Utah Jazz show they're still salty about MJ's final shot with Bulls

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The 1998 NBA Finals resulted in two things: the Bulls’ sixth title and 20 years of bitterness for the Utah Jazz.

Exactly two decades after “The Last Shot,” the Jazz proved they still haven’t gotten over that Game 6 loss to the Bulls, particularly Michael Jordan’s “push-off,” with their latest comment on NBA’s Instagram.

What appeared to be a push-off on Bryon Russell that gave Jordan an open look and game-winning bucket with 5.2 seconds left to play has cemented a sour taste in the mouths of the Jazz organization for countless years.

When fans look back 20 seasons, the history books only describe how Jordan won his sixth title by scoring one of his famed clutch shots in Salt Lake City. But in reality, that was the last time the Jazz appeared in the NBA Finals. Utah has gone that long without even making a championship appearance.

In fact, the Jazz, formerly led by John Stockton and Karl Malone, lost both of their Finals appearances to the Bulls in 1997 and 1998.

Putting that in perspective, the last memory Utah has in a championship game is Jordan pushing off on their own Russell and the loss that came just moments after. The Jazz are obviously still scarred from that moment.

This past season, the Jazz lost in the Western Conference Semifinals and the Bulls didn’t make the playoffs. Things are looking up for an evidently resentful Utah organization, but it hasn’t helped them forget about what happened in 1998.

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