You got KCP and Caruso in the mid fifties.

How have you guys evolved as a shooting team from last season?

And even just in the last couple of weeks?

Well, I may have this thing.

It's all part of chemistry and knowing, knowing your teammates, knowing where your teammates is gonna be on the floor, you know?

And that comes with games play that comes with minutes on the floor.

It comes with film sessions and things of that nature.

We start getting comfortable with your teammates, you know where guys gonna be and you know where the shots is gonna be taken from or where they going to come from.

So it's all about the chemistry on the floor.

Bigger picture question.

There is a widely publicized interview.

Yana stayed in Greece, where he said, LeBron is the best player in the world.

You didn't care who doesn't matter with the M.

V.

P is Right now.

I know you keep the main thing.

The main thing, but is that hits you a certain way.

Just that kind of respect from from appear in that sense, my entire respected by appears.

It always means.

And there was Go men are League has been done so dominant over last few years, off future for the last couple years and just what he does both on the floor and off the floor.

Very well received and very humbling as well.

You know, for me, I just go out there and just try to implement the game and all facets of the game.

Both officers defensively for my team in position, successful and they live results.

Um, guys damn good himself.

If LeBron clear, there's mutual respect.

Is there any satisfaction in having success against the honest?

You're now 16 and five, your teams or 16 and five in your career against him, and he's 10 years younger than you, and he's the back, the back M v p.

Yet you know you're still able to find success.

No, e, I think you know me.

Number has never been about it.

All the other teams.

Lot of matters.

E could care less about that.

I just talked.

Got to play well and have our team in verse any morning.

No, Ron, You know, last year in the bubble.

You did.

You said that kind of the way.

The M V P.

Vote, um, pissed you off.

I'm curious.

How did that anger stick with you at all?

I mean, did you carry that into this season anyway?

And how does it make you feel about about the matchup with the honest And did it motivate you?

It all coming into this?

Um think we didn't We didn't like the way we play.

Finished the game up in the second half.

First vote.

That's that with us for a couple of days.

So we know he's gonna be a tough environment coming the airplane again.

Very, very, very good team.

A team has been on the top of the league or a top of the Eastern standings and just been doing so many great things over the last couple of years.

And you know what?

There were three all stars now then you could throw Drew in there.

We know it's going to be very competitive, very challenging for ourselves, our job to just come out and try to implement our style to the game.

For me personally, No.

Everything he needs needed to be done on the floor both offensively and defense to help us.

I am.

So you know you live with the results.

No.

80 has told us you're one of the guys really helped him kind of expand his passing vision and understanding for how he can affect the game that way Tonight he has three straight assists at a critical stretch in the fourth quarter.

What are you seeing from a D that you really sick?

That signals to you that he's really making strides as a pastor, I believe I'm being in New Orleans.

A lot of people either didn't watch their games or just wasn't paying attention to the level of talent Davis Waas.

And he got an opportunity to see a lot of one on one coverage.

Um, either because they didn't want him to allow his teammates to get off, and they felt like he was gonna always get his.

But I felt like since he's been here so damn good that I knew eventually he's going to see a lot of double teams.

A lot of teams, they're not gonna allow him.

Just play one on one because not 11 on one matchup that you can exploit.

So you know him, you know, make me just being able to be a voice with him and seeing double teams throughout my whole career there in the low post or I don't know, Perimeter.

Just being able to see the second side of defense is and he's, um, continue to grow every you know, every single game, every single film session way kind of break those things down.

What he sees on the floor, you know, tonight was, ah, another example of him just seeing the other side of the floor.

And when the ball on time on target and guys not going down you too, Brian B t.

How much is the game slowing down for KCP And do you guys plan on going to the White House now, with the new administration there?

Uh, well, one kcp he knows what He's, uh come ashore, read the floor.

That's to give us a lot of energy on due to the thing we want KCP when he's open.

We wanted to shoot it when he's when he's guarded closely.

We wanted to still shoot.

Just shoot the ball just so good.

I mean, he's so good for a walk.

Yes, another dynamic that just, uh, this gives us energy everyone, because everyone energy and we love when he's taking and making shots.

But we love when he's just oppressive, just being himself.

So you know it's big time.

Ask your second question.

I don't I don't think we've had even had any conversation, you know, with our team.

Or I have no idea.

Kobe rules and restrictions and everything that's going on with our league.

Not even sure we even allowed to even go, You know, it would be great, but I don't I have no idea what what we can even do right now, besides hotel, arena and home.

So I have no idea last to Mark Medina.

Hey, LeBron.

Given all the moving parts toe open this season with the protocols and the returning talent but new pieces and the quick turnaround, how did you kind of expect the first month to play out?

And how have you seen that thus far?

Didn't put a how I expected the first month of play out.

I want to just see and live in the moment, and I know it's gonna be a little challenging just to get back.

We started after the super super duper short layoff or or off season.

If if you want to call it and then as adding for new guys, tow our roster, implemented another guy into our rotation and, you know, just, um you know, I just wanted to kind of see, you know, and, you know, it was just a challenge.

Something that we've never before I've never done before.

I've had short off season, but nothing that short is this one.

So I just want to see how we're gonna play and get the new guys out, acclimated to what we do.

Culture both on the floor and off the floor.

And, you know, I would say, you know, we're doing some good things and we want to just continue to last one.

Rachel.

Hey, Lebron.

I know if you remember Monday night, the video cut off on us.

So I've been waiting four days for this answer.

I know it's gonna be really, really good, but I had asked you what you remember specifically from the very first time you played against Kobe Bryant when you were just a little puppy.

I was just in all It's a guy who, along with a lot of other guys on my wall, would, um would tape on my wall when I lived in Spring Hill.

Apartment 602 he was on my wall.

You got a liar.

Nice collage in my wall or on my wall, right?

Who decided to make the jump from high school to the NBA that I kind of you know what?

I was thinking about doing that at one point in my junior year and really about it.

If Kobe has done it, someone I could probably hopefully learn from one day along with K G and T Mac, um, work just being out on the floor with him.

You know, if you remember that God gave me a pair of his shoes when I was a junior in high school, to be able to share the floor with him was was like a You know, for any kid that has aspirations, O.

R.

Has inspiring moments from someone is just like a sense of all the grace that he played the game with and the passion that he played termination, too, just domination.

What's up?

I'll love, um, could pick up from not much dialogue on?

No, Kobe.

Don't know.

Florida Talk to anybody.

Right?

Uh, for all you really stranglehold, you at take away from It was this all moment.

There was something I would never, ever forget.

Aggressive floor, play the game with so much great.

Was there any time where he went up the floor and you just kind of dazzled by a move he made or you went up against him?

One on one.

I mean, if I get I'm so old now, Rachel, for you to try to ask me, uh, something that happened 18 years ago.

I could tell you what bottle wine I had last night, but 18 years ago, it's a little bit challenging, but I could sit here and say that absolutely, definitely happened when it happened.

Was the only defense was on offense.

I have no idea.

But it definitely happened for sure.

It was a couple guys that when you was on the floor with it for the first time.

And that was Kobe.

It was a I, and it was team at.

It was those three guys.

Wow.

Here.

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