

Rather, he and his trainer Tim Grover believed that he was sick from food poisoning, after a pizza was delivered by five guys (?), and MJ was the only one to eat it (and apparently ate all of it). Perhaps the biggest revelation to come from the final two hours of The Last Dance was the epiphany that Jordan's legendary "Flu Game"-when he scored 38 points in game 5 of the 1997 finals while visibly ill-was actually not the flu at all. Hopefully you laugh as much at these as Michael Jordan did at the thought of Gary Payton slowing him down. The man is a walking Catch-22 of basketball vengeance, and it's just spectacular.īelow, take a look at some of the funniest memes to come out of ESPN's The Last Dance. Did you not say anything to him? He's coming for you. Did you say something to him? He's coming for you. Rickrolling or a Rickroll, is an internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 song 'Never Gonna Give You Up', performed by the English singer Rick Astley.The video has over 1 billion views on YouTube.The meme is a type of bait and switch, usually using a disguised hyperlink that leads to the music video. In the last couple episodes, people have begun to really notice a pattern: MJ creating motivation for himself at any cost.
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In particular, moments where Jordan reacts to his peers via tablet playback-Dennis Rodman talking about a trip to Vegas, Isiah Thomas talking about his 1992 Dream Team snub, and Gary Payton saying that he thought he got under Michael Jordan's skin defensively during the 1996 finals-have made for excellent fodder. might hold that same distinction for memes). Now, with MJ on TV for two hours a week, internet meme content was created at an all-time pace (the NBA G.O.A.T. The docuseries, which features exclusive all-access footage of that season, along with countless new interviews from the people involved, is just as funny as it is dramatic-which makes for quite a lot of content for the internet to make memes with.Īs you might recall, Michael Jordan's crying face has been an internet meme ever since, well, he cried at his Basketball Hall of Fame induction in 2009.

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For 5 weeks (and a total of 10 hours), sports fans rallied around ESPN's documentary series The Last Dance, which focuses on Michael Jordan, his Chicago Bulls teammates, and their 1997-1998 quest for a sixth championship (spoiler: they won).

With sports all-but-completely-cancelled in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's been a rough run for the usual ESPN faithful-with one bright spot.
