One Perfect Story: Wright Thompson on Writing About Michael Jordan
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Is That the Best American Sports Writing of 2014?
I wanted to do Michael Jordan because I had a real question about his life, not because like, let me just go fluff. And so it feels like even when the profiles that I'm doing are about really famous people, firewoods or whomever, it feels like they're flowing from the same sort of journey of curiosity that all of the modern stories flow from. But you know, he was just on a different level. The story changed your career in any way. It is the only year that I have not been in that book that I started working for ESPN in that year. That piece did not make the best American sports writing of 2014. Like that guy did the running book
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