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I'm a face you don't know. Brothers, it's so interesting how life starts to reveal itself, how it unfolds. The Scriptures tell us that a tree shall be known by its fruit. So now, it's becoming more and more obvious to me why certain media pundits like Nick Wright, and Shannon Sharpe, and Colin Cowherd, Max Kellerman, and so many of the other LeBron James apologists scattered throughout the liberal sports media are so comfortable making up excuses for LeBron's shortcomings, because he himself is comfortable doing that.
I've never, ever, since I've been watching sports, and I've been watching sports since 1989, '90, that era, I've never seen an athlete who has been held in such high esteem, who is so eager to make excuses for himself when he comes up small in the biggest moments, which he consistently does. This man, LeBron James, had the nerve to come to the postgame press conference podium with a damn woman's scarf wrapped around his right wrist, talking about it's a cast. I said, "Is this [ __ ] out of his damn mind?" I said, "What the hell is going on here?"
I get so many of LeBron James's stupid fans on my channel talking about, "Why do you make so many videos about LeBron? Where do you make all..." I do is make videos about the topics that they're speaking about on many of these debate sports talk shows. That's all I do. And everyone knows that during the basketball season, LeBron James dominates the topics on those shows. Why is that? Because he is a theatre diva. That's what he is. I've never seen a more theatrical sports superstar in all my time watching the three major sports and boxing than Mr. LeBron James, to be quite frank with you. I'm eager to see and hear what Nick Wright and Shannon Sharpe are going to come up with on Monday for LeBron James's flame out in Game 4. So let's see what LeBron James himself has to say. Freaks out LeBron playing with a series boat contusion in his right hand since Game 2. I'm told there was also reward for Brian Windhorst that he had punched a whiteboard after Game 1. Here he to the podium. Like I've told you brothers already, LeBron James has a series of liberal sports media journalists scattered throughout the media world whose job it is to dispense his propaganda. People like Brian Windhorst and Rachel Nichols. He has plans at these various channels like Nick Wright and Shannon Sharpe. Some of you brothers may remember a video that I did pertaining to a debate that Skip and Shannon were having, in which Doyle Taylor chimed in and stated that Shannon Sharpe has been compromised by the LeBron James camp, and that there's a reason why Shannon always takes LeBron's side in these debates. And Skip looked quizzically at Shannon and seemed as if he was interested in getting to the bottom of it. It was not surprising to me at all. As I've told you brothers already, Mr. LeBron James is a politician. He's the number one politician in the sports world, and he's the number one opportunist. He's like the basketball version of Jay-Z. He's talented, but he also believes in utilizing skullduggery when necessary if it means more fame for him. That's why I've told you that he plans on trying to use Sir Colin Kaepernick as the number one walk at the league because it's good for his brand, money.
Well, let's get back to this foolishness right here. Two MRIs and a soft wrap on his hand. Take a look. Yeah, soft wrap on his hand to match him. Look at this [ __ ]. Doesn't make a guy his wife's scarf wrapped around his right wrist. All of a sudden, his right hand is broken. The first question, Joe, on the left side, Sakura, joebarclay.com. LeBron, we're just learning about your hand injury, and we can obviously see the brace. Can you take us through what happened and if it caused you any problems over the final three games?
I think that this so-called hand injury is meant to represent his spirit, because it wasn't his hand that got broken after Game 1, it was his spirit that got broken. Postgame, after Game 1, very emotional. No [ __ ] for a lot of different reasons. Understand how important a Game 1 is on the road for our ballclub. What would that have done for us? You know, the way we played, the calls that was made to out the course of that game. My emotions on, you know, the game was taken away from us. I had emotions of, you know, you just don't get an opportunity like this on the road. Sure, you do. It's called Game 2. You get plenty of opportunities on the road. Mr. LeBron James, if you were a real leader, you would have understood that.
I've seen many games, and not to juxtapose this guy with Michael Jordan, but I've seen many games where the Bulls have lost tough games on the road, and you know what they did? They swallowed it. They took it like men, and they came back in the next game and got the job done. Of course, the 2018 Cleveland Cavaliers are not the Chicago Bulls, but one of the reasons why they're not the Chicago Bulls is because this man is nowhere near Michael Jordan mentally. We're not even talking about skill set, we're talking about mentally.
I brought up this game in the past, and the recent past. In 1998, the Bulls went into Utah, Game 1. They were dominating the Jazz throughout the game. Jordan was making it look easy, and then he had a couple of mental full pauses. The game went into overtime, and they lost. You know what they did? Game 2, in Utah, they won the game. That's what they did. Game 5 of that series, they were supposed to close it out. Karl Malone got hot, he scored something like 39 or 40 points. They had to go back to Utah. You know what the Bulls did? They won in Utah. For LeBron James to try to make this series about Game 1 [ __ ]. You were gonna have to win at least two games in Golden State to win the series, because even if you would have won Game 1, there's no way that you would have won both games in Cleveland in Games 3 and 4. So this is just LeBron James trying to play the blame game, as usual, as always. Somebody else's fault. It's never his fault. Oh, first Golden State to be able to get a Game 1. Well, you didn't get the Game 1. Move forward. Life is about moving forward. You won't move forward past the fact that you no longer have hair on the top of your head. So now you want to wear hats low over your eyes like your damn stalker, looking like a damn fool. And and all that emotions get the best of me and pretty much played the last three games with a broken hand.
So, in other words, you let your emotions get the best of you in the Finals, so you're a bad leader. That's really what you're saying, because you had a chance to regroup your team for Game 2, and you failed to do so because you were so busy dwelling on Game 1. And this is why I told you brothers back in the preseason, the reason why they brought Dwyane Wade in was to act as psychological support for this man, because he's very, very fragile mentally. If things don't go his way, he will implode.
And then I recognize the Finals just ended, but I know you're ready for these these questions. Do you, do you feel like you've played your last game for the Cavs? It's not about feelings, it's a fact. He's done with Cleveland, unless they do something amazing, they blow him away, or some type of strange offer out of left field. He's out of there. Where he's going? Who knows. But what he will enjoy, he'll enjoy all these teams all across the NBA thinking that they want him on their squad. Unless you have a front office on the level of a Pat Riley in Miami, I don't believe that you should want LeBron James, because what really is he going to do for your locker room, for your franchise? Is he going to win a championship?
If he goes out West, there are only two franchises that he can join in the Western Conference where you could say, "Well, they have a viable opportunity to get to the Finals." That's the Rockets and San Antonio. Is he willing to subjugate his ego to work under Gregg Popovich? Is he willing to go to Houston and play a style of ball with two other players that are the same type of players as him, ball-centric players? Can he do that? I don't think so. I really don't. I think that if he found a way to subjugate his normal inclinations, he would have a great chance of winning the championship with the Rockets, but I just don't see him as an off-the-ball player. And he's also gonna have to learn how to play off the ball with San Antonio, unless Gregg Popovich just sits back and says, "You know what? LeBron, it's your team. Your Walkman is more wok than my locusts." Who the hell knows.
Well, are these nut jobs in the NBA? If you were to go to another team in the Eastern Conference, where could he go? I myself believe that the best fit for him would be the Miami Heat. But could he go back to a franchise that basically told him, "We're not going to let you tell us what to do"? It would almost be like a rambunctious and rebellious teenager moving back in with his or her parents and once again having to follow their rules. Could he go to Philadelphia and somehow accept that he would not be the primary ball handler? Ben Simmons would have to be. Could he play off the basketball there? Or might he have his team call up Danny Ainge and say, "Look, you have a great crop of young players. I'll come there on one condition: you trade Kyrie."
One thing that I've always done is considered, you know, obviously my family, understanding, you know, especially when my boys are at this point in their age. They were a lot younger. Some, I made a decision like this four years ago. I got a teenage boy, a preteen little girl right now that wasn't around as well. So, you know, sitting down and and considering everything, you know, but, you know, my family is a huge part of whatever I decide to do in my career, and they will continue to be there. So I don't have an answer for you right now as well.
Little LeBron with that damn hat pulled down over his eyes, looking like the Unabomber. Tim, all the way back. Look at this [ __ ] here. This would look like he's about to sing. This is what it sounds like when doves cry. [Music]
LeBron, two questions. One, oh, two questions. One, how do you want this season to be remembered, given, you know, guys in their 15th year don't do this at all. How do you want this year to be remembered? For me personally, yes. Well, you personally, I thought that you play for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Shouldn't you first want to reflect on what your team did? Why is your default response regarding you personally? LeBron James, [ __ ], you know that it's all up to you because you control the narrative. Most of those people out there in the audience is nothing but pawns. You know it, and I know it. You love world wins, LeBron James. You love world wins. Much like the liberal single black female that raised you, you love world wins. You love drama. You don't know how to exist in placidity. You love this storm. You don't love to call it. It's been ups and downs, for good, it's been bad. You know, for me, I just try to be, you know, be consistent throughout the course of the season, be the leader I know I can be for this ballclub.
Which you have been consistent. That's one thing that I will say about you. You've been consistently full of chaos, not just this season, but throughout your career. That's why they literally had to detonate and I roster to serve you. Brought in a slew of new players that were willing to follow the LeBron James system, and all they got in return for their obeisance was you throwing them under the bus. You got in a press conference after Game 3 and threw every last one of them under the bus because you failed to lead them, LeBron James. And the problem is not them. The problem is not even what occurred this season. The problem is that there has been no coach since he left Miami that had been able to coach him, because he believes that he's smarter than everyone in basketball. That's what he believes. He keeps running into the same problems. He keeps running into team intelligence as opposed to individual intelligence. Individual basketball IQ will always get trumped by team basketball IQ. Was franchise every night, no matter what was going on outside of work, every single day, put in at work and grind in every single day. So working hard is great. Work smart is better. [Music]
You have a very good idea how your story is going to be talked about, LeBron James. You're going to make sure that all the plants scattered throughout the liberal sports media write very glowing reviews on your 2017-2018 season. They're all going to talk about how no player in this 15th year has ever done this, has ever done that, how you endured while the rest of your team languished, how you endured after the trade, how they brought in a lot of cast-offs around the NBA, and you led them like the Pied Piper to the promised land, but you fell in the last battle. They're gonna make you out to be basketball's William Wallace or some [ __ ] Cleveland Cavalier Braveheart. That's not... I'm off course the clock and every single that's for me to understand that or not. I'm okay with that. And to kind of follow up on one of Joe's questions, you've gone through this dance that's coming to summer. You've gone through this a few times. Do you anticipate this, just because of, like you said, the family and, you know, your kids going in high school and your age and all of those things, do you anticipate this summer being the toughest as far as deciding what the right path for you is?
Let me say this. I think that this will be the toughest summer for LeBron and his team to figure out exactly what they want to do and where they want to go. I really do. Because the landscape is kind of bleak for LeBron right now. He doesn't have buddies to team up with for the most part, unless he plans on going to Houston. And how exactly is that going to work with Chris Paul running the max, James Harden already receiving the max, and LeBron James declaring that he will never again sign for anything less than the max? How was that going to reflect on their team? They're gonna have to cut many of their more notable players. Are they gonna be able to bring in enough shooters who are gonna be dogs like most of the dogs that the Rockets had last season that had them within a game of going to the Finals? Are they gonna be able to replace that for the sake of LeBron James, who we're not even sure is going to fit into that system with Mike D'Antoni, because he's never shown himself to be fully willing to play off the ball and to not be fully in control?
How would you characterize these playoffs for you personally and the team? That's the second time that he was asked a question, and his default respond to us for me personally. The reporter, Miss Rachel Nichols, had to specify "and the team" because she really meant for the team first. If he was as team-oriented as he tries to act, he would ask for the team, or we'll start there. I think that we had an up-and-down season and so on and so forth, blah, blah, blah. And then he would start talking about himself.
I wonder if we could hit a switch, some way, somehow, because of the course of the regular season, it was just like, "Why would you wonder if your team could hit a switch, some way, somehow?" One, number one, in all four of your seasons with Cleveland, you never won more than, I believe, 53 games. If I'm wrong about that, one of you bugs can correct me. You guys have never been juggernauts in a regular season. Because of you, Kyrie Irving demanded a trade, and on your behalf, the Cleveland Cavaliers front office, once again, they decimated the Cleveland Cavalier roster and brought in a series of players who some may describe anywhere from cast-off to unremarkable to being filled with potential, but never truly fulfilling what many of the so-called NBA experts had prognosticated for them. So at best, you had to consider the remainder of the season a crapshoot, LeBron James, but a very suitable crapshoot for you, because it would exonerate you of being involved in any of the real issues as to why the team was not as successful as many thought it could have been. You escape the culpability, sir.
You know, we made the trades and right before the playoff, a couple weeks before the playoffs. Do you feel like your team was ready for the postseason? I didn't know. You know, it was just the unknown. I mean, our season was kind of the unknown, and, you know, I wondered if we can hit a switch in the postseason. I figured if I stayed laser-sharp, if I came in with the right mentality, if I came in with the right mindset, that I could, you know, help fast practice, you know, throughout a lot of the games in the post.
How could you think that you could fast-track something that had no backbone? It had no foundation. Once again, you guys don't play a real system, neither offensively nor defensively. You do not play a real system. Isaiah Thomas already outed you guys. Your team doesn't even practice. So how could they get any better? LeBron James, it's gonna postseason because my experience is because some of the other guys that experienced a lot of games, and I was able to do that. We was able to do that. And I mean, this song, it's somewhat [ __ ]. Come home and get to the point. Here's the facts of the matter. LeBron James has to try to maintain this facade that he's this bionic person that never gets tired, but in the background, Ty Lue has to create all these loopholes in both the offense and the defense that will glorify LeBron on one end, the offense, and allow him the rest on the other end, the defense. On top of that, they're unable to build any cohesion with the team because LeBron James wants to save all his energy for the games, so they don't practice.
Well, here's the problem. Because LeBron James handles the ball as much as he does, it's not even like they can practice without him. So they need him, and at the same time, he's the reason why they can't come together. And yet, he wants to sit in press conferences, he's trying to act as if he has no idea why the team didn't grow. Look in the mirror. That's never a success. You know, it's never a success in the postseason when you lose. Not enough for me. For me personally, like I said, being reliable, it's my teammates being able to play the game at a higher level with as many games, as many miles that I have on my body, and, you know, put together or run like I had in the fall season is something I can, you know, kind of kind of remember. Obviously, still fresh and still doing.
You never, bro. There's no need for to be that damn long-winded. You started off with a bang, you ended with a whimper. That's how your postseason went. Bottom line, you finish week, especially in this fashion, being a competitor. But competitor, spell that I'll spot you to see om. Just hit me with the predator. I guarantee you couldn't spell that. Do you want to like a straight sucking game for LeBron James? Once again, I want to see and hear what Mr. Shannon Sharpe and Nick Wright have to say about this come Monday, because they may try to hide it, but LeBron James can never be compared to Michael Jordan after this. This will certainly go on his ledger, right there with his disappearance in the last couple of games of the 2010 playoffs against Boston, and of course, 2011 against the Dallas Mavericks. His performance in Game 4 of the 2018 NBA Finals, though not as bad as Kobe Bryant's Game 7 against the Phoenix Suns, it's up there because he was not bringing any willful action in the second half of that game. He gave up. LeBron James gave up.
You punch your whiteboards too, allegedly. Across your chest is meant to you. It's meant that he now has an opportunity down the line to own the franchise. That's really what this all was about, brothers. He had to come back to the Cleveland Cavaliers so that he could recreate himself with the Midwest market. Now, 20 years down the line, he can own the team if he wants to. Had he never come back from Miami, he could not do that. He would never have been welcomed with open arms as a businessman. This was a brilliant decision. Even though I get on LeBron about his emotionality and many of his deficiencies in comparison to Michael Jordan, he is very Machiavellian when it comes to business, marketing, and politics. He understands those fields very well. And not only was he able to give Cleveland a championship in his return, but this will also set up many business ventures down the line.
Today I came back because I feel like I had some unfinished business. Yeah, more ways than one. You know, to be able to be a part of the championship team two years ago with the team that we had, and the fashion that we had, is something I will always remember. I was, I think we all remember that. I mean, it ended the drought for Cleveland. It was 50-plus years. I think we will all remember that in sports history. So, you know, when you have a goal, I think any individual, anybody, male, female, whoever the case may be, when you have a goal and you, you know, like seek that goal, you dream about that dream, and you put everything and you can to guys like this brace on, guys like this, like this gasps. What great superstar athlete in sports history has ever lawfully brought more attention to an alleged injury than this fool is doing right now? This is the person that supposedly is on Mount Rushmore of NBA players, allegedly on the dais, trying to show off his wife's scarf wrapped around his right wrist, talking about he broke his hand when he punched the whiteboard after Game 1. Now, most real warriors, you'd never find out about this until five, ten years down the line. Like, how many people know that Gary Payton had a hairline fracture in one of his shins in the series that the Seattle SuperSonics played against the Chicago Bulls in 1996? Very few. Or that Michael Jordan had a broken bone in his index finger on a shooting hand in the 1998 season, his last season with the Bulls? Now, most of us know that Kobe Bryant had the same injury in 2010, but very rarely will great athletes allow you to know that they're hurt until years later. This fool is here waving around his prince glove on the dais, laughing and giggling. I don't even know where I was raised up. Sorry. Next question. I'm sorry. He probably broke his hand carrying around his wife's purse, like he'd been doing the last few games, trying to be a damn metrosexual in addition to being a pansexual, allegedly.
Dave, standing on the left. Dave, regret of an ESPN. LeBron, in 2010, you basically started or a part of a team starting from scratch. In 2014, same process. And then four months ago, and were able to get to the Finals. If you have to do that again in your career, you know, basically you start the team from scratch, what have you learned from from this year that, you know, you're a different team in February from what you're playing with in the Finals?
Well, it's definitely not the most comfortable thing when we start a team from scratch because the most important is health, because chemistry, so fast. No, actually, you don't need to build chemistry so fast because that's not going to work. When you look at the history of the NBA, when you're talking about championship-level teams, they build chemistry over the course of years. That's how you get to the championship level. He should know that for a fact, because his first year in Miami, they couldn't win because they were building chemistry. So for him to honestly think that he was going to be able to build enough chemistry after the All-Star break with the group of players who, at best, were considered young players with potential, shows you that he's not dealing with a full deck. He's not all there, or he's being disingenuous, because he understands that what acquiring those players really did was give him an out. It allows him to say, "I had no help." So fast on the floor, and if you have multiple injuries or you have multiple bodies out, you know, when you started freshest, it's too hard. And I think, you know, know what with this season, that's that's what you kind of saw the difference between this season and difference between my first year in Miami. We didn't have many injuries at all. We were definitely fresh together, but myself and D Wade and Bosh, you know, you D, you know, Mike Miller had a few injuries, but Chalmers was available. You know, pretty much our team, we we were pretty solid as far as being injury, not be an injury crawl, right?
But you still went to the Finals and you choked in the Finals. Your team had no chemistry for the entire season. The only reason why you guys played as well as you did is because you basically had the Eastern Conference All-Stars on your team, and you still came up short, LeBron James. So why would you think that you had a chance to do anything with this group of guys that you acquired at the All-Star break? Basically me a break, man. Oh, I'll see my first year back here. We were headed in the right direction, then we hit the policies and Cave has a separated shoulder with the tire with all the naked man, Kyrie, you know, goes down. And if, like, the first, second possession overtime of Game 1 of the Finals, you know, so I mean, that's that's huge. So, you know, being a part of the, the, you know, to start fresh mode is something that you definitely don't want to be a part of. This is, you know, how this has his pros and it definitely, that definitely has its cons.
Jason, up here, when you tell Rachel, you had, you came back to the unfinished business. Does one championship finish that business? It does. For him, it does for him. What else is it gonna do? He knows damn well he's not gonna win what with Cleveland next year, so he has to leave. He has to continue on his path to try to track down that corner and fold ghosts. I mean, for me, you have so much to give to the game, and I agree with that. You do have a lot left to give to the game of basketball. I agree with that. LeBron James, just like Al Pacino, is still in the acting world. He's not going anymore Oscars, but he's still out there. You ain't gonna win any more championships unless you humble yourself and go to the San Antonio Spurs, or you find a way to be able to play off the ball with the Rockets, and they can still maintain their shooting. Other than that, you're not going on any more championships, bro. You could forget about that.
And actually, for me personally, made me even more hungry to continue to try to win championships. Yeah, I still want to be a championship mode, and I think I showed this year why I will still continue to be a championship oh. And when you came back at '14, and we did the thing at Inquisition, understanding things, things can change in four years, but you said you don't plan on going anywhere. You can't go through this again. What do you mean by that? And what's this process like, this free agency process of having to make a decision of where would you just take us through? Shed some light on what that process is like.
Oh, take you to all throughout the whole process. That's not fun. But I think, you know, today, like I said, you know, when I decide what I'm gonna do with my future, you know, my family and the folks that have been with me for the last 20 years, pretty much will have a say-so. And alter will come down to me. So see what happens. Howard's standing on the left. Our complete report. LeBron, when you made the move in 2010, obviously you had certain goals and things in mind that made you push you toward that decision. Similar 2014. Are the decisions or the thought process priorities different at age 33, 15 years in, than they would have been at those other junctures?
I don't think so. These guys, they ask the most ridiculous questions. If you're gonna ask them a question of our free agency, why don't you mention specific teams? Because that's really the only way that you can get to a point. Of course, he's gonna say, "As of right now, I can't answer those type of questions." But at least those would be more cogent than the [ __ ] questions they're asking. LeBron, how do you think you were fitting in with CP3 and James Harden in Houston if you sign there? Do you think that they will be able to retain enough salary talent for you guys to actually have a reasonable opportunity to win it all? If you would sign with the San Antonio Spurs, do you believe that you would be able to play in the Gregg Popovich Spurs system? How would you believe that Kawhi Leonard will compliment you as a player? Those are real questions. All this [ __ ] about free agency options, he's not gonna answer that [ __ ]. He's not gonna answer the questions I asked either. The point being is that at least it would be something that would be more pressing, something more incisive.
Talented players, cerebral players, yes. One of the main reasons why the players that you play with in Miami could see things happen before they happen on the floor. Well, not only because they were gifted like Dwyane Wade was, but also because you ran an actual offense. LeBron James, Pat Riley, and Erik Spoelstra were not going to tolerate any of your [ __ ]. They made you go out there and run a real offense. And this is just another attempt to throw his current teammates under the bus. This is the guy who claimed that he would never go against his teammates in the course of the course of a season, during the course of a game, throughout the course of a playoff, throughout the course of the Finals. So when you, when you feel like you, you know, when you feel like you're really good at your craft, I think it's always great to be able to be around other great minds as well.
So, in other words, you're saying that your current team has a very low team basketball IQ? I wonder why that is. Maybe because it's very difficult to study for the LeBron James system in half a year, especially if you guys can't practice because you have to conserve your old muscles so that you look good during the games on offense. At least now, watch how much [ __ ] Tristan Thompson is gonna talk about this guy after he leaves, because I guarantee you, a lot of the Cleveland Cavaliers are tired of his [ __ ]. He has the nerve to sit up there on a dais with his wife's scarf wrapped around his right wrist, talking [ __ ] about his teammates' basketball IQ, but this guy barely would help any of his teammates on defense and refused to guard Kevin Durant one-on-one, and he's supposed to be the greatest player of all time. The [ __ ] out here. And by the way, go back and watch that 1991 NBA Finals where everyone claims that Scottie Pippen guarded Magic Johnson for the whole series. Other than Game 2, when Pippen handled a lot of the defensive duties on Magic Johnson, the vast majority of the time, though out that series, Magic was guarded by Michael Jordan.
I want to try to surround myself and Honda's franchise with, you know, great minds and guys that actually think outside the box of the game and not just go on player. But anyway, that's it on LeBron excuse-making James. We'll see where his career takes him from here, but one thing that we do know is that the LeBron James, Greg, the Michael Jordan conversation is done. It's over. Peace.