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

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Like thousands if not millions of other people around the globe, Michael Jordan is easily my favorite athlete of all time - nobody else is even in the same galaxy. When I started watching NBA games on television, it was Michael Jordan's game that I found I enjoyed watching the most. These days, nearly two years after his final retirement, I'm like I'll always be until I die: I'm such a Michael Jordan fan that I have several of his highlight videos, videos of taped games, and a few books that are about him. I'm such a big fan that a few of my friends and family members have asked me, "Is Michael Jordan your role model?" Well no, I don't really have a role model but there would certainly be nothing wrong with that if he was. I just LOVE watching him play the game of basketball and I enjoy reading what others have to say about him. Oh yeah, and I don't hesitate to tell and show people that Michael Jordan answered one of my e-mails on his official site!

One Last Shot - The Story of Michael Jordan's Comeback is very satisfying for the latter. As mad as I was that he called it quits in 1998 and as thrilled as I was to see him make yet another comback in 2001 at age 38, I always asked, "Why?" Why, after having 9 out of 10 say he's the greatest player the game has ever seen and about a year after being named the greatest athlete of all time in ANY sport by ESPN's Sportscentury, would he return as an old man (by NBA standards) to risk his legacy by not even making the playoffs, missing dunks, and not even being named to any All-NBA teams?

The author of One Last Shot, Mitchell Krugel, really has done his homework. Jordan quotes are scattered throughout the entire book like leaves that descend from trees in the fall; you'll read about why MJ ultimately decided to come back for the "third coming", hear details about his wife filing for divorce at the worst possible moment, read about Michael's executive life with the Wizards, and probably best of all, read and learn about how close he came to doing the unthinkable: furthuring his legend, and how it didn't quite happen.

If you followed Jordan's latest comeback via watching games on television and listening to a lot of ESPN and other sports shows, you'll find yourself remembering and nodding in agreement to A LOT of what you'll read in One Last Shot. I know I certainly recall being one of those people that were sitting on the edge of my seat as MJ received the pass in the 2002 All-Star Game en route to a ......MISSED dunk, but did you know that this game brought Ali and Frazier back together for the first time since the Thrilla in Manila? Do you remember when several sports anchors were predicting the Wizards just may be the team to beat in the Eastern Conference? How many game-winning shots did he have? What did Michael Jordan do that he hadn't done since the '92 season? Who all was invited to the scrimmage games leading up to this final comeback, and who didn't ever show up??

Even with all you know from watching and reading about MJ's latest comeback, you'll get even more detailed insight to things that happened that you would've never known before. When you're done enjoying your reading and learning of the ups and downs of the greatest player of all time's final comeback, you're treated to an "Aferword" that's all about the 2002-2003 (final) season of his career. And if that wasn't enough, the "Appendix" consists of a game-by-game analysis of the 2001-2002 season. It tells the day the game was played, where, what the final score was, and has two sections: The Game Story and On This Date In MJ History. Awesome!

Learning all the more about MJ's comeback isn't all that's good in One Last Shot. The author is obviously a good writer - he writes in a way that keeps you interested from beginning to finish, and he has a sense of humor along with seeming to choose just the right statistics and quotes to include most of the time. There are even eight pages of photographs with captions included. The only thing I didn't like about reading One Last Shot is that at (many) times it seems disorganized. The author tends to jump around a bit. You'll read about a game mid-ways into the 2001-2002 season and then be transported back to a long memory of the Chicago Bulls seasons or back to the beginning of the Wizards season. That's not TOO offsetting, but I didn't particularly like having to reread certain parts to find out what part of MJ's career it's talking about now.

But I won't mind rereading the entire book in the future at all. One Last Shot is a liftime keeper for any major Michael Jordan fan or even for a casual fan that's interested in learning why he made this latest comeback. It has more to do with ego and how he was thrusted out of Chicago before he wanted to be than you would ever think.

Scroll to the top of this page and check out the price. With what you get (8 pages of photos, 320 pages, and game-by-game analysis), it makes me wonder why this wasn't a New York Times Bestseller and why it doesn't have at least 50 reviews up already.

Bam jordan hits the game winning shot from the top of the key.If you haved watched jordan before this is regular event.This new book shows jordans new will to win and his fire inside that brought him back to the game he loved at 40.

All though this book was a bit repeating i thought it should what jordan thought.He was such an allstar and will always be.In this book you will see the personal battles (his wife wanting a divorce) to his physical battles(his knee injury).The book doesnt only explain his physical battles.It also shows his struggle switching from owner to player and playing with a team that had his posters on his wall.

I thought the author did a good job through out the book keeping the readers attetion and keeping him wanting more.This book shows a side of jordan you have never seen.Overall this was a very good book.I would recomend this to everyone.

Author chronicles Jordan's first season on a playoff mission with the Washington Wizards, something which happened when this franchise was still known as the Bullets.

The book opens with Jordan sinking that picture perfect shot against Utah then to his foray as a Wizard executive, practicing with the Wizards players then to his experiences in the court with teammates not named Scottie or Dennis but Kwame, Brendon. Krugel paints a Jordan looking for that one last shot, that one last roll of the dice no matter how many times over he has beaten the house.

I really loved this book for it gave us an in depth look of Jordan at his lowest point - from there you could begin to grasp how he won all those championships. The book also explains why there was a comeback attempt and why it ultimately failed. As proof, the author compares Jordan's best performance as a Bull compared to Jordan's best performance as a Wizard.

In the end, it was Jordan's body that let him down but not his indomitable will. Though there were times when he could hold his own against a new generation led by Kobe, Pierce and Iverson, he failed miserably when measured against the standard to which all other future basketball players will be measured - his former incarnation.

This book One Last Shot was a good book.It wasn't the best book writen about Jordan but,it had its good points.The book I think tells it good detail most of the time.The book at points made me want to drop the book and stop reading because it didn't tell me anything I didn't know already.At other times it made me not want to put it down because it retells the games that went on.Overall this book ok not the best but it's a good book if you havn't already read a book and Jordan.

I was writing stories before MJ was shooting hoops. I was published before he warmed the bench at Laney High School. I've scored more rejection letters than he has points in a game, and in fact I got another one last week. MJ, my classmate, you in my house now!

What? He wasn't involved with this book? Damn.

I really don't have any interest in the NBA. I admire some of the players who've played over the years, I always enjoy reading a well-written bio about an interesting person, I marvel that we (myself included) idolize some celebs the way we do, I'll drop just about anything to watch an MJ highlight reel, and one reason I was cheering him on during his 21st century comeback was that we were both born in 1963.

So what about the book? Well, first I wanted to establish that I'm not a sports nut, unless we're talking about the NFL. That means that, if you don't care about the NBA either, my book review might be of interest. Now let's read.

Well, I read two of its thirteen chapters, 40 of its 300 pages. I guess you do have to be a basketball fan to enjoy it. Very knowledgeable author, but just not what I want to read. Oh well. I still love Michael.

Bam jordan hits the game winning shot from the top of the key.If you haved watched jordan before this is regular event.This new book shows jordans new will to win and his fire inside that brought him back to the game he loved at 40.

All though this book was a bit repeating i thought it should what jordan thought.He was such an allstar and will always be.In this book you will see the personal battles (his wife wanting a divorce) to his physical battles(his knee injury).The book doesnt only explain his physical battles.It also shows his struggle switching from owner to player and playing with a team that had his posters on his wall.

I thought the author did a good job through out the book keeping the readers attetion and keeping him wanting more.This book shows a side of jordan you have never seen.Overall this was a very good book.I would recomend this to everyone.

ONE LAST CHANCE IS ABOUT THE 3RD COMEBACK BY FORMER NBA GREAT MICHAEL JORDAN. AFTER BEING AWAY FROM THE GAME FOR 3 YEARS, JORDAN RETURNS AT AGE 38 TO TRY AND TAKE THE WIZARDS TO THE PLAYOFFS. MJ HAD ALOT OF RUST AND MILEAGE ON HIM AS HE TRYS TO BE THE MAN ON THE WIZARDS. SOME NIGHTS HE WAS, BUT MOST HE WAS MEDICORE OR LOUSY. MJ LET HIS SUPERSIZE EGO TELL HIM THAT HE WAS STILL GOOD ENOUGHT TO COMPETE AND PLAY MOST OF THE GAME NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. BUT AGE AND A BAD KNEE DID HIM IN. THERE IS SOME INTERESTING STORIES IN THIS BOOK AND I DID LIKE IT. I KNOW JORDAN IS THE BEST GUARD I HAVE SEEN. THIS BOOK MAKES HIM HUMAN, BUT WE DON'T REALLY KNOW MUCH ABOUT JORDAN THE PERSON IN THIS BOOK EXCEPT FOR HIS PASSION FOR BASKETBALL. IF YOU ALREADY KNOW ALOT ABOUT JORDAN'S PERSONAL LIFE THEN THIS IS A BOOK FOR YOU. THIS IS WHAT IT IS COVERING THE 2 YEARS HE TRIED A COMBACK.

This book is just bad, little inside info on what was going on, bar a few quotes that are hardly "inside info". The book has little organization, going over the same things again and again, and worst of all, reads like a perpetual box score, which face it, you could have got yourself from a newspaper backlog.

This doesnt come close to "JORDAN RULES" by sam smith, which is a shame, as it could have given us a much more clear picture of the "3rd coming"

This book looks like the author took some newspaper and magazine clips from others and cobbled them together in a sloppily written book devoid of insight. He has nothing of value here. And it's particularly disappointing that he would try writing a book about Jordan's comeback in Washington when it's obvious he spent little time, if any, traveling with the team during Jordan's Washington days. This book reeks of a clip-and-paste job. Don't waste your money.

Although i liked this book, i peed! You are a poopstick!