On Sunday night, episodes three and four of The Last Dance aired on ESPN. In a week that saw the NFL draft take place, the Michael Jordan documentary capped off what felt like the first normal sports weekend in some time. Last week, the first two episodes focused on the early days of Michael Jordan as well as the introduction of the 1997-1998 season.

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This week, it told the story of Jordan and the Bulls getting over the hump and winning their first NBA title. Like last week, this week also toggled with the '97 season, and by the conclusion of the episode, the Bulls are at the All-Star break. It was revealed that Jordan still harbors resentment towards one team and one of its players.

One of the major storylines this week was the rivalry Michael Jordan and the Bulls had with the Detroit Pistons. In 1989, the Bulls met the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Championship game. That season, Jordan led the NBA in points (32.5), finished second in MVP voting, was first-team All-NBA, and finished second in voting for Defensive Player of the Year. The sixth-seeded Bulls defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round and the New York Knicks in the conference semi-finals. The Pistons were the number one seed and the reigning Eastern Conference Champions. The following year, the Pistons had lost to the Lakers in the 1988 Finals in seven games and had since been on a collision course. In 1989, they finished with a 63-19 record and steamrolled everyone in their path. The conference finals proved no different. The Pistons pushed around a young Bulls team and beat them four games to two, en route to sweeping the Lakers in the Finals.

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The Pistons famously had "The Jordan Rules," which helped them beat the Bulls. These were a separate set of rules the Pistons played by on defense when Jordan was on the floor.  The philosophy was centered on moving Jordan off his shooing spots and if he tried to go airborne, they knocked him down. Jordan took a beating. Then Pistons' enforcer Dennis Rodman had this to say on the set of rules for MJ.

"Chuck Daly said, "This is the Jordan rule: Every time he goes to the f---in' basket, put him on the ground. When he comes to the basket, he ain't gonna dunk. We're going to hit you and you're going to be in the ground."  We tried to physically hurt Michael."

The following year they met again in the 1990 Eastern Conference Finals. This time the series went seven games, but once again, the Pistons bullied the Bulls and went on to win the championship. The Last Dance revealed that following that series, instead of going into their offseason, the Bulls started working out almost immediately. Jordan especially, felt he wasn't strong enough to hang with the Pistons and was sick of being pushed around. That offseason, he put on fifteen pounds of muscle.

"I was getting brutally beaten up. And I wanted to administer pain. I wanted to start fighting back."

The Bulls went up a level in the 1990-1991 season and finished with the best record in the Eastern Conference. Jordan won MVP while leading the league in points. For a third straight year, the Bulls had a date with the Pistons with a trip to the Finals on the line. This time, the Bulls had the home-court advantage. From the jump, the Pistons once again tried to set the tone with physical and dirty play, but Chicago was unflappable.

The Bulls would sweep the Pistons in four games and go on to beat the Lakers in the Finals, but that's not what stood out from this week's episodes. The satisfaction of defeating the thorn in his side that was the Detroit Piston and capturing an NBA title does not overshadow the feelings Jordan still has about the Pistons and Isiah Thomas.

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For two years, the Pistons had given Jordan everything he could take and more. After every defeat, he would still show sportsmanship and shake the hands of his archrivals. When the tables turned in 1991, the Pistons did not show the same respect the Bulls had shown them. With seven seconds still on the clock in game four, the Pistons left the bench and went into their locker room without shaking the Bulls' hands. This sign of disrespect has stuck with Jordan and the Bulls almost thirty years later.

While Isiah Thomas, the leader of the Pistons, doesn't think it is a big deal that they skipped handshakes, Jodan doesn't want to hear it.

“Well I know it’s all bulls---,” Jordan said. “Whatever he says now, you know it wasn’t his true actions then. He has time enough to think about it. Or the reaction of the public has kinda changed his perspective of it. You can show me anything you want, there's no way you can convince me he wasn't an a-hole.”

Jordan added: “All you have to do, go back to us losing in Game 7 [in 1990]. I shook everybody's hands. Two years in a row, we shook their hands when they beat us. There's a certain respect to the game that we pay to them. That's sportsmanship, no matter how much it hurts. And believe me, it f---ing hurt.”

It has been nearly thirty years since the Bulls finally beat the Pistons, but the disdain Jordan still has for the Pistons and in particular, Isiah Thomas, still burns.

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