The end of the eighth episode of the ESPN documentary “The Last Dance” on Sunday delved some into the 1996 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics.
It was very close to being a series between the Bulls and the Utah Jazz. As things happened, it would have been the first of three Finals matchups between Chicago and Utah instead of just the two that happened in 1997 and 1998.
The 1996 Western Conference finals featured the Jazz and the Seattle SuperSonics. Seattle was the top seed in the conference after finishing the regular season 64-18, while Utah was the third seed, having gone 55-27 (the San Antonio Spurs were the second seed, but the Jazz beat them in the second round).