LeBron James brings his podcast “mind the game” back, but with the double MVP Steve Nash filling the place of JJ Redick, who is now busy training LeBron and the Lakers.
To promote this, LeBron made media stops, and one of them was a long interview in person on The “Pat McAfee Show” on ESPN. If you’ve missed it, here are some protruding facts of the conversation.
• At the time he could retire: “For me, it’s about my mind. I am all about the process. If it happens to the point where I don’t want to present myself at the arena five hours in advance. Or I don’t want to train. Or I don’t want to study guys scouting. If that happens to this point, I know:” You know what, it is an envelopment. “I can say it.
• On the trade of Luka Doncic: “I can’t put myself in my place because I have never been exchanged before. But I can have a sense and be a human being to know: you are engaging in a franchise for seven years and you feel:” This is the place where I am going to be. “… and then out of your system.”
“Luka Doncic has embarked on a franchise for seven years and it was his comfort.
From nowhere, you are exchanged and it is a shock for your system.
I had to let him know that we are going to understand it because we need him to be who he is “~ @Kingjames #Pmslive pic.twitter.com/kpeiag0mid
– Pat McAfee (@patmcafeeshow) March 26, 2025
• On his relationship with Michael Jordan: “We are not talking. Because I still play. I’m still playing, I’m still focused on my job right now …
“I think it’s because I always play. And MJ, we all know MJ. Even if you do not know him personally, he is one of the most ruthless competitors and until I am finished and he does not have to look at me from top to bottom by carrying the n ° 23 and whenever my name is mentioned, it is mentioned with his.”
• On her son, Bonny James: “For me as a dad, it doesn’t matter that he never scores, for me as a father, I am simply proud of him, the end, as a young man. For me as a mentor and as a teammate of his development from his development to his development, starting in the G season, upset by the technical throw that he missed more than anything. So the child is great.
