Three years ago, on April 19, 2020, as the world entered quarantine, The Last Dance was released on Netflix, depicting the Chicago Bulls‘ final season together with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen at the helm. It swept the basketball world, and Jordan’s relationships, Dennis Rodman‘s antics, and everything in between became the talk of the town.
The documentary touched on Jordan’s path to NBA prowess and how the team came together, but some people were left out of the story. One of those guys was big man Luc Longley. The Australian center wasn’t a part of the documentary, but when it was all said and done, he was fine with it.
When the show came out, and Longley wasn’t a huge part of it, there was local backlash, and it resulted in ABC putting out a two-episode documentary on Longley alone. Now, he said that he’s glad The Last Dance left him out.
“This didn’t happen – they were all Jordan, [Scott] Pippen and [Dennis] Rodman [jerseys]- there were Longley jerseys but never a display or a shop window like this,” Longley told The Sydney Morning Herald. “I wish my kids could see this. When we were in the middle of it, it was just part of the landscape of being a Bull. I didn’t take it for granted, but I didn’t feel the same level of pride in it as I do now for whatever reason. Thank you for leaving me out of the Netflix doco because this wouldn’t have happened if they had put me in it.
Longley won three championships with the Bulls, and now, he’s getting the flowers he deserves from his local community.
