1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: It's in with the Last Dance. Everyone's talking about it, 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. It's trending all across the world, and we 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: had to get this man on. It's an amazing story. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: Chris Hansty played against Michael Jordan only one game when 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: he played for the Dallas Mavericks, and this is an 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: amazing story. So we had to get him on. Chris, 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: you're there, buddy, thanks for coming on the Shark. 8 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 2: And you're more than welcome. 9 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 3: He go, oh, mate, we're great, We're great. You know, 10 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 3: we were talking. We've been talking the last couple of days 11 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 3: about the Last Dance, and everyone's just this anticipated documentary 12 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 3: on Michael Jordan. This story that you've told, mate, first 13 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 3: of all, beautifully told mate. It's a great it's a 14 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 3: great little piece Chris. When you were a young fella, rookie, 15 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 3: and this is what the documentary is all about. Is 16 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 3: ninety seven ninety eight, and it was the last season 17 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 3: for Michael Jordan. He said he was going to finish 18 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 3: at the end of the year, his last year with 19 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 3: Chicago Balls. And you had just been picked up by 20 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 3: the Dallas Mavericks. So can you tell us you had 21 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 3: one opportunity to play against the probably arguably the greatest 22 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 3: sportsman of all time. Can you tell us what happened? 23 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it was exactly that. And I think, you know, 24 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 2: as a documentary had already shown, everybody knew it was 25 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 2: going to be Michael Jordan and the Bulls last season. 26 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 2: So I had family and friends who, as soon as 27 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 2: they thought the schedule, maybe their way to Dallas, all 28 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 2: the way to Australia, and you know, it was interesting. 29 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 2: I just turning up to the game was probably the 30 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: first thing I remembered that this only lived five minutes 31 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 2: from the stadium. It took me thirty minutes. Of the 32 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 2: streets were packed. There were people just lining the side 33 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,639 Speaker 2: all the way to the stadium just to catch a glimpse. 34 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 2: So there was already the sense that it was bigger 35 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 2: than even maybe what we'd anticipated. You know, I got 36 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 2: out in the court earlier. I just wanted to be 37 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 2: on the same quart as because I mean, who does that. 38 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: I mean, hey, I'm on the basketball court as the 39 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 2: best player of all time. And it was really really excited, 40 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: but probably more so than ever because I was going 41 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 2: to play playing thirty minutes a game and I've been 42 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 2: playing pretty well and against some pretty big names. But 43 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 2: got to halftime and I hadn't played a second and 44 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 2: I couldn't have been more crushed. It's funny what you remember, 45 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: but I remember sitting in the lockerom thinking I'm almost 46 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 2: hoping that we get blown out and I'd get a few. 47 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 4: Gun give me a which is fair enough. 48 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 3: It's like any footballer who misses out on a Grand Final, 49 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 3: they sort of hope in a way that their team 50 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 3: loses because they're not a part of it. Chris, you know. 51 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 2: Well, and I just wanted a photo because you want. Yeah, 52 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 2: there's no internet or social or the internet with brand 53 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: knew there's no social media and the NBA wasn't widely 54 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: covered in Australia, and I thought, no one's going to 55 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 2: believe this. You know, I'm playing here, I'm playing against 56 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 2: Michael Jordan. No one will believe me because the email 57 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 2: won't do it justice. Against normal teams, you don't come 58 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 2: back from seventeen and you don't come back from ten 59 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: down with an to go. And we went to overtime 60 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 2: and probably even surprisingly for me, I played most of overtime. 61 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: I hit a dump, so I had a dunk and 62 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 2: got into a little bit of a to and fro 63 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 2: with Dennis Rodman, which was wow. 64 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 3: But we won extraordinary and then they so they Chris, 65 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 3: they went on that year and this is the amazing 66 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 3: story about this. This was his final championships. They started 67 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 3: the year so badly, but they went on to actually 68 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 3: win the championships and you knocked off the Chicago Balls 69 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 3: in your rookie year. 70 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 2: Yes, it was interesting. I said in the story that 71 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 2: the game clearly meant a lot more to us than 72 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 2: what it did to them. Yes, but it didn't matter, 73 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 2: you know, and just one of those I mean, jeez, 74 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 2: I'm talking to you on radio about it twenty five 75 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 2: years later. It meant a lot to us, and we 76 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 2: celebrated because we weren't a very good team and they 77 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: were the greatest of all times. So we got our moment. 78 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 4: Chris, can I ask? And you tell a great story. 79 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 4: I love that, but just try and explain. I mean, 80 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 4: you're talking about arriving at the game, but being on 81 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 4: the court next to them, how intimidating was that to 82 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 4: start with? When you finally stepped on, really. 83 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 2: You just feel out of your depth just looking down 84 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 2: the other end. There's an aura about him and the 85 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: moment for me was, you know, when I first got 86 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 2: something in it got myself to the free throw line. 87 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 2: You just look around because the game pauses, and you can. 88 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 2: I look to one side of doors and Pippin and 89 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,119 Speaker 2: Phil Jackson and you're like Beryl watching me shoot free throws. 90 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 3: And Chris, Chris, can I give it you? I've just 91 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 3: read your story, mate, Can I give you word for 92 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 3: word what you wrote? Scottie Pippen found Chris and he 93 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: went to the line. He said, I'd never been so 94 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 3: nervous walking to the free throw line. It showed brick brick, 95 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 3: my first moment in the metaphorical spotlight, and I shut 96 00:04:59,200 --> 00:04:59,559 Speaker 3: the bed. 97 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, but that was it. It was imagine what 98 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 2: Michael Jordan's thinking. Who's this young, skimmy kid. I couldn't 99 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 2: tell you. Who were you? Just yeah, shooting three throws 100 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,239 Speaker 2: in our game. Come on, man, get out. 101 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 3: Of here, just quickly before you go. How many tickets 102 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 3: did you have to organize for family and friends? 103 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 2: I reckon there were thirty or forty? Oh man, they 104 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 2: traveled halfway around the world. That that's the scope worth it. 105 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 2: They had the sense of there's not going to be 106 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 2: anything like this ever happened again, and if we don't 107 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 2: do it now, we'll never do it. I mean just 108 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 2: it's just an incredible sporting team. And yeah, very credibly, 109 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 2: very tiny part of it. 110 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I must admit at the end of it when 111 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: you write as well, all you wanted to do And 112 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 3: there was a funny bit where Chris goes I wanted 113 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 3: a photo with him. I knew I couldn't get a 114 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 3: photo with him because that just doesn't happen. So he 115 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 3: in your on the bench, Chris, you were thinking to yourself, 116 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 3: if I get on, I'm just going to basically hit 117 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 3: him in the face and found him so hard that 118 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 3: a photographer will take a photo with us together. 119 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 2: Time that was at half time. I thought, I'm bugging here. 120 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: I can't get my photo. And if I did get 121 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 2: on and you can't walk up and put your arm 122 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: around Michael Jordan, you wouldn't mind photography and just a 123 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 2: smile for me. So that was all, you know, come 124 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 2: and fell as hard as I can't make it. Sure 125 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 2: it's hard enough to he reacts and has a bit 126 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 2: of a go back, and surely someone takes a photo 127 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 2: that But I didn't get my photo, But I got 128 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: that I like it. 129 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 3: Thank you well mate, well told Chris, great story mate, 130 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 3: and we appreciate your time. Thanks for coming on the Shark. 131 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 2: Thanks having me. Boys appreciate it. 132 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 4: Chris. 133 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 5: This is Kat and that from the month TS. Does 134 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 5: your little one love Paw Patrol? What about dinosaurs? 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