When I grabbed it off the bookshelf the …

When I grabbed it off the bookshelf the other day, I had bookmarked page 17. At some point, I attempted to re-read it. With so much hype surrounding ESPN’s “The Last Dance,” and episodes three and four featuring the Bulls’ attempts to get past the Pistons in the Eastern Conference, I revisited the book. The Jordan Rules are mentioned early in chapter one of Smith’s book. “The Pistons advertised their ‘Jordan Rules’ as some secret defense that only they could deploy to stop Jordan,” Smith wrote. “Those secrets were merely a series of funneling defenses that channeled Jordan toward the crowded middle, but Detroit players and coaches talked about them as if they had been devised by the Pentagon.”