The Rodzilla wrote:Lucky Clover wrote:The Rodzilla wrote:
this article confirms that Jordan sat on this until June 2016 when LeBron won in Cleveland
Yup as expected, typical stan that will flip things to be however he wants them which is actually far from what reality is as explained on the article.
Thanks for confirming kiddo!
can you explain to me what the official ESPN/MJ version of events is? because im having trouble understanding what your point is
they had the footage in 1998 and they decided to make the documentary in June 2016, that's about 6500 days of waiting to do it
i think its quite easy to see what happened, LeBron won the title and he looked so good wearing the trophy and the ultimate warrior shirt at the parade that Jordan panicked and greenlit the documentary
btw i thank you for linking that article, not only does it confirm what i said but it also proves that this is a carefully crafted Jordan propaganda series because they had to go through hoops for him to agree to do it
or.. he didn't want to make it and it took someone coming along to convince him that they'd take several years to put this together. All of which that timeline was all done by the producer Mike Tollin. But in your head this story plays out like this -- Jordan must've been so insecure to watch how the Cavs were doing all year and then to stretch it out to June where he didn't even know whether or not the Cavs would be in the finals let alone to magically win it because of a chokejob but that's why he chose to do it. Hah. It even sounds funny typing it up.
Here's what actually happened though if you bothered to read and not spin it to whatever folklore viewpoint you wanted it to be.
In February 2016, he saw an opening.
"The O.J. [Simpson] documentary had just premiered at Sundance the previous month at eight episodes and like 450 minutes," Tollin said. "['Making a Murderer'] had just premiered on Netflix at 10 episodes. ... People were now consuming longform documentaries, multipart documentaries.
"As a guy who's done documentaries since the '70s, less was always more. And now all of a sudden, more is more."
He arranged a meeting with Polk and Estee Portnoy, two of Jordan's most trusted business associates, to make his pitch.
"So I said to them, 'We could do this as six or eight episodes. So we can see the character arcs play out over the course of all this time. We can see the storylines, we can really dig in and tell the story that nobody's ever really contextualized properly,'" Tollin said.
Over the next few months, the conversations continued. Tollin sketched out a proposal of what an eight-episode series might look like. Finally, in June 2016, a meeting was set with Jordan, now owner of the Charlotte Hornets.
Also before that there were plenty of people that had heard about this documentary that never were fully serious about making. Hell Jordan didn't even want any of this footage and it took Adam Silver convincing him that he would have rights to it and the decision making as to when someone could actually come along and do something with it. It's pretty clear that from an objective point of view this has no correlation at all to LeBron James whatsoever. But keep trying buddy, let me know when you find at least one person on here that actually agrees with you. Luckily most of RealGM sees right through you.
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