Max: “Is Denver actually a legitimate destination (for LeBron)?” Rich Paul: “It wouldn’t be on the board, Max.”
It feels like Rich Paul is narrating in real time the movie that we are all watching.
It’s all going on the doc. They are trying to write a good movie here
Yeah the clip farming is going to be insane
It’s Rich Paul’s world and we’re all just watching him bang Adele
link?
Send da video
Tell the man
No Link? Never mind, I’ll find someone like you.
Nah, you rollin in the deep for that
Rumor has it he never found the link
Hello? It’s me. Wondering if after all these posts someone has a link
I was good at finding those links when we were young
Don’t make them angry. They might set fire to the rain.
If someone told me 15 years ago that Jerry Maguire will not be the coolest sports agent in the world my mind would have been blown
And Adele will probably sing the opening theme.
LeBron going out to “Let me photograph you in this light, in case this is the last time…”
This is for the exposition section of the documentary
basically Espn used to do that, and now its out in the open
Ya Herd With Perd Paul
wait why wouldnt denver be on the board though
Wtf is this? Agent is commenting on a whiteboard with teams his star player might sign with. Hollywood wouldn’t write this.
He’s only an agent cause LeBron bought a jersey out of his car and now he manages half the league and is married to Adele. His life already is a movie.
I think you are conflating his ability with the opportunities available to him. The guy is clearly sharp and does a great job representing his clients. Nerlens Noel might disagree.
Also someone said one time “I’ve been nothing but lucky, but I’ve put myself in those positions to get lucky”
married to Adele
wtf I did not know this
They’re engaged.
Pat Mcafee often hilariously drops Adele lyrics when he has Rich Paul on the show.
The antivirus guy?
Edit: lmao nvm…
I envy you.
Short kings eating good
Oh my god neither did I
Where have you been living 😆
look man sometimes you wear a throwback warren moon jersey to the airport one day and it completely changes the trajectory of your life and several others. could happen to any of us
its just a matter of breaks. None of us choose where we’re born, to who, and with what gifts. Its all luck then you make the best of it. He got his break, then he damn near made the best of it. Getting adele on top of all of that, she doesn’t need an agent or lebron’s friend. he may just have some good social skills
yeah i think he’s an incredible american story. he is the american dream personified. to go from that to where he is is amazing. clearly a very sharp guy. backdooring CAA to form Klutch was a masterstroke and he deserves all the credit in the world
Using UTA house money no less lmao
lol I bet Hollywood would make a movie about him
Look man his parents named him “Rich” Paul, that guy was obviously destined for greatness.
I feel bad for Poor Paul.
lebron felt angry like warren moon must’ve felt in 1995
As I’ve said many times, no one understands that reference.
Is that when Moon beat his wife?
Wait I’ve only just now found out he’s with Adele? Lmao fucking what? Seems like the most random fucking pairing
That one and the Serena Williams one are wild matches.
Serena Williams being with the king Reddit nerd himself will never not be hilarious.
Serena Williams one is more shocking to me. At least Rich and Adele both are involved in the entertainment industry.
Lana Del Rey and her gator tourguide partner?
Why is it wild
Serena is a hugely muscled female athlete and Ohanian is a slight, shy tech CEO.
yea point is that he got a break, like anyone else got a break maybe via family and then college, connections
he did a good at his job and so he has now sustained himself as an agent is aforce in the league
Adele didn’t need to marry an agent, he somehow charmed her and it became a marriage
at what point are you gonna give the dude some props. The breaks came from being at hte right place and right time, the rest at this point he sustained bc he figured it out. So many breaks are by being born in the right place or right situation or gifts and talent
I’m inclined to think there is more to him becoming worth $100M and having Adele as a partner than LeBron buying a jersey out of his car. That may have been how it started, but the guy is pretty clearly very competent. Players wouldn’t keep signing with his agency if he was constantly losing players money.
In what other timeline is that possible? He was obviously a go-getter but 99% of it is right place, right time.
That’s not the only reason he is an agent lol
“If I don’t have on that jersey, we don’t have a conversation,” Rich Paul says.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/8766225/rich-paul-one-lebron-james-close-friends-now-agent-espn-magazine
I mean if you think his IQ and charm didn’t handle most of it and the jersey just got him in the door idk what to tell ya
He was a 21 year old hustler selling shirts out of the trunk of his car at the time. Where do you think he’d be if he hadn’t met LeBron James? At best, he’d be a very small business owner now with all the intelligence and charm in the world. It does make you wonder how much talent society is squandering by making opportunity to do things hinge on access to other people’s wealth. It also makes you wonder how many wealthy and powerful people would be complete and utter failures had they started with nothing.
Trump, for instance, would probably own a used car lot and be always getting jammed up for shady business practices. Musk, without the parents’ emerald mine money that afforded expensive early PCs as a kid, the money to finance the PayPal start up, and the inherited wealth freedom to drop out of college and start businesses, is probably a math professor somewhere always getting jammed up for trying really hard to instigate inappropriate sexual relationships with students.
It does make you wonder how much talent society is squandering by making opportunity to do things hinge on access to other people’s wealth. It also makes you wonder how many wealthy and powerful people would be complete and utter failures had they started with nothing.
It’s almost like having an entire society and economic system being based around access to capital isn’t the best idea. think some guy with a beard talked about this idk tho.
That’s an astute observation by James Harden.
The guy with the beard actually said that having an entire society based around access to capital was originally a good idea, as an alternative to having everything based around bloodlines and superstition. He said the capital stuff outlived its usefulness and we should move on to something better already. And he said that almost 200 years ago.
Uh oh. Has society missed the marx?
Rich Paul is impressive, no doubt, but it’s really about LeBron forcing his agent/agency to mentor and teach Rich, then trust him enough to launch an agency.
To have that type of foresight at 16-18 is insane, especially when you recognize LeBron’s background. The business intelligence is terrifying.
I swear LeBron has a photographic memory and probably has near savant levels of IQ. Everything he does is planned and calculated, even if it’s not successful, he never really makes the same mistake again.
When you put it that way, that really could’ve been the premise of a mid budget hood classic.
It’s a way to test the market reaction to each of these posibilities.
It’s a narative driven league, and he needs the best story for his last season.
The best story is obviously Cleveland. Second would be Miami. Third would be the Steph team up.
Other than that, is there any really “crazy” story?
Uh… the two best stories that he’s already finished? The sixers would be the craziest one
Why is that? I think LeBron going to either the Timberwolves, Nuggets, or 76s is equally crazy. Golden State Warriors, don’t make any sense to me. Like the average age is 40. However, if they became a seriously contending team who could win at all. That’s really really crazy.
Him going to Miami or Cleveland feels a bit like a safe bet with familiarity however. Both these teams plus Warriors seem if most likely outcome is that their injury riddled, and under perform.
Golden State would be the best if the team didn’t have an average age of 39. A documentary on rehabbing injuries isn’t that thrilling sadly. Miami would be neat because he would be extremely important to the team but also would be able to focus on the offensive side. I would be least interested in Cleveland because he’s already done it and the team is pretty unlikeable to me.
The man with the Miami flair thinks Miami is the best place to go. Odd?
Oh no, a sports fan is being biased! Quick, lets stone him to death
No, no, it was only in jest.
Also “ Miami would be neat because he would be extremely important to the team but also would be able to focus on the offensive side” are not really sound or rooted reasonings. Those are pretty vague reasonings as to why you should join the Miami Heat. The way I read it was LeBron should join heat. He important to us, he good at offense and can be lazy on defense. No biggly deal for heat culture.
But also like I’m trying my best and I have kids. Won’t you think of the kids. Let me live. Let us all live. It’s just a game.
All of those stories are good if they deliver together. What if it’s a first round exit?
What does that mean for his legacy?
We made a meme of all the Lebrons legacy talks, but that’s how they think about it.
When they make a documentary about Lebron, the last 15 minutes will be about this season. What is the point you want the audience to take home with them.
Will he join a contender and send the message that he was a competitor till the end?
Will he join the Cavs and say that it was always about his hometown?
Is he a rolemodel that will pass the torch to Ant?
Is he a guy that made the sport global, and use Jokic as the representative of the new global era of the league?
Okay hear me out what if the last 15 minutes is about getting past the second round? Sounds like a competitor to me
This is why I think warrior is the safe bet. Does anybody actually expect them to win at all? Like I don’t think people from the Cavs or heat would really think it tarnishes his legacy. Going to the Warriors just seems like I wanna have fun while possibly being competitive.
Helping the TWolves get a championship would qualify as pretty crazy to me
Best story is warriors.
Ew. To do what? Take Steph’s thunder? I can’t see either of them actually wanting that.
Obviously biased, but going to the Sixers would be insane, and the cast of characters would be unmatched. Imagine the scene of LeBron meeting Gritty for the first time.
Taking Minnesota to their first ever title.
It’s The Decision 2.0
What’s the problem?
before it was just espn doing it and being fed by either teams and agents and choosing based on their relationships
now we just get it direct
Wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if they pulled the wool over our eyes and he goes to a team that’s most definitely not on the board. This feels like some showman type of strategy and are just feeding the rumor mills
Its The Decision but Rich Paul gets to be the douchebag on TV instead of young LeBron.
He’s the worst. Can’t stand Klutch
He’s trying to give the talking heads the talking points they need for the beginning of the doc.
Rich Paul could not believe Max disrespected the board like that
This was really funny
I don’t want to disrespect his board either but…I can’t help but notice that even though there are 5 lines connected to LeBron that none point to Steph and Dray’s names?
I think this shit is hilarious as it’s only been a few days and folks are whining about him not picking a team. The fuck else we going to talk about right now? Summer league? 2nd apron?
Enjoy this senseless entertainment
These children couldn’t handle the 2 weeks of meetings that used to happen every free agency in the 2010s
God I miss those days. Tracking planes and shit lmao
It all peaked with Kawhi.
I remember the lakers billboard pleading with Dwight Howard to stay and he ended up signing with the rockets. Free agency with stars is basically dead now. Teams got understandably tired of star players walking away.
Deandre Jordan mavs free agency thing was peak to me
Thru texts is still funny
Greatest NBA pasta of all time imo
My favorite will always be the source coding for the colors on LeBron’s website.
Never knew that happened lol, that’s great
I’m surprised some high profile players don’t still do the meetings. I would love to be wined and dined and see the city, facilities, neighborhoods, etc. if I was making such a major decision.
Less likely he’ll decide over a holiday weekend too. He’s never done that in his entire career.
Lol like unless you’re a nephew this ain’t our first LeBron decision rodeo.
Or he’s going to announce he’s joining the Philadelphia 76ers on the nation’s birthday
What could we possibly do besides act like we don’t know where LeBron is going all summer(Cleveland)?
Please anything but second apron talk. Without question my least favorite topic of discussion in the league. I understand the importance but Christ it feels like listening to an accounting lecture.
Summer league?
The SL is amazing. It’s way more entertaining than Rich Paul pointing at a white board and naming the players that exist on those teams. Lol.
(I agree it’s hilarious because of how absurd it is though)
Also LeBron literally and directly said he’ll take his time choosing. He’s clearly in no rush.
Rich Paul is corny as shit but this was funny
Max is even more corny for being so serious about it. He thinks he’s Tom Brokaw interviewing Alan Greenspan about the tech bubble bursting
Tom Brokaw deserves way more respect than that - I feel dirty even seeing his name in the same reddit comment as Max. His jailhouse interview of AI helped get him out of jail. Not to mention his coverage of MJ’s retirements, Lance Armstrong’s doping, etc.
I’m not trying to be cynical, but there’s no way Rich would be doing all this shit if LeBron didn’t already know where he was going. This is to drum up drama and make it seem like Bron has all these super enticing options just to make it that much more admirable when he chooses Cleveland again.
Facts.
Also if it’s true Lebron is gonna film the whole last season, this is just clips for the start of the movie.
This was my exact thought
He’s been filming the last four seasons already.
Its Cleveland. The guy, I hate him for going to Miami (I am Mavs fan), then he goes back to his hometown despite them being the worst team in the league and gets them a championship beating the greatest team ever. Complete 180 in my eyes. It was always Cleveland.
The chances of him winning with the Cavs are low. Does him and Harden even work?
Miami is also low
Golden State could be frisky if they get AD and keep Moody and Gary Payton II for depth
TF is that title
Dude’s saying: “It wouldn’t be on the board if it wasn’t (a legitimate destination”
The title makes it sound like Denver isn’t on the board of options Bron’s considering
Wtf glad I read this comment because I did not watch or listen to the video lmao. Shit had my hopes up that Denver’s not a possible destination for him
Sound each word out!! You got this!!!
The title makes sense I think
First time I hear someone pronounce the j in jokic
I’ve heard it a ton and I don’t understand it. Like I get if you’re reading it for the first time, but it’s people who have heard it pronounced correct a million times. I don’t get it.
It’s like people that refuse to take 10 seconds to figure out how to pronounce Giannis’ last name. It’s not that hard if you just put the smallest bit of effort in.
It’s like people that refuse to take 10 seconds to figure out how to pronounce Giannis’ last name
Many pronounce his first name wrong too
It’s Yannis.
I remember Reggie Miller pronouncing Wemby’s name WembenyaNa. National TV guy can’t even bother to learn a star player’s name lol
Reggie is terrible with names. He butchers Chet’s too
I remember one of the announcers dropping a “Home-gern.”
My favorite mispronounciation was someone calling Giannis “G-anus”
It’s because his nickname is Joker not Yoker.
First time?!
It honestly baffles me how so many players, coaches media etc still call him (pronounce like) “Joke-itch”
I hear it all the time. People somehow conflate both “Joker” and his actual last name- Jokic and combine them into “Joke-itch”
I remember a NBA ref saying the J in Jokic once during a challenge (I think this season). He tried to correct himself but it was weird there were still refs who can’t pronounce his name right, its not like it requires precise alliteration (you can literally divide the name into yolk - itch).
In that ref’s defense, maybe he’s never paid any attention to the NBA and has no idea who Jokic is and got his job through a mix up in HR but he’s faking it until he makes it and doing well enough to not get fired.
The disrespectful pronunciation was soft confirmation that Denver is not, in fact, in the running
LeBron during the ASG draft when Jokic selected himself to his team
This is a hilarious way to handle free agency and just shows the levels to the power LeBron and his team wield.
Only because he’s announced he’ll take less than market, to be fair
It’s not like his previous FA stints where teams were just holding max slots open hoping he’d join
That’s power. When in history has a top 20 player in the league opened the door to all teams in free agency by taking less? The only requirement across the landscape is to show that you can build a viable championship team.
It’s only recognized when a Sam Pressi, Bob Meyers, or Masai Ujiri build a team. What about when a player holds his services until that position does their job then he makes his move?
I’m just saying that his current influence is hardly anything compared to what it once was, when he shaped the league in his wake.
The stick got me 😂
It looks like it’s his first time really using it too, kinda playing with it 😂
If he joins Denver, Kroenke will make a lot of money from merchandise. He’ll be able to pay Watson and we go over the second apron. We would have five Klutch players on our team in that case.
Who would be the other 3?
This whole thing is hilarious lol, they know just how much attention they can get from this and they’re going to find ways to get every bit of it.
Great reminder that the nba is an entertainment business before anything else
I hope this part makes the documentary.
I just realized maxey is the only one on the list with a star next to his name
This is what I noticed too. What’s the deal with that?
From what I gathered maxey is the only Klutch agent here and Paul said LeBron loves maxey
Represented by Klutch.
I think Nick Nurse is as well
Idk I may be completely wrong but it doesn’t seem like LeBron to go to a new team for 1 maybe 2 seasons.
I feel like it’s only Miami and Cleveland with Cleveland in front.
If it was truly about wanting to win he’d go to spurs, NY or OKC
NY is funny. He won’t go to a team that just won. Rich Paul shut that shit down and thank god. I would not want him on the Knicks.
Le Indecision part deux
ESPN doesn’t have the money anymore he’s probably waiting for Kalshi or Polymarket to sponsor the Decision Part 4
Lebron and his minions are all drama queens. Zero authenticity. What is the point of all these?
The passing and plays LeBron and Joker could put together would be pretty wild.
I hate rich paul, cant stand the act.
No okc lol awww
One of the biggest agents in sports and dude still pronounces the J in Jokic
lol christian braun just fell to his knees. somewhere.
My guess is Culvers on tower rd
This shit is embarrassing, MJ would never.
I remind you of MJ on the Wizards.
Yeah didn’t MJ host a primetime tv special when he decided to move to the wizards?
wait…
He said “Joke-itch” Has he been watching the NBA the last 10 years enough to pronounce his name right or nah?
Rich is so snobby.
The decision 2.0 LeBron to old for this bull shit.
It’s The Decision again, only LeBron has gotten wiser and is working through Rich Paul this time.
Where can we watch this? cant find the youtube video
Was gonna ask the same
LeBron is watching this with a large popcorn and a soda, laughing at all us waiting on De2ision
Who can carry me to another chip?
This would make Scott Boras blush
Yeah, not participating in this farce.
Idk man, pretty over this chapter of bullshit.
I know the guy’s rich but seriously does anyone know Rich Paul’s last name?
Denver or Miami!!!
Can’t watch the video because I’m at work, but is there a reason the thunder aren’t on this board? Am I missing something?
LeBron dont wanna go there basically
It would be on the board, Max…..
Damn this new episode of Black Mirror is crazy
Bron and Rich Paul are such attention whores lmao
If LeBron signs with Boston, Pierce might blow a gasket
He’s not going to the East imo. He’s way too settled in LA. With the Warriors he can just commute to the bay if he wants to so…
He should go to Philly #LeProcess
Playing everyone. Decision is already made. All they’re doing is building suspense. Lebron leaving needs to be a HUGE deal, so that’s what they’re doing. They want to stay on top of the news cycle
My opinion of Adele sinks lower every time I hear Rich Paul speak
Jokic - Lebron 2-man game + fast breaks would be fun as hell, but defence would suck balls even more. This is the kind of move you make if you had Brown on the perimeter, not Murray.
This is a funny 2026 equivalent of the decision
I can’t wait til he retires and we can just be done with this nonsense
But… please.
Whaaaaat?!? Why come Dame-Ja-Deni not on the board?!?
What a circus. LeBron knows where he’s going already. And it’s Cleveland
Hard to take anyone who says “Joke-ich” seriously.
It’s two syllables, and he’s been one of the best players in the league for several years. If you’re an “agent,” maybe learn the name, Richard.
Still can’t pronounce Jokic.
If he wants those last 2 rings the solution is simple San Antonio, OKC, Cleveland, or roll the dice and play for Golden State and they can run it back one more time. Ideally for legacy standpoint its Cleveland anywhere else its a cash grab.