There's Always This Year (feat. Hanif Abdurraqib)
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When does the conversation open on LeBron’s aging and on-court film review?
I've talked to a number of different athletes after they've retired and they say, man, I was watching myself on film that last season and I was wincing and cringing at how I looked out there because I'm watching and I'm like, ah, I'm not as good as I used to be. When LeBron watches himself, do you believe that he sees a great deal of deterioration or... that he believes he can always out-think now with his guile because he's smarter than everyone else. There's certainly no deterioration how smart he is, so whatever he thinks he knows more than everyone else that he can use, do you think when he watches film of himself, he's seeing any deterioration?
I'm playing Kreskin now, so I'm putting myself in his brain, but I would say, When he sees himself play, he absolutely knows there's things I can't do anymore. Because he's talked about it. Like, I can't do that anymore. But I do believe what you're saying, which is, but I will find a mental workaround to my inability to physically do this. So I will still be great. But I don't think he watches like, I'm just as good as I was in 2013.
Didn't he have a dunk last year where the three of us were still like, how is that possible in your 40s?
Maybe just doing this podcast alone, but it makes me feel sorry for, you know who? The first person who has to make a LeBron James statue. You've got so much to choose from.
Oh, it'll be easy. Easy? Yeah. Look at the one across the street. Just don't do that.
Okay. Just don't do Dwayne Wade's hideous statue.
I'm tired of this man being celebrated. For what? This is The Step Back. Next drive, steps back, puts up a three.
And LeBron James from downtown.
The Cleveland Cavaliers select LeBron James.
LeBron, what's your decision?
I made a difficult decision, but I understood what my future was about. I believe our president is trying to divide us. My first response was, you bum. Episode six. There's always this year. I would love for it to end here, but I'm also not silly or too jaded to know the business of the game well. You know, the basketball and things of that nature obviously has given me an unbelievable platform to be able to do the things that I love to do and give me some of an opportunity to, you know, inspire the youth and things over the last, you know, 23 years, two decades plus, but my legacy is my kids.
Pop quiz, guys. How many Hall of Famers, like current already in the Hall of Fame, has LeBron played with? Drop some names if you can think of them already. Shaquille O'Neal. That's one. Okay. Dwyane Wade. All right. That's another one. Chris Bosh. Yeah.
You're good at this game. I'm sitting here struggling here. I'm going through a lot of, you know, Boobie Gibsons.
Stay on that same team for a fourth one. Ray Allen. There you go.
Current Hall of Famers. So the number is, let's see here. We're going to go with the Lakers. Have the Lakers had a Hall of Famer play on? He's been with the Lakers for eight years. Who's the Lakers Hall of Famer? Has he played with a Hall of Famer on the Lakers?
Two. Relatively new inductees, obviously.
Not Dwight Howard. Dwight Howard. Okay, there you go. You'll get one of these two. I don't know if you'll get the last one. There's two left overall, one with the Lakers and one from another era. That is correct. Okay.
I have a sweeping insecurity rolling through me right now because Amin is so much better at this game than I am. I'm trying to find a Laker Hall of Famer that I'm missing, and I cannot find anybody.
He was in the same draft class as LeBron.
Luke Jackson. He's an Oregon Hall of Famer.
Who the hell is a Hall of Famer? And he said pop quizzes are fun. And I'm not having any fun with this. Oh, Carmelo Anthony. Come on. Come on, man. Come on.
But there's still one more. There's still one more from earlier in his career. There's still one more Hall of Famer from earlier in his career. I'll even tell you it wasn't Miami Heat. It was an early portion of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Who did he play with? Early, that was a Hall of Famer.
You ready? I might have the sound ready for you.
Big Z's not a Hall of Famer, right?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
When does the conversation open on LeBron’s aging and on-court film review?
0:00–6:07
2
How do hosts quiz each other about LeBron’s Hall of Famers and teammates?
6:07–21:00
3
What do the hosts say LeBron might still be playing for beyond championships?
21:00–35:55
4
Who is Hanif Abdurraqib and why did he write There's Always This Year?
35:55–47:35
5
How does Hanif connect LeBron to Northeast Ohio, time, and fatherhood?
47:35–49:21
Speakers
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