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Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I am Mike Lupik, MLB.com, New York Daily News.

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It's out now.

And, man, I'll tell you what, the last dance just keeps getting better and better.

I said to Alex Lupica last night, can't they do 20 instead of just 10? It is,

it has become appointment viewing, the likes of which other than live events, I cannot

remember in my career covering sports. And what, I mean, there were several moments last night

and there's a lot to unpack. But the moment where Michael looked into the camera and basically said, yeah, this is who I am, this is who I was, this is why we won, this is why I acted the way I did.

And finally, his eyes fill with tears and he says break and he gets out of the chairs of all the

moments so far and there was a great one later after the they won after the death of his father

and he's on the four crying and hugging the ball guys that moment last night was um as close to a

surprise ending as you can have detailing a career of this particular guy.

Yes. It's all, I think one, the overriding thing here is just showing people the human,

the humanization, if you will, of Michael Jordan, that yes, he was alternately a lot of things, including, you know, ruthless on the court

and ruthless with his teammates and all.

But just, you know, the whole complexity of what drove him, what mattered to him, what,

just he couldn't help being himself.

He couldn't imagine being any other way, right?

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