Horace Grant is not happy with how he was depicted in 'The Last Dance.'
Tops among Grant’s issues with ‘The Last Dance’ was how he was depicted, particularly in the section that suggested Grant was the source of Sam Smith’s book, which caused controversy in the early-’90s for its unflattering depiction of Jordan.“As I stated to everybody, that is a downright, outright, completely lie. Lie, lie, lie,” Grant told Kaplan. “If MJ had a grudge with me, let’s settle it like men. Let’s talk about it, or we can settle it another way.
“The mere fact that Sam Smith was an investigative reporter, that he had to have two sources, two, to write a book, I guess — why would MJ just pointout? It’s only a grudge, man. I’m telling you, it was only a grudge. And I think he proved that during this so-called documentary, when, if you say something about him, he’s going to cut you off — he’s going to try to destroy your character.”
Grant also took umbrage with the notion that ‘The Last Dance’ depicts a wholly truthful account of Jordan’s tenure with the Bulls, given Jordan’s own involvement with the series’ production — a critique“When that so-called documentary is about one person, basically, and he has the last word on what’s going to be put out there, what’s going to be put out there is not a documentary,” Grant said. “It’s his narrative of what happened in the Last, quote-unquote, Dance. That’s not a documentary.
Earlier in the interview, Grant pointed specifically to the treatment of Jordan’s trash-talking to teammates in discussing his thoughts on the truthfulness of the series. “We know — who was there as teammates — that about 90 per cent of it was, I don’t know if I can say it on air, but B.S. in terms of the realness of it,” Grant told Kaplan. “…It wasn’t real. Because a lot of things he said to some of his teammates, that his teammates went back at him. But all of that was kind of edited out of the documentary, if you want to call it a documentary.”
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