“The Last Dance” spent a solid slice of its 10 hours documenting the rise of Michael Jordan and the Bulls honing in on the team’s fiercest rivals of the dynasty.
Some — Clyde Drexler and the 1992 Trail Blazers, Gary Payton and 1996 Super Sonics, etc. — Jordan quickly dismissed. Others — the Bad Boy Pistons, 1998 Pacers, etc. — gave the Bulls fits, though all ultimately served as obstacles Jordan eventually conquered.
But there was one possible adversary, unmentioned in most tales of Jordan lore, that could have drastically altered the course of that time period: Len Bias.