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In today's episode, we continue our breakdown of the Last Dance documentary, episode seven and eight.

PGC basketball Sam Allen joins Adam and TJ to bring coaches and players the key takeaways and teachable moments.

This episode specifically dives into Michael Jordan's transition into and out of baseball, as well as his highly debated leadership style.

We hope coaches and players are learning as much from this documentary as we are.

Now, let's jump in.

Continuing on with our series on Last Dance, we've got Sam Allen joining us, and we're going to break down episode seven and eight, and continue the theme of taking entertainment and turning it into education.

Sam, once again, another incredible series of episodes that will release on ESPN.

I'm excited to talk about the different things because there was a lot of major talking points in this episode that I think we want to share some insight. Sam, kind of guide us through it and take us away with it.

Yeah, Adam, this might have been maybe the two best episodes. It's hard to even say that because they're all so good.

But we're going to cover off a lot of things and go fast here. Let's start off, guys, starts off with Michael Jordan retiring from baseball in 93

and then going into, excuse me, retiring from basketball and going into baseball 93.

And, you know, one of the more impactful statements or quotes was the baseball coach

and Terry Francona guys was his

manager who later managed the Red Sox and Indians World Series. You know, those coaches said,

this is the hardest working baseball player we've ever worked with and, you know, just his

commitment to becoming great morning afternoon evening batting practices but

it kind of gives you the doc unveils and reveals um his crazy insane work ethic and his level

of commitment what were y'all's thoughts on that yeah you know i thought it was super interesting i think people

miss one really big thing here kind of like tim tibo going to play baseball and we talk about this

all the time about willing to fail and willing to fail forward right and to see a guy like michael

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