 Welcome to a brand new episode. This is 23 LeBron James videos in 23 weeks and if you have missed any of the episodes that we have done so far there's a playlist link on the top right of your screen and link down below in the description and if you click on that link you will find all of the episodes. This one is on the time that LeBron James trash talk Gilbert Arenas and ended up changing the whole outcome of a playoff series. This story is amazing, hilarious and insightful and if you think that you've heard it before you may have but you've never heard it quite like this. This video has all the NBA players that were involved on this day who remember it and talk about it all in the one video. Of course full credit to all the interviews, podcasts and clips that are involved in this video they are on the screen right now and link down below in the description so be sure to check them out in their entirities. But if you do enjoy the video the wades piece up together and edited if you could help me out by hitting that like button I'd greatly appreciate it and if you're new around here and you think you may enjoy the rest of the series be sure to hit that subscribe button. I don't want to keep you guys waiting so with that further ado welcome to the day LeBron James trash talk Gilbert Arenas. Back in the day when when when Bron was young that played for us I'll never forget we're playing Washington I think the first time we made a playoffs. We begin with the NBA playoffs and LeBron James in the same sentence. Now LeBron had been left out of similar sentences after the first two years of his career but he put an exclamation point on the sentence that he scripted on Saturday. The Cavaliers at home hosting the Wizards in game one of their best of seven series. LeBron was a problem. I'm gonna tell you Blitz, zone, shows, he dissected every cover. He knew everything. Bron had the opportunity to practice what he preached and what he saw and of course I mean this man came out of high school built like a mad truck fast like I never seen it before. Young LeBron was like that violent like this transition he was just a machine going downhill every time. If y'all think he's fast now what you think? I tell people that all the time. What you think was coming down the lane then? Right. I've never seen anything like Bron was like his mind is it worked like I never seen it before as a player. I remember like Mike Brown trying to draw plays and he's a coach. He was one of those players like smart right very smart when you're trying to say he's not a one on one guy he's not this he knows that's not his skill he's not gonna try to do it right he's gonna play to his perfection right and that's hard to do I'm just gonna stick with what I'm great at and I'm gonna perfect it. You can't lose focus one second in playoff. When it's showtime you let the great player do it and you get out of this way. Cavaliers with 3.6 left. They either win it or have to go to Washington and win a game 6. He can see over the coverages he he he killed everything we threw out. His basketball IQ was people give enough credit for his basketball IQ. I know the clock is running down I'm either gonna draw a defender where I can get my teammate open look or I can get any shot I want to. Michael Ruffin is on the broad. We came into the playoffs and like he's you know posting up and he's taller than Antoine and I had to was a coach I think he's did he grow this one for a grow that was like he was like I don't think so and I was like man he bigging in them dudes now man and then it was like put Jared on them so we had to put Jared Jeffries on them Jared 6 6 11 so we tried I mean we tried everything use to play it in. Every possession for 48 minutes counts. You gotta have that toughness and if you don't have it you won't get respect. I don't believe in pressure I just go out there and play basketball I've been doing it my own life. He was arguing he could have wanted him to be every year that's the type of talent that he was. He killed everything we threw at him. Everything he threw everything we threw at him he killed it. Like it was just one of those and you can just see it like yeah if we're gonna get him we got to get him now because the smarter he gets the stronger he gets and we ain't gonna get past him in the playoffs man. Game six the first round of the 2006 NBA playoffs you had two free throws and LeBron got in your ear. What did he say? Okay so we have to back up a little bit to see this is the real story. I was balling. I was balling that fourth quarter and we miracle come back you know down three. I hit the hit almost like 30 footer to take us to overtime. I was I was balling that game just hit the three to get us in overtime playing great in overtime very great battle. James hard drive inside. James a crossover once again the drive and the foul unstoppable going to the basket. He's so uncanny with his vision. Kind of got a little tired and you know in overtime but got to the free throw line. You can see that the right one was on the wall like yeah we was better than him right he just outsmarted us. You know it's but a game's over we have one I'm about to hit these three this is easy. You know because we gamble that LeBron's house during the series right not LeBron but you know me Damon Jones you know that was our group right so Damon Jones is horrible horrible he was horrible. You're at LeBron's house in house condo he had all the fucking floors right so we're going there watching game tape just fighting right right. So Damon Jones is horrible so I always used to like every time we played them I always used to scream out. The landlord is here. The landlord needs his rent money. The landlord is here I want my rent money right. That used to be about I don't give a fuck if it was four dollars. The landlord is here like every time we came to town shoot around I'm yelling it the game I'm yelling it like that's all I yell right. So I used to just yell that shit during the games right at Damon Jones like I wouldn't even accept his payment just so I can keep yelling that shit. So I told the coach anytime you put Damon Jones in I'm going one for flat one for flat I'm gonna fucking destroy him. He owes me money until he pays me money one for flat he's gonna be a liability out on his court and that's what I did every time he came in one for flat. I said I'm the landlord that tenant owes me money you think about putting that tenant in the fucking game I'm destroying him so when Damon Jones get in fucking the whole playbook goes out of the window fucking destroy so they stop fucking playing Damon Jones. He stopped playing so he doesn't even play in game six. If you know the background to this story I didn't play and this was a double overtime game and I had sat on the bench the whole time. And I'm just fucking laughing at him like yeah fucker I got you. You know it's like so I'm just taunting Damon Jones a whole fucking time. Up one I got the two free throws. Misses the free throw with 15.1 remaining. And I can even see it on my face when I watch like oh yeah you're missing these bro and then I missed the first one and I'm sitting like how the hell did I miss that? That's just so off. Miss the second one and I'm sitting here like and that's when LeBron tackles you. Miss says you know who's gonna end the game. And Cleveland still with a timeout remaining. I think he's smart here now. Yo did this just really happen? Where did I go? I don't miss free. I don't miss clutch free throws. Who knows what LeBron game just said. If you missed this you know who's gonna make it. Yeah so if you miss this you know who will end the game. Yep. You're still gonna be hit ahead by one. If he makes it by two. And for that one second I became human and thought about it. If I missed these you know how or you know and it had me thinking about it. So I missed both of them. And when he tapped me and he's like you know if you missed these you know that's game. I said it was the exact word I said you missed both of these free throws. Y'all going home. So when he when he whispers you know who's gonna hit it. Everybody assumed it was him. He's talking about Damon Jones. Like if you missed this Damon Jones getting subbed in. I knew what he was talking about and I think the thought went into my head. They really gonna put Damon Jones in. Right so we're sitting here and then I see the fucker taking the shirt off. Like fuck out of here. Who they're not putting Damon Jones. Who the fuck put Damon Jones in. So Damon so Damon Jones is sitting and having like yeah yeah boy. Like he's talking shit like like he's about to get the ball. And when Mike Brown called my name I was standing in the back of the huddle and it surprised me that he called me. And then I see Damon Jones in there stretching. How about this Damon Jones coming into the game for the first time here this evening. And they really put the man in. And the fact that LeBron even passed him the ball is what hurt the most. He shoots 82 percent there in a year. He's over 81 percent here in the playoffs. Right back in the hands of LeBron James. Brown started off with the ball. They double team him. He just double triple team. LeBron James not playing passing the ball to a dude who ain't played two games. Ain't played this game. Ain't got a shot up. No way. So you know we're leaning towards like LeBron because he's already hit two game winners this series. But that nervousness turns into fire and drive. And sure enough. And as the ball was coming to me I blanked out. So I really don't know what happened. Fucking passed the ball to Damon Jones. Damon Jones hit a fucking jumper. Damon Jones in the corner just came in the game for the first time in two games. And Damon Jones and the Cleveland Cavaliers advanced to the second round. This is LeBron show. You know we're just all we're all witnesses. Jamie Jones hit the left baseline. His bucket wide open. Damon Jones who hadn't played a second all game inserted and knocked down the winning shot. An incredible finish. And for the first time since 1993 the Cavaliers go to the second round. Like you're really that petty where you would actually get that man to ball. Who does that? That's what I said. I went to go like do mental stuff. So I sat in the gym. Took two, three thousand free throws. And then I even took it a step further and went with a guy named Frank in San Francisco who trains a million BX. Yeah. And he trains military black ops special you know all mental stuff. And I went to him just extra. Just make sure my mental is focused. Because I was like this didn't just happen. You didn't tell me this man was going to come in and hit and then he comes in and then you pass him the ball. Like he's done hit five straight threes. I need to go season hill because I don't want to be the next Nick Anderson out here. That set the tone for who we were and why we were as good as we were the next four or five years because of his unselfishness, his willingness to make the right play every single time. So I was never mad at him for making the right play. Right. Because now it makes it easier for me to tell you. Got to. And you got to make the right place because this all the time. Yeah. After that he just just this one man just owned me. And I hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did here are two new videos I think that you will also enjoy. Be sure to leave a like if you enjoyed the video. Subscribe if you are new and I will catch you guys in the next one.