jordan's last year with the bulls was 2015.
jordan's last year with the bulls was 2015.
what was jordan's last year with the bulls?
2015
bullet::::- the 1993 finals were michael jordan's last before his first retirement. the houston rockets would take the next two titles consecutively. the ratings for those next two finals decreased, but still had above-average views, and the 1995 finals even came to within .3 ratings points of the 1992 finals and featured superstar shaquille o'neal making the finals with the orlando magic, which were swept 4-0 by the rockets. after the two seasons, jordan returned. subsequently, and almost instantly, ratings greatly increased. jordan's first game back, a march 19, 1995 game between the bulls and the indiana pacers, scored a 10.9 rating for nbc, the highest rated regular-season nba game of all time. ratings for the finals (which the bulls played in the following three years) went up sharply as well. game 1 of the 1996 nba finals between the bulls and seattle supersonics, the bulls' 107-90 win at home in the united center earned a 16.8 rating and a 31 share on nbc. in addition, game 1 was viewed in a then record 16,111,200 homes. on june 16, 1996, game 6 of the nba finals (where the bulls clinched their fourth nba championship in six years) drew an 18.8 rating and a 35 share. the six games of the 1996 nba finals averaged a 16.7 rating which ranks second all-time behind the 1993 nba finals. the six games of the 1993 nba finals between the bulls and suns averaged a 17.9 rating. the next year, ratings for the bulls–utah jazz series were slightly better, before the 1998 finals blew away the 1993 record, averaging an 18.7 rating—one which will likely not be matched by the nba finals for the foreseeable future. the deciding game 6 (and michael jordan's final game with the bulls) registered an nba record 22.3 rating with a 38 share. the game was viewed by 72 million people, breaking the record set earlier that postseason by game 7 of the 1998 eastern conference finals between the pacers and bulls (that same game set a record for highest-rated non-finals nba game with a 19.1/33). the 1998 finals managed to best the ratings for that year's world series, the first of only three nba finals ever to do so.
nba on television in the 1990s
the 1997–98 nba season was the bulls' 32nd season in the national basketball association. the bulls entered the season as the two-time defending nba champions, where they defeated the utah jazz in the 1997 nba finals in six games, winning their fifth nba championship. during the offseason, the bulls acquired scott burrell from the golden state warriors. without all-star forward scottie pippen for the first half of the season due to a back injury sustained from the 1997 nba finals, the bulls played around .500 with a 9–7 record in november. however, pippen would eventually return as the bulls posted a 13-game winning streak between march and april, as they finished first place in the central division with a 62–20 record. in the playoffs, the bulls defeated the new jersey nets 3–0 in the first round, the charlotte hornets 4–1 in the semifinals, and then the indiana pacers 4–3 in the conference finals en route to advance to the nba finals. in the finals, they met the utah jazz in a rematch from last year's nba finals and just like last year, they would go on to defeat the jazz in six games to win the championship. the championship was their sixth in eight years and completed the franchise's second "3-peat".
1997–98 chicago bulls season