I would just set it in.

You know, that first game after a road trip was always kind of difficulty, always kind of challenging.

So, you know, we was able Thio just put the switch started getting defensive stops get on rebound and run, got to our game and was able to change the game around.

So we got back to playing our style basket.

All right?

You never find yourself on being ableto Go ahead.

Go ahead and finish off.

Follow equipped.

Okay.

Yeah.

We know you pride yourself on being able to play as many minutes is needed.

Uh, 3.

65.

Does it help, though?

Have you know not to have to play over 30 because Europe by 20.

Is that stuff that you can sort of build up and save for later in the season?

Or is it a relative?

No, man, I'm 36 years old.

18 years in the league.

They know something later on this season.

Uh, you know my body is ready to play Whatever I need to play throughout the course of the game, I go hard while I'm out there.

And then I start my treatment after the game.

So I wish I could have banked on.

You know, I wish I wish I was Justin Timberlake on that movie where I could banks in time.

But I cannot do that at this point.

Okay?

On to Kyle Goon, please.

LeBron At halftime, I think the pelicans were shooting 61% and you guys were shooting 40%.

You were down by a point.

You guys were winning turnovers.

Free throws.

What do you think?

You demonstrate when you are able to hang in games that eventually win games by competing in ways that are just shooting.

Well, like I tell you all the time, every game has his own challenges, you know, and every game is different, so you gotta be able to adjust.

They came on, they shot the ball extremely, extremely well, to start the game be I was eight or nine at halftime.

And, you know, Zion was getting to the pain.

They did a great job of, uh, you know, just, uh, playing some really good basketball in that first half.

So he would, you know, just came in the second half, have a little bit more.

Try to slow him down a little bit more.

Give us, um, different reads.

But we stayed in the game in the first half, like you said, was able to get to the free throw line, was able to turn them over and get s a fast break points, so that definitely helped.

Okay, Dan White Key, please.

LeBron.

What's your favorite part about where this team is at 14 games?

What do you like most?

What you're saying, um, that we continue toe, get better.

I feel like we've got better every game way, continue to learn each other.

And I told you guys that are our film sessions.

You know, in our in our games, we're gonna be like, you know, pranks is as well, because we're close, you know, a new group, for the most part, you know, we got 55 guys that's been in the rotation this year that it was not in the rotation last year on Dennis the Minutes west mark trays and tables.

So we continue, Thio.

You know, the more minutes we get, the more games we get, the more opportunity to get on the floor in the film session just helps helps our growth.

Okay, Bill or um Hey, Lebron, could you talk us through the put back dunk after the coups, miss And then as a secondary question, you know, you are 36.

At some point, you're supposed to stop doing things like that.

Is there anything physically that you feel like you can't do that?

You could have done 10 years ago.

Um, yeah, but I wouldn't tell you that, uh, you know, But I continue to put myself in the best condition I could be in, You know, I trained my body and I trained my mind every single day.

Um, you know, I come in into the, you know, into the arena, So our facility and I get in a lot of extra work.

Um, you know, preparing my body, preparing my mind and, you know, continue Thio do what I'm doing right now at 36 on DSI.

What happens?

I tell you, I don't think that I could go to 46.

You know, we could go 26 to 36 but I e think I could go to 46.

Um, I also don't think my wife would like that pretty much she wouldn't like.

That is Okay, Dave McMenamin another one.

LeBron.

This is the, I think, the second highest three point percentage of your career.

That's far.

I mean, we're only 14 games in or whatever.

You made a couple tonight.

You go prefer from the free throw line.

Earlier in the week, Frank Vogel said, You're the best shooter on the team.

There is a guy on the team tonight.

Moved up the top 10 list of all time three pointers for the Lakers in K c p r.

You the best shooter on the team.

Have you ever been the best shooter on a team before?

And where does K C P rank in that conversation?

I mean, we got a lot of great shooters on the team.

KCP uh, great shooter.

You know, West Matthews.

Great shooter.

Cool to shoot the heck out of ball, Dennis the menace and shoot the ball.

Well, 80 can shoot the ball.

So we got a lot of great knockdown shooters now Obviously, if someone say bet I'm gonna take my You know, obviously you guys know, take myself, Uh, you know, that's just the competitive nature and men and the work ethic that I put into my shot.

But I feel really good with my shot right now, both from the free throw line and also from the three point line.

And, you know, I want to continue that, you know, just continue.

Thio give defense is, uh, you know, different different different styles of my play, you know, playing pick and roll basketball.

Uh, you know, playing in the mid range, planning the post, getting out on the break where I've always been pretty good.

So, uh, you know, continue to keep the defense off balance Will help our team in a long room.

Okay.

Last two quick questions.

We have Brad Turner.

What's up, Brian?

What's up, baby?

Look, But then it says playing defense like he did in the second quarter.

What does that do for the team?

How destructive was he out there?

I mean, you saw the energy man, and, you know, right now with our fans and Staples Center, which we missed so much, man just having a defender like like Dennis the Menace did.

Being able to pick up full court and get like two or three consecutive steals or deflections to get us out on the break, get us into got us right back into the game.

So, you know, big time on his part, man, He's been doing it all year for us, and you know it.

It just it takes the offense, you know, opposing offense out of a lot of stuff that they want to do either coming out of time, out having a set play, were able to destruct that and disrupt that with Dennis being on the ball and, uh, you know, just leads to a lot of energy for our ball club.

Okay, Last question.

Melissa role in LeBron.

I haven't I haven't off the court question for you tonight.

Um, you've obviously been very out spoken for a long time about politics and social justice.

I'm curious if there was a particular moment where you said enough's enough, I don't care who I alienate after something specifically happened, where you're like, That's it.

I'm speaking out.

I believe when I was in Miami was a Trayvon Martin situation.

Um, you know, just hearing about that story having two sons of my own and thinking, um, if I sent my kids out to the store and they never returned and in an information that I got back was the information that I heard in the Trayvon Martin case.

How How Heartbroken.

How mad?

How disappointed I would have been.

Um, not only with my community at that point time, but with the, you know, the police, the policing.

Either they had a badge or not the neighborhood watch or whatever the case may be there in that point time.

Um, that was the moment where I knew that it was much bigger than just basketball and myself having a platform that I had in us as the Miami Heat had at that point time we spoke on about that, you could go back and look at a picture of us having our We took a picture with all our hoodies on Andi just showcasing that just because we got a hoody on that doesn't mean that you that we are criminal, um, that we are are someone that means harm to anyone on.

It's just a piece of clothing eso I believe at that very moment.

That's when it, um, you know, began for me because it hit home for me when I thought about Brownie and Bryce.