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3 Ways that The Last Dance has impacted the sports card hobby

Over the past 5 weeks ESPN has partnered with Netflix to create a 10 hour docuseries called The Last Dance  which chronicles the roller coaster events of the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls as it had never been seen before.  Using never before seen footage, the viewer gets a glimpse into the locker room, and behind the scenes during the team's final championship run. The docuseries had an impact on the sports card hobby, these are three of the ways on how. 1. It sparked a sense of nostalgia.   For those of a certain age group ( those who watched basketball in the 80s and 90s) it created a sense of nostalgia. This ranges from remembering the fixation that the sports world had on Michael Jordan to seeing an interview with their favourite player and seeing clips of their favourite player play. With the extensive group of different interviewees, chronicling different moments in time throughout the Bulls' run, it brought people back to when they used to watch that player play, and the...