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Steph is a James, PB, LeBron James scored LeBron James and I turned on ESPN one day LeBron James was the guy that people says the next Jordan Tim in your opinion, what do you think is wrong with with LeBron James's offense? Yo, he knows everything that's going on in that court. He knows what everyone's supposed to be He knows he knows if the play is real the play is fake. He knows exactly What is expired all through that game? I don't know what the hell is going on? I don't know where he is, but mental. I mean he was like shooting 60% for weeks You know and I mean he wasn't missing. He made it easy then. It's cool. I'll be here on defense When you think about LeBron James and KD number one is he that rival for you? And if it is LeBron, how did LeBron make you a better player? Well, since I was in ninth grade and I turned on ESPN one day LeBron James was the guy that people says the next Jordan LeBron James has about a 40-inch vertical leap Unlimited range on his jump shot, but the strength of his game could be his passing James is young enough to have been born during Michael Jordan's rookie season and Talents enough that some say he might be the next Jordan the two number 23s have already played together For me that could be compared to Michael magic, you know Kobe all the ones that's making so success in the league You know it's great And I'm gonna just keep working hard and someday it could be another one that could be compared to me So in my mind, I was a 6-2 like JV player I didn't I didn't play varsity my first year my ninth career year So in my mind, I was like this is the best player So I have to be as good as this or I have to look him in the eyes at some point in my career So, you know, that was always in the back of my mind as I worked as I play games I wonder because that's what was told to me that that was the new guy that was the next Jordan So, you know, but just having somebody that's been around since I took basketball serious and we're still playing against each other That's pretty special to me that long JV, you know, and you can call it a rivalry You can call it whatever but to have somebody at the same position whereas we garden each other When we play is is definitely special because he's one of the best players ever touched the floor Who's the greatest scorer of this era? Is it Steph? Is it James? KD? LeBron James Score LeBron James It was open to the whole score It was open to the whole I hear exactly what you're saying I hear exactly what you're saying and people might disagree with me but understand this The greatest scorer is not only its consistency, its longevity and its amount Like, I know it's weird because it's weird when you don't think of him as that He doesn't approach the game as that but when you look at the records, they are that See, yeah, and that's the that's the that's the So, like if someone says who is the best natural score in the game today Everyone's gonna say, you know, KD I would, yeah But who's the best scorer of all time? It'd be LeBron When in numbership because that's longevity And he could do anything he wants in the court No, but it's long, you say longevity, like how did Kareem and Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and Carl Malone get to that level? Kareem longevity? Yeah, that's what I'm saying was all longevity So it's like LeBron James playoff scoring, right? Playoff scoring He passed Michael Jordan three seasons ago And he's going to add to that, right? Or before his career ends So to pass LeBron James in all-time playoff scoring records Somebody is going to have to do what? Average 30 points a game and go to like 13 NBA finals That shit's not gonna be broken The playoff one's not, and then he's gonna pass Kareem So as much as we don't view him as a scorer, right? Like Steph's greatest shooter, Kevin Durant Greatest weapon as a scorer because he's so big But like, who's the greatest scorer? He's number four all-time right now You know, it's funny, I had an argument with someone about that And it was like, it was like, he's not even a natural scorer And I say, and that should be funny Because the guy who's a fast pass first thinker Has beaten out two dominant scorers Guys that just scored first They just scored first and And that's not a disrespect So how do you say he's not 25 points a game for 15 straight years When you're talking about the greatest scorers of all time Would you put Michael Jordan and Kobe And Kareem and Carmelone up there? But you don't consider Bron Even though he's about to pass all of those guys But that's just... Tim, in your opinion, what do you think is wrong With LeBron James's offense? I don't think there's anything wrong with LeBron's offense You can live with him knocking down jump shots Parker and Duncan each with 16 James to the basket inside, backs it in And there's his first field goal After missing his initial eight shots from the field I'll rephrase the question What are you guys doing schematically To limit him offensively? We're guarding him with five guys By doing it with packet in or... You know, what else tactically... I mean, every team tries to guard him With five guys in one way or another What are the spurs doing that's different than... We understand what kind of player he is He is the best player in the world So we're respecting him as that So we're trying to make his life as difficult as possible And every time he touches the ball If we can keep him out of the open court That's obviously where he really thrives And if we can keep those away and keep his rhythm down Then it's better for us Good job, LeBron Thanks, LeBron I love how you're interested in this Stay that way, man Stay that way I'm going to drive these guys This is going to be your league in a little while But I appreciate you giving us this here That was, of course, after the final game You said this is going to be your league But I appreciate you giving us a year What was that moment like? You could just tell what he was going to be And who he was going to be And that he was going to be such a dominant player For such a long time And it was great playing games early And, again, late in my career Was Miami LeBron peak LeBron? Yeah, I have to argue I think he's transformed so many times But I feel he was on another planet And just watching his trajectory of his career You just can see it coming But playing against a young LeBron And an older LeBron Two different players Two totally different players And it was fun to watch and be a part of it And it got to the point where we were just kind of I'm a pretty good basketball player But I'm kind of just watching him do his thing right now Because he's just, I don't know what the hell is going on I don't know where he is But mental, I mean, he was like shooting 60% For weeks, you know, and I mean, he wasn't missing He made it easy, didn't he? Cool, I'll be here on defense getting some stops I'll be open whenever you guys need me It just became, yeah, it became He was very, very motivated to be successful LeBron, you've talked about how much smarter you are Compared to the 2007 finals But what about on the court? Your jump shot Are you more confident now and the improvement since then? How is that going to affect how they guard you this time around? Oh, I think in 0-7, they, you know, they kept, you know When I got the ball, they kept me on the sideline They went under a lot of my pick and rolls and dared me to shoot And back in 0-7, I ran a lot of pick and rolls And, you know, they funneled me to the sideline With, you know, Duncan and Alberto And Bruce Bowen and Michael Finley And those guys that just funneled me all the way to the sideline And dared me to shoot and, you know, didn't allow me to get into the paint Where I, you know, did most of my damage back in 0-7 So if you go under my pick and roll, now I'm going to shoot And I'm confident I'm going to make every last one of them A lot more James for three Set out, James sets three-pointer It's good, wide open for three That's three three-pointers for LeBron, James James will try another three Puts it in, LeBron, James fourth three-pointer of the game Again, look how far up they're playing He'll try it again, it's good LeBron, James making the Spurs pay 20 minutes, James pulls up, puts it in James puts it up, knocks it down James pulls up, puts it in, four-point lead We haven't seen a player like Michael Jordan or Karim Or someone of that level change his game as much As it seems like LeBron has changed his Would you say that's right? Absolutely I'm just more confident in my ability to shoot the ball But at the same time I also have a lot more weapons with me We could put him off the ball, have him working off of cuts You know, make a play for him You know, get him in the post Get the pick and roll, excuse me, get the pick and roll He functioned in different spots in the court But he had Ray Allen to kick it to James Jones and Mike Miller to kick it to I mean, dead-eye spot-up shooters I think that made him a little more dangerous But still, either way, it's like 1A and 1B to me I'll take his fifth best career And that'll be the best of my, you know, best ever To stay on the top of the league for this long And to perform the way he has is absolutely amazing Just to pick up on something you said the other day, Pop, about LeBron I just asked him, you know, when people say you need to be more aggressive And he just cut me off and he goes, I don't really care what people say about me I need to be more aggressive You've kind of picked up on the fact that He's really kind of somehow changed his approach in terms of the noise Yeah, you know, I've said it a lot You know, during the season people ask me, you know, before the playoffs I mean, he's a grown man He doesn't need any of you to tell him anything He knows more than all of you put together He understands the game If he makes a pass and you all think he should have shot it Or he shoots it and you think he should have made a pass Your opinions mean nothing to him, as they should Not mean anything to him He's a great player And his decisions are what they are, it's a game All decisions don't work out They didn't always work out for Michael or Tim Duncan Or Shaquille O'Neal or Kobe Bryant or whoever You make a decision and that's what you go with But all the chirp-chirp-chirpin about what he should have done I thought it was hilarious from the beginning And frankly, I was very happy for him as the year progressed When it became obvious he was comfortable in his own skin And didn't need to listen to any of you all You know, I can't remember the exact numbers But I always think about how did I lock somebody up How much did somebody have against me? LeBron, he was 25 LeBron came into the league First game in Indiana, oh so pissed First game in Indiana, he gave me 25 He went to the fans and said This is your best defender, right? I heard this, right? I'm fucking furious I know you're furious I walked the other way, I'm like this kid is great I got out of this kid is fucking really good But I'm super fucking pissy, disrespect me And I want to walk up to this motherfucker And he kicked, but he bust my ass Right? He dumped all of us You know what I'm saying, first game So that was like wow This is crazy Can you talk about your relationship with LeBron James? Yeah, I've seen him play, he's very talented The first, so you know I'm growing up And I'm watching this guy, Michael Jordan I think all you guys know him, I think So I'm growing up watching this guy on TV every day And I'm like wow, he's an amazing basketball player And hopefully someday I get the opportunity to meet him Yeah, when you first met Mike, how'd you feel? Amazing, it was probably how guys saw me meet LeBron I think it was my junior year in high school I go up to Chicago and I go to a gym called Hoops Where he plays basketball in the summertime I was in Chicago, I got drafted And then you know the runs was at Hoops And we were getting ready to leave And we were literally walking out the door This red Ferrari pulls down the street And it was literally like, for LeBron I was like Black Jesus was coming down the street And a red Ferrari with a bucket cap on I didn't know he was going to be there But I seen him walking towards me And it was kind of like he was walking on air I had to pinch myself Is that Michael Hoop? And it's like he was like Black Jesus to me And Michael sat and had a conversation It was just about basketball And I honestly don't remember anything that was said in the conversation But it was like everything just sounded like Blurred out to me I was listening to God speak I don't even remember what he was saying And that was the first time he met Michael and myself You were saying when he was 16 You guys would go to the Hoops gym The famous Hoops gym in Chicago And play with a bunch of pros Tell me about that So we went over that spring and took LeBron And we were kind of just like in awe Literally like in awe it was like During the days, like all the pros would come in Like Antoine Walker, Ron Artes, Jamal Crawford You know what I'm saying? He was in there, Stathouse was in there A young LeBron was in there Did he know of you? Well yeah, I think he did He called me a young fella of course And just basically told me to keep working at it And someday I can get to the NBA I was a junior in high school So I guess he told me something right And I just kept working at it At first it was like LeBron was this 16 year old kid They're like he couldn't get in the first game or two Because they're pros Why the hell do they care about this 16 year old high school player? Who the hell is that? What difference does it make? When you start working and we're trying to get better But then Tim would let him in at the end of the run I was there I brought him out there That's why he was there I gave him a forearm on a fast break He was coming, he was cooking He couldn't, nobody can guard him LeBron James They couldn't guard him I'm like I'm getting him out He was out there playing And if you watch the game He wasn't like dominating He wasn't like, but he didn't stick out You didn't go like oh there's a kid out there It was like oh there's just another player out there Like you know he got a couple buckets He was coming out at full speed LeBron James Boom, I lay him on the floor He'd get up and start cooking more He's just tough He was about 225 at that time But I remember him just being tough LeBron was a nice 15 year old killer I remember he was big and strong And they couldn't guard him That's how that went at such points He was definitely playing well What was it like meeting Michael Jordan for you? Was that pretty cool? Oh yeah, it was great For him, for me to meet Michael Jordan I think it was better than the president I look at it like You're not going to get any better if you don't play hard And you're not going to get any better if you're not trying to win every time It seemed like every drill that we do We keep score And if you lose you run No one likes to run Running for no reason is not what no one likes to do So when you're out there just trying to compete Trying to win every time you're out there Just play as hard as you can If you're going up against me you're trying to bust me up Because I'm going to come at you the same way They always want us to address this on social media They got like the one little clip going around From right before that I was about to draft LeBron Just so like D-Miles, Bulls, like Ricky Davis I want to say maybe it showed like three or four of them And it seemed like they seemed like some hating stuff Is the 18 year old from Akron truly the savior? He's got better players than him in his position already on our team His potential is probably, the sky's the limit for him though And then LeBron is just going to add to what we need Just make things a little bit easier This young kid gets picked up on the team He's on the cover of this magazine, cover of that magazine I saw LeBron on this channel, that channel He's dunking over pimple face, punks in Akron I was like, let me see some real action At what point did you realize that he was totally legit And the real thing, and did you ever imagine that he would want it being this great? Well I knew he was the real thing when he came in It was just a matter of time to when he was going to pick up And when he was going to actually learn the game It's a difference in being great and learning the NBA game And him coming in at an early age, it was a good fit He came in and he did his thing But when he first came to training camp, he was NBA ready Well, he was still young Was he confident? He was confident He was still a little nervous, still kind of feeling his way But he had a lot of hype to live up to And it was tough to live up to that hype But he played hard and you know