You probably don't know Andy Thompson. But you know his work and two of his family members. He is the brother of former NBA player Mychal Thompson and uncle of Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson.
"I was always involved in the championship videos that we produced at the end of the season, and we got tight in 1992 when I was shooting the Dream Team documentary," Thompson said."I always felt we really never gave Michael his due in terms of following him for an entire season and really trying to uncover why this guy was so obsessed about winning and just the Beatle-mania that was always around the Bulls and Michael.
"You see a side of Michael that everyone around the NBA was aware of. He has such a polished image, and there’s nothing in this that’s unpolished. But you see a raw Michael and how incredibly competitive he is. There’s a roughness to that and that may surprise a lot of people." "We all understood at the time how special this was," Silver said."We were the official archivist of the league. If this wasn’t made into a documentary or finished product, the raw elements were part of a critical part of our history and we needed to have them in our library. The decision was made almost entirely on gut. There were no spreadsheets or financial models."
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