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00:00 I'm Jill Painter Lopez for Sports Illustrated here with Melissa Rowland.
00:10 And Melissa, LeBron James in watching the Last Dance documentary had some interesting
00:14 things to say about Michael Jordan's jersey number switch when he returned after coming
00:19 back from baseball and he came back at number 45.
00:21 What did LeBron say about that?
00:23 LeBron called Michael Jordan legendary and said that it was cool that he changed his
00:28 jersey from number 45 back to number 23 in the middle of the Bulls' Eastern Conference
00:33 semifinal series against the Orlando Magic.
00:36 So basically in the final couple of seconds of game one of that series, Michael Jordan
00:41 made a couple of really costly mistakes.
00:43 He got the ball picked from him, which Michael Jordan never did, and then he committed a
00:47 turnover.
00:48 The Bulls ended up losing that game.
00:51 And after that game, Nick Anderson took a couple of shots at Michael Jordan.
00:54 He said that number 45 is not number 23.
00:58 Michael Jordan took that to heart and changed his number back to 23.
01:02 In the documentary, he made a comment saying something along the lines of he just felt
01:06 a little out of sorts playing his 45 and he decided to go back to the number that he had
01:11 won three NBA championships with before.
01:13 So he changed his number mid-series.
01:15 The following game comes out, scores 38 points.
01:19 The Bulls ended up losing that series.
01:21 But let's just say this, number 23 came out in full force the following year, leading
01:26 the Bulls to a 72-10 record.
01:29 Michael Jordan won his fourth MVP and his fourth NBA championship.