The Last Dance

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The album went platinum but has nothing like the kind of afterlife that Sirius has enjoyed.

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Man, every time that song gets me every time, Steph Currysaidof Sirius back in 2016.

The song that gave Curry chills ran under the P.A.

And still it works.

But theres only so much dramatic or narrative tension in play.

The team winning its third straight championship and sixth in eight seasons is anything but a spoiler.

(The very fact that this series is somehow two hourslongerthanESPNs sprawling eight-part documentaryplacing O.J.

He seems to find some strange second plateau, or is propelled uncannily forward after seeming to pause.

The people around him go up and down, and Jordan is frozen alone at his zenith.

An hour is a long time to wait for the pregame fanfare.

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