Basketball: The demolition of a dynasty `All good things come to an end and we got six world championships out of this team'

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: January 23, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

AS WINTER briefly relaxed its grip on Chicago this week, the shivering citizens raised their fearful eyes above the downtown skyscrapers and waited for a new silhouette to emerge from the morning mists: that of the reshaped Bulls, following perhaps the swiftest and most thorough demolition of a great team in the history of sport.

One man's disappearance has taken most of the limelight in this extraordinary affair. Literally so in the 44-storey headquarters of an insurance company on South Wabash Avenue, where lights have been left on at night in an arrangement that spells "THX MJ" in giant ...

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