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Twitter lit up with praise Sunday night, from basketball fans to basketball greats, for the first two installments of “The Last Dance,” a documentary series chronicling Michael Jordan's final season with the Chicago Bulls.

The 10-part series was initially scheduled to air in June during the NBA Finals, but ESPN moved up its release after fans begged for it on social media amid the cancellation of the rest of the NBA season because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Those fans, all of them hungry for substantive athlete-focused entertainment and some of them basketball legends themselves, were very satisfied.

I could’ve watched all 10 episodes right now. — Zach LaVine (@ZachLaVine) April 20, 2020

Michael Jordan’s Last Dance was fantastic and I loved all two hours of it!! Young fans that never got to see Michael play now understand why he’s the 🐐 of basketball! — Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) April 20, 2020

If I had 3 wishes in life. I think I would have asked for #TheLastDance — DWade (@DwyaneWade) April 20, 2020

“Simulate week til next Sunday!” #thelastdance 🐐 🔥 — DeAndre Jordan (@DeAndre) April 20, 2020

Jordan-worship surged after the premiere.

MJ was on another level — Baron Davis (@BaronDavis) April 20, 2020

MJ was swaggy and kinda ummm FINE 😂😂😂🤷🏽‍♀️😂😂😂🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️ — Candace Parker (@Candace_Parker) April 20, 2020

truly blessed to have so many personal Jordan experiences in the memory bank. MJ was a huge part of my childhood, adolescence and early adult years. #TheLastDance pic.twitter.com/DR54rQkJa6 — Kris Johnson (@PointForwardPro) April 19, 2020

My 12/yo daughter’s full name is Jordan Michaela Johnson. I tried to name her Jordan Magic Johnson but they wouldn’t let me. — Kris Johnson (@PointForwardPro) April 19, 2020

And some expressed they were pleased to see Scottie Pippen's story covered in the first two episodes of the doc.

Scottie Pippen only got $22.2M in his 11 seasons with the #Bulls.



He made up for it by getting $77M in the next 5 years with the Rockets & TrailBlazers.



He said his time would come and it did #TheLastDance pic.twitter.com/UnnBVZrEYz — Etan Thomas (@etanthomas36) April 20, 2020

"The Last Dance" is partially a product of film dating back to 1997, when Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf and head coach Phil Jackson agreed to let an NBA Entertainment film crew follow the team for the season. It features archival footage of the entire span of Jordan’s youth and college career, alongside new interviews with his former teammates, high school and college coaches and former President Barack Obama, whose start in politics in Chicago overlapped with Jordan’s time with the Bulls.

Many on Twitter also praised the production value of the first two episodes.

I’m glad ESPN is airing the uncensored version of The Last Dance because this is the cursingest documentary I’ve ever seen. (Even I curse in it and I rarely curse on camera). Hearing so many bleeps over 10 hours would have been distracting — J.A. Adande (@jadande) April 19, 2020