And then Michael Jordan hit the back of his head on the backboard.
When more than 20 years have passed since the prime of His Airness, and more than 17 years have come and gone since his final NBA game, you tend to forget at least a few of the highlights of the greatest basketball player ever.
But there it was during Sunday night’s first two installments of “The Last Dance,” which is officially about the final championship season of the Chicago Bulls, but is really a 10-part tribute to the untouchable career of MJ.
So there was Jordan, clad in that iconic, V-necked Carolina Blue No. 23 road uniform of his, banging the back of his head on the bottom of a Cameron Indoor Stadium backboard as he rose to block a shot from Duke’s Johnny Dawkins.
According to the video, the officials reportedly called goaltending on the play (party poopers!) and MJ actually had to leave the game for a few minutes due to the collision.