00:00We are still waiting on the LeBron news.
00:02Jonathan is on pins and needles.
00:04And I'm watching.
00:04We got LeBron watch here.
00:06I've just never been happier in my life,
00:07and I'm just really riding that vibe right now.
00:10Life is very good.
00:12We both can't be zen on this show.
00:13That's true.
00:14It doesn't work if we're both just like,
00:16oh, well, my ways.
00:18Things will happen in life, and we can't control that.
00:21It would be really funny if there was a show in the 70s
00:23called The Even Couple,
00:25and then we're both just very chill.
00:27Oh, hey, the house is getting a little dirty.
00:30We should clean it up.
00:31All right, that's the episode.
00:32If anything, your chillness makes me react even stronger
00:35in the idea that I'm on pins and needles.
00:37Yeah, by the way, same thing at my house.
00:39Vanessa has the same things.
00:40Like, you're too calm, so I need to freak out.
00:44And I'm like, I don't think that's really how this works.
00:46Life isn't calm, Nick, okay?
00:47Life in general is not calm.
00:48And so if one person is extremely calm,
00:51I'm thinking something's happened.
00:53It's like when my kids are in the other room,
00:54and I stop hearing noise, and I think to myself,
00:56oh, no, I don't even want to look over there
00:58because something's happening that I'm not going to like.
01:00Look at this.
01:01Garrett sending in.
01:02Garrett unfiltered on Twitter.
01:04By the way, at Nick Wilson says,
01:06at Jay Peterlin on social media,
01:07social media reactions on X-Powered.
01:09I'd rather hear from Garrett filtered.
01:11I'd rather hear from Garrett unfiltered.
01:13Again, the un-couple here.
01:14What's the filtered version of Garrett?
01:15Social media reactions on X-Powered by Scheiben.
01:17Jewelers, Cleveland Premier Jewelry Store
01:19sending me three eyeball emojis.
01:22Filtered Garrett would only sound like one.
01:24Well, yeah, he wouldn't even send it.
01:25I mean, come on.
01:25He might send you something saying,
01:27I was contemplating doing this, but I can't.
01:29Well, so for the longest time, people did say Wednesday.
01:32And then I know on Sunday and then into Monday,
01:35there was a lot of people that kept talking about
01:37Wednesday being the day and Wednesday being the reality
01:39and all this.
01:40I don't know, guys.
01:41It could happen at any point.
01:42We all know that.
01:44It could also just as easily happen tomorrow at Fanatics Fest,
01:46and that would make a bunch of sense as well.
01:47So this is a rather dark way of kind of comparing it to something.
01:51But when Nagmama came home and was in hospice at her home,
01:55I remember, like, she was really plucky one day,
01:59and everyone's like, this could be a minute.
02:01This could be a minute.
02:01And I was like, guys, she's got kidney damage,
02:04and her heart's giving out.
02:05The heart's not like, hey, she's feeling it, guys.
02:07Let's push this off, right?
02:09Yeah.
02:09I feel the same about the LeBron thing.
02:11Every day I come in, and somebody's like, either yesterday they were,
02:15I think it's this week, today, whatever.
02:17And so then when it doesn't happen, they're like,
02:19I think it's going to take until August.
02:21Everyone's flip-flopping all around it when it's going to happen.
02:23The August thing is wild to me.
02:25Nick, I don't see a scenario where we get past Fanatics Fest
02:29without a resolution to this.
02:31I mean, if he doesn't announce it Thursday or Friday,
02:34then strap in.
02:35Your August prediction might be reality,
02:37because I don't know how you get past,
02:38I don't know how you dodge all these live interviews
02:41and everything that comes with it to then be like,
02:44oh, Saturday night is when we do it.
02:45If you make it past Thursday or Friday, strap in.
02:48We're not getting a decision for a while.
02:50Well, I remained unbothered by the process that LeBron is going through,
02:54and I think, JP, if it's fair to say,
02:57you remain quite bothered about the process that LeBron is going through.
03:00We've learned more about this process.
03:02I wouldn't say bothered.
03:03I'm on pins and needles, and I don't know the results,
03:06and there's not enough clues for me,
03:08and I'm antsy about the whole ordeal,
03:10and I put a lot of weight into this decision.
03:12That sounds bothered.
03:13Not bothered, though.
03:15All right.
03:16Yesterday was anxiety.
03:18I'm giving LeBron the benefit of you get to do whatever you need to do.
03:21This is on me to try to get control over this.
03:23This isn't on LeBron.
03:25LeBron, he's earned the right.
03:26If he wants to take it two more weeks, three more weeks,
03:28you've earned that right, LeBron.
03:29Oh, that is...
03:30You don't mean it.
03:30If I was bothered, then I would be mad at LeBron for dragging this out.
03:33I'm not mad at LeBron for dragging this out.
03:35Not in the slightest bit.
03:37No, no, no.
03:37You take your time.
03:39Meanwhile, I'll sit here and just have my anxiety induced every three seconds.
03:43But you know what, Nick?
03:44Life is better sometimes anxiety-induced, okay?
03:46Not to play couch shrink.
03:48It's nice to feel something once in a while, Nick.
03:49I think there's a real chance that you're internalizing your anxiety
03:52so that you don't put it all on LeBron,
03:54and I think that's a very...
03:55It's not healthy.
03:56What you're doing is not healthy.
03:58That's fine.
03:59But...
03:59I do a lot of things that aren't healthy.
04:00It helps me from not have to fight you about LeBron's process
04:03and getting to an argument about it, so I do like that.
04:05It makes my life...
04:06No, LeBron's earned it.
04:07LeBron's earned the right to go ahead and have everyone on pins and needles
04:09and do what he's doing to everybody right now.
04:11He's earned it.
04:11This would be about the time where you get to complain about
04:14how you're just over the story, though, if you wanted to.
04:16I'm not.
04:17I'm not.
04:17You would be the 1,000th media member to do it,
04:20but you could do that right here.
04:21I'm not.
04:22And I'm not even going to point out or acknowledge the idea
04:24that you got to go five days of this story basically non-existent.
04:28And so maybe that helps out the idea that you're not at the edge point
04:32like a lot of people are.
04:33You kind of pointed it out, though.
04:35Yeah, but I mean, you know...
04:36You didn't.
04:37You didn't.
04:37You were telling me you wouldn't, but yet you did.
04:39Didn't want to point that out.
04:40Yeah.
04:41But that might be part of the reason.
04:43Now, we got a little more insight on LeBron's process here
04:47from the ESPN gang.
04:50There was a story about Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey
04:53and Jalen Brown having individual conversations with LeBron
04:57or maybe getting voice notes to him.
04:58Brian Winhorst was on the Hoops Collective
05:00and talked about LeBron talking to players on teams.
05:04There is a dearth of information on this.
05:06People in the league are all talking to each other,
05:09trying to find out what LeBron is thinking.
05:11There's not a lot of information.
05:12A whole bunch of NBA owners were up at the Sun Valley Media Conference
05:17last week, and they were chatting.
05:19And some of the owners who are trying to get LeBron
05:22were talking to each other.
05:23And they were like, hey, you heard anything?
05:25Nope.
05:25Have you heard anything?
05:26Nope.
05:27LeBron is reaching out and talking to players on some of these teams.
05:31And then they report back to their GM or their coach like,
05:35hey, LeBron called.
05:36What did you think?
05:37I think it's really interesting from the Cavs' perspective.
05:40We haven't heard whether Donovan, Harden, Evan, Jarrett,
05:45any of the guys involved with the Cavs,
05:47if they've actually reached out to LeBron and said, hey, man,
05:52we'd love to have you here.
05:53And we think we need you, basically.
05:55Well, not only do we not know that,
05:56we haven't seen any real public shows of affection outside of Kenny Atkinson.
06:00Like from Donovan, from Evan Mobley, from Harden,
06:03the guys that are supposed to be doing what we're seeing other teams do.
06:06And listen, when this leaked ESPN report comes out,
06:08that is Maxie telling ESPN, hey, listen, put it out there publicly.
06:12I call LeBron a big brother, and this is how I feel about him.
06:16Put it out there publicly that Embiid and LeBron and their time at the Olympics
06:20together really mattered and went a long way for both parties.
06:23Meanwhile, Steph Curry's on Good Morning America today,
06:25talking as if LeBron finishing anywhere but Golden State is just not what he
06:30should be doing.
06:31He should finish here.
06:32Like all these campaigns that are happening,
06:34and I would say the Cavs haven't done the same campaign.
06:36I would also put this on Miami as well.
06:38Miami, you could be doing a lot better job with the campaign.
06:41Pat Riley should be speaking publicly.
06:43Spostro should be speaking publicly.
06:45Giannis has done a little bit of it, but not enough for my liking,
06:48all things considered.
06:49Bam at a bio.
06:49Like I just find it interesting the teams that are really doing it
06:52and the teams that just seem like they're not,
06:54and the Cavs are one of those teams that seem like they're not.
06:56I have a few working theories on this.
06:57The first one that I just want to throw out there,
06:59and again, these are things that I think could be it.
07:01I don't think any one thing is it.
07:03Is there a chance that the Cavs just haven't put this out there?
07:06Or maybe even if they haven't recruited LeBron,
07:09it's that they think they're in the catbird position
07:11and just don't want to screw it up.
07:12They don't want to fumble it.
07:13Yeah, I consider that.
07:14They don't want to feel like anything they say
07:16could be going the wrong way.
07:17But if you don't land LeBron,
07:20wouldn't if you're Donovan or Evan Mobley think at the end of this,
07:23man, I could have done more?
07:24Oh, I mean.
07:25Or I should have done more?
07:25I think I might even feel that way about Donovan specifically.
07:29I think you have to.
07:29Like Donovan's the face of this program.
07:32If you don't get LeBron here,
07:34I'm going to wonder, did Donovan want him here?
07:36Did Donovan do the heavy lifting you need to in the NBA?
07:39Because all this ever is is a recruiting cycle in the NBA.
07:43I mean, the NBA historically is just one big,
07:45I tell this person I love him, and then they come over here.
07:48Like, it's not hard.
07:49And even if Donovan doesn't have that relationship with LeBron,
07:52tap into the emotions that you have about how bad you want him here.
07:56Talk publicly.
07:57Go into his decisions so many years ago,
07:59and you being there as a kid.
08:01The favorite basketball player you've ever had in your life is LeBron James.
08:05Like, tap into that stuff.
08:06Thanks for the memory saying,
08:08LeQuit, getting all your hopes up only to choose elsewhere is so LeQuit.
08:12It's not even funny.
08:14LeQuit's bad branding.
08:15It's not funny.
08:16It's not.
08:17There's so many other ways to turn Le into something that's even more exciting.
08:21Well, you can put it in front of basically any word.
08:22You can.
08:23Yeah, so quit.
08:25Do better.
08:26Thanks for the memories.
08:27Thanks for the memories.
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