It’s June 2003.
Just last month, in the real world, Michael Jordan – the most famous basketball player of all time – said goodbye to playing that sport professionally for the third and final – as of writing – time. He was in Philadelphia and no longer wearing that famous number 23 for the Chicago Bulls, but he still got a lengthy standing ovation from everyone in the building.
Here, though, the playoff crowd that’s packed into Chicago Stadium almost a decade after it was demolished are sick to their stomachs. Paul Pierce has just drained a three pointer with 38 seconds to go in a game seven, but it means nothing. The New York Knicks have a double-digit lead. The Bulls have run out of time to make a comeback, and they won’t get another.
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