00:00There is the kind of analytical side of this which is very okay with the LeBron decision and then
00:04there's the emotional side which is just a weepy little b right well yeah I mean obviously you
00:10wanted to see LeBron come back I think we all did well and here's the thing I can I can
00:13empathize
00:14with the idea or I can get around to the idea of at least it's not Golden State I think
00:18that's the
00:18saving grace for a lot of people here it's not Golden State it's not Miami for some reason I
00:22don't know why Philadelphia didn't bother me the same way that the other teams would have bothered
00:26me you know the only way it bothers me is the fact that their sports fans are awful human beings
00:30it's
00:31a good sports town I want to be I want to make this sports town I want to make this
00:33a clear distinction
00:34Philadelphia is a phenomenal sports town because their fans care about their team the problem is
00:41they're all awful people in Philadelphia they are all sorry not all no but Philly sports fans
00:46are the worst human beings in Philadelphia they are violent they are angry they are spoiled we saw the
00:54all-star game how they were booing kids uh like like they I mean this is what they this is
00:58but
00:58that's the passion that LeBron has talked about uh celebrating over 20 plus years yeah yeah we'll
01:03see he's talking about how much he loves the Philly sports fan how much he appreciates that the Philly
01:07sports fan is a diehard and won't root for any other teams and is solely focused on Philadelphia
01:11teams he's talked he's openly talked about some of this stuff yep and uh he's about to learn
01:15firsthand because you know LeBron they will they will boo him if he sucks no not and not even if
01:20he
01:20sucks they will boo him it's not even if he sucks if he's just okay if the guy isn't LeBron
01:25James from
01:26the last 20 years which a headline he's not gonna be because you know he's 42 and father time comes
01:32for us all I I don't think LeBron realizes the absolute beehive that he the the hornet's nest that
01:39he is stepping into in Philadelphia I think he's aware of the Philadelphia fan base no I don't think
01:43he realizes you know what do you mean he's LeBron James what do you mean he doesn't know what
01:46Philadelphia is no I think LeBron expects a king's welcome and he might get the king's welcome I will
01:52give I will give WIP fans the governor of uh uh Pennsylvania has already named it LeBron James
01:57Day so like well they had they had to decree already it came out it's officially LeBron James Day in
02:02the
02:03state of Pennsylvania what does that guy know the rest of by the way the rest of Pennsylvania doesn't
02:06care about this only Philadelphia proper doesn't matter the governor's governor he's preaching to the
02:10what an absolute blow hard move from a politician hey this guy's never played here before he's not
02:15from here and we've pretty much hated on his entire career but it's LeBron Day everybody it
02:20is July July 24th 2026 what is that and then uh oh is it Shapiro I think his last name
02:27is Shapiro
02:27Josh Shapiro yeah when that guy runs for president one day I will vote for whomever is against him
02:32because he is a knob that is a knob move I think he's very well aware he's tapped out at
02:36governor and
02:37that's a very good spot for him to be in now now I want him to run for president so
02:41I can vote
02:41against him play the constituents I'm a one I'm a one issue man these days is that right it is
02:47what
02:47phony crap did you try and pull when LeBron signed I'd love for people to bring that back in his
02:51face
02:51like remember that time LeBron signed with the 76ers and you you declared it LeBron James Day do you
02:56regret that yeah as if it's like some big decree I you know a lot of people get days named
03:00after him
03:01yeah I think it wasn't didn't the city of Cleveland have it be 92-3 the fan day one year
03:05I don't recall
03:07like a couple years ago it wasn't that wasn't that long ago I think we had a plaque for it
03:10I think
03:10it was our 10th anniversary maybe they called it like 92-3 the fan day across the whole entire city
03:15that wasn't the state though I didn't get anything out of it though meaning like it was a nice
03:19accommodation but like I didn't get like a free hot dog out of it I didn't get like a free
03:23beer out
03:23of it I would have liked any one of those things we didn't even get asked to go down uh
03:26to the the
03:27mayor's office for photos well it is 92-3 the fan uh aka 92-3 the can and Anthony well
03:33yeah I'm sure
03:33I'm sure they were invited actually that's true I'm sure I'm sure they got theirs yeah I don't
03:38know I have no idea now this being said again I just I we threw I actually threw this out
03:43there
03:44when the when the news first came down what is your biggest emotion like what's your leading emotion
03:48with LeBron to Philadelphia and you know I have the finest polls you have a good poll I like I
03:54put
03:55when I put out a poll people react accordingly uh 330 votes in so far 34 percent it's the leading
04:03thing here saying happy the story is over and then mad at LeBron and mad at the Cavs are tied
04:09at about 23 percent each and then just sad is at 20 percent just sad is kind of where I
04:15am
04:16like Vanessa Vanessa and I were talking about it when I was driving in and she's like I'm I'm annoyed
04:20at LeBron and I'm like I'm just sad and I'd have like another fan be like how could the Cavs
04:25just sit there and not get LeBron back one more time and I'm like I'm just sad like everybody else
04:31has got these like the anger part of it in the dabbed side of things with the 20 percent that
04:37is just sad I'm stuck in depression that's where I am I don't know I there's almost like a good
04:42game
04:42tip of the cap to the 76ers on this one uh is kind of how I feel I I'm really
04:46happy it's not the
04:47Warriors I'm really happy it's not the heat that would have just uh enraged me in many sort of ways
04:51that I didn't even realize three weeks ago I I get it from LeBron's perspective I I do I've always
04:57cast a doubt about whether or not he'd actually come back to Cleveland and so here I am sitting
05:02there saying at least you went for a title at least you're at least you're trying to put this super
05:05team and trying to make this whole thing go and you're not just laying down and dying for the final
05:09two years of your career there's something about that I respect okay I want to make this very clear
05:13I'm not mad at LeBron I am disappointed and as a father I'm allowed to be disappointed in other
05:18people but not I'm disappointed about where the Cavs directionally are going to go from this now yes
05:22and I then that's I think that's very fair does that feel like we lost out on something I see
05:26I see fire
05:27Kobe already trending on the timeline hey let's get some Kaminga up in here right oh yeah that's
05:31gonna that is nowhere near LeBron James and we'll piss all of you off let's get some Kaminga up in
05:38this house that's gonna save us but so I'm not mad at LeBron but could you your highness yeah have
05:46for a second if you knew it was between retiring and I don't know Philadelphia which again is LeBron
05:53the highness in this instance he is because he's the king oh man that sounds disrespectful yeah
05:57no could somebody said they weren't gonna get mad at it that sounds pretty disrespectful I'm not mad
06:01that sounds it sounds disrespectful mostly I'm disrespectful it doesn't matter if I'm mad or
06:05not I can be disrespectfully happy I can be disrespectfully sad mad I really can run the
06:10disrespect gambit just while we're at it go ahead but your highness if you knew it was between Philly
06:15and retiring or Miami and Philly and retiring could you not have let everyone run with the idea for
06:22the first three weeks of this thing that the Cavs were the favorite could you have done that could
06:26you put the word out that you thought James Harden was soft could you have thought that that that
06:31Donovan Mitchell's too small to be the best player on a championship team or you think Evan is a wuss
06:36could you have said Jared Allen will the lights will always be too bright for Jared could you at least
06:42have done that I don't think he knew that's the that's the real takeaway I don't think he knew he
06:47wasn't coming to Cleveland when he announced the thing with the Lakers Jalen Brown hadn't even been
06:50traded yet so like I know I don't I don't believe that he necessarily knew and I think he was
06:55surveying
06:56his options and I do think there was a part of him that wanted to see if one of these
06:59teams would
06:59trade for Anthony Davis trade for Kyrie Irving do one of these other things and he looked around
07:03like clearly he wanted the place that he felt would give him the best chance to win who was going
07:08to
07:08move enough pieces on the on the chessboard in order to make that happen 76ers made this massive trade
07:13for Jalen Brown and welcome to the conversation and all of a sudden it made it a place that he
07:18could go to
07:19and there it is if this was about winning a championship let's be honest the team that got
07:23skunked swept embarrassed in the eastern conference finals who have two players who the narrative on
07:28them is they can't win none of like the face of not winning NBA championships in the NBA is James
07:34Harden you think anything was going to change on that one with LeBron I will the face of it is
07:39the other face of it is Joel Embiid arguably so clearly clearly there's something that's canceled
07:44out by Jalen Brown that's canceled out by Tyrese Maxey who he loves that's the point they didn't
07:48cancel enough out here there was there was an opportunity there canceling out yeah the Cavs
07:52you got a bunch of betas the Cavs didn't do enough by by sitting there doing nothing and saying we
07:56expect you to come home because home is where the heart is and all this other stuff they didn't
08:01they sat on their knees they didn't do anything that that ultimately that's what LeBron is telling
08:05you he wanted a spot where when he goes there they are instantly a title contender and and now with
08:11this move the 76ers look at my friends in the desert they're instantly a title contender he's getting
08:16what he wants out of this and I respect the idea that he's not just laying down and dying with
08:20the
08:20end of his basketball career but none of the teams he was going to be outside of Golden State none
08:25of
08:25the teams he was going to lay down and die like if he came to Cleveland he wasn't laying down
08:29dying
08:29if he's going to Miami he wasn't laying even if Minnesota as weird as that idea felt it was not
08:34going in yeah but it's not it's not the roster that the 76ers have like Bob Myers pitch by the
08:38way a
08:38guy that went on the podcast and did the song that guy did the song and dance while people are
08:42like oh
08:43this just takes the 76ers out of it look at them begging and groveling yeah maybe you need to
08:47beg and grovel a little bit is there maybe Kobe Alvin should have maybe Kobe Alvin should have gotten
08:51on a podcast or two I don't know maybe they should have been more vocal because all the reporting that
08:55McMenamin has done since this has come out has really highlighted the idea that Embiid was groveling
09:00at the feet of LeBron it seems like Jalen Brown who has been very very insulting in my opinion
09:05towards Bronny and the idea about him even being a pro in the past was groveling at the feet of
09:10LeBron
09:10Maxie has publicly called him a big brother that relationship obviously mattered and went a great
09:16deal like this is like they did what they had to do they bowed at the feet of the king
09:21and the king
09:22then answered the call Cavs didn't do that they didn't do that
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