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But occasionally, other people get to tell their side of the Jordan story, too.
Of all of them, who is the best?
Turn onSirius,and lets run down this sprawling squad.
Note: This post covers only interview subjects who appeared in the first eight episodes ofThe Last Dance.
It will be updated once ESPN provides screeners for the last two installments.
Justin Timberlake, singerWhen people parody documentaries likeThe Last Dance, this is what theyre mocking.
That Krause is no longer around to defend himself makes it even grosser.
Even putting aside Clintons track record of being anunreliable narrator, its not exactly fascinating stuff.
Buzz Peterson, UNC teammateNotable for being a dead ringer for actor Christopher McDonald.
Billy Packer, college-basketball broadcasterJust here to give some basic information about Jordans UNC career.
Howard Knight, Nike executiveI get it, they had to include the shoes.
Steve East, Scottie Pippens UCA teammateDoesnt say much, but has a bit of an aw-shucks charm.
Bob Costas, broadcasterHisarchival segmentsare better.
Fred Lynch, Jordans high-school coachLynch gets the gig of telling the obligatory cut from varsity story.
As NBC used to say, if you havent seen it, its new to you!
Sidney Moncrief, Milwaukee Bucks playerAn early Goliath who gets taken down.
More interesting as an embodiment of all the great players Jordan would overshadow than for anything he says.
Mike Barnett, Birmingham Bulls hitting coachHere to overturn the conventional wisdom that Jordan was a bad baseball player.
He started out with a 13-game hitting streak!
Hannah Storm, broadcasterLike Costas, mostly there to handle timeline transitions.
Ron Coley, Jordans high-school coachAnother guy from way back, with a voice I would describe as syrupy.
Charles Oakley, Bulls teammateHes there in person, but Oakleys most memorable quotes aroundThe Last Danceareextratextual.
Ronnie Martin, Scottie Pippens childhood friendOf all the one-off interviewees, Martin shows the best comic timing.
Pippen always knew he was gonna make it to the NBA, he tells the filmmakers.
Did anyone believe him?
Jim Stack, Bulls front-office staffStrong hair and a twitchy demeanor give Stack extreme character-actor energy.
But at least we get a glimpse of Pytkas gloriously leonine mane.
Chip Schaefer, Bulls athletic trainerSecretly a Joe Lo Truglio character.
Joe Kleine, Bulls teammateLike hisnamesake, pretty anonymous, but dishes good goss.
Reggie Miller, Pacers playerOur viewpoint into theSpace Jampickup games.
He seems slightly bummed about it.
Adande, broadcasterThe Squirtle to Michael Wilbons Wartortle.
Glen Rice, Hornets playerStill seems to be visibly traumatized by his memories of playing against Jordan.
Joe ONeill, Bulls director of ticketingAnother guy who justfeelsChicago.
Hes good at it, but eventually his segments grate from overuse.
Second only to Jordan in finger wags per minute.
Jud Buechler, Bulls teammateThe least screen time of the cavalcade of Bulls role-players.
Wears a nice sweater.
Appears to live in Viola Daviss apartment fromWidows.
David Falk, Jordans agent.Gravelly.
You dont fuck with him.
But when he does speak, its with the wisdom and authority of a thousand-year-old tree.
But even he comes around to the view that it was what the team needed to be great.
Roy Williams, UNC coachA genteel Southerner with a perpetual twinkle in his eye.
He gives great quote, especially when raving about how Jordan never frickin turned it off!
He brings some surprising introspection to his loss in the 1993 Finals.
Sports are like a gunfight, Barkley muses.
And we lost to the fastest gun.
Rick Telander, Bulls beat writerThe unheralded role-player of the documentary.
Does a lot of the yeomans work of exposition, and does it quietly.
Bumped up for his amazing handlebar mustache.
Whatever youre picturing, Grover does not disappoint.
The editing does him extremely dirty on this front.
She delivers it in a way that brings the history back to life.
Toni Kukoc, Bulls teammateKukoc provides an interesting counter-narrative to the M.J.-Pippen party line.
(I treasure his delivery when talking about the way Scottie defended Magic: Nobodydid that.)
Dennis Rodman, Bulls teammateNot always the most coherent interview subject, but 21st-century Rodman remains a fascinating character.
But he was great throughout happy, boisterous, and surprisingly youthful.
A deserved legacy boost for the third-best player on the initial three-peat squad.
Hes the embodiment of the Bad Boy Pistons, an eyebrow-arching bitch who absolutely lives for drama.
(He also does a hilarious impression of young Dennis Rodman.)
The only thing separating Pippen from the No.
But at least Scotties always been comfortable on that end.
Phil Jackson, Bulls coachA man so Zen he seems to have ascended off this earthly plane completely.
Theres no score-settling or lingering resentment from Jackson, just total equanimity.
For one shining scene, Air Jordan becomes mortal.
