ESPN's “The Last Dance” 10-part docuseries came to an end on Sunday with an image that is all too familiar to longtime Chicago Bulls fans: Michael Jordan vs. team owner Jerry Reinsdorf.

The last few minutes of Episode 10 had Jordan being asked about the potential of going after a seventh ring and a fourth straight title in the 1998-99 season. Jordan offered that it wasn't a “satisfying” decision to retire a second time, but rather “maddening” to do so at the top of his game, insisting his teammates would have signed one-year deals to give another ring a go.

Reinsdorf explained the team's value had stretched too far to pay Jordan and his surrounding pieces. Jordan, admitting he never had a conversation with Reinsdorf as to why the Bulls broke up, wasn't buying the excuse. Reinsdorf takes exception to Jordan's comments:

“I was not pleased. How’s that?” Reinsdorf said in a phone conversation with K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago, when asked for his reaction to the scene. “He knew better. Michael and I had some private conversations at that time that I won’t go into detail on ever. But there’s no question in my mind that Michael’s feeling at the time was we could not put together a championship team the next year.”

The Bulls chairman explained in the last minutes of “The Last Dance” that the value of the likes of Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr, and Dennis Rodman had gone too high to be able to properly compensate them. Reinsdorf even claimed there was “not a chance” that Pippen would do a one-year deal after being vastly underpaid at $18 million for the last seven years.

The competitor in Jordan would want a re-do of that situation, but Reinsdorf was acutely aware of the implications of bringing the band back. As fate would have it, it just wasn't in the cards.