Editor’s note: B.J. Armstrong, a Los Angeles-based sports agent who played with the Chicago Bulls during the 1991, 1992 and 1993 championship …
Editor’s note: B. J. Armstrong, a Los Angeles-based sports agent who played with the Chicago Bulls during the 1991,1992 and 1993 championship seasons, offered perspective and analysis to the Associated Press throughout the airing of “The Last Dance“ series. With the final two episodes airing Sunday night, Armstrong, a former Iowa guard and the Hawkeyes‘ fifth all-time leading scorer, shared his insight in an essay — as told to AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds — on the 10-part documentary.
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It took me a little while to realize that Michael Jordan was rarely around when we were on the road together.
We were teammates for parts of five seasons, which means we played more than 200 road games together. Life on the road on an off day gets monotonous; you go to dinner, you go to the movies, sometimes you walk around the city. And whatever we did, Michael usually wasn’t with the group.
He was always in his room. It had to be tough, right? That’s when it hit me: You need to have a certain personality to absorb the public life that comes with being a superstar.
For the last five weeks, for two hours every Sunday night, Michael finally showed us what his life was like in “The Last Dance” series from ESPN and Netflix.
He made the game look easy.
But being Michael Jordan, and all that came with it, that wasn’t easy.
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It all happened gradually and really took off around 1992 when he went to the Olympics and we had won our second championship.
