Michael Wilbon

And a pleasant one.

And an intelligent one.

Even an eloquent one.

A fascinating one.

And I don't know, maybe it could be a year or so, no more, where we're looking at him every week like we're looking at Tiger Woods.

Maybe if he's tired of doing it or he knows...

they can't if he takes the court i mean for you know for so many years i mean lebron took the court get to the finals whatever it was nine times or he took the court every year thinking he could win and like three or four of those years they could have won three or four the other year so it's been like it was like a 13 year stretch in there where lebron james started the season knowing he can get to the finals and win a championship

That's not the case anymore.

He can't control the action to that degree anymore, even though he can still go out there and diagnose, as you and I talked about, he can diagnose any situation and figure out how to enhance the team to get them to the brink of it.

Now, you can make the case that with a healthy Doncic and Reeves,

Don't go anywhere.

Let it be up to the Lakers to get one more piece, a rugged big, a guy like Jalen Duren who doesn't have to score but who can defend and lead and be a tough guy.

Maybe you can find that guy, identify him early, maybe even in the draft, and LeBron could stay and he could have that feeling again.

Tony, I don't know because I haven't done a sit-down with LeBron in a couple of years now.

We just sit and talk on and off camera about these things.

I don't know.

Maybe he just says, you know what?

There's other stuff in the world to do, and I want to do that.

I mean, you know, he's not.

LeBron is actually, to me, this is crazy to say maybe, he's playing better from an individual standpoint at 41 than Tom Brady was.