The Bulls lost three times in a row against the Pistons in the playoffs, before eventually sweeping them in the Eastern Conference Finals in 1991.
The same outcome unfolded 12 months later, when the Bulls fell to the Pistons in seven games as Detroit ultimately defended its title, beating the Portland Trail Blazers 4-2 in the NBA Finals.
"The Bulls kept trying to go through the Pistons and Isiah [Thomas] denied them but it made the Bulls the championship-winning team that they were," Magic told"They [the Pistons] took a lot of cheap shots. I can understand why Michael was so upset. The great thing is that the Pistons made Michael Jordan be the GOAT [greatest of all time]. The reason he became the GOAT is because he had to go through the Pistons.
"When he goes to the basket, he ain't gonna dunk. We're gonna hit you and you're gonna be on the ground. We were trying to physically hurt Michael [Jordan].""We knew Michael Jordan is the greatest player, and we tried to use it as a rallying cry to come together," he explained in Episode 3."We had to do everything from a physicality standpoint to stop him.""They made it personal," Jordan explained."They physically beat the s*** out of us.
"It was always going to happen," he explained."They still hate the Pistons today. That was a bitter rivalry. [...] You got to give the Pistons credit, they learnt from the [The Pistons all but ended the Showtime Era that had delivered the Lakers five titles in eight years. Magic and the Lakers returned to the NBA Finals for a final hurrah in 1991, but were comprehensively beat by the Bulls.
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