p/ppen.

Michael Jordan is making an aoy'ustment to this new philosophy,

which tries to relieve him of the offensive burden.

He realized that him playing and just scoring 30 points

wasn't gonna win the last game of the season.

I'm not gonna be the type of person who's very hungry

to lead the league in scoring once again or to chase individual accolades.

He made a conscious effort to say, "no individual is gonna be the team."

Right now I'm more or less geared towards team success.

That's a special thing to have happen,

when the largest icon that the NBA's ever had understands that,

"I don't have to have the ball in my hands all the time."

With the triangle offense,

certainly, it needed some little time to adjust,

for everyone to adjust to it at their own pace,

and it took us about a year, a year or so as a team to do it.

But by the 1990 playoffs,

we all felt that we were ready to beat the Detroit pistons.

The hurdle that comes up now is the big one.

And we know that the challenge of the Detroit pistons is immense.

And it's one that we've been waiting for all season long.

Chicago was the only team to beat the pistons in the playoffs last year,

and they're a deeper and more balanced team this time around.

I felt like we were in a position to win, you know,

and we pushed them to a game 7 in their building.

Yeah.

7'he defending world champions, the Detroit pistons,

extended to a seventh game.

And 27, 500 are gathered here for a very special afternoon.

When I got up that morning and went down for breakfast,

I had a headache.

It started feeling like I wanted to throw up.

I went to the arena, you know, did my regular routine, warming up,

and I was just, like, blind. I couldn't see.

Game seven... let's go!

- You know what time it is. - Go 110%.

Y'all know what it is, man.

Let's go guys. Horse.

- Yeah. - You know we gotta go.

- This is it. - Let's go.

All in.

- All out. - No doubt. Let's go!

All right!

Game seven from the palace.

Piston ball.

As the game started, I couldn't focus.

Everything was blurry. I was seeing double, black,

and I just... I couldn't get my eyesight.

Pippen is one and five in the field. One and six.

I told them, "I can't see."

And I was taken out of the game.

He said a migraine.

I don't... I can't argue the point that he had a migraine.

It was just one of those things that, you know, it was so unfortunate.

When you can't see and you're seeing double

and you want to vomit and you got to play against Dennis rodman?

P/ppen passes inside, laimbeer knocks it a way.

Four-ten to go. Here's Isiah.

The plays from the bulls right now are plays of desperation.

Guys are trying to do more than the y're capable of doing,

and that includes Michael Jordan.

The lead is 20.

And they, the Detroit pistons,

will meet the Portland trail blazers in a best-of-7

beginning Tuesday n/ght on CBS.

Michael Jordan had 37, and he's with pat o'brien.

Mike... here with Michael Jordan, here in the midst of the celebration.

What are you saying to the other players, Michael?

All you can do is wish them good luck. I mean, you know, we fought hard.

They were the better team.

We want to be where they are, but we still got to wait our turn.

We still trying to improve our team.

They were the better team, and they played better today.

We were sitting in the locker room after the game,

and nothing was said.

Everyone just sat there for a moment.

We had the chance to beat them. We just didn't respond.

You know, we got to that hill. We almost looked over the hill.

I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated.

I cried on the bus, and my father came on and said,

"look, it's just one game. Bounce back, come back next year."

I remember losing to the pistons. Damn pistons.

Now, that shit hurt.

You couldn't deny that they were a great team.

We had to either change something about ourself

or we weren't gonna beat them.

Can't touch this!

- Congratulations. - Can't touch this!

Thanks, pat.

After that game, instead of us all going on vacation,

we all showed up and we started working out.

And everybody, starting with Michael, changed.

Before the pistons, Michael didn't weight train.

He didn't go in much for strength training.

And after getting the shit beat out of him by the pistons,

finally decided, "I got to put some muscle on."

I was getting brutally beaten up.

And I wanted to administer pain.

You know, I wanted to start, you know, fighting back.

It's very difficult to add muscle

for an athlete that's constantly burning calories

running up and down all the time.

We started at 200.

We added five pounds until he got to 215.

I put it in just to get myself physically strong enough

to go against Detroit.

I was a slim and skinny kid,

and now that I put on a couple pounds,

I can throw my weight around a little bit more now.

I would give him a certain amount of reps to do.

He would never stop at that number.

If I asked for six, I know he was gonna do 12.

He got to the point where he was just like,

"instead of them dishing it to me, I'm gonna dish it back to them."

Which ate at me.

It did. It did.

My energy started to gear towards my teammates and pushing them to excel.

Michael forced the hand of a lot of the players

to really dedicate themselves to off-season training.

Like, "okay, we're gonna spend the summer dedicated to this proposition

that we're not gonna be runners-up. We're gonna be champions."

Michael was on us.

No mistakes allowed.

Man, I see a screaming devil.

You make a mistake, he's gonna scream at you.

He's gonna belittle you. He demands almost perfection.

Man, when you see your leader working extremely hard in practice,

you feel like, "oh, man, if I don't give it my all,

I shouldn't be here."

He taught me how to stay in the gym,

and he spent a lot of time starting to build the confidence that I needed.

Pippen became my focal point.

More than any other player,

scottie benefited from playing with Michael Jordan,

because scottie had this raw athletic ability.

Two-hand dunk by p/ppen/

what he didn't have was what Michael brought every day,

which was the drive to be the very best every single day,

the mental focus of the game.

The thing about pip is, you know,

if you stand next to him, you make him stronger.

All the Detroit times, when rodman wanted to pick on him,

he needed someone there to stand there and say,

"hey, look, I'll fight with you. Just fight."

Scottie and I bonded,

you know, because he felt like, okay, he has someone that he can count on.

And I'm looking at, "okay, I got someone who I can actually count on."

And then Horace came right behind that.

During the time that the pistons reigned over us,

every time they'd do something to us,

we would complain to the referee or we would try to go back at them.

Horace used to get beaten up.

He got Grant with an elbow in the side...

And he would come back whining.

And I say, "don't fucking whine. Don't let 'em see you whine.

That's when they know they got you.“

With them being more mentally dominant than we were,

they knew, as soon as we start complaining, they had us.

And they did.

Horace Grant has got to realize this game is not over.

You can't give the world champions anything.

Just be strong. You know, we're gonna beat these bullies.

In '91, the bulls were determined to be the tougher team.

The pain of losing to Detroit again the year before brought a fury

into that season that they had not had.

Jordan knocks the ball out of bounds.

No, he didn't. He saved it in play to p/ppen.

What a spectacular defensive play by jordan/

here's a pass stolen by Jordan.

Being around Michael every day like that...

It just brought it out of us.

Scottie evolved. Horace evolved. I evolved.

It was just a great feeling.

We had matured in a lot of ways, physically, mentally.

Jordan dribbles out,

a hook pass to p/ppen underneath for the dunk.

It was time for us to become the top team in the game.

And now, the starting lineup for your Chicago Bulls...

Everybody in Chicago hated the pistons.

This was personal.

Like, if anybody says it wasn't personal, it was personal.

Game one of the best of se ven.

I didn't even really wanna deal with my relatives

in Detroit during that period.

I didn't want to go stay with them.

My first cousins, "yeah, whatever.

You know, we don't like you right now." They didn't like us.

The opening up. Game one.

We had our character challenged

the last two years and we failed,

but that third year, we put them in our rear-view mirror.

Bill laimbeer. Jordan with the steal.

Jordan./ -

He 'i/ go to the foul line.

Michael Jordan is not gonna back down from anyone right now.

He's the leader for that team.

He understands what to expect during the series.

He's gonna hold his ground, make a statement.

I thought we were a good enough team

to at least make the series a little bit more competitive,

and we didn't.

P/ppen against I/innie up the fight side...

To the baseline.

Fills it up and a foul/

All right, Ahmad game four of the best of se ven.

Nice fake by Jordan... Goes to the scoop/

p/ppen... oh/ beautiful move by... Scottie p/ppen off to a fast start.

He has 70 points.

You know something's coming.

This team is desperate.

They've done everything they can. Now they're really desperate.

Armstrong and cra/g Hodges in the back court.

Clitflevingston, bill cartwr/ght, and scottie p/ppen up front.

Beautiful back-door pass for p/ppen. And he is walloped

and that will be a flagrant foul.

And it's getting very, very tough out there.

Dennis rodman pushed scottie,

and could have injured him pretty severely.

It was clearly a flagrant foul.

That's a clear-cut cheap shot, no question. Clear cut.

Scottie pippen was racked up.

When pippen didn't respond to that abuse,

there's nothing they could do to beat us then.

Scottie was unshakable. Didn't even want a band-aid.

When we saw that, it was over.

You know, it was just like, "okay, it's a foul.

Um, let's go and finish kicking their ass and, you know..."

And put them out of their misery.

Jordan rebounds. He has p/ppen.

Chicago Bulls about to put the pistons away in four.

And p/ppen able to feed it off to jordan/

And Chuck is now clearing the bench.

Miller genuine draft player of the game,

scottie p/ppen of the Chicago Bulls.

We were tasting victory

over a team that just kicked your butt for the last three or four years.

I mean, the gratification... You truly cannot put it into words.

It is all over.

That's the only time that I think I'd ever been swept in a series.

I was normally the one doing the sweeping.

Their time had arrived, and ours was over.

As we're coming out of the game,

laimbeer said, "you know, we're not shaking their hands.

This is how we're leaving."

7'he pistons wasting no time in getting out of here,

as they are headed off ..

We didn't shake hands. No, we just walked off the court.

"Fuck you guys. Thank you for kicking our ass."

They left the bench although there's 7.9 seconds remaining.

7'he pistons just left.

I think it was very difficult for them

because they were two-time champions.

But, you know, there certainly has to be some respect.

Straight-up bitches.

"Now, we just kicked your ass. Go ahead and go."

Detroit had a similar thing with Boston that we had with them.

They had to overcome Boston and they did.

And I can still remember...

It was the first time that, uh...

Detroit beat them,

and I can see Kevin mchale coming out to half court

and shaking hands and things like that.

No. Adrian dantley was shooting a free throw,

and the Boston celtics were walking off during the game.

And I grabbed mchale,

and then he stopped as he was walking off the floor.

That's how they left the floor.

And to us, that was okay.

Knowing what we know now, in the aftermath of what took place,

I think we would have stopped

and said, "hey, congratulations," like they do now.

"Hey, congratulations. Love ya, man. Love ya. Hey, congratulations."

I mean, we would have did it. Of course we would have done it.

But during that period of time, that's just not how it was passed.

When you lost, you left the floor.

That was it.

Well, I know it's all bullshit.

Whatever he says now, you know it wasn't his true actions then.

You know, he has time enough to think about it

or the reaction of the public

that's kind of changed his perspective of it.

You can show me anything you want.

There's no way you can convince me he wasn't an asshole.

Knowing what we know now,

in the aftermath of what took place...

But during that period of time, that's just not how it was passed

it just wasn't.

And you can go back and you can look at any of those old games or whatever.

When you lost, you left the floor.

All you gotta do is you go back to us losing in game seven.

I shook everybody's hand.

Two years in a row, we shook their hands when they beat us.

There is a certain respect to the game that we paid to them.

And that's sportsmanship, no matter how much it hurts.

And believe me, it fucking hurt.

But they didn't have to shake our hands.

We knew we whupped their ass already, we'd gotten past them,

and that was the most... To me, that was better than, you know,

in some ways, winning the championship.

Sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep!

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In sports,

the stage is set for the air-magic show in the NBA finals.

Starting Sunday, it will be Michael Jordan

and the Chicago Bulls

against magic Johnson and the la Lakers.

You know, when you're a competitor,

you want to play against the best.

I played against Larry and I've always wanted to play against Michael.

Up until that point, there was a stigma that Michael Jordan,

all he does is win scoring titles.

He never wins championships.

That was my chance to get in the category

of Larry bird and magic Johnson.

The NBA is a league of stars,

and none shine brighter than magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.

And while much has been said about their respective teams,

nothing has been more anticipated than their individual matchup.

And we 're set for the start of game one.

The opening up controlled by the la Lakers.

And magic Johnson moves across against Michael Jordan.

You know, we were nervous. You know, the first time.

And we didn't even play well.

And now, ll/lagic got it out for I/I/orthy...

What a play/ magic Johnson!

You know, Sam Perkins hits a three at the end.

He's got it/

And the bulls lose game one.

Everybody, including me, goes, "okay, the Lakers are gonna win this thing."

They beat us on our home court.

But in our minds, we had a chance to beat these guys

and we didn't even play good.

So we were looking foward to game two.

We are set for game two of the NBA finals.

So, game two, Jordan goes nuts.

Over Scott.

Michael Jordan on fire.

He's got it. Twelve stra/ght field goals for Michael jordan/

look away, to levingston... Jordan...

Oh/ a spectacular mo ve by Michael jordan/

that's 73 consecutive field goals/

The change of putting p/ppen on magic Johnson

rather than Michael Jordan...

Magic Johnson's the greatest point guard I've ever seen,

and scottie pippen was picking magic Johnson up full court.

Nobody did that.

Scottie accepted that challenge,

and I knew what scottie was gonna do.

I see it in practice all the time.

He gets up in your face, and he harasses you,

and pip never let him get started.

Scottie p/ppen did a tremendous job

in defending against ll/lagic...

And once we did that in game two, we never looked back.

Jordan around divac.

Chicago Bulls take a 2—7 lead in the best of se ven.

And teagle now one for six, and it leads to this.

The Chicago Bulls come away with a resounding victory.

In command virtually all the way.

And it's this simple, the Lakers have to win three in a row.

Game 5 moments away.

Hello, everybody. I'm Bob costas.

This is the Larry o'brien trophy.

All indications are that, by evening's end,

it'll be in the possession of the Chicago Bulls.

Game five was a great back-and-forth, back-and-forth, back-and-forth game.

Ll/lagic tires for Smith...

Good recovery. It counts/

Lakers with a one-point lead

Jordan with a gorgeous move.

7'he bulls lead it by three.

Il/lagic.

Dumps it off

after three, the bulls and the Lakers are tied at 80.

So, the fourth quarter, it's a precarious lead.

So during a time-out, Phil asks Michael, "m.J., who's open?"

And he goes, "paxson."

He goes, "all right, then. Get him the ball."

Run around to the point.

Phil said it, you know, forcefully.

"Paxson is open. Get him the ball."

And I started looking for paxson.

Everybody, you know, in the world's expecting Jordan

to force something through a double-team.

Therein the foul-line area wide open.

He doesn't do it. He draws and dishes.

Paxson open again.

He trusts his teammate to make the shot.

Once pax hits that first shot, I said, "oh, okay. Fine. Let me do this again."

Penetrate, find pax,

and he just kept hitting them, kept hitting them, kept hitting them.

A gain/ e/ghteen for paxson/

that was exactly what Phil was trying to get Michael to understand

and believe in over the couple years is that,

"hey, these other guys can help you out."

It is a two-point lead for Chicago.

Paxson. Yes/ John paxson again.

And the Chicago Bulls have won their first-e ver NBA championsh/p.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

That was wonderful.

- Scottie. - Yes!

Whoo! Whoo!

When you get to that finish line and you know that you won...

All those emotions that you wrapped up into it, you can just kind of let go.

I mean, everybody knows...

Has the picture in their mind of when we beat Cleveland on that last shot

and he's punching the air and he's all excited.

That's who we knew, the competitive Michael Jordan.

The win-at-all-cost Michael Jordan.

Sometimes we'd question whether he was human,

whether he had feelings.

Just a guy that was totally focused on one thing and one thing only.

The only emotion we had ever seen out of him was anger or frustration.

We were literally stunned to see those emotions.

And when they beat us, we met in between both locker rooms,

and he just put his arms and just started crying.

He was so happy that he had won, that he busted through.

That was a special moment for him and myself.

It's a beautiful feeling.

If you're gonna lose, you're gonna lose to them, you know,

and I'MMA lose to Michael. And that's how it should be.

At last,

I fit somewhere in the category of Larry bird and magic Johnson.

No, we're here. Don't show it to anybody.

Let me show it.

Yeah.

Denver. Denver.

How about them broncos?

Hey, Eric!

Cheesehead!

Security.

- Yeah? - Security.

Oh, my! Hey.

Hey, don't say that on camera, yo.

Hey, m. M. M, come on. Hey, m.

M, that's messed up.

Hey, hey, Phil, you can't work for the media and be on this plane.

Right here? See this.

The highest paid media guy in the world.

No, he wishes, though. He wishes he does. Believe me.

The afc finally won.

It's actually kind of, like, a sign of times are changing.

Might be changing in the NBA, too.

While the bulls were on the road their g/I/I took his shot back home.

Jerry k rause again made his plans for next season very clear.

Coach Phil Jackson won't be back,

and with Michael Jordan on record of saying

he won't play for anyone other than Jackson,

krause told the Chicago tribune,

”if ll/lichae/ chooses to leave because there is another coach here,

then it's his choice, not ours.

We would love to have /I/lichael back.

But Michael is going to have to play for someone else.

It isn't going to be Phil. ”

If Phil's not back, then certainly I'm not back.

So, I mean, you know, it doesn't leave me with any other choices

but not to play next year.

There's absolutely no room at all for you coming back

under any other circumstances?

None. None. None at all.

The bulls were dominating the east.

The east didn't seem to be a question.

The question was out west

with the team that they had met in the finals the year before, Utah.

But keep in mind, this was probably a finals preview.

This is the litmus test.

Good evening. Welcome to the delta center.

And the thing that's really surprising

is the timing of that story by Jerry k rause.

Yeah, dick, unfortunately, it's very cold it's sad

and if you really think about this,

performance and loyalty by the coaches and players

are being just thro wn out the window.

And the bulls starting out solidly, lead 8-2.

Here's rodman, after p/ppen got the loose ball,

and Jordan hits the open shot/ the bulls are doing it all.

It has been all bulls...

Great pass from long/e y to a cutting scottie p/ppen.

And it's a 47-24 lead

the Chicago Bulls are running the jazz wild on the jazz home court.

Loose ball, Karl ll/la/one.

Den-den-Dennis... there it is.

And down goes Malone and rodman,

and a double foul is gonna be called

You could see that this could /gnite something here

that we don't need

The jazz with a 7-0 run of their own here,

and it's an 8-point game, believe it or not.

This is as close as the jazz have come.

- /I/lalone over p/ppen. - He's got it.

”He's got it, ” is right.

- He's UN... - Yeah. Unstoppable.

Yes/ and the jazz have come back b/g/

standing ovation for the jazz, who had to fight way back in this game.

Utah jazz ending up sweeping the Chicago Bulls this year,

winning here in salt lake city.

But Jerry k rause, the b/g question is,

”I/I/h y? I/I/h y now, come out with a statement like this,

at the all-star break? ” / mean, this is something for after the season.

You know, / think it's just a bad case of judgment on his part.

Well, Reggie, this looks like a reality check for everybody.

Is this the end of the bulls as we know them?