![]() ![]() We were behind the scenes, we were at Jordan’s house-we provided the access. “Before the internet and social media, NBA Entertainment home videos, and later NBA Inside Stuff, were among the fans’ only windows to the players. We had all this right in front of us!” he says. You had high drama, you had huge personalities, you had the Bulls versus the Pistons, good versus evil. “The league back then was like Hollywood. “I hadn’t seen them in ages! I thought I would look back and say, ‘Meh.’ But, you know, they’re still pretty good,” says Sperling, who’s now vice president and executive producer of entertainment for the New York Giants. To prepare for the Last Dance experience, Sperling recently blew the dust off a couple of Jordan-centric titles from his vast filmography: Come Fly With Me (1989) and Air Time (1993), each a classic entry in the NBA Entertainment canon. Because his time at the league’s production arm happened to coincide with the rise of Jordan and the Bulls, no other single filmmaker has committed as much screen time to MJ and his dynasty. During his tenure as an executive producer at NBA Entertainment, from 1983 to 1998, he was involved in the making of some 130 home video titles, from Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers to NBA Jam Session. Sperling is the Ken Burns of basketball videos. Like any red-blooded member of the sports-starved citizenry, Don Sperling eagerly awaited the arrival of The Last Dance, the 10-part documentary series about the final season of Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls dynasty, airing on ESPN over the next few weeks. ![]()
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