RSP83 wrote:There's really zero to little upside of doing this for Pippen, Grant, and Longley.
Financially, there's nothing to gain. Neither of them have any platform or large fanbase.
For older fans we watched that team and knew who they are and we're already holding them to high regards despite Last Dance. We older fans are thankful for those years, and we don't discount their contribution. So doing this won't change anything for me as part of old Bulls fanbase. They don't have to do this. We get it. We still love you.
For younger fans, they won't care. How much do I care about Bob Love's legacy who was way beyond my time? Do I care if he stepped up call out an ex-teammate for their past toxic behavior? No, and neither will the younger generation Bulls fans on this No Bull Tour.
The only people who care about this are those whose main interest is reducing MJ's legacy for whatever reason (e.g., the Lebron-sexuals). And for media and content creator this drives traffic into their platform.
The biggest losers are Pippen, Grant, and Longley themselves. I can't imagine they get meaningful gain out of this, unless they're so fragile mentally that they really need this to set them straight.
I wonder how many times you write posts like this when MJ would do something to promote his own interests.
This hero worship crap about professional athletes, actors, musicians, TV personalities never made a lick of sense to me. Even when I was young and not the crotchety old man I am today.
These guys are just regular flawed human beings who are elite at something that entertains us. That’s it. If you admire things they do in their private lives (like Luol Deng for example) that’s great and they should be complimented and respected for specific acts. But we still don’t know them.
This is especially so in MJ’s case when virtually everything about him off the basketball court suggests that on a personal level there is very little to admire. If you took what you know about Michael Jordan and strip away the basketball part, it’s kinda ugly.
To some extent I admit this is a pet peeve of mine that extends beyond MJ to fame-deference in general. So I’m probably extra harsh. I don’t understand hero worship of humans as people simply because of a skill. Admire the skill? Love the skill? Respect the work and craft? Absolutely. But the rest of it, I’ll just never understand it. Especially taking it to the point of tearing down others for doing the same thing (even on a smaller scale) as the perceived hero, like in this thread.