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I am a big basketball fan and vividly remember watching Game Five of the 1997 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and the Utah Jazz. Now known as “The Flu Game,” it featured a weakened and feverish Michael Jordan who was advised by doctors not to play. The news was a crippling blow to a team that had already lost its series momentum, having just ceded back-to-back games and allowing Karl Malone, John Stockton, and the rest of the Jazz to tie the series at two games apiece.

Jordan decided to ignore doctor’s advice and suited up to deliver one of the best performances of his legendary ...

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