
“Riveting, myth-shattering.”
–Dan McGrath, Chicago Tribune
“When Nothing Else Matters is the fourth act of a Shakespeare play....Jordan is Macbeth in high tops....When Nothing Else Matters tells the gripping tale of an aging superstar moving reluctantly from the one place where he was in complete control to a world where the rules weren’t as clear cut.”
--Allen St. John, The Washington Post
“[An] exceptional book. It says much about the cozy relationship enjoyed by elite athletes and the journalists who routinely covered them that it took a nonsports writer to produce the most telling insight into this twentieth-century icon.”
--Dave Hannigan, The Sunday Times (of London)
“Michael Leahy may be the first author to overcome his awe of Michael Jordan and let us see another Jordan, the legend in the autumn of his career. In this book we don’t just meet a myth streaking across the sky – we meet a very human being finally returning to earth. When Nothing Else Matters transcends its subject, for as we watch Jordan descend, we also somehow see ourselves.”
–Glenn Stout, series editor of The Best American Sports Writing