Fansided · May 15, 2020
What if? Series: 1996 Orlando Magic vs. Seattle Supersonics
Without Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the picture, the late 1990s would have been run by the Orlando Magic and Seattle SuperSonics.
The main villain of Episode 8 of The Last Dance was Michael Jordan’s own imagined enemies. The purpose of the episode was to set up the Chicago Bulls’ 1998 Eastern Conference Finals battle with the Indiana Pacers and explain what drove Jordan to lead the Chicago Bulls to the historic 72-10 1996 championship season.
The opponents in that 1996 season were inconsequential. Not the team that beat him the year before and inspired his drive to become the force that would bludgeon the NBA three more times.