Michael Jordan says he regrets leaving this Bulls player out of ‘The Last Dance’ documentary.
Luc Longley, who played a significant role on the 1990s Chicago Bulls, claimed he was “bummed” to not see himself included in the 10-part documentary series.
As NBA fans watched ESPN’s 10-part documentary series on Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls last year, former Bulls starting centre Luc Longley anxiously expected a feature about his contributions to the club, but it never arrived.
Jordan, whose firm assisted in the production of his The Last Dance series, said in a recent interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the documentary should have featured more footage of Longley, an Australian basketball player who helped the Bulls win three consecutive NBA titles from 1996 to 1998.
“I see why Australia may respond, ‘Well, why wouldn’t we include Luc?’ “And we probably should have,” Jordan, 58, told the publication.
“And if I look back and could change anything,” he said, “that’s probably what I would have changed.”
Longley, 52, acknowledged to being upset that he did not have a greater role in The Last Dance, while keeping his expectations low because he was not interviewed.
“Sitting there on the couch and watching episode after episode where I wasn’t in it — yeah, I was bummed about that,” Longley was quoted as saying by ABC. “Why wasn’t I in the documentary? I don’t know, to be honest.”
“I didn’t expect to be a heavy feature in it because they hadn’t interviewed me, but I did expect to be in it more than I was,” he added. “I would like to have been in the doco so that Australian kids saw that there was an Australian in that team doing that thing.”
Jason Herir, who directed The Last Dance, told the outlet Longley wasn’t interviewed because it would have been too expensive to send a crew to Australia.
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