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The Right Time with Bomani Jones

Jason Goff on Michael Jordan’s Peak, The 1996 Chicago Bulls | 05.05

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bomani Jones is joined by Jason Goff for Time Machine Tuesday to look back at the legendary 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan’s return to dominance, and the team that went 72-10 on the way to an NBA championship. Bomani and Jason break down how Dennis Rodman changed the Bulls, why Jordan’s 1996 season still feels mythical, Scottie Pippen’s place in the dynasty, and what it felt like to live through that era in Chicago. They also get into the cultural moment around the Bulls, Space Jam, and why that team became bigger than basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Wave.

0:02.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original.

0:13.0

My name is Beaumonti Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.

0:16.0

Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe. Like, rate us, review us, give us five stars, you only give us four stars.

0:23.7

I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is Time Machine Tuesday. Got my man, Jason Gough,

0:30.5

here live from Chicago, and I am terrified about the obnoxious beast that I am about to unleash as we discuss the

0:40.4

1996 Chicago Bulls. And I'm saying that to you in the way that I did because I never forget

0:47.3

my good friend Wendell from college, Wendell for Chicago, Wendell went to Whitney Young with

0:52.7

Clinton, Richardson, you know what I'm saying,

0:54.5

right? And I just remember, we got to school in 97 and he was just like, look, there's

1:00.3

nothing you can tell us about basketball. We got the best player, we got the best defensive player,

1:04.4

we got the best six man, we got the best rebounder. It was such a matter of fact ticking off

1:09.5

of the dopeness of the bulls. And I really did just sit there like, yeah, there's really nothing I can, I can do about this. There's nothing that I have to say. Right? Like that was, that was what it turned into as if it wasn't enough in the beginning just, beginning just that you had fucking Jordan.

1:29.8

Like, like the climb to the 96.

1:33.8

Like, we normally try to do like a step by step that gets us into what the year is. I don't even know how to do this fast.

1:35.5

I just know, 1984, Michael Jordan showed up.

1:39.4

And it's so wild because I don't get the feeling everybody, like, there are a few people

1:43.8

like Bobby Knight who's like the

1:44.9

best basketball player I've ever seen you know those sorts of things but the truth is he still went

1:48.8

number three in the draft right like I don't think there's anybody that can honestly say they

1:53.0

thought that dude was going to hit the league and average 28 points a game and then break his foot

1:57.8

and put up 63 in the finals and then scored 37 a game and then win

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