Michael Jordan was NBA's biggest ‘rock star,' according to Jared Jeffries

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Michael Jordan became a global superstar before people starting using the internet. That was August 1991, when the World Wide Web became available to the public. Jordan had already led the Bulls to their first NBA championship two months prior.

He would go on to dominate basketball in the ‘90s and briefly retire before coming back in 2001 to play for the Washington Wizards for two seasons.

Jordan’s former Wizards teammate Jared Jeffries was a guest on the latest episode of the "Wizards Talk" podcast and talked about what traveling for road games was like with the international icon.  

"You talk about icons and rockstars," Jeffries said. "What MJ did for the game of basketball, making it a global game that everybody had to watch, I think that's what you're going to see in this 'Last Dance.' Nobody traveled like him. We would get into hotels off back-to-backs at, like, three in the morning, and there would be a thousand people outside."

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Jeffries said that he expects the "rock star" side of MJ to be featured in "The Last Dance," the 10-part ESPN documentary series on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Bulls. It was originally set for a summer release but was pushed up as the rest of the sports world is at a halt. The series will be released on April 19.

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