Everyone in “The Last Dance” has a Michael Story.
Maybe it’s one they’ve told enough times at dinner parties or family gatherings that the timing has been workshopped to perfection.
In some cases, the story might have drifted so far from the truth that it exists as its own self-perpetuating myth.
Over the course of 10 episodes of “The Last Dance,” the ESPN documentary series examining the singular stardom of Michael Jordan through the lens of the legendary Chicago Bulls 1997-98 title run, the breadth of subjects and timelines almost makes the veracity of those stories irrelevant.Directed by Jason Hehir, whose previous projects include multiple editions of ESPN’s long-running “30 for 30” series, “The Last Dance” is less an investigation of a sports dynasty’s last flames and more the chronicle of how improbable its survival always was.
The goal seems to be to make a definitive
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