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YouTube Gold: Michael Jordan’s Flu Game

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Michael Jordan did many extraordinary things as a basketball player, starting with hitting the winning shot when he was a UNC freshman to give the Tar Heels the 1982 NCAA title over Patrick Ewing and Georgetown.

You could go down the list and pick any number of things, but perhaps the most defining moment of Jordan’s career was the so-called flu game.

In 1997, the Chicago Bulls were back in the Finals against the Utah Jazz and were tied 2-2 with Game 5 to be played in Salt Lake City.

But there was a snag: although it is called the Flu Game, Jordan actually had food poisoning.