Ex-Bulls Guard Has A Lot Of Problems With The Last Dance Documentary

The Last Dance, a new docuseries produced by Netflix, chronicles the last year of Michael Jordan's time playing on the Chicago Bulls. The ESPN collaboration has been a massive success, and for good reason. As the sports outlet says: "It's a documentary about one of the greatest teams of all time, the 1997-98 Bulls, with Jordan as a leading character." What's so remarkable about the docuseries is the amount of unlimited access the cameras got. According to ESPN, Adam Silver, the NBA's commissioner, knew how difficult it would be to breach walls of privacy in order to document the Chicago Bulls: "That meant more than postgame interviews and home videos of championship runs. To do something more, [Silver] would have to convince the best team in the league and the best player in the league to let cameras into their inner sanctum." It worked, of course, but only because Silver offered Jordan total control and that was something the NBA superstar absolutely wanted, according to the sports outlet. Jordan finally agreed to move forward with the project, all the while controlling the narrative, and the result is exquisite. But there's one tiny problem. Jordan wasn't the only person documented, and other Bulls players are really upset about their own portrayal in the docuseries. Plus, some are feeling left out because they weren't asked for their thoughts. One person who is especially upset is former Bulls guard, Craig Hodges. He spoke up in a recent interview on The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker of Fox Sports Radio and shared what was alarming to him. Hodges played with Jordan in Chicago from 1988-1992, per the outlet, so he was around for everything Jordan spoke about. Hodges said he didn't like how Jordan called the Bulls team a "cocaine circus" when he was first drafted. Hodges said: "So I'm watching the first episode and I was upset about the 'cocaine circus.' That bothered me because I was thinking about the brothers who are on that picture with you who have to explain to their families [...] and now you've got to explain that to a 12-year-old boy." In The Last Dance, Michael Jordan got really candid about life on the Chicago Bulls and spoke about other players too, giving details that some people might have preferred to be left out. Craig Hodges also said he didn't like how Jordan said it was "selfish" of Scottie Pippen to schedule his surgery in 1997 while they were in a contract dispute with the front office. Hodges was also upset that Jordan blamed Horace Grant for leaking scandalous info to the media information which ended up in Sam Smith's controversial 1992 book, The Jordan Rules. Hodges said: "Then the Scottie Pippen part. Scottie was 'selfish'. C'mon man, c'mon. And then last night with Horace, that hurt me. I'm letting MJ know that that ain't right, dude. Horace did not deserve to take the fall for 'Jordan Rules.'" Hodges added: "If MJ knows something else and knows Horace's motive, then tell us how Horace did it for my sake, because I'm your teammate brother, just like they are." In the same interview, Hodges added one final grievance that was really upsetting to him: no one interviewed him for the docuseries. "I'm kind of salty how everybody got interviewed but me." While the world seems to be enamored with Jordan, especially after the release of The Last Dance, Hodges clearly doesn't share everyone's positive view of Jordan and is offering a different, more gritty perspective of the NBA star people have come to idolize. Watch the video to see how Ex-Bulls Guard Has A Lot Of Problems With The Last Dance Documentary! #LastDance #Michael Jordan #TheLastDance