A “trust the process” mention from LeBron James when discussing his decision. Crowd goes wild.
“I don’t mean to be cavalier, but when the heat is on it’s important for warriors such as myself to trust the process, especially with wolves about. Just a nugget of wisdom.”
And then inexplicably he says “Light the beam!”
And then follows that up with CAW CAW
Broncos Nation, LeRide!
then gets into an F1 car and drives all the way to Gainbridge Fieldhouse
LeRide is frying me rn lol
Well his first game ever was against the kings. And if I recall correctly, when he was drafted he said he was a kings fan. Come home lebron
He’s somewhat of a King himself.
The GOAT debate would be over if he won a ring in Sacramento
“It started in Sacramento and it’s ending in Sacramento. The king of Kings; it is written”
and not take decisions in the spur of the moment
He’ll make the decision just in the knick of time before camps start
Cavaliers don’t do that
Wizards
Wow, this really is a National Basketball Association
Absolute cinema
“The media reporting about my decision is Bull. I’ve spent my career Bucking trends and Blazing Trails, a true Maverick of the game, and you can see what it has Netted me. My Sun is in the league, I’ve been called a King, and, between the Thundering dunks, passing Wizardry, and defensive ball Hawking, I’ve brought Magic to the game.
“I’m a Grizzlied veteran now. I know whatever decision I make will be Piston off some fans, and all that Jazz. I’m joining the New Orleans Pelicans.”
The crowd would self combust at the end with all the excitement and confusion
*just a nugget of wisdom from someone who’s getting DC (dizzy).
It’s not a spur of a moment decision.
“As a father…” (see flair)
Scott Boras ass quote lol
this is a phrase he frequently uses like “whatever the case may be”
“Things of that nature”
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“We do not care”
“You’re either drinking wine or squashing grapes”
“our ball club”
DON’T BLINK
“At the end of the day”
“It’s just basketball”
“Ummmm”
“Keep the main thing, the main thing”
“The man above”
Embiidoubitably
“The game of basketball”
”…that we all love”
“Perchance”
You can’t just say perchance
well, uh.. filibuster
let’s say you and I go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor
What about crushing turts?
You unlock that ability once you’ve scored more points than anyone else.
Have picked up those podcastisms too. He says, “obviously” a lot as well
“Ball Club”
“yabadabadoo old navy”
This, that, and LeThird
“It’s our ball”
“It ain’t tree”
Yabadabadoyoungnavy
In this business-ahhhh
Basketball term for Inshallah
Lebron loves sitting in a barber chair.
I bet being 6’9 and 250+ lbs gotta be tough to find a chair that’s comfortable
tbf I’m normal height and I love barber chairs I would get one in my house.
What’s stopping you
They are exorbitantly expensive. My great aunt had one and that was far and away the most expensive thing that got sold off when she died. Got like 5 grand for her well maintained 50s era chair.
Money?
owning a house
One could almost say he loves the Clipp…crowd goes wild
theyre height adjustable, have a foot rest, and easy to get out of
fond memories of him having a reason to sit in one
He’s fucking loving all this attention.
He’s gonna be in a perpetual state of neither signing with a team nor retiring.
Just casually throwing in tidbits in his public convos like “anyone who knows me knows I like to PACE… my time on the court and evaluate the game”
This is his legacy tour.
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Schroedinger’s goat
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And then when he does retire we’re going to get at least 3 or 4 years of him posting workout videos before the season and ESPN asking if he’s making a comeback.
Holy shit. I’ve literally watched LeBron play his entire career and I always thought he was gonna go the Shaq route and immediately buy a million businesses but it’s now crossing my mind that we are going to have to deal with at least 5 years of “coming out of retirement” rumors like Brady and Favre.
Just him in full fucking Browns gear doing workouts with whatever sad sack they have throwing the ball in Cleveland months after his “retirement”.
The thought just crossed my mind that maybe this is the start of a retirement tour
It’s the start of his documentary we can say that for certain.
yeah, he’s farming quotes that you can insert in parts of the documentary
What else are those voice messages for?
Mf needs to be wooed
Shams: LeBron is considering the Indiana Fever and has had phone conversations with Cailtlyn Clark
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It’s odd hearing people argue that he doesn’t crave the attention and it’s just the media that’s hyping the decision. As if Lebron didn’t fully authorize Rich Paul’s media antics.
Rich Paul is an agent, their job is to sell their player to teams. He is doing what Agents should do to get you the most options possible. Otherwise, what are you paying them for?
He went on TV and ‘eliminated’ like 20 teams. That’s kinda the opposite.
serious options, Lebron isn’t going to the pelicans or the kings if he wants to compete
there are about 10 options league wide that would contend with Lebron and aren’t Indiana
He wants to compete. Those teams eliminated themselves from the bron sweepstakes.
Do other agents have a podcast where they bring on a whiteboard to shoot the shit about where their GOAT wants to go? As if LeBron needs “options”. He’s doing all this legwork for a guy that could go play anywhere he wants for the right price.
Rich Paul is a different type of agent and if you look at the contracts he gets for his guys, he is very good at his job. One of the best you might say.
For some people LeBron just can’t do anything wrong in their eyes
I mean I’m loving this, I don’t view LeBron milking this as wrong at all lol
AN entertainer wanting attention? Baffling for these redditors to understand that.
who’s brand affiliate are you
For more people in here LeBron just cant do anything right in their eyes
Even if he does love the attention that’s not really a wrong thing …. So Yere he’s not doing anything wrong here
Such a diva
LeDiva
Shit, I would too! Lmao
ngl its fun. id like it too.
No disputing, he is absolutely the GOAT of NBA attention whores.
It’s kind of why I call bullshit on him not wanting a farewell tour eventually. He seems like the guy that will love all the attention from it (and good for him if he does he deserves it).
30 teams, one season. A jersey to buy for each fanbase.
LeMilking
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LeMilKING??
LeBron to Kings confirmed
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Milking? lebron to WNBA confirmed
No way he announces until after World Cup final. He’ll get all the attention with that out of the way.
He can maximize attention if he waits for the Kawhi investigation to end
Also if he waits until the next ice age
he’s gonna wait until the trade deadline
Yeah the instant that Rich Paul or whoever said it would likely be late July /early August I immediately thought of that August 8th (the Ocho) time frame. There is like no sports happening for a week or 2 and that’s exactly when he wants to announce and own the entire newsfeed.
You just know Silver would be livid if it took that long. Schedules usually come out early/mid August, and those media buys and TV deals aren’t set up overnight.
the deals are already set and the season doesn’t start until october
everyone is frantic now until they see the numbers Lebron will pull and they will ask him for more seasons like this one
I wouldn’t be surprised if Silver already knows what Lebron is going to do but they are holding on purpose to squeeze every drop of content from this
I mean, the world cup final is sunday, if he waits until next wednesday/thursday every basketball fan will be on him except for the country that wins the wc, neutrals will forget by tuesday
True. But what’s he gonna do? Publicly shame the most famous basketball player in the world? LeBron has all the leverage.
There’s nothing else happening after the World Cup on Sunday though. Like any time after that will be the same through mid to late August when NFL preseason and college football starts.
Yeah that’s the same 2 to 3 week period I’m talking about. But there’s other stories that can interfere, like the aspiration ruling and anything ol’ presidente de naranja cooks up.
I think it’ll probably be during the WNBA all star break so Jul 23rd to 27th, I’m assuming he’s a good partner and will either do it near that time or shortly after.
NFL starts August 6.
I’m just saying anywhere in that span from next Monday the 20th to about Aug 8th, it’s about a 3 week span of limited sports. Particularly the WNBA break of the 23rd to 27th is a good time.
The most popular sport in the US will be dominanting headlines on August 8
Get Bieber to end the half time show with ‘Here come the Sixers’, jump down from the stands in a Philly jersey and sign whilst 2 billion people are watching.
Hee Bron, you won’t ever get more eyes on you than with this, and only exactly this.
Oh shit he’s joining Arsenal
LeGooner
Lebron to replace Saliba until christmas? Sign me up
Oh boy Idk that Bron’s back is any better haha
Leteta
Plot twist: Lebron goes to Memphis to piss the fans off cause he dissed the city; pisses the league off since cause they have to put Memphis on prime time TV; pisses himself off cause he doesn’t like the city.
Your new Jacksonville Jaguars starting tight end!
He said 2003. who won the NBA Championship that year?
the San Antonio Spurs
Better get the churros ready
The large women will be there at the airport to embrace him with open arms
Please enough theatrics just pick a squad already.
LeNo
Jay
Imagine being this pressed over a 41-year old free agent lol
Trust the process and shut your mouth nephew
Lebron better not be doing all this just to go back to the Cavs
With Shams being really obnoxiously close to “sources…” he may be onto something about harden contract is a sign LeBron coming.
The Decision 4: The Final Decision
Or or or… imagine he just plays on 1 year deals till 50 and we get this every offseason.
LeBron becomes the first player to play for every single team in the NBA?
Has Philly just been smacking us in the face the whole time and none of us have chose to believe it?
Windy day 1 said does LeBron wanna play with JB?
Boom JB goes to 76ers
Now they’re on Bron’s list
Then Bob Myers is on Rich’s podcast; THE ONLY TEAM TO END UP WITH SOMEONE ON IT!
Now this?
I’m going crazy
JB wasn’t the one who boomed him though that was JT
He’s so good..
x4
I choose to not believe it simply because it would be the absolute worst option for me as a Knicks fan
Hehehe…
Bah gawd that’s Embiids music
The Tony Wroten disrespect!
He’s taking his talents to Sacremento
SacrAmento
Bron can call it San Bernardino as long as he signs
He has been saying that for a long ass time. I can remember him saying it as far back as 2011 during his Hakeem summer. He’s also said it several times on his podcast with both JJ first and now Nash.
He loves this more than basketball, I’m convinced.
We’re being EDGEd until we COMBE MAXEY, I read right thru your bullshit LeBron
Please LeBron save us
Not gonna miss this shit when he retires.
Just wait until he does a whole farewell tour in his final season then takes months after that hemming and hawing only to actually retire.
Lmao
hes an attention whore. how else do you describe his behavior
LeBron’s biggest need emotionally is and has always been to be wanted and courted. This is heaven for him as the whole NBA waits for him to decide and at least 4-5 teams are fawning over him.
He will keep this going as long as he possibly can. It’s like mainlining crack for him.
Thanks. Now I can’t unthink of LeBron as a coquettish princess in a pink ball room dress eye flirting behind a hand fan.
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Watch this guy watch the first 3 months of the season and then sign with a team in January lol
Duality of the fans. If LeBron is washed / too old, why people care where he goes so much
All this for a dude who’s barely Top 20 currently in the league
Back in 2010 fair enough this is just weird though
Spoism
He loves this shit doesnt he lol
He is at his happiest when he’s the center of attention so yes.
He’s absolutely messing with us
Brother is just tickling everyone’s balls at this point
Dude loves messing with everyone
And the plebes go wild!
That mothafucka knows what he’s doing! Bring that ass here boy
I choose to believe
LeTrollin
Bro fucking retire
Hope lebron goes to new teams that he hasnt played before
Fucks sake. Everyone JUST stopped talking about the Giannis bullshit and now this. I just want basketball, man.
Lembiid
He said it twice just to make sure you heard it
He’s not that far from tweeting something like “Some would say trusting the process is possible through ‘Strength in Numbers 🤪💙💛” or some shit like that.
He so annoying. He loves all this attention. All his the decisions in his career is like a reality TV show. He craves the attention and the media loves giving it to him.
Basketball will be that much better when he finally retires
There’s so much young talent in the league right now, the draft class was deep as shit…and all anyone is talking about is a 40 year old who seeks out attention like a teenage girl
He sure does love that attention lol
He’s loving this lol
Tomorrow he’s gonna say something like “it’s going to be great playing in the LAND”.
And the next day
“Some say it can be a little bit HOT in the summer.”
And then
“Not bronze, not silver. But GOLD”
Shut up LeBron just pick a team man
Make Lebronto happen
I SAID IT WAS THE FCKIN SIXERS FEW DAYS AGO I SAID, FEEL FREE TO REPOST WHEN ITS ANNOUNCED
Bro gonna do a televised announcement for a min contract to detroit
This man is ABSOLUTELY loving the attention 😂
He’s going to the Warriors. According to his comments he is done ring chasing and just wants to have “fun”. Also, staying close to his boys while they’re in Cali is a factor.
He’s coming to Philly
Life’s too short to stay cavalier when the heat is rising and sixers of pressure test even the mightiest warriors, but with loyal wolves by your side and precious nuggets of wisdom guiding you, there’s no place like home.
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He got to play in LA and still not happy. Perfect weather. Sure traffic is a nightmare but I’d get a helicopter and go everywhere.
Not the goat. Not even the best laker.