#340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
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On the night that the Chicago Bulls were eliminated from the nineteen ninety five NBA playoffs by the Orlando Magic. I sat with Michael in the darkened arena until three AM. He had just returned to basketball two months earlier. Following his first retirement and brief baseball career. So much had happened in the last year.
Dressed in a suit and tie. He looked around the brand new arena that had replaced the legendary Chicago Stadium earlier that season and said I hate this fucking building. You built. This fucking building, I said.
During that series, some of the Orlando Magic players said that he didn't look like the old number twenty three. Which he didn't. He was wearing number forty five. And he wasn't ready. And I knew it better than anyone else.
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