Michael Jordan says final year with Bulls was a “trying year”

The Last Dance is debuting on Netflix (from April 20) and Michael Jordan spoke with “Good Morning America” about his final season with the Chicago Bulls in 1997-1998.

Per ESPN, “It was a trying year,” Jordan said. “We all were trying to enjoy that year, knowing that it was coming to an end. … At the beginning of the season, it basically started when [Bulls general manager] Jerry Krause told Phil [Jackson] that he could go 82 and 0 and he would never get the chance to come back. Knowing that, I married myself to [Jackson], obviously, and if he wasn’t going to be the coach, then I obviously wasn’t going to play.

“So Phil started off the year saying ‘This is the last dance,’ and we played it that way. Basically, it just kind of tugged at you through the course of the year, knowing that this had to come to an end. But it also centered our focus to make sure we ended it right.

“As sad as it sounded at the beginning of the year, we tried to enjoy the year and finish it off the right way.”