“Six!” Michael Jordan bellowed.
“Six!” Scottie Pippen followed.
“Six of them,” Jordan repeated with the same satisfied smile on his face in the aftermath of triumph. “You can say whatever you want. They can’t win until we quit.”
Truer words might never been spoken in the bowels of the then-Delta Center after the Chicago Bulls won their sixth NBA championship by defeating the Utah Jazz in the 1998 Finals.
It was as perilous of a Finals series Jordan had endured over the decade even though it finished in six games.