Dan Woike

I am three and a half years older.

I thought you were going to say another night in L.A., another night you're stuck looking at me is what I thought you were going to say, Dave.

Three and a half years older than LeBron.

I think I was thinking today about the Seinfeld episode where Jerry has to be sad.

And he talks about like the fleeting nature of life and birthdays.

Like, what are we actually celebrating?

And I realized like it occurred to me that like, oh, that reference is like really only applicable to LeBron.

Because I think everybody else would say, who's Jerry Seinfeld?

So I was talking today to some like NBA cameras that are on a games and they ask like, you know, for for for B-roll or whatever interview or something like that.

And it occurred to me that like like the generational nature of LeBron's age, right, is that let's say you're a shooter, right, who enters the NBA this year.

And like there's I would say like a decent chance maybe your favorite player is Klay Thompson, right?

LeBron played against him like it had epic battles to play Thompson.

Klay Thompson's favorite player growing up was Kobe Bryant.

And guess what?

LeBron James played against him, too.

you know and so he played against your favorite players favorite player multiple times and I think like it is a it's just like one of those things where you can like do it like the iPhone wasn't invented you used to have to download his games on Napster or whatever I mean I'm just you can make up like whatever sort of cultural reference MTV still showed videos there was TRL on I was still in college

And like, I think this year more than any, you've heard people around LeBron and around his team talk about uncharted territory.

And like, I've sort of struggled to, like, understand why this is different.

I know that nobody's ever played a 23rd NBA season before.

Okay.