 Welcome to another episode. We are currently doing 23 LeBron James videos in 23 weeks and I'm glad you've been enjoying this series so far. If you're new and you've missed any of the other episodes there's a playlist on the top right of your screen and also a link below down in the description. If you click on that link you will find all the episodes that we've done. This week's video looks at the time LeBron James was trash talked to by the Orlando Magic GM and the Orlando Magic players of 2010 retelled their side of the story and the Miami Heat players also. This is one of the great stories and it's the reason why you never talk trash to the king. JJ Redick's podcast The Old Man and the Three is heavily featured in this video but as always all the footage and credits used in this video is on the screen right now and linked down below in the description in their entirety so be sure to check them out. If you would like to support the channel and if you enjoy the video I'd really appreciate if you guys could just do one thing and that's hit the like button. By hitting the like button you'd be really helping us out with reaching new people. And of course if you do enjoy this video and the rest of the content be sure to hit that subscribe button so you can stay up to date with all the new videos. I don't want to keep you guys waiting so I hope you enjoy the video. Why do you think the reaction to you guys deciding to join up in Miami was so different? Do you think it was because it was LeBron and he was sort of the best player in the game? I want to throw it all on Brian but I definitely feel that the fan base basketball fan base had an idea of how LeBron's career was supposed to go and he had other ideas for his career and people at the time didn't understand why would he do that. Like that year the expectations were you know that first year the expectations were through the roof you know after like the decision and how everything went down like the whole league the whole world was just like honest. The answer to the question everybody wants to know. LeBron what's your decision? In this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat. Cavaliers team owner Dan Gilbert fired off a brutally bitter angry email. Shocking act of disloyalty is heartless and callous act. Everybody hated us except the Miami fans. While the Miami Heat garnered all the attention the Orlando Magic quietly continued their pursuit of success. Just a year after their NBA finals appearance in an Eastern Conference finals run they remained focused and determined despite the chaos of the free agency period. The team that went to the finals they broke up real quick. I was upset because I'm like man this is we just went to the finals. I hated it but then once we got killed and everybody else it was like it was fun. You and I were teammates for something like 50 games. The team was talented. When I got win that I'm possibly getting traded and it was going to go down. I already I took pair shoes left next house and I went straight to the airport bought my own ticket no bag just a pair of shoes. So when I got to Orlando it was joy you know locker room the players you guys were amazing. You know you got Jason Richardson coming coming me and then you had Turk coming back. The way we played and it didn't change anything the way we play. That's how really you know like help our motivation you know like the focus. So you have a nice starting unit but your bench is your bench was full of shooters. There was times where Jamil Nelson me and JJ Wernick was on the floor together. We were part of the the bench mob or bench I can't remember what we were called. It was me JJ Wernick me and Gil and Ryan Anderson and a couple other dudes. But we had a great time together. Orlando was one of the first teams really shift around and play that four out one in style with Dwight Howard and picking you know picking roles and what are you what are you going to choose you either give up you know wide open dunk to Dwight Howard. You give up a pick and pop for me or you know a drive and kick. So you have a group that's going to sit here and go out you know go up and down when we played Miami it was just felt like two hours that we were out there on the court going 100 percent. So you like oh my god all these stories are out about me being selfish which is the last thing that I am so that's why the emotions was there. It wasn't just a battle between two elite eastern conference teams with championship hopes. There was also some added tension during the offseason. Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith said that he was surprised James went to Miami because he thought the two time MVP was more of a competitor. He said the great ones do it on their own and usually stay in one location. This provided all the motivation LeBron James required to ignite his competitive spirit for the game. Orlando that's funny today question my competitor and I liked it. We were hey we called ourselves the heaters at the time because everywhere we went it'd be so many people like it really was like that. So everybody went to Miami. Yeah so like he got at the worst then D-way and it just trickled down so like all of us you know so like all of us felt like like that type of that type of pressure. You know I'm young I'm 25 26 whatever and I think that stuff matters I watch watching the TV shows and all that stuff so what you read what you listen to it affects you. What hurt me the most is the criticism that LeBron received someone so close to me my brother. We're gonna put a lot of stuff in the locker room before the season starts. I know Pat and I know me they're gonna do a lot of stuff and they don't do it I'm gonna have a lot of stuff in my locker all right it's on. You know the way people talked about him and made it look like he was selfish you know your whole motivation you know besides trying to win the game obviously is to shutting up the opposing fans and opposing crowd and making them go home and get no sleep. White Howard and his Orlando Magic. Magic president Otis Smith questioned LeBron's competitiveness this offseason after the decision they had some fun up making fun of them before the game. Everybody knew it right it got that word got out around the league quick quick like if you go to Miami and you were going to have a chance to make it you know like it was out there and I think that benefited them a lot. James, James over Tergola, James again. And now to see it live too. He likes to have fun he likes to smile out there but I think that just that that thing just aided him. Wade had it knocked away it's recovered here is LeBron yes make it four of four from the field. I think you see the one-on-one move from James and he's got it rolling now. James to the fade oh he is on fire six for six 16 points. He would see something he would work on it for a day and then he would try it in the game and it looked like he had been working on that for a couple years. That's how quickly he could assimilate and apply something you know some kind of skill set. We could put him off the ball have him working off of cuts. Or we could run offense through him and then you know developing that at the time it was more of a you know 17-18 foot shot where you could just bank on it. Everything he's doing and he's strategically doing he's playing chess you know what I'm saying so that was like something that you know I got just him just watching him how he moves really like a chess like a chess board and you're like it's not even like as a fan you're watching a game live and you're like you're seeing it which is different but it's different when you're around that person all the time and see like everything that goes into it. James for three is nine for nine for the field gets right to it. Everything he does is strategic every move he make and then some of the just the outlandish stuff he does on the court. That's crazy. Starting a game 11 for 11 this is out of control. And he makes them so simple that's 29 points from LeBron James. Well Mark we talked about Otis Smith the president of basketball operations from land of criticizing LeBron when he said Tyler Miami saying I thought he was more a competitor. I just asked him what he thought of that first half in the comments he made this summary because listen I'm too busy a man to worry about anything I said last summer. I said would you like to take back the words though what you said he goes no he wants to use that as motivation that's fine for him. I'm moving on. I don't want to say that LeBron James knocks down a three. James knocks down a three pass intended for Reddick was behind a back comes LeBron James with the bucket it counts at the foul as much of a physical talent. And when I say physical I mean everything the body the skill set the game all of make LeBron great as a basketball player he's equally as strong in the mental department. And he commands a certain level of fear you fear LeBron absolutely you know I've never you know seen anything you know anyone like that in terms of who I played with or played you know played against LeBron had a big deal about the statements and again he'll head to the line named by the general manager of the Magic. He's had a few statement games this year and they all kind of keen once he decided to be the villain you know and once he kind of embraced his new role that's 50 now for LeBron and it's his ninth career 50 point game. So to feel that adversity to feel that tension is what brings out the best. An entertaining game a surprising comeback 51 points for LeBron James. So you got a little bit of a look at this. Is there anything that you're feeling? Oh just playing this team got me going you know you know we understand you know that this wasn't just any regular game you know there's a lot of things said about us in the offseason that came from this organization so we just wanted to come over here and play to our abilities and make stand. So you know after the game over we're getting on playing they got food on us for the plan and it was some bulls*** right and LeBron came in and it was funny because I was thinking the same I'm looking I'm like what is this different is it different catering? Yeah you get because they from wherever city that is okay so whatever it was right it was some it was some straight bulls*** I'm looking I'm like what is this right we all talking like okay so now we just played four hour game we got to eat Lay's potato chips because the food is garbage right so we already eat chips and I see LeBron coming I'm I'm laughing I'm like oh yeah okay I said yeah you gonna have you a bag of these in a second right that's what he walked by he said oh hell no LeBron James don't eat no dog food that was so funny man it was so false it was so true but from then on out though that's the part of the leadership I'm talking about from then on out oh it was on point the food was on point and thank you guys so much for watching let me know what you thought about it down below in the comments section be sure to hit that like button and the subscribe button and of course here are two new videos I think that you will also enjoy if you enjoyed this one so be sure to check them out and I'll catch you guys next week take care