LeBron James: Record-Breaking NBA Career and Influence

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00:00Beyond the Laker great, beyond the record breaker in almost every category in pro basketball

00:11now, he owns everything.

00:12He's way beyond that as a person.

00:16There are two things, Scott, that people object to about him.

00:21One is that he has treated his career as, I'm in charge.

00:27He's used free agency on multiple occasions, first to go to Miami, then to go back to Cleveland,

00:31ultimately go to Los Angeles, because it's what he wanted to accomplish.

00:35He wanted to win, and Cleveland's management was a wreck during his time there.

00:40So he goes to Miami and works for Pat Riley, Eric Spolstra, two brilliant basketball people,

00:46and he's able to make four finals and win two titles.

00:49And then he goes back to Cleveland and pays Cleveland back, essentially, by winning a

00:54championship there in a city that hadn't had one in more than 50 years.

00:59And then he decides he wants to live in L.A., which, if I were wealthy, I think I could

01:04see that I'd want to live in L.A.

01:06So he goes out there, and he wins a title there.

01:12That's one of the things that people don't like about him.

01:14And then the other thing is that he's been politically outspoken, and a lot of people

01:19think he has no place to be politically outspoken.

01:22I don't know why others in sports and society are allowed to have political opinions, but

01:30LeBron James is not.

01:33That seems to be the case with a lot of his critics.