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00:00 I'm Jill Painter Lopez for Sports Illustrated joined here by our very own Melissa Rowland.
00:10 And Melissa, LeBron James was watching the last dance and he had an emotional response
00:15 that he tweeted about when MJ retired.
00:18 What did he say?
00:19 Michael Jordan shocked the nation when he announced his retirement in 1993.
00:24 And LeBron James was nine years old at the time and he tweeted that he started sobbing.
00:29 He was so devastated that Michael Jordan, who was in the prime of his career at 30 years
00:33 old, who had just won three NBA championships, was stepping away from the game.
00:38 Michael Jordan did this months after his father, James, was killed.
00:43 Michael Jordan was crushed.
00:44 He was extremely close to his father, so he just needed a break from the game.
00:48 He couldn't imagine playing the game without his father in the stands.
00:51 He said that his father meant everything to him.
00:54 He was his best friend.
00:55 So he took a 21-month break from the game.
00:58 And then in 1995, March of that year, he made a comeback.
01:02 And we all know what ended up happening.
01:03 He won another three NBA championships.
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