One Last Shot: The Story of Michael Jordan's Comeback

by Mitchell Krugel

One Last Shot gives Jordan fans the inside scoop they're looking for on basketball's greatest legend, with exclusive interviews from NBA executives, players, and coaches. Mitchell Krugel uses his fifteen years of following Michael Jordan's every move to explain why the man who left the game as The Greatest Player of All Time would risk his unparalleled legend to play again.After delivering the Chicago Bulls their sixth championship in 1998 by pulling off what became known as the greatest money shot in the history of the NBA, Michael believed he still had much of that Greatest-Player-Of-All-Time left in his game. But he felt that retirement was forced on him in 1999, and he left the game craving more doses of fifty-point binges, winner-take-all confrontations, and repeated nights of reminding fans they just saw the greatest player ever.One Last Shot not only explains why Michael Jordan came back to the court but also looks at his transition from Wizards executive to player, his struggle to join a team that had grown up with his posters on their walls, and his glories and setbacks in a Wizards season chock full of both struggles and surprises. Krugel also details the star-laden workouts Michael designed in the summer of 2001 to get his game back into shape.This look at Michael Jordan, circa 2001-2002, shows how much basketball had changed since his last coming and how much it hadn't, and how his drive pushed him to the verge of a crippling knee injury all in the pursuit of winning. And for six weeks he did make it back. He made the shots. He made good on his mission to teach the Wizards how to be winners, to teach talented teammate Richard Hamilton to be a shooting star, and to whip Kwame Brown, the high school kid he made the first-ever first pick in the NBA draft, into a man. And he did the things that only a man of legend could do.Krugel analyzes both the man and the legend to trace how the First Coming led to a Second and to a Third, and he chronicles the season that defines Michael Jordan as a man who will forever be playing for one last shot.

Genres: Sports, Basketball

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 20, 2002

Reviews

[Tyler Vennard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Micheal Shows teamwork. He was the best on his team maybe the best in the league but he still gave his team mates a role. He could have just ball hogged the whole game but he new that this was a team game and nit all about him.

[Mario Flores · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have so many great things to say about this book, but don't think that I would have enough space to add everything I would like to say onto here, but I will try. This biography of Michael Jordan was superbly inspiring and very well written. I enjoyed learning new things about Michael's upbringing and downfalls as well. Michael Jordan's entire story can serve as a tool for anyone of any age, to help them through the toughest of times, with just the examples of things that Michael had to endure in mind. My favorite saying in this book was, "I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." A truly amazing book with real pictures of Michael and his family. I would recommend this for anyone of any age, however, I would use this book in school to teach kids that they can achieve anything, "just like Mike."

[Jesus · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book because it told the story of Michael Jordan. MJ thought that he was doing well. But he felt that retirement was forced on him in 1999, and he left the game craving more doses of fifty-point binges, winner-take-all confrontations, and repeated nights of reminding fans they just saw the greatest player ever.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

Awful book about Michael Jordan's comeback in 2001-2002 season with the Wizards. It's a potentially interesting topic, in that Jordan was (a) in a dual role, having acquired many of his teammates for the organization when he was VP of basketball operations, (b) old (for a pro basketball player) and dealing with knee injury, (c) dealing with pressure from fans to be as good as he once was or else get out of the game permanently, and (d) going through personal difficulties, incl. divorce, while in the public eye.

Interest value was drained away, however, by author's not having any access to Jordan, nor as far as I can tell to any other players. Just reads like a clip job, going game by game through a largely uneventful, up-and-down year for the Wizards that ended short of the playoffs. Author filled the void of information or analysis by repeating obvious points a lot, using every possible phrase or pun involving the word "air" (air apparent, rare air, Air-rant shot, etc. etc. etc.) and working the capitalized phrase "Third Coming" (it was Jordan's third stint in the Association, sandwiched around two retirements) into a high percentage of the sentences.

Representative sample from p. 234:

"Still, as it had all season, the age-old question of age was again becoming the underwear creeping up of the Third Coming".

I guess that was fun to write, but well before you get thru 260+ pages, it's disheartening to realize that the author has nothing especially insightful to add re the "age-old question of age" in general, or about Jordan's diminished skills, how he coped with not being the best anymore, or anything else really.

[Kimberly · Rating 1 out of 5]

You have to really, really like basketball to like this book. This was just a recap of every game Michael Jordan played after he started playing for the Washington Wizards. I was hoping for more coverage of what his tenure was like with Washington, what the team and coaches and managers and owners were like, some of the inside story. Instead this was just a rehash of his seasons there. It was not even very well written either.

[YaBoiEuge · Rating 4 out of 5]

One Last Shot by Mitchell Krugel is an informative novel that gives both sides of Michael Jordan’s comeback on the court and off through the perspective of a news reporter. Recommended for all people who enjoy the story of Michael Jordan and would like to have a deeper understanding of his comeback. The book is very intriguing because it shows both sides of the same coin.





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[Rashad miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book because one it was about basketball and also it was wrote by Micheal Jordan. This book was about him put his team on his back it was very interesting.If my book would be made into a movie it would be base on a basketball game and this one player put team team on his back and they win the national championship.This would be an action movie.the audience would be loud.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Michael Jordan in his final season. The story about a man trying to end his legacy without being trapped by it.

[Deandre Whetstone · Rating 4 out of 5]

book did great job of displaying the media and thoughts of the player throughout the whole book , but at times book wasn't as descriptive to my liking