 So the other day I was at university Sitting doing my work and I get a message from the NBA storyteller He invited me out of all people to be part of a group But the aim of this group was to provide one story one NBA finals moment to help celebrate the NBA finals Yeah, I'm a little late. Okay. I was going to do One video the Ray Allen clutch shot moment as a heat fan. This was the greatest shot. I've ever seen in my life But two youtubers have already done this and because I was late to the party I said, you know what? Let me do something that no other youtuber has done in this collaboration But if you guys want to see the other youtubers and what they've done We were each asked to make a short video about our personal favorite moment from any finals and this is mine Well, I'll just pretend it's mine because I'm not gonna do a third video on the Ray Allen shot So this is Michael Jordan. This is the game six shot. Yeah, you probably know it But do you know the whole story? It's June 14 1998 the Bulls vs. Jazz was a heated rivalry They had already faced off in the NBA championship the year before with the Bulls winning the series ultimately Giving them a back-to-back NBA championship and this year they were going for their 3p It's the shot that is simply known as the last shot Everyone knows it whether or not this was a push-off that led to the iconic shot is widely debated But 20 years later 30 years later 50 years later and for the entire eternity This will not matter at the end of the day the shot went in and it counted and it led Jordan to his six NBA championship The Utah Jazz wanted revenge. They'd beat in the Bulls in the regular season more times than not and they had home court advantage This was their best chance after they lost to them last season in the NBA championship. These guys wanted revenge But let's rewind it to the 1998 entire playoffs Utah won their first round matchup Pretty easily three games to two But they beat an old Clyde Drexler and an old Houston Rockets team then they beat the Spurs in five They beat the Lakers. They'd made it to the NBA championship without really breaking a sweat They beat a young Kobe and a young Duncan and they were in the NBA championship Whereas the Bulls had to face off against tougher opponents in the Eastern Conference They had an aging Jordan and aging Pippin and aging Rodman This was definitely going to be the last stretch for the Chicago Bulls The Jazz won game one in overtime by three in game two the Bulls bounced back and one by five And let's just say the game three was one that no jazz fan will ever remember They lost by 42 points only scoring 54 points for the game Stop it Get some help and they also lost in game four. So now the series is three one But the jazz bounced back and win game five Every great drama has its subplots Game five of the NBA finals was no exception The jazz finally got a marquee performance from their star Carl Malone And the series is three games to two Chicago leads and now we go back to Utah for game six The thing about the Bulls and the jazz is that if it has to game six in Utah and the jazz can get up They stay in Utah and they verse the Chicago Bulls who have an injured Scotty Pippin and aging Michael Jordan And who knows what happens next the Bulls had to win this game And it wasn't looking great for the Chicago Bulls as they arrived at the Delta Center for game six Scotty Pippin whose back was already injured going into the game injured his back once again in the opening play when he dunked the opening basket of the game And as he reaches up to dunk he pours his back out and you see him grimace as he comes up the floor I'm not a shot back at the Delta Center and early on Scotty Pippin Re-injured his back on that dunk shot that he had just the beginning of the game He has been in the lock-on for the past five or six minutes trying to stretch that back out He has both doctors in there They're just trying to see what they can do to get him ready to play and if anything else happens I will be here to report it to you. He ended up scoring eight points the entire game He tried to play defense. He tried to help Jordan, but in the end he barely played He played as many minutes as he could going in and out of the locker room But in the end it was Jordan first the jazz Let's take a look at the box score Jordan 45 points Pippin eight Pippin 26 minutes Jordan 44 Yeah, Pippin's injury really derailed him this series Especially in this last game This is a game six. This is to win it all and you have the Robin to Jordan's Batman engine It's not a good sign Not only do the jazz have a chance to make history being the first team to come back three games to one They also have a chance to make history by being the only team to defeat the Chicago Bulls in the NBA finals You see the jazz weren't meant to be this good if they're down 3-1, but they were They seriously had a chance to win games that could have gone either way, but ended up being in the Bulls favor But why? Well Jerry Sloan the head coach of the Utah Jazz made a few changes when Carmelone had his opportunity to go one-on-one with his opponent He basically scored every time in the end. He's a Hall of Famer He's a top two scorer in NBA history when he has the ball He's going to score But the Bulls had a trap defense where they would double Carmelone when he headed into the post That's why they had this man Antoine Carr Antoine Carr wasn't a great player. He was a good player He did his job and he played his role But the one thing he could do was stretch the floor when players would double Malone You could kick it out to Antoine Carr and he would normally hit that shot. He wasn't your typical center He wasn't just to finish you around the basket He could stretch the floor hit that mid-range which meant that you couldn't double Malone because if you did He would kick it out and they'd have two points the director of Utah's cast Jerry Sloan made a script revision at intermission He called on a seldom used veteran from Wichita State a stand-in Antoine Carr Carr had five field goal attempts in the second half He made them all Without his performance in a supporting role the NBA Finals would be history See what Antoine Carr gives you as a big man who can shoot so if they're gonna go down and double team He can make the 15-foot shot. Keith can't foster his streaky and neither can Oster tag They've gone to a smaller lineup and it's been effective. They're afraid to double team because everybody can shoot the ball now for Utah They got to stay at home So that's what they did and it worked the Utah Jazz hit shot after shot after shot But so did the Bulls because in the end they had Michael Jordan Who was the greatest player to ever live? The thing about Jordan was that he wasn't just the greatest player to ever live on the offensive end. He was also amazing on defense With whatever gases left in his tank gets back to pick it off Well remember last year in game four stocked in the Malone that won the game the long pass over the fingertips of Michael Jordan Stocked in the great past Michael just misses it and Malone gets the layup really to seal the win Well moments ago We're gonna see the same thing here a chance to go up for a Hornacek throws the pass and Michael Jordan with every ounce of energy that he has Goes up and gets the skill after Jordan had made a layup to make it 85 86 the Bulls needed to stop the Jazz from scoring and That's where we all know what happened next with Antoine Carr in the game Jordan had one option Get the big man to double calm alone or do it himself He knew that the big man did it He would leave car open and car was able to hit shots if he was left wide open You can clearly see Malone look around waiting to see what would happen Waiting to see if the big man would double him as they did all game Instead no big man came but Jordan crept out from behind him stole the ball Then came Byron Russell Byron Russell was actually one of the jazz's best defenders Little did we know what would happen next with ten seconds remaining Jordan started to dribble right He then crossed over to his left. He hit the 20 footer to give the jazz the lead with 5.2 seconds left Then the rest is history the jazz had one final chance, but Stockton missed and that was it Jordan gave the Bulls their six NBA championship Pippin who was injured for most of that game had also won his six NBA championship and the game-winning shot has been immortalized around the world and It's known as one of the greatest finals moments If you guys enjoyed this video, please be sure to leave a like subscribe if you're new be sure to check out Everybody's videos down below in the description box below in the playlist section If you enjoyed this video and you're new be sure to hit that subscribe leave a like if you guys enjoyed Follow me on Instagram and I'll catch you guys in my next video on the road to 250,000 subscribers. I am out