Even as LeBron James make a run at his supremacy, the “greatest ever” conversation in basketball starts and ends with Michael Jordan. As Roland Lazenby makes clear in his new biography of the six-time NBA champ, Jordan has long been driven by an unrivaled competitive nature that has often damaged his personal relationships.
Lazenby had to cut through plenty of hagiography and deliberate mistruths on the part of the Jordan family and his defenders to complete Michael Jordan: The Life, which brings us a long look at the man whose shadow still looms over the NBA more than a decade after his third and final retirement from the spot.
