LeBron James Reflects on Challenges of Centerless Play

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00:00all right so uh what's lebron saying if anything yeah let's get a couple from him of course uh as

00:07it was a sad night for all the lakers uh we'll start with this the lakers played with no center

00:12uh basically since they got luca you know that some points they did but especially in this playoff

00:17series right i mean at jackson hayes he was like chained to the bench i mean they weren't letting

00:21anybody uh come in with any kind of size whatsoever he stinks he does stink but at least he'd be a big

00:28body out there here is no not really not really when you're a toothpick and people push you around

00:35well uh here's lebron on the lakers playing without a center since they got luca lebron um basically from

00:41mid-january on right when ad got injured you guys started playing a lot of centerless

00:47basketball and that required a lot from you and doe and ruey and then vando once he got back

00:52just like just from a physical like taxing standpoint how how tough was that for the last

01:00three and a half months to play that style and do you feel like that caught up at all in this series

01:05uh no comment i'll never say that because uh my guy 80 said what he needed and uh then he was gone

01:14the following week so i got no comment um there you go i put that uniform on every night i gave

01:22everything i had and um that's it that's all that matters you got that right brother now listen you

01:31know here's the other thing let's be clear he he loves the lakers and genie boss and and palinka and

01:39all these guys he's he's as hollywood as the sun is i mean honestly he is all about being a laker i i

01:47think of you know believe me you i think of all his stops that was you know this is the one that i

01:53think he likes the best even though he won in cleveland even though he won two in miami i think

01:59he likes la the best because his whole life his production company all the money he makes he's making

02:04movies documentaries he's playing for the lakers 17 championships he's got a ring with the lakers

02:11and he's not going to say anything bad about them and i don't think he's mad that they got luca

02:19for ad that's his boy ad no doubt but you don't get luca for a bag of potato chips they gave up a guy

02:27that's incredible when he plays and you got a guy that's incredible and he usually plays i mean as

02:35far as i'm concerned luca plays a lot more than uh davis does and i know he got banged up last night

02:40but he still played he kept playing and if that were davis he would have been out of the game the

02:45minute he got hurt with his back he would have been out of the game every time that guy has a scratch

02:50he leaves the game and he's done for the night when is the last time you saw that guy gets poked in

02:55the eyes done for the night if he gets hit in the back he's done for the night if he gets injured

03:00he's out for weeks on end months so i don't want to hear it lebron james leads the life of riley

03:08listening to that guy and i don't think he was complaining listening to that guy complain should

03:14be illegal i don't want to hear it i if you complain and you're him you should be you have you

03:21should have to go to like hard labor camp honestly the guy's got the life of riley i don't want to

03:27is anything worse than listening to these prima donnas crying and bitching like are you kidding

03:32me this what doesn't this guy have honestly it's uh it is amazing that's for sure of course the

03:40question uh once the season ends also goes to how much longer are we going to keep doing this we're

03:45going to be back next year just going to keep going on here he is what type of out of that too

03:51thoughts does that give you about your end game and you know how many more years will we see you play

03:59um i don't know i don't have the answer to that something i sit down with my family my wife

04:07and uh my support group and kind of just talk through it and see what happens and um

04:13um and then just have a conversation with myself um on how long i want to continue to play

04:23i don't know the answer to that right now to be honest so let me see listen he can he can obviously

04:32still play he is a great player but i think he's gonna have a hard uh long look at do i want to do

04:40this anymore it's a pain in my ass because you know what he could stop playing now remember this

04:46this is real simple michael jordan stopped playing and then came back a few times and it was it was

04:52basically a disaster but then when he finally really stopped playing he made five billion dollars

05:01like magic johnson stopped playing and then he made 500 billion dollars

05:08lebron james could stop playing tomorrow and he's gonna make 200 trillion dollars

05:16after he stops playing playing is a pain in the ass every night every day buses and planes and hotels

05:27even though it's all four seasons and five star after after 23 years whatever it is a pain in the ass

05:35trust trust me i did it one year i've actually done it three or four years i did it with the

05:39steelers i did it with indiana five years there so eight years did it a year with the thrashers i

05:44wanted to kill myself like it was it was jokingly i say that it was toxic living in a bag in a hotel

05:54every day of your life for years on end sucks i don't care who you are because i was with all these

06:00fancy teams too living in nice fancy five-star hotels and eating nice food it still sucks you're

06:06lonely you're miserable you're talking on the phone with your family it's it's the worst

06:10i'm telling you after 23 years you want to jump off a bridge

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