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19 years ago, Michael Jordan ended the Bulls’ dynasty with “The Last Shot”

June 14, 1998: the day Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls completed one of the greatest stretches in history of basketball.

With the Bulls trailing 86-85 inside of the final minute and the Utah Jazz looking to force a Game 7 at home in the 1998 NBA Finals, Karl Malone got the ball on the low block. What happened next was one of the most memorable moments in NBA history.

Michael Jordan came off Jeff Hornacek defensively in the lane, stripped Malone of the ball, gathered it, brought it down and with a slight little push off a nice right-to-left crossover, sent Byron Russell flying out of the way and rose to drain a jumper that gave the Bulls an 87-86 lead with 05.