Corrected entry: The time between Michael Jordan retiring at the beginning and him coming back only takes a few weeks or so in the movie (i.e. the scene goes to Moron Mountain and back) but Jordan actually was retired for a few years before coming back.
Ray
10th Apr 2005
Space Jam (1996)
Correction: He was actually still retired when the movie came out, so they had no timeline to screw up. His only comeback in the movie is him helping out the Looney Tunes. Other than that he was still retired in real life and in the story (he even mentions, repeatedly, that he is now a baseball player).
This is incorrect. He returned to basketball in 1995, before the move came out in 1996. The movie takes place while he was retired and playing baseball, but he was back to playing basketball before the movie came out.
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Correction: Michael Jordan announced his return to the NBA on March 18, 1995 and played his first game back the following day. This movie came out in November 1996 (we even see footage of the Bulls championship win over the Seattle Sonics from the 1996 NBA Finals during the film's opening credits montage of his career). But since this is not a documentary, the filmmakers are free to make up their own version of events and timeline leading up to Jordan's return to the NBA.
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