In the playoffs when he’s not on social media at all—he’s made that very clear that’s a rule of his—he took a cell phone video in his car on the way home and it basically said she gave me a heads up and followed protocol and I’m okay with her asking me that question. I think the question was rhetorical. One time it was at the Uninterrupted premiere where they had a huge party with Draymond [Green] and all those other guys are there. Only Joe Johnson, who hit eight, has more.

We had gone up 3-2 in the series with a chance to close it out at home and not an analyst in the world or a person in the world gave Miami a shot, because the knock on LeBron James was he could not finish in big games, he couldn’t play in big games, he wasn’t ready for the moment.

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Tension in that locker room was palpable, but LeBron took over and from that point on I had a string of games with him. But I still have to do my job. I was working at the “Being from Cleveland too, I have a lot of emotions when it comes to him. LeBron James: Cheat Diet. In death, the Los Angeles ­Lakers legend has continued to inspire […] But what they didn’t know was I pulled him aside before the interview and let him know the news and I told him that I wanted to ask him the question and ask what he thought. When I get there, his publicist at the time had wanted to restore the relationship. Thompson told The Athletic’s Joe Vardon and Jason Lloyd, in an article full of anecdotes about James, that the word “King” also fits the NBA Star’s diet. So I went into the locker room and one of the last things that Kyrie said to me in this interview was pretty revealing. “I was able to talk to him after that game-winner against the Timberwolves [last season] and it was right before the trade deadline. So I asked him what is his motivation in year 15? A lot of people thought that I had blindsided him and thought that it wasn’t appropriate to ask him at that time. He recognized my face, because he had seen me at a few things, but it was cold. Before that year’s training camp, Bryant hung his gold medal in Gasol’s locker.Nick Mazzella, the Lakers’ director of pro personnel, shared Bryant’s sweeter side.At a restaurant during a preseason trip to Hawaii, Bryant approached Mazzella’s then-fiancee, while the two were dining.“Ma’am, do you have any idea who you are sitting next to? LeBron James has hit seven buzzer-beaters in his career, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

That really meant the world to me.“When I saw him the next game, I saw him across the locker room and everybody was sorta like gathering around his locker wanting to talk to him about the game. So we go out there and I’m talking to him—I might have talked to him for 45 minutes—and I’m sort of wondering when it this wedding going to get going because this would be really an interesting blend and all of the sudden people start coming down and seeing him. Kobe Bryant – Jordan – Lebron James Champion Signature Shirt, Hoodie, Sweatshirt, Long Sleeve.

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In my mind, he’s better than Michael, he’s better than Kobe. One of them came last night from LeBron James on his Instagram story, where he shared that Penny Hardaway is his 2nd favorite player of all-time.“MY GOD!!! From that day forward he was King. And then they’re down 3-1, and he said it again at the following media availability like, ‘What’d I tell you? "Now he's just regular, you know? But when NBA players are doing the looking back, we tend to learn some interesting things that we often don’t hear in another form. Either way it's an interesting anecdote to the story. He loves lions, and says he impersonates a lion when he's zoned in. They were seriously talking, I think it was more like, ‘We’ll let this dude know.’ But he said it with some sternness.“One of the stories that I was doing, I don’t know if you remember the Walker family [LeBron] was living with, from like fifth to eighth grade, for his mom to get stuff together. And he went back at me and said, ‘Do you believe me yet?’ It caught me off-guard.

The second most emotional was the following year after [the Cavs] came back from down 3-1 in the NBA Finals after Game 7. "The look". My most memorable post-game with him was in Denver when he hit three dagger jumpers in the final minute of the game. Thanks for contacting us. He’s a good dude.