Jason Hehir: Last News

If you’re wondering why Michael Jordan is making headlines again — 22 years after his final season with the Chicago Bulls — it’s because the basketball legend is the subject of ESPN’s highly-anticipated documentary. Director Jason Hehir’s 10-part series will look back on Jordan’s entire career while chronicling the Bulls’ efforts to win a sixth NBA title during the 1997-98 season.  

Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time and still one of the most recognizable people in the world, almost 20 years after his final retirement from basketball. He's been the subject of bestselling books like The Jordan Rules and When Nothing Else Matters and his own 30 for 30 documentary, Jordan Rides the Bus, about his time playing baseball in 1994. But he's never been covered as comprehensively as he is in Jason Hehir's 10-part docuseries The Last Dance, which premieres April 19 on ESPN. The limited series is as complete a portrait of Michael Jordan's extraordinary basketball career as fans will ever get. It's a Citizen Kane-like biography of Jordan's relentless pursuit of greatness at all costs.

Trust Michael Jordan to save the day for NBA fans starved of their hoops fix with “The Last Dance.”

By Jill Goldsmith

Matthew Carey For The Last Dance, the ESPN documentary series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, director Jason Hehir interviewed more than a hundred people, including two former presidents—Clinton and Obama—and a noted international diplomat. That would be Dennis Rodman, former star rebounder and occasional envoy to North Korea.“It was harder to get Dennis Rodman in the chair than it was to get Obama in the chair, and it was harder to get him to pay attention than it was to get President Obama,” Hehir recalls.

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