'The Last Dance' Takeaways: Owning The Moment

Posted May 18, 2020
The “flu game” in 1997 vs. Utah was actually food poisoning. Michael Jordan’s performance in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals while ill can only be characterized as super-human. Episode 9 lays out the full story that the real issue was a bad pizza that caused Jordan food poisoning. Jordan shouldn’t have played in the game, but did anyway. (Inside Carolina)

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