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Netflix documentary “The Last Dance”: Michael Jordan poisoned with pizza

In the Netflix documentary “The Last Dance”, a private trainer revealed incredible things: basketball icon Michael Jordan was poisoned with a pizza – with devastating consequences.

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Offenbach – The documentation has been flickering for a few weeks “The Last Dance” about basketball icon Michael Jordan at Netflix across the screens. Every week the streaming service publishes two episodes of the season, which comprises a total of ten stages. On Monday (May 18th, 2020) the episodes nine and ten followed – and revealed an absolute hammer.

Netflix documentary “The Last Dance” revealed: Michael Jordan was poisoned with pizza

So should Michael Jordan during the 1997 NBA final series against the Utah Jazz poisoned with a pizza. At least that is reported by Tim Grover, Jordan’s personal fitness trainer “The Last Dance” on Netflix. But one after the other.

Michael Jordan in the Chicago Bulls game against the Utah Jazz. In the Netflix documentary “The Last Dance”, a trainer revealed: Michael Jordan was poisoned.

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It’s game 5 in the playoffs between Jordans Chicago Bulls and Utah at. Michael Jordan got the flu the night before – and still plays the next day. The match writes sports history as a “flu game”. So the previous version. In episode nine of the Netflix documentary, however, a different story comes to light.

Trainer reveals in Netflix documentary “The Last Dance”: Michael Jordan was poisoned with pizza

Jordan gets against late in the evening before the match Utah suddenly hungry. The problem: The Bulls sleep in a hotel outside of Salt Lake City, there is no 24-hour service. So MJ orders one from a delivery service Pizza – with serious consequences.

Grover accepts the delivery in the Netflix-Docu he reveals: “Suddenly there were five boys at the door and delivered a pizza. They tried to look past me into the room, they seemed to know that Michael was there. I didn’t feel good about this pizza“Was there a Utah fan working in the supplier’s kitchen?

Michael Jordan poisoned with pizza? Details come out in Netflix’s documentary “The Last Dance”

Jordan eats them Pizza alone, in the night around 2.30 a.m. he suddenly wakes up. He has to vomit again and again. Grover reports: “At 3:00 am MJ called me and ordered me to his room. He was huddled in bed, trembling. I called the team doctor. “

Maybe a Utah fan was working in the supplier’s kitchen? In the podcast “Pardon My Take” Grover suspects bad things: “Michael had no signs of flu in the evening and I don’t think it can happen that quickly. But I know that this happens with food poisoning. It was 100 percent bad food. ”

Netflix documentary “The Last Dance”: Michael Jordan plays big – despite poisoning

And Jordan? Dragging after enjoying the Pizza the next day, pale as a sheet on the parquet. After all, it’s for his Bulls in this fifth game for everything. Jordan looks exhausted, doesn’t play a good first quarter and then: he explodes. The basketball icon gives Utah 38 points and leads Chicago to an important 90:88 away win. Historical!

After the match, Jordan fell into the arms of his teammate Scottie Pippen. But Utah is beaten. Was the Pizza actually poisoned? One thing is certain: Jordan’s illness had devastating consequences: for Utah Jazz.

Next “The Last Dance” TV junkies can enjoy further innovations at Netflix in May 2020 *. Among others, Netflix star Janina Uhse can be seen in “Berlin, Berlin” *.

But be careful! Netflix is ​​fighting against illegal sharing of subscriptions * and accounts. Users could soon be punished.

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By Nico Check

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