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A joke went viral in the Philippines that has led locals to believe former president Ferdinand Marcos interacted with a young Michael Jordan that is being debunked by HBO’s  Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. “It seems to have originated as a joke but has since been passed around completely seriously,” Oliver says…

EXCLUSIVE: With the NBA’s 75th season underway, Mike Tollin — who helped produce last year’s Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance — has found another basketball legend whose story he’s looking to tell. Tollin’s MSM is planning a new documentary on the life of George Gervin, aka “The Iceman,” who was just named to…

National Basketball Assn. legend Michael Jordan was not an easy sell on the docuseries The Last Dance. Producer Mike Tollin told a Producers Guild panel of Non-Scripted Television producers that the NBA had kept 500 hours of footage from Jordan's final season,1997-1998, pending Jordan's approval to release it. Tollin…

It’s been a tough year for many. So in separate announcements, basketball legend Michael Jordan and the cast of The Goonies are stepping up to channel funding toward feeding the hungry. Jordan will be donating $2 million from his HBO retrospective The Last Dance to the Feeding America charity and its member food banks…

Michael Jordan is now dipping his feet into the world of competitive racing as he teams with NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin to create a new group for Bubba Wallace. Hamlin announced the new collaboration for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series via Twitter on Monday. He wrote that he and Jordan, a friend of 11 years, are ready to…

He's won six NBA championships and is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time and tonight Michael Jordan helped the team behind ESPN's The Last Dance win an Emmy. The Last Dance beat Netflix's Tiger King, Hulu's Hillary, PBS' American Masters and HBO's McMillion$ to win Outstanding Documentary or…

Michael Jordan, the NBA immortal who is chairman of the Charlotte Hornets, has taken an equity stake in sports betting firm DraftKings and become a special advisor to the company’s board of directors. In a press release, the company said Jordan will be “providing guidance and strategic advice to the board of directors…

The almost first female POTUS is in the game, but the playoff in the Emmy docuseries category looks to be a battle between Joe Exotic and Michael Jordan. Facing Hulu's Hillary, PBS' venerable American Masters and HBO's McMillion$, the very well watched Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness and The Last Dance snagged…

For The Last Dance, the ESPN documentary series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, director Jason Hehir interviewed more than a hundred people, including two former presidents—Clinton and Obama—and a noted international diplomat. That would be Dennis Rodman, former star rebounder and occasional envoy to North…

Basketball great Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand plan to donate $100 million over the next 10 years to organizations “dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education.”  “Black lives matter,” said the statement on social media announcing the donation. “This isn’t a…

Sports legend and basketball icon Michael Jordan has joined prominent names in the Black community in regards to the murder of George Floyd. Jordan’s manager and spokeswoman, Estee Portnoy released his statement via social media: “I am deeply saddened, truly pained and plain angry. I see and feel everyone's pain…

Turns out it wasn’t the last dance, after all. Hot on the heels of the ratings bonanza that was The Last Dance on ESPN, ABC will broadcast the 10-part sports documentary chronicling the life and career of NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and his championship Chicago Bulls' teams of the 1990s. ABC will begin the…