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Ah, here we go. We are live in Los Angeles on a Monday. This is the herd wherever you may be and however you may be listening I heart radio Fox Sports Radio and FS1 right here in studio.

Joy Taylor is joining me one hour from now where Colin was right where Colin was wrong. Jerry West joins us next hour can't wait for that the logo. It's great to have you in this weekend in California.

People now little bit sort of kind on the beaches looks like mostly families to me we're all going to be okay. Hopefully right going forward. Joy however you are down my neck of the woods this weekend.

I was a little store on Manhattan Beach. Yeah, beautiful place. It is played some tennis this weekend poorly, but I played it nonetheless got some sun.

Well, it's beautiful. It's raining now, but it was a beautiful weekend here. So let's start with this the 10 part MJ documentaries over. I loved it. It was a walk down memory lane. I can't think of anybody in sports outside of Tiger Woods. I'd probably watched a 10 part documentary. He's had enough controversy and greatness. And there's a combination of stuff.

He's made Jordan so fascinating is there was controversy. He was fighting his GM. There was the Rodman factor. Not all great teams are fascinating. I'm not sure I could watch 30 minutes of a one part documentary on the Tim Duncan Spurs. I'm not sure I could get through it.

I don't want to watch a documentary on Alabama football. They're just great. They're not fascinating. I can watch a five part documentary in the Miami Hurricanes or Pete Carroll's Trojans. Not all documentaries are fascinating. Michael's was.

One of the takeaways and one of the things that frustrating for fans and I've always had this belief. Leave a party too early than late. Nothing but more cocktails and more dumb comments and trouble the later you state a party. Come late. Leave early. Make an appearance. Have some fun. Shake some hands. Leave early. You don't want to be the last guy around the keg. Okay. You don't.

And to me the bulls left at the perfect time 98. Now there's a lot of people Michael Jordan at the end saying I wish we could have come back for one more. No, no, no, no. This is perfect. It adds to the mythology. One of the cool things about Michael Jordan's legend.

There's a lot of what if with it. Not with bird, not with magic. You know, not with LeBron and Cleveland. It's kind of pathetic. It unravels. It is time. But there's a lot of what if would Jordan. Ooh, six for six. But what if he didn't play baseball?

Ooh, he could have got eight for eight. What if Jerry Kraus didn't break him up? Ooh, Michael and the bulls left the party just a little early. And it adds to his shoe sales and mythology.

The following year, Pippin was not going to stay because Houston was offering him a contract of $80 million. He wasn't going to stay for 14 in Chicago for one year.

Rodman was getting older and distracted and less consistent. Tony Coocoach was not the kind of player Michael was ever close to or could rely on.

If you go back to it, the 98 season, never forget this. Phil Jackson figured it out too. Phil Jackson told Jerry Kraus. I'm not rebuild it. I'm out. Phil Jackson who came off greatness documentaries like boom, clean out six is that the spurs dynasty had arrived.

So in 90, 99, the year Michael says, I want to come back for one more year. The spurs went in the playoffs. They swept the Lakers. They swept the Blazers and destroyed the Nixon five. It was Duncan and Robinson. And frankly, you think Carl Malone was a bad match up for Chicago? How would have Duncan and Robinson been? It was over. You watched this. How many close games were there? It was it was over. They were old. They were the best team, but they were winning a lot of those games. Let's be honest.

Over Utah and over Indiana. They were winning some of those games on Moxie championship medal and individual play by Michael late. It wasn't they were steamrolling teams. In fact, against Utah. They didn't score 100 points in the finals.

Why? Because they were offensively challenged. They were only ninth in the NBA in 1998. Ninth in offense. That's with the greatest offensive player ever. Ninth. Okay. So the idea.

Oh, they'd come back to the no, the push off. Michael hits it. He's holding the trophy. There's six for six. See crest out. It's the perfect way to do it. That this is why the mythology of Michael is almost as great as the reality of Michael.

Like Michael had a lot of struggles a lot and antagonized by his own GM. Pippin could be unreliable. Rodman was flaky and increasingly distracted.

Koo coach was never really like one of the guys. You know, Steve Kerr packs in their career averages are six points a game. It was perfect. They were old tired, offensively challenged. And Michael and the bulls left the party just a little early.

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