I don’t know what this movie is but I’m intrigued now 

Carl Weathers mode.

I must have left my wallet in the car

mselves?

He was born during Brons second peak.

I do

The Los Angeles Dodgers.

No, this is Kevin Love

Take care of the loonies to take care of the twoonies

Who picked up the phone while I’m playing Diablo 2?! I’m lagging at Hell Cows!

Remember when we paid per text????

Yes this is my core memory. Travelling between the UK and the Euro mainland meant making sure your phone was always off. If you forgot and got the “welcome to spain/germany..” followed by a barrage of text messages from your base country from friends who didn’t know you were abroad meant €€€€ in charges

Haha no way, people actually used that browser? Any time I accidentally touched the icon I instantly panicked and couldn’t smash close fast enough.

Love and Bron played together ‘14-‘18. If he was on Verizon, at the start it was like \(2/MB for roaming in Canada and like \)0.25-0.50 to send/receive text messages per message.

By 2015 they introduced $2/day data roaming in Canada and by 2017 certain unlimited plans had unlimited roaming. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if LeBron didn’t really know specifics but like his wife mentioned a crazy phone bill once and he just avoided that shit.

Worked well for me in Europe a couple years ago

Depends on location, as they basically just resell local services. But in general their stuff has worked fine for me, and where it hasn’t they have had good enough customer service.

Worked great for me in Japan

Worked great in Seychelles, Bosnia and the UK

Or get GoogleFi which works the same in US as it does in any country.

This is what I always suspected, but I do think it can be both things.

There’s a clip floating around of Channing Frye on the recent trip that Cavs championship team went on where he’s complaining about his back hurting or something and LeBron tells him to just stop playing golf on the trip and Channing like hell no, you know how much I paid for this trip? You’d think LeBron would’ve paid for everybody but nope lol.

Waiting to be on WiFi is not about valuing time. It’s just stupid.

If he valued his time would live close to the training facility.

Nah it’s all performative. It’s just like pretending to read the godfather.

Free roaming is like $5 a month

That thing that he’s planning living in NY and go to Philly by helicopter.

statistically its less safe than driving to work yes, because not common. but then also every private jet is also not safe. or every flight NBA teams take are also not safe.

but OP is referring to the cost. He is saving on roaming cost but if reports are true, pays a bazillion to helicopter to work.

He also has an accountant that could let him know he could write off all these things as business travel expenses

That’s not a problem unless you also have plans to use an helicopter to go to work everyday.

LeBron has a car collection worth millions. Many of those I assume he rarely if ever uses.

He has mansions all over the country.

He consistently buys bottles of wine that cost thousands if not tens of thousands.

It is absolutely pointless to do all of that and then penny pinch over roaming data or a spotify sub. He could skip on one of those expensive bottles of wine and that would set him for a decade on all streaming and roaming cost.

Always the same comment in this subreddit lmao.

You don’t study the difference between roaming and helicopter costs in high school or college. He most likely understands perfectly well that one thing is much more expensive than other, he probably has a pet peeve about some expenses. I know staying hydrated is good and I can afford to buy water at a music festival, but sometimes I’d rather stay thirsty for a while because what they charge fucking annoys me.

We’re calling him stupid cause he doesn’t like to spend money on dumb shit? In all
Honesty, I wish I had his discipline

At least he learned to read. I know this because he’s known for reading a lot of books.

I bet he is using the Netflix Account of VJ Edgecombe the moment he arrived in Philadelphia.

He uses Streameast instead of NBA League Pass, no way he is paying for YouTube! 😂

I’m surprised Spotify didn’t just give it to him

He grew up poor as shit and with a single parent I bet he only heard about being frugal and take care of your things and make it last. At a certain point that just becomes how you see the world even if you have enough money to buy all your possessions several times over. He’s not thinking of it like he could just buy it all and not notice, he’s thinking about is this thing really worth $20/mo.

That said, I do hope he’s gotten better about tipping and whatnot. Not spending on yourself is fine but that doesn’t excuse being cheap when it comes to others making their living.

feel like some of these stories are exaggerated or just made up for our entertainment

look at how happy it makes us that lebron is ‘frugal’

gets clicks likes and shares

I can understand even a billionaire refusing to toss $10 into the trash monthly, e.g. not above clipping a coupon or something.

But to sit there and listen to ads when youre blasting music because of the $10 is ludicrous. Like why would you even subject yourself to that?

If its still true, I think at this point it becomes a Thing, like hes known for it and he wont back down, so he just continues with the ad version… but i feel like if he ever just tried it without ads he’d never go back.

Im never going back to non premium youtube, i held out for years and years before finally succumbing when they killed adblock, and now im a convert.

In his defense, he’s been dealing with this for over 20 years. If you got slapped with thousands of dollars in international roaming charges your first year, you might only use WiFi the two times a year you’re in Canada for work the next two decades too.

That’s the one

Yup, this is it right here

LeFrugal

Yeah I’m on T Mobile and living in Mexico. There are no roaming charges for Canada and Mexico on a US plan.

My last trip was for work and I had to drive in Mexico City and definitely was happy I had service. Really helped being able to use the map apps.

I’ve done wifi only on some trips before… it can work but having that cell service is pretty nice once you start using it… its rough going back.

Lebron should have satellite service on his phone. It’s like one of the most essential services. He’ll spend a million dollars on his body a year but won’t get the most cell phone coverage possible. Never know when or where he’ll be when Bronny is gonna have a heart attack. You know.

You can buy esim with data for really cheap.

It’s not so much logic as it is conditioning.

I grew up poor too, and despite being much more comfortable these days, there are still habits I haven’t managed to shake, long after they stopped making any logical sense. In Australia, our two main supermarkets are Coles and Woolworths. They’re often right next to each other. I still refuse to buy most things unless they’re at least 50% off, obviously excluding things that never go on sale. I’ll even walk across the road to the other store to finish my shopping.

At the same time, I have a six figure watch collection.

So I get it. Some spending habits just don’t make sense when you look at them from the outside.

You don’t ever forget your bag every once in a while?

Both att and Verizon are all of north America included now. We go to Canada often enough to look into it and its included.

Generation gap is showing right here lol