'We were very close,' the NBA legend said of his father in the ESPN docuseries The Last Dance
to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories, Jordan emotionally recalls the complicated, difficult time grieving his father and deciding how to move forward with his athletic career, all while juggling fame and the spotlight. He said his mother, Deloris, was "strong" throughout the trying time.
"The first thing she says, 'You know, you got to be thankful,' and I started looking at the positive," Jordan explained. He also called his father the "voice of reason" who "always drove and challenged me" in the docuseries. "One of the things that [my dad] always taught me is that you have to take a negative and turn it into a positive, so I started looking to the other side of it, and that helped me get through it," Jordan said.
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