00:00the ball is up in the air with LeBron and uh we got a lot of sound you heard in
00:04the open
00:05LeBron saying he's not making a decision today which really is tantamount to he's not announcing
00:10his decision today we also heard uh Adam Silver at a CNBC event because apparently the entire
00:16NBA is just in cahoots with the CNBC well and I mean really just this fanatics fest I mean this
00:22is the Ruben power attached to they all want to be invited to that white party that he throws
00:26every year Nick that's what that's the reality is I'm uncomfortable with the naming of that party
00:29is that right yeah they wear white clothes maybe it's the Medina County in me but I just every
00:33time I hear it I'm like I mean something different down yonder okay anybody that's anybody is at this
00:38fanatics fest including Adam Silver so this quote coming out by NBA commissioner Adam Silver we have
00:44to finish up the schedule and where LeBron plays affects the schedule uh it'll influence how we
00:50set the schedule opening week Christmas so I need him to make a decision I I really wish we had
00:55the
00:55audio because I didn't hear like I don't think I don't really think Adam Silver sweating this all
01:00that much and the people who came out were like see LeBron is holding up the NBA probably my favorite
01:07blowhard stance of the week and we've had quite a few well so Rich Paul and Max Kellerman didn't help
01:11it either because then Rich Paul is like well I think they'd get I mean you got to give them
01:15half
01:15the entire games if it's LeBron and Steph Curry you have to give them half of the games in the
01:19schedule and that's what's holding this all up it was basically one big love fest for LeBron mixed in
01:24with Adam Silver then I I think your read on it is right I think it was more like hey
01:29LeBron
01:30maybe it'd be nice if you made this decision we're trying to do some work over here at the NBA
01:34offices
01:34that it was LeBron hurry the hell up you're taking everyone's time we got things to do here yeah and
01:40I
01:40also think this reinforces my idea that again I think not to not to paraphrase LeBron from 2020
01:47I think he's on his revenge slash respect tour and I think he is trying to remind people that
01:53the king is still in the NBA and the king is still very much the king and so I don't
01:58think it hurts
01:59I don't think it hurts LeBron at all when Adam Silver comes out and be like we'd love to get
02:03this
02:03decision because it just makes LeBron look all that much more powerful yeah and that's really the end
02:08result of this is that all of this just signals to the idea that LeBron still has as much power
02:12as he's
02:13ever had and the people that want to say that that part of him does not exist anymore here's
02:17the proof now I don't know how much it'll exist after this decision I don't know I don't know how
02:22many uh aces up the sleeve LeBron's gonna have for demanding three weeks of our attention after this
02:27decision so maybe he's milking it for that reason as well oh I mean I think listen once LeBron announces
02:33where it goes oh he's gonna have another week where he announces where there's the introductory
02:38press conference there's going to be different content you're going to see from that I actually
02:42I kind of think this is going to be the summer of LeBron beyond this in big picture though big
02:47picture in LeBron's life how many more times is he going to be able to come you just basically take
02:51over all the NBA so here is the Adam Silver audio by the way the way I think about it
02:56is we have to
02:56finish up the schedule and where LeBron plays will affect the schedule so I would like him to make his
03:03announcement already so we can finish the schedule because as you might imagine the teams are calling us
03:07the networks are calling us and everybody wants to lock in the schedule but it will influence how we
03:12set the schedule how we set opening week Christmas day etc so I need him to make a decision and
03:19but the
03:19direct answer is I have no inside information I can't believe that guy's the commissioner of anything
03:24he sounds like John Malkovich but not like one of like the ruthless John Malkovich like the nerdy
03:29John Malkovich characters who get killed very early in movies yeah that's uh Adam Silverboil
03:36whoo spineless jellyfish Adam Silver but did we hear a frustrated Adam so I didn't hear any
03:42frustration no that was like just a kind of fun cheeky acknowledgement now maybe maybe there was a
03:46little bit more in the back end of that of like all right no it would really be nice though
03:49like we
03:49do actually have to have this schedule made but there's no there's no deadline that is for us
03:54and LeBron knows this by the way LeBron knows all of this and LeBron would not go to a team
03:58that is
03:59currently going to have I don't well wait what what team that we've been talking about would only have
04:04like 15 prime time games anyway though yeah I think about that for a second like Steph even in
04:08Golden State a non-competitive Steph team with Steph Clay and Draymond still get 30 games no matter
04:12what the 76ers now with Jalen Brown and Embiid and Maxie and Edgecombe are going to get 30 plus
04:17games regardless the heat because Giannis is new there probably gets like 20 to 25 somewhere in that
04:22like you're still going to get a packed schedule either way it probably impacts Cleveland and
04:26Minnesota the most because they play in Cleveland and the Cavs are the big part of this right and
04:30maybe that's what Silver's hanging on to maybe you're right about that because I how many games
04:34did we get last year was that number around 17 it feels like my memory is telling me it's somewhere
04:38in that range you know what I'm gonna go ballpark it sounds right to me so like if that I
04:43mean the
04:43difference between LeBron being here and not being here is that is like that is like a doubled up
04:48scenario by the way there's only with love and respect to Adam Silver Rich Paul any of the power
04:53players in the NBA uh there's one person who can speed up LeBron's decision and it's his wife
04:59if Savannah James comes out and says LeBron I'm sick of getting these questions I I would like to
05:05start making the plans on where I'm going to live that is the only person I feel like anybody else
05:10tries to exert their influence on LeBron LeBron's like that'll be two more days sir but I do feel
05:15like man and wife feel like man and wife is the one spot that they can kind of put pressure
05:20on each
05:2024 regular season games last year on national television for the Cavs so even that number
05:23can't get that much higher how many of those are NBA TV though because that doesn't count to me
05:27that's between ESPN NBC ABC Peacock and Amazon Prime oh really no NBA TV no that is and actually
05:33oddly enough the way that we have this I can I can break it down by which ones and which
05:36Martin
05:36all this stuff all right there but that's not the point the point is you think Savannah's got the
05:41big lead on this oddly enough there was a comment yesterday that LeBron had made that made me a
05:46little bit a little bit uneasy and just let me know if you if you if you share in this
05:50okay okay
05:51all right um I don't know how to say his daughter's name is it Zuri Zuri yeah I didn't know
05:55I just want
05:56to make sure that's right Zuri right she's 11 years old she's turning 12 years old and LeBron kept
05:59bringing her up in all the discussions and it kept being like I've asked Zuri about it like I've I've
06:04consulted with Zuri about it like she's gonna matter in this decision because I want her to understand
06:09like yes I'm going away from where the home is but like I'm I'm not gonna leave you the way
06:13that
06:13uh I think you think that I'm just going to be gone and away right well like Zuri's got no
06:19real
06:20connection to this area you think Zuri's gonna recruit she was she was she was no she was born
06:25here but she's been living from age 3 to 11 in Los Angeles so like if you if you were
06:30born in a spot
06:30and you leave there at age 3 you got no connection to northeast Ohio now the only connection maybe you
06:35would have is the idea that Gloria is there like she's here and so like maybe she wants to spend
06:40time
06:40with grandma that's always a fun thing what grandma doesn't love that like if you're Zuri
06:43said the one part of the James family that really doesn't have any true connection to northeast Ohio
06:49that way because she probably enjoys Los Angeles because that's where she grew up and she probably
06:53enjoys warm weather because that's where she grew she grew up in the sunshine so what you're saying
06:57a she grew up in a San Francisco and Miami type environment uh not necessarily what is northeast Ohio
07:03so it sounds like we have to bribe Zuri that's what I'm hearing the answer I think if we get
07:07to
07:07Missouri we gotta get Dan Gilbert on the line to promise her future shares in the Cavs or sorry
07:12the Cleveland WNBA team that might be enough I mean this kid has been living up in in Los Angeles
07:17in sunshine forever like this is this is not going to be and she's probably going to stay living in
07:21Los Angeles but you think that she wants to have all these trips to northeast Ohio I don't know
07:25probably not she probably wants to stay in the nice nice sunshine I can understand that if you
07:30already have doubts that you might be looking at that and it further your doubts I as somebody who have
07:36no doubt I don't want to say no doubts but I don't have a lot of anxiety tied to this
07:39decision
07:40anymore I'm just excited to see where this goes I don't think Zuri is going to be a power if
07:45he goes
07:45Miami or Golden State it was always Zuri no it was always Zuri because people are insane and people
07:52will blame a 12 year old young lady and that's what we don't want as girl dads we don't want
07:58people
07:58to blame it you know but what we do want you know like you know at least a quick acknowledgement
08:03that LeBron LeBron is he's putting his daughter as we all would as dads he is he is making his
08:08daughter part of the decision because that sets an important part of whether or not his happiness
08:13is true or not is whether or not his daughter's happy how much of your life is dictated to how
08:17much your kid's happiness has in any current moment versus my happiness it's about 99 to 1
08:22it's about 99% them and 1% I guess dad gets one okay so we don't have we we
08:28have the audio but
08:29we don't have time to play the audio Mike Tirico was on the Pat McAfee show and I am I'm
08:34already not
08:34a Mike Tirico guy I love Tirico I think he is boring as sin I used to loathe him on
08:40I didn't
08:40think anybody would replace Al Michaels and be able to keep the gold standard that is Sunday
08:44Night Football and Tirico has been able to do it and I want you to know that I'm glad you
08:47said that
08:47but he said he wants LeBron to go to Golden State so I've gone from I'm not really crazy about
08:53Mike Tirico to bleep that guy why does he want Golden State is the Stefan LeBron appeal too much for
08:58him
08:58yes yes we can play the audio I don't want to I don't want to give him air he's got
09:02a lot
09:03we're just joking there he's Mike's doing very well for himself doing very well for himself
09:06I hate it so I went through and grabbed the audio for it I hate it even more because it's
09:11basically
09:11like fence sitting because he literally is he says as a fan I want Golden State yeah but LeBron to
09:18Cleveland I want to see LeBron to Cleveland because you know it's the best story so I'm like
09:22did he then be like but but like as a human being I want Miami whoa wait wait son I
09:27want
09:27Philadelphia was the only one that he said I don't see it you're telling me a play-by-play guy
09:30didn't have a real opinion I'm shocked
09:33you
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