For the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, much like the 2018-19 Golden State Warriors, victory was both an aspiration and an obstacle.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic pausing sports, ESPN pushed up the release date of “The Last Dance” — the highly anticipated documentary about Michael Jordan’s final season as a Bull — to Sunday. The hype has coincided with the release of “The Victory Machine” by Ethan Sherwood Strauss, a Warriors scribe for The Athletic who examined the rise and fall of the dynasty through Golden State’s final season with Kevin Durant.