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The Last Dance Changed Everything We Knew About Michael Jordan's 'Flu Game'
It’s one of the most legendary performances a basketball player has ever given: Michael Jordan’s legendary “Flu Game,” where he scored 38 points in Game 5 of the NBA Finals while suffering flu-like symptoms.
Episode Nine of The Last Dance, ESPN’s documentary series about the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls, had some of the most revealing moments of the series so far, but one thing will probably have fans talking for a long time after this Sunday night. When The Last Dance revisited that fateful matchup against the Utah Jazz, Michael Jordan’s longtime trainer, Tim Grover, told a story that changes the record—apparently MJ was suffering from food poisoning from a pizza order the night before.
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Jordan was hungry before Game 5, but the hotel didn’t have room service—so Grover tracked down the only pizza joint open in the Park City, UT area. Five people showed up to deliver the pizza, knowing it was meant for MJ. Grover recalls having a bad feeling about the order, but Michael ate it anyway—all by himself, he said. A few hours later, he was curled up in the fetal position on the hotel room floor.
“I’ve not known any flu that can hit you that fast, but I know how quickly food poisoni
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"When I go to church," Michael says, "any church I go to, it doesn't seem like church to me, because everybody stares. I went back to my own church in Wilmington a few times since I've been in the pros, and it really hasn't been the same old church. It's more or less 'Well, Michael is here today, let's have him speak for us.’ ”
Jordan doesn't quite understand this. Actually, it sort of spooks him. Can't he be the best in the world at what he does without people taking it so personally?
Artificial sunlight is pouring through the Windexed panes of a gym in Chicago. Fog is swirling about, cranes are hovering, cameras are ready to roll. It's another day at the office for Michael Jordan.
Practice is this afternoon, but first he has a little business to do. (Michael Jordan always has a little business to do.) Today, he is required to dribble past a number of cereal boxes on the polished hardwood floor, put the ball down, pick up the last box, hold it up, gaze at it intently, look at the camera and smile. Occasionally, he is required to wink during the smile. This is no problem.
After he has dribbled, gazed and smiled for a number of hours, the video crew taping The Making of the Michael Jordan Commercial for