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Alright man, peace, you know brothers. So many people have been hitting me up asking me what do I think about LeBron James's latest eruptions of megalomaniacal narcissism. This cat, and brothers, I've been telling you this about this man for the last two years now. LeBron James is a narcissist, he's a politician, he's a great basketball player, but number one, he's a salesman. He's a politician, and he's being guided by a lot of the corporate factions. They're the ones who are calling him and his team into their offices and they're saying, "LeBron, this is what we have planned for you over the next five years as we start to figure out how we're going to take you into the next phase of your stardom because you can't be an athlete forever." So now we're going to think up a credo. How can we go about this? You know, we can align you with a lot of so-called societal issues and we can coin a phrase. We can call you "More Than An Athlete." Why is that phrase so important? Because that's a signifier. That's a logo. "More Than An Athlete" is meant to convey what they have planned for LeBron over the next 5, 10, 15 years or so because once he retires, he's not going away. He's going to become more and more prominent because his handlers need him to become more and more prominent so that everybody can make money. So hopefully many brothers are starting to see what I've been saying for the longest time. Basically, he's a corporate pawn. And to a degree, there's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't sell your soul. Now, whether or not LeBron James has quote/unquote sold his soul, that's up for debate. It is what it is. I'm already on record as stating that without a doubt in my mind, he's a Luciferian. There are myriad of ways to ascertain that. But at the end of the day, all of these eruptions from him about Michael Jordan, and he's the greatest basketball player in history, and tried to align himself with Muhammad Ali, that's all corporate branding. They tried to amplify his profile. So like the true politician, he's not going to be able to justify himself off of his own merits. He has to tear down his opponent. Who was his opponent in his mind? His opponent is Michael Jordan. And as we're going to see in this clip, LeBron James is going to let you know how overly obsessed he is, not with Michael Jordan himself, but with the image of Michael Jordan. And this, to me, is the carryover from fanboyism, from idolatry, from worshiping another man. And that's why I reiterate on this channel over and over and over again, this is not a family channel. I'm not impressed when somebody says that they're a fan of mine. I don't need you to say that you're a fan of mine. As so-called black men, we need to rule over our households. Our wife, our wives, or our women should be fans of ours. Our children should be fans of ours. And when we're finally able to restore the rulership over the household, then we come together as brothers and we figure out what we need to do to get our people out of this condition. But first, the so-called black man has to become a fan of the Most High. He has to love himself. And that's to preside over his family. You get brothers credit and respect and kind words for their gifts and their focus and making sure that they sharpen their gifts. But calling yourself a fan of another man, no, that's not manly. LeBron James was a fan of Michael Jordan as a child. And like all fanboys, eventually that energy metastasizes into something unhealthy. And now he wants to tear down the object of his idolatry. So anyway, they're gonna talk about it. Nobody chimed in super, super ecstatic the way mom for Cleveland because of the 52-year drought. Like I was ecstatic. Like I was that day. The first wave of emotion was once everyone saw me crying. Like that was all for 52 years. Everything sports going on. A click. You know, a brother. So many people got upset when that Caucasian woman, Laura Ingraham, I believe her name is, told LeBron to just shut up and dribble. The reason why she told him that is because that is his expertise. Basketball is literally the only thing that this man knows. But he's trying to convince you, him and his handlers are trying to convince you, that he's an expert in everything. So now he's talking about things that he knows nothing about, nothing whatsoever. And he wants you to crown him for doing what an athlete was supposed to do, which is bring a championship to his city. That's it. Now he's talking about the 52-year drought of winning a championship in Cleveland. And that's what made him cry. Bro, let's be for real. That's not what made you cry. What made you cry is that you knew that once you won that championship, that was going to be a signifier that now you could tell other people about how you've always felt about yourself. That being that you think that they should crown you, they should coronate you, and put you above Michael Jordan. And what's amazing is that you, Michael Jordan, also was the first person to win a championship for the Chicago Bulls and to this day, the only person. But he's never said that he knows all. Well, you know, I won a championship with the Chicago Bulls and I ended a 30-year drought and you know, that's why I'm the greatest. Like all this nonsense. Do I believe that Michael Jordan believes that he's the greatest player ever? Yes, I do. And LeBron James should as well. So, [ __ ] Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Wilt Chamberlain, and Kobe, and Tim Duncan. It's shocking. All those guys believe that they were unstoppable. And they should. They should believe that if they're out there on the basketball floor, that they're better than everybody else. But when you start to create features and documentaries and you're sitting on couches and you're reflecting, like in a realistic environment, and you're telling everybody, "I'm the best basketball player ever because I won one Finals series." Now, basically, you're conveying your delusions of grandeur to the masses. LeBron James mentally is very unhealthy because he's living in a bubble where everybody around him, all they do is tell him how great he is. And to a degree, it's understandable because he's pretty much a self-made man. To a degree, he's had handlers, he's had people who have helped him. But all the guys around him have been empowered by him. So now they owe him. And that's why I've made the analogy of the psychological archetype of LeBron James. He's more like a pimp than a benefactor. Like, you know, people think that he's some type of super philanthropist. Really, it's most of the corporate factions that are backing him, that are bankrolling many of these acts of philanthropy that he gets credit for. He's more like a pimp. Like a pimp walks to a bus station looking for fourteen-year-old runaways, and the pimp makes them think that he's going to empower them by making them hope for him. But in all reality, he's putting them to work so that it can come back to him. Now, in this situation right here, that's what LeBron James has done with his friends. And it's a good thing. It's a good thing for them because he's made them very, very affluent. But at the end of the day, it's very obvious that none of these cats, no matter how powerful they become, would have the ability to sit down in a forum like this and disagree with LeBron James. None of them will be able to say, "LeBron, no, you're not the greatest basketball player of all time just because you won one Finals series against the Golden State Warriors, which was not an upset, by the way." But I'm going to be covering that over the course of this segment here. The Cleveland Cavaliers defeating the Golden State Warriors in 2016 was not an upset. I don't care what the odds say. But I'm going to cover that after this segment here. Goes along. So anyway, they're gonna talk about it. I'm gonna chime in. And then after I stopped, I was like, "That one right there, it made you the greatest player of all time." That was LeBron saying, "You thought he was the GOAT after beating the 73 and 9 Golden State Warriors on his show, 'More Than An Athlete'." So what is your reaction to that today? I can appreciate his emotion and I respect it because, right, but that's the problem. Steven Naismith, why would you appreciate somebody else's emotions? If we're gonna have a conversation about establishing a hierarchy, we have to go according to facts and empirical data. Really, all the 2016 Finals victory did was in a certain way nullify his flame out in 2011. That's really all it did. Because most people did not expect them to win the 2016 Finals. Most people expected him to win the 2011 NBA Finals. So, I mean, at best, he may have nullified what he did in 2011. To me, it didn't. But at best, I would say that's what that did. Because of defeating the Warriors in 2016 makes him the greatest player of all time, what does that make Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook? Because they had that same team down three games to one. Does that make Kevin Durant the second greatest player ever because he had them down three games to one? Is Russell Westbrook the third greatest player ever because he had them three games to one? Like, that's just not making any sense. We can go throughout the annals of history and you know, there are many great upsets that occurred in the NBA Playoffs. I remember when the Denver Nuggets beat the Seattle SuperSonics, I believe it was in '94. And nobody was saying, "Oh, wow, that was just the most unbelievable upset. That's gonna make the chem Emmitt humble the best player in the NBA." Like, this is just asinine. But what winning the 2016 Finals did was it allowed LeBron James to come out in the open in regards to how he truly feels about Michael Jordan and the frustration that he's held inside of him because his surrogate dad, Michael Jordan, has not claimed him publicly. And he's been upset with Jordan for many years because Jordan would never go out of his way to mention how great a player LeBron James is. That's really what LeBron James wants. He wanted validation from Jordan. He never got it. And now he's upset. That's why I liken him unto that character from Carlito's Way, then he Blanco from the Bronx. And that's why you always have to keep at arm's distance any person who claims to be overly infatuated with you because that's very, very unhealthy. And that's why they state there's a very thin line between love and hate. We recognize that. LeBron James belongs in the Mount Rushmore basketball. You mean, you recognize that? Don't speak for everybody. Speak for yourself. Mount Rushmore only has four faces on it. LeBron James is not one of the top four greatest players to ever play. I'm sorry, he is not. My top four is Michael Jordan, Kareem, Bill Russell, and Magic. Now, LeBron will be on a second Mount Rushmore. But there are certain people who will not even have him on that. I would, I would have him on a second Mount Rushmore with Bird, Wilt, and probably either Elijah won, Duncan, or Shaq. But probably Elijah won. Those last three players in my top ten is relatively fluid. And probably Elijah won for what he brought to the game all around. But LeBron will be on a second Mount Rushmore with those players. Now, in the first one, no. That LeBron James, one of the greatest players who have ever lived. That. And the thing that I applaud most about him is two things. Number one is that this man that was on a cover of Sports Illustrated from the time he was 17 years of age. Yes, because his whole career pretty much has been guided. LeBron James, in my view, is a monarch athlete. But that's another video for another day. I don't know why some of these NBA television pundits bring that up like he deserves a cookie or something like that. And don't get it twisted. I give LeBron credit for that as well. Because I'm sure there are a lot of people trying to set him up. So from that perspective, he deserves credit for that. But but to try to give him a cookie or accolades because he has not gotten in trouble with the law. I mean, he's rich. There should be less of a chance for him to get in trouble with the law because he has so many more avenues open to him to make money. So why, why should he be getting in trouble with the law? I'll give him credit for being able to handle his side chicks, his concubines, very well. He does a good job with that. We don't hear about his side babies and stuff like that. So good for him. Inspiration? He deserves. I'm not quite sure about that. Your role models are your parents and the Most High. The Most High comes first, then your parents. The problem is in this society, the family unit is not encouraged. People are more encouraged, especially children and women, are more encouraged to find role models on television. I respectfully disagree. I don't ever want to hear anybody tell me that he is number one over Michael Jordan. I don't want to hear it. I'm not listening to it. I pay no attention to it. I would give it no consideration because I'm not just talking about your versatility. I'm talking about what you were. Keep it alone. Well, Steven Naismith, whenever you're dealing with LeBron James super fans, they don't care about things like facts. They don't care about precedent. They don't care about history. That's why they've concocted all these wild and strange arguments that have never been utilized before in the history of sports debates. I.E. trying to reverse engineer and reverse evaluate Michael Jordan's career by claiming that he never faced any great teams in the finals. By the time the Chicago Bulls of the mid to late '90s made it to the finals, they were facing 60-plus win teams every year. In 1993, the Phoenix Suns, 162 games, led the league in wins. '96, they faced the Gary Payton SuperSonics, which also had Shawn Kemp and Detlef Schrempf and Sam Perkins and Hirschi Hawkins. That team won 64 games. That team got to the finals in an era with the Malone/Stockton Utah Jazz, with the Elijah Juan Rockets, the Charles Barkley Rockets, so on and so forth. They had to run the gamut to make it to the finals that year, and they were an extraordinary team. That Sam Utah Jazz team that made it to the finals in '97 with 64 wins, they made it back to the fight of the next year in '98 with 62 wins. And one of the teams that they beat on their road to the finals was the San Antonio Spurs with Tim Duncan and David Robinson. So this, you know, you hear this, you know, from the LeBron James. But with LeBron, her to agree to an Antonio, San Antonio had never been thought of as this unbelievable team. Well, San Antonio has been over the last 20 years, was a very good to sometimes great team that would win a championship whenever there was not an ethereal champion available in the league that year. So in other words, whenever the Shaq/Kobe Lakers fell off or another great dominant team fell off, San Antonio would rise to the occasion and they might win a chip. Or in 2003, when they were finally able to improve their backcourt, they were able to defeat the Shaq and Kobe Lakers. I mean, who were, who were a very good dynasty, but to me, they were very fortunate to face off against very, very low-level competition. Their basketball IQ of the team was very low. The Shaq and Kobe Lakers. But I mentioned that in other videos. Point being is this, this notion that the Michael Jordan Bulls of the 1990s did not face great teams, that's a complete fallacy. In '96, they faced the Shaq, Penny Hardaway, Dennis Scott, Nick Anderson Orlando Magic, which was thought to be the next dynasty. NBA, the NBA was trying to build them up to be the dynasty to replace the Chicago Bulls when Jordan retired. But when he came back, he pretty much nixed that whole, that whole situation. That's why Shaq left the Eastern Conference. Jordan ran Shaq out of the Eastern Conference because Shaq understood after they got swept in '96, "We're not gonna beat this team for the next two years or so." So he was pretty smart to leave. But you know, it just amazes me how people try to reverse-engineer history to try to build up a guy who's who's three and six in the finals. LeBron James is three and six in the finals. You cannot be the greatest player of all time at three and six in the finals. I don't care who you are. That's why people do not mention players like Jerry West or Elgin Baylor. Elgin Baylor is like Owen eight in the finals. Nobody gives him credit for getting to the finals a bunch of years. Now, we can say, "Well, that was in the prehistoric era. That's not in the modern era." So that team, those Lakers get into the finals so many years. That does not quite equate to what LeBron James has done. All well and good. But those teams also cannot create their own rosters like LeBron James could. Ever since LeBron James moved on to the Miami Heat in 2010, he's been creating his own rosters. They've allowed him to play GM when he went to Miami. And it's amazing how they just pushed his under the rug. This guy created his own super team. I don't begrudge him that. But don't come back and tell me about how, how bold enough to face great teams. And the Cleveland Cavaliers with LeBron James in 2014 and '15 and '16, and the Miami Heat in the early 2010s, had to face these great teams because that's just not true. The Oklahoma City Thunder, they were not a great team. They had great talent. They were not a great team. Those guys were very precocious. In 2012 and 2013, 2013, they should have lost to the San Antonio Spurs. 2014, they got blitzkrieged by a San Antonio Spurs. 2015, we know what happened. We know that Kyrie and Kevin Love got hurt. But Quietus kept coming into the 2014-2015 season, which was LeBron James's first year back in Cleveland. You know what team was favored to win a championship? The Cleveland Cavaliers. Because everybody knew that LeBron James had created another super team with Kyrie and Kevin Love. The next year, even though Golden State had won the championship in at 167 games that year, you know, the team that was predicted to win the championship for 2015-2016, the Cleveland Cavaliers again. So the, the predictors, the prognosticators, even after the Golden State had won, still did not believe that they had the best talent. And they're correct. Because even Chris Broussard, who's a boozer, LeBron James fanboy, he was on Undisputed. And you know what he said? He had to check Shannon Sharpe. He said, "Shannon, come on, you know damn well we were playing three on three on a blacktop. And one side had Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green. And the other side had LeBron, Kyrie, and Kevin Love. You know what side you gonna pick?" So let's not act like this was some huge upset. No. What was really strange about that series was how Cleveland got down 3-1 in the first place. Because the first two games, like they didn't want to play. Because Steph Curry was not even playing well until game four. Steph Curry only had one good game in that series. So why did that series even go seven games in the first place? If na Bron James are so great, he's supposed to mop the floor with them boys. So this, this uh, this political move by LeBron James to try to prove that he's the greatest player of all time because they came back from down 3-1 and gifted 2016 Warriors, it's more nonsense and [ __ ]. That 2016 Warriors team, they would not beat the SuperSonics with Gary Payton. No way in the world. Not under '90s rules. Gary Payton would have been up and Steph Curry so hard. I promise you, Steph Curry would not have even shot 40% for that series. I promise you. That you had to grow into that. You know, and it was a lot of hiccups along the way did you encounter because of you, not because of somebody else? No. Well, let me say this. Michael Jordan had to grow and mature as a basketball player as well. When he first came into the NBA, he was very well-schooled under Dean Smith. But he was thrown into a very chaotic environment where they asked him, basically, to be a Russell Westbrook of his day. Now, because Jordan was so well-schooled, he was able to be very proficient even in that role. So when you look up his rookie numbers, this guy averaged 28, like six and six, led the team in blocks, led the team in steals, shot 51 and a half percent in his rookie year because of how well he was schooled. But because he became such a phenomenon, he lost sight of a lot of the of the concepts that he was taught at North Carolina that had to be reinstalled back in him when they brought in Phil Jackson. Because one thing about Jordan, his fundamentals were not for real. But he got away from a lot of the the concepts mentally that were instilled in him as a player at North Carolina. And he got a little bit full of himself because the NBA all over was telling him how great he was scoring all those points. But everything with him was always about winning. But he also wanted to score the most in the league. And when he wanted to change that paradigm, and he was successful in doing so because Phil Jackson did not even want him to average 30 points a game. That's one of the main bones of contention between Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson and what's this guy's name, Texas Winter, basically their offensive coordinator, the guy who helped design the triangle offense. They didn't want Michael Jordan averaging anywhere near 30 points a game. They wanted him somewhere around 23, 24 points a game. He said, "Hell no. You want me to go from 34 points a game to like 23, 24 points a game?" What Jordan basically said was, "We'll meet in the middle. Our average somewhere around 30 points a game. I'm still going to lead the league in score and we're going to win championships." And that's what he was able to do. So there are a lot of reasons why Michael Jordan is considered the greatest player of all time because the last player to have led the league in scoring before Jordan and win a championship was Kareem. And even since Jordan, there have not been many players that have led the league in scoring and won the championship. I'm not quite sure if there have been any who've led the league in scoring since Jordan and won the championship. Maybe Shaq at 2000. I'll try figure, I'm try remember if he won the scoring title in 2000. Maybe Shaq or 2000 did it. But just off the top of my head, I can't think of any other player since Jordan and Shaq or 2000 who led the league in scoring and also was able to win the championship. Maybe Kobe did them in one of those years or 1 or 2 or 9. But what do you brothers can correct me on that? Either way, Jordan was the one who changed that paradigm. And that's how he had to mature. So Steven A is incorrect about that. Michael was not a finished product when he got it to the NBA. He actually kind of lost his way a little bit. And you know, got caught up in a lot of the, you know, the self-aggrandizement of scoring all those points. I've stated this in other videos already. The debate with LeBron James or the comp with LeBron James is Larry Bird. That's it. Larry Bird from '79 to '88 before he got hurt. And LeBron James saying his peak from from about '05 up to now. That's the comp. And of course, back then they didn't have anywhere near the conditioning techniques that they have now. They damn sure didn't have some of the high profile [ __ ] that these guys are taking. But that's neither here nor there. And there is no question of meaning even laws in the Mount Rushmore. I'm just not hearing. I'm not listening to. I will completely ignore it on my radio show, just so you know, because I don't know. I will hang up or you're behind. I'm not listening to certain songs. And telling me that LeBron is better than Michael Jordan was is to be sacrilegious. And I'm not trying to hear it. Well, that's your problem, Steve Naismith. When you use terms like sacrilegious and blasphemous, that's you deifying an athlete. And we can't do that. At the end of the day, Michael Jordan was a great basketball player. That's it. That's all that we should expect from him. And I'll also say this, and I mentioned this in the past, it's very common for people to associate the best player of their childhood with the greatest ever. To this day, my father would tell me that Oscar Robertson was not quite as good as Jordan, but he was right there. My father loves Oscar Robertson because that's what he grew up on as a kid. You have people who grew up on Kobe. You have people who grow up on LeBron. So of course, they're gonna quote unquote cap for their guy. At the end of the day, we have to look at accolades. We have to look at achievements. We have to look at proficiency. We have to look at certain intangibles like, did you fold up when your team needed you? Did you fold up? And I'm sorry, when JJ Barea outplays you in a series, when Jason Terry outplays you in a series, you can never be the greatest player of all time.