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00:00I'm Jill Painter-Lopez with Sports Illustrated here with our very own Melissa Roland.
00:12And Melissa, some exciting news with the Michael Jordan documentary being moved up a couple
00:17of months.
00:18How do you think this will play with the Lakers?
00:20Well, LeBron James went on the road trip and podcast and said that documentary needs to
00:28be moved up right away.
00:29He said if he were Michael Jordan, he would be marching into ESPN right now and asking
00:33for that to be shown.
00:34Everybody's at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:37There's stay-at-home orders pretty much nationwide now.
00:41And LeBron really wanted to watch that, and he thought everyone around the nation felt
00:46similarly.
00:47And we do.
00:48I personally am really excited to see that.
00:50I know a lot of other people are as well.
00:53Michael Jordan was obviously incredibly influential, won six NBA championships, inspired a whole
00:59generation of players to come, including Kobe Bryant, who when he was growing up wanted
01:03to talk like him, imitate him, emulate him.
01:07And Kobe Bryant obviously went on to win five NBA championships for the Lakers.
01:11So Michael Jordan really popularized the game and changed the game worldwide.