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Indiana’s Cody Zeller motivated by Michael Jordan’s success

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A ten-part series about Michael Jordan is airing every Sunday for the next month on ESPN.

Parts one and two of “The Last Dance” aired April 19, which resurrected some reasoning as to why many consider Jordan the greatest of all time.

Indiana’s own Cody Zeller was 5 years old in 1998, growing up in Washington, Indiana, when Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won their second NBA Championship three-peat.

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“I remember watching the games with my dad in our unfinished basement on a fifteen-inch TV. We sat down there for all the playoff games,” Zeller told FOX59’s JoJo Gentry.