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Article: MJ's outing a classic
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1998
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MJ made sure that the final chapter in the Chicago Bulls' dynasty
of the 1990s was most memorable.
With his main sidekick, Scottie Pippen, hobbling around after
suffering back spasms, Michael Jordan was misfiring at an alarming
rate.
But like so many times before, he came through with Game 6 on the
line to catapult the Chicago Bulls to their third consecutive title
and their sixth of the 1990s.
MJ didn't want any part of a Game 7, so he set out on one of those
Jordanesque scoring binges, vanquishing a gutsy Utah Jazz squad,
87-86, on Sunday at the Delta Center.
"It's bittersweet in the sense that it was the toughest route
that we have had in the six championships that we have won," said ...