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NBA: “I wear a beret because I am in France”… 25 years ago, Michael Jordan set Paris on fire

1/18/2023, 11:04:28 AM


The Chicago Bulls are in Paris this week for a game against Detroit on Thursday night at the Accor Arena. In the fall of 1997, Michael Jordan went

Tuesday, October 14, 1997. Passengers in a privatized Air Atlanta Boeing 747 emerge from terminal T9 at Charles-de-Gaulle airport.

It is just under 3 p.m. and the most prestigious team in the world arrives in Paris with the biggest star on the planet sport: Michael Jordan.

To the fans waiting for him, MJ gives a shy and smiling "hello" in French.

A camera follows him: in 2020, in the midst of the Covid pandemic, his images will be used for a Netflix documentary which will tour the globe: “The Last Dance”.

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