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The Last Dance: Things we learned from episodes 3 & 4

By Justin Morris

Michael Jordan (L) pats Dennis Rodman (R), both of the Chicago Bulls, after Rodman was called for a technical foul 03 May during the second half of their NBA eastern conference semi-finals game against the Charlotte Hornets at the United Center in Chicago, IL. The Bulls won the game 83-70 to lead the series 1-0. AFP PHOTO/JEFF HAYNES (Photo by JEFF HAYNES / AFP) (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty Images)
Michael Jordan (L) pats Dennis Rodman (R), both of the Chicago Bulls, after Rodman was called for a technical foul 03 May during the second half of their NBA eastern conference semi-finals game against the Charlotte Hornets at the United Center in Chicago, IL. The Bulls won the game 83-70 to lead the series 1-0. AFP PHOTO/JEFF HAYNES (Photo by JEFF HAYNES / AFP) (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty Images) /
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The Last Dance, MJ doc Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty Images /

Episodes 3 and 4 of The Last Dance MJ doc provided further invaluable insights to the greatness of the 1990’s Chicago Bulls’ teams. Here are the biggest.

Well, here we are again. If viewers weren’t attached hook, line and sinker to the astonishing whirlwind of a masterpiece that is ESPN’s MJ doc, The Last Dance, then by all means, they unequivocally are now. Another enthralling double-dosage of the 10-part documentary signifies another painstakingly enduring week of constant check-ins to the six-day, 22-hour countdown that began with last episode’s cessation, and will finally culminate with the next airing of the star-studded spectacle. All we want is more, and more couldn’t possibly come quick enough.

How four hours of television programming can leave basketball fans with a lifetime of previously undiscovered information is beyond me. And yet somehow, it’s done just that.

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This week’s installments were rife with awe-inciting drama, rambunctious rendezvous’, and vast coverings of uncharted territorial information. But for all that we were able to take away from them, there’s still so much left to be unearthed, and it was entirely inevitable that questions came to a full blaze as soon as the film’s final moments ran the course of their airtime.

A Puerto Rican referee was shot where? Phil Jackson took what drugs? And don’t even get me started on Dennis Rodman.

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As the story that represents the 1990’s Chicago Bulls dynasty dives deeper into the team’s most closeted realms, so much continues to in turn maneuver its way to the surface. Somehow, we’ve only barely begun to gather and deposit the essential information from the showings into our minds, and yet it already feels like we know so much. Quite the contradiction this tale poses. But it’s without question a beautiful one.

And one that is leaving us with no other choice but to quell our anticipation for next week’s chapters (which I’m sure will continuously turn into next week, and the week after that for the course of the show’s duration after each episode airs.)

In the meantime though, we’ll focus on the information we did gain from the most recent edition of The Last Dance. Here are the biggest things we learned from episodes 3 and 4.