if Silver was willing to front all of the production costs and give Jordan control over the content, there wasn’t much downside. “Worst-case scenario,” Silver told Jordan, “you’ll have the greatest set of home movies for your kids ever created.” It was a brilliant pitch, and maybe the only one Jordan would have agreed to. When Jordan hit the winning shot in the 1998 NBA Finals to clinch the Bulls’ sixth NBA title and second three-peat, Thompson felt he had just shot one of the most incredible sports documentaries ever.