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Michael Jordan Snatched The City Of Cleveland’s Soul 25 Years Ago Today With “The Shot”
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2014/05/michael-jordan-the-shot-cavaliers
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...20140507_1_michael-jordan-cavaliers-100-bulls
"The Shot" turned 25 Wednesday.
That the basket needs no other name certainly in Chicago and more often than not elsewhere speaks to the influence of Michael Jordan.
Even 25 years later, Jordan hangs in the air an impossibly long time, finally unleashing the foul-line jumper over Craig Ehlo that sank the Cavaliers in the fifth and deciding game of their first-round series with the Bulls and silenced the Cleveland crowd.
Bulls 101, Cavaliers 100.
Doug Collins still may be dancing.
At 57-25, the Cavaliers had tied for the league’s second-best record and gone 6-0 during the regular season against the Bulls. The Bulls were still on their slow climb to respectability, two years from the first of their six NBA championships in eight seasons.
The reactions in the shot are priceless. There’s Jordan pumping his fist repeatedly before getting swallowed in an embrace by inbounder Brad Sellers. There’s Collins, frenetically running and hugging almost anything that moved, including a young, mustachioed assistant coach Phil Jackson. The lithe Scottie Pippen danced off the floor. A stoic Bill Cartwright caught the ball as it nestled through the hoop, bouncing it down matter-of-factly before exiting.
A quarter-century later, it’s all still exhilarating.
“That’s probably the biggest shot I’ve had in the NBA mainly because I had my credibility on the line,” Jordan said afterward, as quoted by Hall of Famer and former Tribune basketball writer Sam Smith. “I said we could beat this team.”
The Bulls did. The images and memories will linger for all time.
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Michael Jordan Snatched The City Of Cleveland’s Soul 25 Years Ago Today With “The Shot”
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2014/05/michael-jordan-the-shot-cavaliers
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...20140507_1_michael-jordan-cavaliers-100-bulls
"The Shot" turned 25 Wednesday.
That the basket needs no other name certainly in Chicago and more often than not elsewhere speaks to the influence of Michael Jordan.
Even 25 years later, Jordan hangs in the air an impossibly long time, finally unleashing the foul-line jumper over Craig Ehlo that sank the Cavaliers in the fifth and deciding game of their first-round series with the Bulls and silenced the Cleveland crowd.
Bulls 101, Cavaliers 100.
Doug Collins still may be dancing.
At 57-25, the Cavaliers had tied for the league’s second-best record and gone 6-0 during the regular season against the Bulls. The Bulls were still on their slow climb to respectability, two years from the first of their six NBA championships in eight seasons.
The reactions in the shot are priceless. There’s Jordan pumping his fist repeatedly before getting swallowed in an embrace by inbounder Brad Sellers. There’s Collins, frenetically running and hugging almost anything that moved, including a young, mustachioed assistant coach Phil Jackson. The lithe Scottie Pippen danced off the floor. A stoic Bill Cartwright caught the ball as it nestled through the hoop, bouncing it down matter-of-factly before exiting.
A quarter-century later, it’s all still exhilarating.
“That’s probably the biggest shot I’ve had in the NBA mainly because I had my credibility on the line,” Jordan said afterward, as quoted by Hall of Famer and former Tribune basketball writer Sam Smith. “I said we could beat this team.”
The Bulls did. The images and memories will linger for all time.
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