Sure, I live with two sport-obsessed males, but I am actually a huge sports fan, too. Dropping in weekly two-episode installments, it’s quickly replaced ‘Tiger King’ as our iso compulsion and we collectively wait every Monday night for the next two to arrive. ‘The Last Dance,’ the new ESPN / Netflix docuseries which charts the rise of the Chicago Bulls dynasty, is my household’s current binge. So how did I land upon every man’s (and sport fan’s) wet dream as my style icon? Netflix, of course. There’s of course the case of gender, too, but in this day and age such an argument is quickly rebuffed as non-binary fashion rules (and rightly so). So to have Michael Jordan as my current style muse seems slightly strange. I – while I like to consider myself Greek goddess-y – am in reality pint-sized, puny and at the the moment, a little pudgy (thanks to isolation-induced baking). He was physically brutish, burly, beefy and buff. Considering our very palpable physical differences, it may come as a surprise to you that I want to dress like Michael Jordan. I didn’t play 15 seasons in the NBA, win six championships with the Chicago Bulls, six Finals MVPs, or am considered the greatest basketball player of all time, but, I really want to dress like him. I have hips, a bit of a booty and would sit on the “petite” side of things. 45 Jordan jersey on Friday.I am a 5′ 4″ (and a half) Caucasian woman. Sports apparel maker Mitchell & Ness announced it will release a limited edition No. Well, here's another way to look at it:Ģ0yrs ago today failed ChiSox prospect Michael Jordan officially ended his baseball career. as did 2K Games, maker of the NBA 2K video game series.Ģ0 years ago today, Michael Jordan's 2-words rocked the sports world: Ģ0 yrs ago today, Michael Jordan issued the most famous 2-word press release in sports history /2H9fUcMIQR- Chicago Bulls March 18, 2015 The Bulls, of course, marked the anniversary. The Score posted the press release from Falk's agency.Ģ0 years ago today, Michael Jordan returned to the NBA: “I’m back.” /CbHX3VWS6w- theScore March 18, 2015 Tribune photographer Jim Prisching captured Jordan leaving his first practice at the Berto Center in Deerfield. And here's the Tribune's front page on March 19. In other MJ news RT 20 years ago today, Michael Jordan sent a fax: /d66qUxiUpS- David Just March 18, 2015Ģ0 years ago today, Michael Jordan ended retirement with a two-word fax: "I'm Back." /7MEXsNCads- NY Daily News Sports March 18, 2015 The New York Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times posted their front pages from the following day. Complex Sports imagines how, if Jordan returned in 2015 instead of 1995, he would break the Internet. It was elegant in simplicity, it communicated how he felt, it said it all." "I thought I was a pretty good writer, written a lot of things, but he said, 'Let me do this.' So he sat down at the table and thought about it for a couple of minutes and he wrote, 'I'm Back.' He said, 'OK, that's it.' It was classic Michael Jordan. "He felt that it didn't require an explanation or a justification," said Falk, who faxed the final press release to media outlets. Bleacher Report recounts how Jordan and his team came up with the simply worded yet iconic press release. Adande explains how tedious it was spreading the Jordan news via fax. Below, several sports sites and fans recalled how his return rocked the sports world: Jordan made the first of what would be two comeback announcements via a fax sent by his agent, David Falk. Twenty years ago to the day on Wednesday, then-retired NBA legend Michael Jordan said those two little words that made Bulls fans swoon: "I'm back."
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