“The Last Dance” reached its conclusion on Sunday night.
Over the past five weekends, people across the country have watched Michael Jordan and his Bulls’ teams venture through the 90s on their way to six NBA titles. Twitter has become a family reunion on those nights. Everybody gets together because sports are back for two hours, and social media floods with takes, jokes and reactions.
For episodes nine and 10, it was no different. Reggie Miller, the Jazz and a few too many pizza delivery people captured Twitter’s attention right away.
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Sporting News collected the best tweets from the final night of “The Last Dance.”
Reggie Miller only refers to Jordan as “Black Jesus,” “Black Cat” or “Jordan”
“Don’t ever talk trash to Black Jesus!” MJ to Reggie after dropping 37pts on him #thelastdance
— Quentin Richardson (@QRich) May 18, 2020
“it became personal for me.”
– Michael Jordan describing the 1998 Eastern Conference Finals, also every single minor inconvenience of his life.
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) May 18, 2020
Jordan: *Sneezes*
Me: “Bless you, Mike”
MJ: “…and that’s when I started to take it personal”#TheLastDance
— Jeff (@JeffJSays) May 18, 2020
“I ordered my lunch, paid and they brought it out to me. You could say that made it personal for me”- Michael Jordan https://t.co/mxSCqwJNk8
— Trill Withers (@TylerIAm) May 18, 2020
That Larry Bird face after that ridiculous Reggie shot is a next level compliment to Jordan…
— Cassidy Hubbarth (@CassidyHubbarth) May 18, 2020
A rookie Byron Russell asked Jordan why he quit. He shouldn’t have.
“From that point on, he’s been on my list.” – Michael Jordan about Bryon Russell, but also about everyone
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) May 18, 2020
bryon russell told michael jordan he could guard him when jordan was retired so jordan came back and hit two game-winners on him in the finals lol that’s an all-universe level of petty
— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) May 18, 2020
Jordan says the ‘flu game’ was actually food poisoning courtesy of Utah pizza
michael jordan saying he ate the whole pizza by himself is the only time michael jordan has ever said that i implicitly understood and identified with lol
— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) May 18, 2020
love that Jordan’s trainer was like “four guys at the door delivering one pizza. in enemy territory during the finals. i have to say, i’ve got a bad feeling about this.” and then they still ate it anyway. that shit had to smell like heaven.
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) May 18, 2020
im just so confused did someone pick up the phone and say hello i would like one pizza for nba superstar michael jordan
— Matt Ellentuck (@mellentuck) May 18, 2020
The end of episode nine touches on Steve Kerr and the murder of his father
nah. his personal story is compelling, and this doc is intended to be about the bulls, not simply jordan. also connects kerr and jordan through the shared experience of losing their fathers. #thelastdance https://t.co/PXXOVt2X4j
— bomani (@bomani_jones) May 18, 2020
“During the national anthem I would think about my dad, that he would love this right now. He wouldn’t even believe it, but he would love this.”
– Steve Kerr— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) May 18, 2020
In five seasons with the Bulls, Steve Kerr shot 48 percent from 3.
48 percent.
— Robert Mays (@robertmays) May 18, 2020