LeBron does the Key & Peele handshake with Dean Wade
I believe thats just called a handshake
he has a unique handshake with every teammate. this was deffo on purpose (their handshake)
That is the unique handshake Dean Wade wanted!
LeBron was only respecting his wishes
yeah lmao i get that
Nah Dean has been doing this since he was on the Cavs lol
All in oreparation for the moment he teamed up with Lebron
Doesnt he do the same thing to the ones after him though?
Guy when he explains the joke
seems to be quite unique in the NBA
LeBron has had 264 different teammates in his career. That’s 264 unique handshakes to memorize. This doesn’t include team support staff that he also has unique handshakes with. That’s a staggering number of unique handshakes. It is very likely LeBron has memorized more unique handshakes than any person in human history.
Not even counting his Olympics teammates
Not even counting the Klutch team, 3 kids, wife, and his SVSM high school starting 5 as well lol. I really want to know the count of how many handshakes he has with everybody he knows when he retires. Gotta be in the mid 100s
He’s like the Lebron James of handshakes!
How does he do this? I’m genuinely so curious
Looks like Lebron has eidetic memory. For example:(https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8jajbd/lebrons_photographic_memory_overlayed_over_video/). NBA also has a video about this: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-cT9D-8ILk&t)
Wow!
It doesn’t surprise me. To be as great at something as LeBron is, you have to be incredibly lucky to have to hit on every genetic possibility.
My high school lab partner Reed had a photographic memory. That kids partied all the time and aced all his tests. Meanwhile I am busting my tail staying in, hitting the books and struggling to pass.
He later told me he could just memorize the text book just like that. Some people have all the luck, and most just have to fight on with what they got. C’est la vie
In addition to having a good memory, the handshakes aren’t random sequences he has to pull from nothing. He and his handshake partners have to spend time to come up with something together and it usually has some connection to the person or the relationship.
He only has 15 teammates at a time. That’s how. He doesn’t actually play on a 264 man roster.
Didn’t take long to scroll to the first “its not hard” person
I mean it would be no harder than remembering 15 phone numbers which people used to do all the time. Can 15 phone numbers a year he doesn’t need to remember them after the year is up
Do you think remembering 15 handshakes is hard?
Not sure why this is getting downvoted when this is the actual answer.
Can someone fact check this
I went to https://www.nba.com/sixers/roster and counted 16 total players, so it goes to say Lebron currently has 15 teammates. Granted I am not a professional researcher, but everything points to this guy being right.
Damn. Good point. I know people have their opinions on LeBron, but I genuinely am happy that I get to watch this man.
I need 1) a master cut of all his handshakes 2) to find out who his first unique handshake was with and 3) find a couple guys from random sporadic moments and see if the LeTism remembers them.
That’s my GOAT right there
LeMuscleMemory
LeSecretShakes
That’s actually a hilarious ‘unique’ handshake to have with him
Pretty sure it’s a Dean Wade thing. He did that with everyone in Cleveland.
Yeah he did it with Donovan last week when they played Philly
Dan Smith, BYU
Still the illest rapper in the game
Dean “Harry Mack” Wade
you realize he’s at the very beginning of this video performing an elaborate handshake with maxey right
I remember him having a similar one (or at least ending in the stern gentlemanly handshake) with Delly too
It’s the most generic white teammate handshake ever that’s been done a million times lol
which becomes unique by being different from other handshakes with LeBron
That’s the joke
Maybe he’s just a huge Marshawn Lynch fan.
24 years in and he has likely created unique handshakes with every teammate. Legit
In LA he had handshakes with the photographers and some of the security too.
Was at a Brooklyn Nets courtside when he was on the Cavs. Gave me an up high, down low, too slow….worth it.
In Miami too with the mailman who brought him his hgh
The same old lame jokes
That was Adam Silver David Stern.
Usps !? Not even Fedex!? So frugal
I wonder if he remembers them all like he remembers specific plays from 15 years ago
He seems like a dude that would.
Other than the physical talents, I think that’s what makes him so good.
Doesn’t he most likely have a photographic memory or something
For basketball definitely. He remembers specific random plays better than anyone I’ve ever seen.
We just inventing skill sets for him?
he remembers the starting 5 that played with him his very 1st game actually nuts. I dont remember stuff from a week ago from work he remembers 24 years ago stuff.
I would imagine playing your first NBA game and who was in it would linger a bit longer in someone’s memory than a regular day at work
LeTism
Yeah, because autists are notorious for making special connections with individuals /s
I get posterized by autistic people on a daily basis. It is ruining my life.
Poster time, poster time
Gotta tech one
lebron is like the primarchs type of autistic, he used it to get really fucking good at some things.
Must autists do that. Problem is being really fucking good at “liking trains” doesn’t generally pay the bills.
It’s called a spectrum for a reason….
They can be, actually. They’re just usually very selective.
No but they love putting Le in front of everything and thinking it’s still funny
LeFunPolice
LeNo Lebut they Lelove Leputting LeLe in Lefront of Leeverything and Lethinking it’s still Lefunny
it is funny
Still!?!?
Wait but that’s something I love to do
They hated you for speaking the truth
LeGit
LeVersionControl.
Bronny = LeFork?
I was laughing at the introduction of his alma mater high school so many years later
That would be my unique handshake with LeBron…. Just a handshake. That’s the funniest one you could do.
That’s like 200 guys at least right?
In a row?
He may have picked it up from Bron but Maxey’s been doing the same thing for at least the last couple of years
I just can never take grown men doing secret handshakes seriously. I grew out of it at like age 12 lmao
You’re so mature for deciding to stop having fun at 12
Our secret handshakes really that fun?
Man who cares it’s not like this hurts anyone
I mean it’s not like I think they should go to jail for it lol
I feel that but what’s so wrong about having these types of handshakes with people you consider friends? Not taking someone seriously over something like that just seems a lil harsh for dudes having harmless fun
This is why you’re not a professional NBA player
I…don’t think that’s why
Yeah I also hate it when people have innocent fun
I don’t have a problem with the handshake but dancing in your early forties to get pumped up for a basketball game I don’t really get.
It’s corny. LeBron is corny. We know this.
Did you turn 12 yesterday?
What age are u gonna grow out of being a wanker?
Hating another person for having handshakes is even weirder lol. Like what a weird thing to get hung up on.
SUCH RECKLESS HATRED
If there’s anything that’s gonna hinder Bron’s processing power it’s going to be the million handshakes he’s gotta remember.
The LBJ documentary coming out in 2080 there’s a scene where his dementia fades after a dedicated nurse steers doing all his old handshakes with him.
Will he be retired by then or nah?
Still putting up 10/5/5/2/2 on 15 bench minutes a game, and is also assistant coach
And a sponsor is funding is ambulatory geriatric helicopter back to his NYC senior-care living facility.
He’s gonna win the presidency creating 80 million unique handshakes.
Fuck it, everyone gets a LeHandshake
I’m giving up his secret because I do this with a lot people in my life but you just keep the beginning part the same and make the ending for everyone different which is easy when it’s like a group of people you see every day.
Objectively hilarious
Hilariously objective
Hijectiouvely Oblarious
I think Bron handshakes give him the edge over Jordan. This man has unique handshakes with over 200 teammates and im sure he has some with others both in and outside his circle
Handshakes, bullying, whats the difference
One is for fren, one is for fo
Bron even got handshakes with the towel lady
That’s one attribute of Bron that i like the most, his photographic memory
he has one with the Lakers photographer. That’s next level stuff.
But was it the Pat Bev photographer
Has one with Savannah which is strangely very weird sounding
They have a solid clap that echoes
Those echoes reached Bronny’s ear canals and to this day haunts him
I don’t want to upvote but I must
LeMeat
His handshake with Savannah is eerily similar to his one with AD.
Bro has a handshake with the camera girl.
Some players are younger than the hanshakes
D Wade does that with all teammates dating back to at least the Cavs
Yeah he literally does it with Maxey at the start of THIS clip
But LeBron 😍
Dean had this handshake with the Cavs
Not being an American, at first I was like “wtf you talking about, it’s just a handshake”. But I did my homework…
Indeed, it is just a handshake.
I learned something today, thank you :)
The running gag is that LeBron has had an absurd amount of teammates in 24 years and has memorized an individual handshake with all of them. There are guys he hasn’t seen in 15 years that he still remembers their handshake when he sees them lol.
Just don’t appropriate our culture, ok? /s
LeBron not a big D wade guy
Lebron not a big D
Got it.
Firm business handshake 😂
2nd best D Wade he’ll ever play with!
See Steven Adams and Nick Collison handshake from years back
LeBiter
Dean wade did this with everybody on the Cavs. It has nothing to do with LeBron. I just don’t think he likes handshake routines lol
At the start of the clip he’s doing a handshake routine with Maxey…
We see white guys do cool handshakes across the league all the time
This guy just did it. All that extra stuff is kinda cringe. Grown ass men
Who cares it’s never that deep
Hahaha tbh it’s a little cheesier than you’re giving it credit for.
Yeah it’s only cool because of who they are. It is a little corny
then you realize that this is in the context that they’re just playing a literal game we learned as kids for millions of dollars
Yeah because goofy handshakes is what makes someone “super cool” lol
Well I never seen you do one and you’re def not super cool so…. /s
Context for non Americans and non key and peel watchers
https://youtu.be/nopWOC4SRm4?is=ZH-ot1GbQqovjbAC
Weird that you had to specify non-Americans, as if it’s impossible for anyone outside of the country to understand a pop culture reference.
I said non Americans because they might not be tuned into sketch comedy shows show on American cable.
which have been off the air for like a decade
This is such a Canadian comment
Silence was an option here. You’re not making sense.
He did the same thing with Delly back on the Cavs
I’m at the age where I’m giving everyone the traditional. I can’t be bothered with figuring out how you want to shake.
Which of the handshakes was it?
Dean Wade did that with his teammates in Cleveland. Delly also shook hands with Bron as his handshake.
LeBron: I want D-Wade!
76ers: We have D-Wade at home.
D-Wade at home:
Hearing Lebron get introduced for the 6ers with the crowd going wild is surreal.
In the GOAT debate has Lebron had the most dramatic career OAT?
From the hype, to the decision, to the comeback, to the bubble, to Bronny and beyond.
I’m here for all of it and hope it don’t stop anytime soon.
A faster version of the Nick Collison x Steven Adams handshake 😂
I wonder how many people in LeBron’s special handshake library are filed under “regular handshake”.
Would be cool if Dean Wade was the only one.
This may sound weird but the music in the background sounds like a remixed version of the Yugioh theme song.