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This is the sports reporters.

Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.

I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I'm Michael Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.

And I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press, and you're listening to the Sports

Supporters podcast, the podcast incarnation of long-running Sunday morning TV show on ESPN.

We now have moved it to Mondays and Thursdays, twice as nice.

Monday is very convenient because if we have been doing the sports reporters on Sunday mornings,

we would have had to look forward to the last dance chapters on Michael Jordan,

instead of being able to talk about the Monday morning quarterbacking them.

And the series is over now, parts 9 and 10 airing last night.

And so the whole thing can now be put into its perspective.

And let's kick that off here on the show,

talking about the whole perspective.

I thought the thing that jumped out and what was I was waiting to hear for all the episodes

is what would have happened to Michael Jordan and the Bulls

if they hadn't been broken apart,

if they hadn't had their coach go elsewhere, Michael Jordan go retire again, Dennis Rodman

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