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  • Bart.

  • We've heard this conversation before, and it involves LeBron James and a guy again.

  • 68 to 50.

  • Athletic freak never gets hurt.

  • Strong dominates the MBA.

  • Could you dominate football?

  • Big football fan Big Cowboys fan?

  • Well, that what if this is an interesting move?

  • LeBron James said that he had an opportunity to do something that Michael Jordan did.

  • What else is new and play another sport?

  • This was during the 2011 lockout.

  • LeBron James, who was 26 at the time, told the athletic that he had an offer to try out for the Dallas Cowboys.

  • He also said the Seattle Seahawks sent him a jersey with an offer to work out.

  • LeBron said, I always think about it and then he said this.

  • I would have made that team.

  • I would have tried out.

  • I would have tried out, but I would have made the team one thing about it.

  • I don't mind working for something, so if I would have had to try out for the Cowboys of Seahawks or stayed home, went back home to Cleveland, I'd have tried out, but I wouldn't but I would have made the team.

  • I just know what I'm capable of doing on the football field, especially at that age.

  • You were in your prime in 2011.

  • Now, as he thinks about what could have been do you now think about what could have been?

  • Oh, yeah, I would have been.

  • You think you think can't wait is a gift, and I mean oh, I definitely would have been.

  • I mean, I'll tell you what he would have came in through this.

  • What I hate sometimes some.

  • Sometimes it's kind of disrespectful.

  • Tight end.

  • It's kind of disrespectful when somebody comes in and thinks that all the hours that I put in or our athletes have put it in their career that they could just decide to switch.

  • We see Tim Tebow, you know, making a mockery of the Mets, which I think he's gonna be part of the Mets again this year.

  • You know what I'm saying?

  • At what point do the dude like block stop blocking somebody else from being able to live their dreams?

  • Do That ain't gonna happen for you.

  • LeBron James would have got a jersey and he would have came across the middle or went up the scene.

  • Whichever way he wanted to go, He would've came in like Sherman Hensley.

  • He would have left like Kojak.

  • I would have knocked all the follicles out his cap.

  • He came over with that.

  • Are you freaking kidding me, man?

  • Come on, man.

  • But talking like, seriously, what would he be?

  • It targets, you know, like Michael Jordan.

  • Like pictures didn't wanna You know that Michael Jordan.

  • Michael Jordan didn't even barely got the Triple A right.

  • Like he was double a single A like it was hard to get to the majors.

  • And it just showed you how difficult it is and what Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders did.

  • Like Still mind blowing to be able to do it.

  • But he also do you think because of his status, would he have been a target?

  • Guys like you would have wanted t do like like you said.

  • This is football, man.

  • We're in the hurt business.

  • You could say whatever you want.

  • We ain't in the wind.

  • Were like defensive players on the hurt business were sent a statement.

  • Business man.

  • We would have knocked him back.

  • Like you remember when Pat White was It was running on the sideline and he got hit by believe Ike Taylor on the sideline and Ryan Clark and he won't.

  • He went to.

  • He went to sleep as a football player.

  • He woke up with a Kansas City Royals had and he said, Man, I ain't never playing football again.

  • I'm out of here.

  • You're crazy Like he went to sleep, He went Night night, Somebody.

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