“The flu game” is Page 1 of Michael Jordan canon.
Utter the phrase, and every basketball fan knows it’s a reference to Jordan battling through illness to beat the Utah Jazz in the NBA Finals. It turns out, we’ve had it wrong all this time.
At least according to Jordan and his crew.
Episode 9 of “The Last Dance” on Sunday has changed the narrative and spawned a new conspiracy theory.
So there was no flu?
Jordan told the story of hanging out with trainer Tim Grover and personal assistant George Koehler in his Utah hotel room the night before Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals.