00:00Rick, is LeBron James the greatest NBA player of all time?
00:04You can't have the greatest player.
00:06There's goat stuff, people, in team sports.
00:07This is a big joke.
00:08I don't know why people want to do that.
00:10You can't compare apples to oranges.
00:13In every team sport, you have to compare by positions.
00:16And stop comparing different decades.
00:18That's absolutely absurd.
00:20Just take the area that they played in, compare them to the other people at that position,
00:25and now you can have a meaningful conversation.
00:27This goat stuff is a joke.
00:28But comparing LeBron to Michael Jordan, a two and a three, it doesn't make any sense.
00:32It'd be like comparing my boyhood hero, Willie Mays, to the great Sandy Koufax.
00:37It makes no sense whatsoever.
00:38So, no, he's one of the greatest small forwards who could play power forward
00:43and can handle the ball, probably could have played point guard as well.
00:46But, yeah, he's one of the great players of all time.
00:48His career, longevity, unbelievable.
00:51But still never became as great a player as he should have been
00:54because he had shortcomings in his game.
00:56He did, thanks to my thing years ago, because I made a big deal about his lousy shooting form,
01:03became a better shooter.
01:04But he's never been an 80% free-throw shooter.
01:07Wow.
01:08That's insane.
01:09That's insane.
01:09Yeah.
01:10And actually, a few years ago, I know he was one of the people in the game,
01:14actually one of the leaders.
01:15You don't want to be a leader.
01:17And free throws missed in the last two minutes of games.
01:21Oh, so he's not a guy you want to take the last-second shot in a ball game.
01:26So, if you want to take a game winner, he's not it.
01:29Yeah, not second-to-shot, but you don't want him at the free-throw line necessarily.
01:33So, yeah, I mean, he's unbelievable.
01:36I mean, just an amazing – I saw him in high school, and I said to everybody,
01:40I said, wow, is this guy going to be a great player?
01:42But, you know, he's got some shortcomings.
01:43And I did – I tried to get to him early in his career.
01:48I saw things that he wasn't doing that I thought could have been helpful to him.
01:51I put an overture out to him, and I was never taken up on it.
01:55But, you know, that is what it is.
01:58I got a question on load management.
02:00How do you rectify this?
02:02Rick, how do you end this?
02:04The commissioner came out and fined a jazz, you know, a couple days ago.
02:08It's a massive problem in the NBA.
02:10How do you fix it?
02:12Well, the only thing – load management, I can understand they're trying to protect people.
02:16I can't relate to it myself because I always wanted to play.
02:18I hated when we were blowing people out.
02:20Somebody brought it up to me the other day when I did an interview with that one.
02:23See, I was at 41 minutes I played, 46 or 45 minutes in another season.
02:28So I played.
02:29You know, Steph Curry generally plays about 30, 36 minutes a game.
02:32So I always joke when I see all these stats for the star players playing an average in 36 minutes
02:36a game.
02:36Well, it's a 48-minute game.
02:38Maybe they should only get three-quarters of their salary
02:40because it's only three-quarters that they're playing.
02:43But I can't justify it.
02:45But the biggest thing is that there is no way ever a player should be put into the load management
02:51situation
02:51if it's a Western Conference team going to the Eastern Conference when you only go there once
02:56or Eastern-Western that he should ever be allowed to miss a game
02:59and also he is legitimately injured.
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