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turns at dkng.co/offer, limited time offer. Emergency pod even from buy you, the Normandy regions of France. LeBron is now a sixer. I'm both surprised and impressed.

I'm surprised just because it never felt like there was like the perfect fit,

so I can run through this now that we have the result and come up with all the reasons why wasn't going to go to all the other places and I can come up with the other reasons why I didn't think he would go to Philadelphia, but I'm also impressed at Philadelphia pulled this off. I thought a big part of LeBron making this decision would be a place where he felt comfortable, a place where he'd had a relationship before, so that obviously a lot of roads leading to Miami.

And clearly with Cleveland, but it's very easy now that we know, well, why would you want to make the bet with Cleveland if he's going to be off the ball with Mitchell and Harden there? Well, look, he was going to be off the ball in a lot of different situations. And we'll get to the Philadelphia sharing the basketball situation here as well. Now that we know that it isn't Miami, it's very simple to say, hey, it's probably not a place

that's a fully completed roster and considering that Yannis has to be on the ball,

“which is great. I mean, when he's on the ball, he's one of the, I think, three best players in the world.”

On top of his passing and the driving and the free throw attempts and all that kind of stuff, but was that the best fit if the rest of the roster doesn't feel like they have enough shooting. Even if you were to look at, say, the basketball reference page of a lot of the players that are still on this heat roster and bringing Hardaway where it's like, hey, there's some guys that have made some threes of this team. So maybe that's being a little overstated that they have no shooting.

And if he hadn't gone to Philadelphia, you could be like, hey, do you really want to make, like, is the embed playoff bet a better bet than the Harden playoff bet? Defensively, you probably have to figure out a way to hide him a little bit more, although I think the league respects LeBron so much that they don't really attack him as much as they could, or you would look at the Lakers roster use on and say, well, they're going to go after Austin Reeves, or

they were going to go after Luca, which may have been the case in Cleveland, where they're like,

yeah, they're going to go after Harden or they're going to go after Jonathan Mitchell first,

before they're going to go after LeBron, so it doesn't really matter. With the sixers, you probably want to attack a smaller back court in Maxine, B.J. Edge home, if those are starting five with embed in J.L. Brown before you want to attack LeBron anyway. So there's a bunch

thought on like, maybe the reason he didn't want to go back to Cleveland is mess with the

“dream scenario on his return, his part two in Cleveland winning a title for a city that was star”

for one, but do you really, I don't get it. It's kind of the people that like knocked Jordan for playing for the wizards when I look at the wizards years is further confirmation of how special of

everybody was, especially that second year with the wizards and the numbers that he put up and

how well he played, even though there was no playoffs success. I don't look at those as a knock on on Jordan at all. So if LeBron and come back to Cleveland and they don't get out of, say, the second round does it mean like the title in 2016, like no one can ever mess with that title. I still think it's the toughest title any team has ever pulled off in my lifetime of watching the NBA. So we can talk about the Philadelphia one ball part of this, which I'm sure you're going to hear

a ton of, but LeBron is a master at pacing himself, both not only in his career as he pushes the boundaries of longevity in this sport, but he also paces himself really through out of basketball game. There are so many games that he's had with the lakers where I'll look at him and he feels like he's taking entire eight minutes sub pattern stretches off and he's completely fine deferring to somebody else. He doesn't want to bring the ball up. He hasn't brought up the ball in years.

I mean, he can and he will randomly, but he's not going to be the primary ball handler on any team that he was going to sign with. And that's definitely not the case here with Philadelphia, because Maxi should have the ball a ton. But LeBron, I think through the regular season, will do what he needs to do night in a night out and know that he's pacing himself for whatever hopes they have of a deep playoff run. So yeah, I know there's one ball.

I've looked at the usage rates for Maxi for a chain with Brown, for LeBron, for Embed. I mean, these are monster usage numbers for these players. I'm trying to put all four of them together, but we're talking about LeBron James here. Somebody who probably doesn't want the ball as much as you may think, at least for the six months and those 82 games, and is smart enough to know how he needs to fit in, because he's just such a brilliant basketball mind that it's not like

he's not going to know what to do when Embed's getting double. I mean, if we really want to paint

“the most optimistic brush on this, and maybe that's what LeBron did, where he said, okay,”

best case scenario of any of these potential landing spots, like best case, if everything went right in filly, isn't that the best chance at this? And it probably is. Now, look, I think Minnesota would have made a lot more sense for San Antonio. I think Minnesota, like desperately needed him. I think San Antonio would love to have somebody like him organizing their late playoff game

possessions. There's a million sessions from the finals that I wish the spurs can have a

do over on, and LeBron would have been terrific with that. It's probably not the right fit. Probably didn't want to live in San Antonio. Maybe you didn't want to live in Minnesota. Maybe he loves the idea that his family can be this close in New York City, and that's all that really matters that he's going to be pretty close to, well, playing in the top two, medium markets, technically though, not necessarily in Philadelphia, you get the point. So if we're looking at this

optimistically, maybe LeBron's just going like, what if, though, the M.B. part of this thing works out? And as far as, like, Jalen Brown's numbers, last year was an anomaly. Those numbers were going to happen if he came back and was with Boston playing with Tatum. So as great as Jalen Brown's individual season was, you can't look at his usage, you can't look at his shot attempts, you can't look at the points and expect that that was going to happen, even had he stayed in Boston with

Tatum coming back as the number one option. All those number one options, possessions of Jalen Brown had all season long, that was Biden's necessity. So him taking step back statistically, obviously it was going to happen in Philadelphia, and LeBron maybe doesn't help those overall numbers. But the one thing I'm envisioning here, again, that's where the healthy, engaged, and B, is what the fuck do you do when you're doubling and B, because you have a terrible defensive

center matchup against him, you're doubling and B, and he's looking around to a cutting LeBron, a cutting Jalen Brown, Maxine VGA offering spacing, obviously VGA shooting, he's going to get a little bit better, or Maxi cutting off of that stuff. You know, I don't think it's a great bet because of MB's history here for the last few years. I would think he and his trainer will want to prioritize losing weight to get through a season more than anything. I don't care about how

Jack D is on a care about how many muscles he has on a care what his fat percentages, I think

“him just being a slimmer player is the only way he turns this thing around, because everything”

else is there. I don't even know that he needs to work on anything else. He's got probably the best

touch of any big guy we've ever seen. His pastings actually incredible. I don't always love his comfort

level, late in a playoff game, and you know, look, I do think that he's been so obsessed with the stats and getting the points that he stops playing hoops. It looks to be fouled a little bit more, which is his own problem, and you know, I've already done that rant a million times, but if you're

basketballs to go around, I think LeBron adapts to that. And at this stage of his life, it's not like he needs 20 shots. Isn't it guy looking for his rookie Max extension going, man, I hope I make it to an all-star team, and I'm getting my 20, 80 games, so I can get that big Max deal,

“even if all feels fake on a bad team. So I don't think you have to worry about that stuff”

as much. Again, look, it all hinges on him beat, whether or not this team can win a championship. I do think the best case on paper scenario sounds a lot better now that we know that he's landed on Philadelphia. You know, the other thing that, you know, Philly fans are getting shit for is like acting like they just signed prime LeBron, but if you got LeBron James for two years at eight million, you should be excited. Who gives a shit? We know that it doesn't peak LeBron,

but it's like you got LeBron James. And there's a value in that that goes beyond how little you're paying him, based on what he's always making, but what do you pay a guy like this anyway? Like in this market with no teams with cap space or teams with cap space that he'd want to go to,

it was always going to be a weird number anyway, right? But here's the thing that I would close on here

is the mental part of the game is so important in how you think of yourselves as a team. And there's teams that tell you all the right things in training camp. I mean, get ready for a buckle up NFL. Everyone of these teams are going to get the head coach out there in front of the people at their first mini camp being like, you know, we actually had seven one score losses. It's like no shit. Every team in the NFL basically averages like seven one score losses every season.

You can double check that number, but I'm pretty close because I got so sick of hearing it. I'm like, isn't the whole point of this league that it's like always one score? So you have some dog shit NFL team and the coach gets out there in training camp July and it's like, yeah, you know, we had all these one score lives, you know, bounce here, bounce there, it's like, I don't know, you guys might still stunt, might still stink. So to the point of like talking

yourself into it. And anybody that's ever kind of played sports, you know, there's there's always

that moment where you're like, are we going to lose? And it sucks, right? Versus when you walk into a gym and you're like, we're going to kill these guys. And sure you can be overconfident and then,

“you know, you can get in that whole thing of being too confident. And that's what costs you game. But”

there is a big, big difference. Like when a team can turn a corner mentally going like we've transitioned from hoping to win to expecting to win. And with this sixers group, which is certainly changed characters around in bead multiple times now since what 2018 when we started like thinking they really had something. Lebron in your uniform in Philadelphia changes the buildup to next year from, wow, you know, like we hope and look, I still have the same reservations

that any of you sane NBA fans would have. Like, I'm not sitting here stamping a number one seat on them. I don't even know, I mean, it could they be the three seed, could they be the four seed. I mean, health and play a big part of that versus the health of everybody else in a stacked east. But like, let's look at it this way. The wizards are want to like the 11 teams in the east that are going like we're expecting some things. Okay. But it's, it's a weird group with a bunch of

young players and a number one pick coming in with Anthony Davis. It doesn't want to be their tray young who's there with that absurd contract. And it's like, you guys can say all the right things. But he really believe it. Lebron in Philadelphia, I would guess makes you believe it if you're Maxi, if you're VGA. Obviously, I'm a little worried about VGA's opportunities with Jalen Brown and what he's already done. And maybe an accountability thing that's been talked about with him bead

with having Jalen Brown there. Well, now with Lebron, like forget it, Lebron's not going to want

you wasting his time. So forget getting him for 4 million a pop here or forget getting him this

late in his career. And what does that really mean? He still played so well at this age that you, you really, it changes your mindset as a basketball team. Doesn't guarantee anything. But I granted when those guys break camp and get together and they're like holy shitties really here,

“that's the biggest value of this kind of acquisition and that's why six of us fans should be part.”

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