LeBron James: “I didn’t leave my family to lose in the second round.”
This quote will age well no matter the outcome of the 6ers season.
It either goes hard or is generational fodder for the haters.
“I didn’t leave my family to lose in the second round”
I say at the Brazilian steakhouse sweating bullets from my 5th slice of beef tri tip
10⁄10
-Kelvin Benjamin
I absolutely love Brazilian steakhouses
We are gonna be feasting if they lose in the first round
He was very specific about the round. First round exit is fine.
It’s funny because there’s really no way this doesn’t age like milk unless they win it all, but all the same love him for saying this for banter alone
Hugh Jackson “I’m not going 1-15”
Monkey paw curls as sixers don’t even make the playoffs. Sad trombone.
Lebron clip farming.
What if they lose in the third round?
i love a good aura gamble
I can see this sliced up with a Bron game winning shot in a second round series or some shit.
I mean he has a history of bouncing to different teams, not something that someone should be proud of
his fate rests on embiid’s knees
Dude I’m not sure you could rest a paper towel on Embiid’s knees.
I feel like a bad person for feeling like laughing at this.
Look at his contract again and you wont
Maybe a Kleenex tissue, but that’s where I draw the line.
Embiid just fell to his knees in the training facility
He will be out for 4 months.
I mean…without Embiid they only have Jaylen Brown, Tyrese Maxey, VJ Edgecombe and some dude named LeBron James
Yeah call me crazy but I could very easily see this team going to the ECf w/out Embiid at least. Of course this also depends on matchups and whatnot. But it’s a damn good lineup even without Embiid.
I agree 100%. Embiid is obviously incredible when he’s healthy but in a sense he’s kinda icing on the cake for this team. LeBron won a playoff series last year with a far worse roster.
But without Embiid, their contingent center depth is not good enough that can carry them to win it all
Yeah an ECSF team lol
This is like investing your life savings in Enron stock
It’s already over
First round it is!
His fate also rest on embiid not flopping on him
They might not even need embiid
Not like Klutch is working behind the scenes to swap Embiid for AD
That’s not much of an improvement lol. You’re swapping a guy with broken knees for a guy made of glass.
AD is literally injured right now lol
That…. Doesn’t solve anything.
Klutch is done for as soon as this man retires. Here comes Pablo S Torre!
Why are we acting like he doesnt have 2 borderline MVP canidadates on his team lmao? Jaylen Brown and Tyrese Maxey are among the best 15 players in the league
Too my glaze for Maxey, he’s easily a top ten PG but players in general? Nah.
He’s a top 5 pg, no?
At the very least he just had a top 5 pg season last year
Top 5 in scoring, 37% from 3 on decent volume, nearly 2 steals a game. He was fantastic last year. Maybe top 20 is more accurate than top 15 but he’s def in the conversation
Unc is doing emotional damage to his own teammate just for fun at this point
!RemindMe 8 months
Potential all-time quote.
Possibilities:
Loses in second round
Loses in first round
Loses in third round (less hilarious but still works on some level)
Imagine if they miss the playin
Somebody has to!
LeBron loses every season unless he wins the finals and even then people discredit it
typically, you do lose every season you dont win the finals
Also, you do miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Nephew, MJ would have cured covid before winning that chip. Bron is clearly baby back to let the bubble happen smh
Yes, that would also make it an all-time quote.
Or goes the the finals and loses to OKC (which would be OKC’s revenge for 2012) or SAS
He left his family to lose in first round so that they can get back together sooner.
if they lose and the first question any reporter asks isn’t “Lebron, you left your family and lost before the 2nd Round. How does this make you feel?”
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In the first then?
bron went full bald
About time
Am I crazy or has he done this before and it just….. come back randomly at some point during the season?
The hair was his power dampener. Now he’s going to be putting up prime wilt numbers
“We have to be comfortable of being uncomfortable”
Hey, that’s my favorite saying too!
My manager at my shit office job says this too
Is he paying you a million dollars a year?
LeBron is fully bald and in a Sixers Jersey, life is so random lol
Maybe in 3 years I’ll be not depressed and successful
No, you ll be depressed, but bald and in Sixers jersey
I’m already bald 😭😭
This man is prepared!
Halfway there
That’s why they’re going to lose in the first round.
You dont gotta leave your family bro they can come with lol
Edit: okay not bronny but thats a grown ass man, I’m sure LeBron will be okay lol. I’m talking about his wife and whoever else is dependant on him.
Isn’t his daughter in high school? Generally a bad idea to uproot teenagers from their social circles unless absolutely necessary.
She’s like 10 or 11 bro 💀💀
Huh. I didn’t know that. Either way, I think the point still stands.
Especially if he’s only gonna play 1 or 2 years and be right back in LA
I agree lol, definitely don’t want to uproot people from their lives
I get not wanting to upset your kids life, but at the end of the day they are YOUR kids and they have to go where YOU go. Parenthood isnt a democracy.
Its his last year (probably). I doubt he wants to uproot his LA lifestyle either. Im sure his family will be be fine without his presence for not even a full year. He’ll also have several games in cali/LA where im sure hell spend at his home.
And yet very doable! If my family can move my ass around when we were broke as fuck I’m sure they can easily move the kids to a new area and probably do all their courses online with their favorite teachers if they wanted.
I’m not talking about affordability. For Lebron, it obviously isn’t a money thing. He doesn’t need to move his family in order to play for Philly, so why do it?
Maybe they don’t WANT to do that.
What people want vs what people need don’t always align.
Idk why I’m still in the comments arguing about this nonsense, idgaf what LeBron and fam want to do, just saying they could easily move if they wanted to. If it was THAT important.
Are you rich and black? LA has a distinct rich+black kid celeb subculture that Philly or even NYC doesn’t. His daughter isn’t going to find what she’s used to in philly even if she does to elite philly schools.
Sounds like his kids could use some time learning about different cultures other than “rich black LA”. I can’t imagine what life would be like if I spent all my days with rich white folks. No ty.
Can =/= should
Not Bronny I believe he’s contractually obligated
Bronny: I didn’t go to Philly to lose in the 2nd round.
Why didn’t LeGoat move his family across the country as his daughter is starting middle school. Also surely Savannah would love moving as far away as possible from bronny and Bryce
not Bronny
Embiid’s gonna get this look or nah?
Embiid is genuinely an elite talent, he’s just dirty and gets injured very easily. None of that would get LeBron to look at him like that.
I thought this was an automod response on nbacirclejerk
Availability is a huge issue in itself. Plus, defense with this roster still SEEMS to be an issue.
Does Embiid have it what it takes to lock the post? Would he be contesting shots there?
The best defenders on the 76ers are JB and KCP, right? So the 3&D is really solid. But I am not sure if against say, a Heat or Spurs or even OKC, this team is going to shine. These teams have elite penetrators/paint players. Heat has Giannis and Bam, OKC has Hartenstein and Chet, Spurs has Wemby who is like, 2 players in 1 already. Bron is not going to defend two elite centers/PFs, and Embiid might be a traffic cone. Adem Bona or someone else, are they going to do the job? Or KCP will have to play a switch defender.
Even a team like NYK would pose extreme difficulty. Point is, Embiid at post will be a bad consequence, because of his knees, unfortunately. Centers like Bam, Giannis, Hartenstein, Wemby, Kessler, Lauri, Jokic are going to blow by. Yes, even Jokic.
Never understood the dirty label, I feel like it comes from when the internet hated him when he won the MVP over Jokic
To be fair he did had few plays that were very dangerous, like grabbing legs of a player was during jump to pull him down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTPj5FWRrto
… Yeah it’s stuff like that, very immature and extremely dangerous plays that could end someone career because Joel was upset he didn’t get a call on the other end.
He is not really a dude that is constantly dirty, but he had some moves that were straight out prison basketball level.
Right like, I see that as cheeky/dangerous sure, but different than Draymond kicking people in the nuts or Bill Lambeer close lining dudes to send a message.
🤷♂️
I never thought he was dirty until the Knicks series in ‘24 where he injured Robinson. That whole series he was just playing like a big baby.
I know the play you’re talking about, and I always saw that as him trying to slow him down going back down the floor, because Embiid was on the ground.
Robinson stayed in the game for a while, so I don’t even know that it was conclusive he got injured from that.
He does play like a sad baby sometimes, but I don’t think he tries to hurt people
There are literally hundred of clips out there of him doing dirty and reckless things.
You don’t see it because you’re a Philly fan lol.
Edit. Since you’re out here trying to deny the reality.
Compilation: https://youtu.be/FeVps9hdrFM?si=87OujwP2mcKFACcm
Compilation 2 (some overlaps): https://youtube.com/shorts/VNwNKDWaUiQ?si=3RkF2YgwRl_yD7jS
Additional:
https://youtube.com/shorts/kiUX0UK8RbI?si=lnyiYEEnF9BIavFZ
https://youtube.com/shorts/DbcHgZrzvu4?si=CFeYbE8z-304m7E9
wrong
Didn’t have to watch farther than the first clip of the first video to see ur on some bs. Falling down on someone is somehow a dirty play now?
Maybe more players should cry in the Player’s Tribune about how unfair everyone is and they too can get their participation trophy
lol see it’s shit like this, this isn’t what we were talking about. Nuggets fans are so insufferable.
Talking like he left his family in Turkmenistan or something.
Nah man but LA to Philly is pretty far away even if you’re chartering a jet. Don’t act like its no big deal.
It really is not. I havent seen most of my family in 2-5 years, and i dont get paid a percentage of what he does.
You really just gonna out yourself as a shit father like that?
Can you point to where I said I had kids?
He wasn’t ever choosing the trailblazers to make league minimum on bum.
Pretty smart statement on his part
This just means as long as he just doesn’t lose in 2nd round it ages like wine
after saying this not even making the finals would be embarrassing ngl lol
He’s saying they have a good team and need to properly mesh together in order to be great. But yeah if he doesn’t get to the finals how embarrassing!!! Hahah #lebronhate
Embiid from the top rope with a steel chair.
He’s so corny
The repost is going to be so peak
he took a paycut then proceed to promote polymaker
So weird seeing him in 6ers gear
You know what team you joined, right?
Ask Tom Brady how that worked out 😭. I doubt LeBron ever ends up getting divorced but still
But Brady was cucked for years before they split. Afaik LeBron’s family life is all good.
Wait was he really
Iirc yes. I couldn’t understand how was that even possible. They were going together on vacations, etc, without Tom. Ofc she wrote a book and denies everything, but you can’t believe a woman when it comes to those things.
But that’s the pattern. Similar situation in football, ter Stegen’s (Barcelona) wife also cheated on him with bachata teacher (and there were rumours about Lewandowski’s wife as well, with the same guy). And that Gisele’s guy, who was he? Yoga teacher or something like that. Those women just can’t control themselves when they’re touched by fit younger guys.
It’s just sad.
Totally man, these male athletes always stay faithful and monogamous and are never tempted by fit younger women. And the men never lie and you can always believe them too!
Who’s gonna tell him?
Tom Brady basketball arc incoming
I just assumed his family was coming with him… missing a year of your 11 year old daughter’s life to play for the Sixers is certainly a choice
On a side note, Bron was in his prime when I was 11. To be 16 years older than the 11 year olds today and see that they also have a chance to watch him is crazy to me. I’m getting old.
Yeah, he’ll lose in the first round if they make it.
“I left them because I wanted to”
What about if you lose in the first round? 🤔
Do you think he practices saying these things in front of a mirror?
Yes
Definitely in a pool of cash
100%.
Lots of teams that were talented on paper fell apart so he’s right about being comfortable with the uncomfortable. Health notwithstanding, it’s how they deal with adversity and come out will dictate how far they go.
Damn, that really is his favourite saying.
No way this doesn’t age poorly lol
!RemindMe 9 Months
LeFirstRoundExit
Incoming Play In elimination
“Not 1, not 2, not 3 rounds…”
leaving his family to go fight in a war overseas, very patriotic mr. James
I’ve got no dogs in this fight, but I am stupidly happy and excited for the Philadelphia fan base this season. For myself, this should be yet another cool NBA story to enjoy this year.
All this hype just to lose to the Pacers in 5 in the first round. smh
This kind of sound bite is gonna fuck him right in the butt if they get bounced in the first round. In the same realm of “not 3, not 4, not 5” etc
What’s wrong with what he said exactly? His mindset on his decisions and what he wants? Didn’t say it wouldn’t happen though.
Nothing’s wrong with it. If they get past the second round, that is. Then it’s hubris
He said it’ll bite him in the ass. They have to at least make the ECF otherwise this will be the first thing posted if they get knocked out earlier. He set expectations for the team and for the public
Cause it’s the sixers lmao, it’s exactly what’s gonna happen. its even worse because Bron also has old man problems himself. A three man starting rotation of JB, Maxey & BJ edgecombe isn’t gonna bring them to the finals lmao
He didn’t say it would. He said to be great they have to embrace a certain mindset. That his goal isn’t to leave home and just be a solid team. You’re reaching big time.
And how exactly are they gonna have that mindset if they’re down embiid and his knees? Lmao
You should use “lmao” more - it really gets your point across
Lmao ikr?
I’m sure this won’t be used in memes in any way later this season
Embild knees better be in plastic wraps then
Welp
I think you probably did though lol
Monkeys paw curls a finger.
Here we fucking go lol
This should’ve been a tweet so he can delete it later like his “keep talking about my squad” tweet before the 2022 season.
When you lose in the first round you can retire and spend more time with your family.
Very movie trailer type quote lol
LePredictionMarket
First round it is then