Editorial archive

Michael Air Jordan

A selection of columns and editorials devoted to Michael Jordan's Washington comeback, connected to the rest of the site's central archive.

Editorial archive · 2001

Weekly columns

Three editorials from Jordan's comeback, restored and contextualized. The enthusiasm of 2001 is still there; some sentences aged considerably better than others.

October 2001 · Expectations

The comeback was already changing the conversation

The reaction from coaches and media during preseason.

October 2001 · Team

Jordan answered; Washington was still learning

The problem of building a team that did not depend on one figure.

November 2001 · Golden State

Jordan scores 32; another sign that individual brilliance was not enough

A strong individual night that ended in a Washington loss.

Restoration criteria

The texts were corrected, summarized and contextualized to distinguish the site's own voice from journalistic material reproduced in the old version. The goal is to preserve the archive, not its confusion.