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of course, David Griffin is now with the Pelicans, formerly with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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While LeBron James was there and he said this.
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He basically said that after the Cavaliers famously went down 30 to the wars.
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Fought all the way back.
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Brought that title to Cleveland that LeBron always wanted.
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Bring to that city that LeBron wasn't the same animal about winning after that.
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Interesting.
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Do you think that LeBron James has sort of scratched the championship itch?
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And he's no longer the same dedicated obsessed with winning championships player that he used to be.
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Two sides to this story is David Griffin, right?
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At that moment, absolutely right.
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Why LeBron James I's got set on Los Angeles to the plan to go to L.
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A.
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Didn't just just happen overnight.
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This is something that had to be set in place in our reality.
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As he cleared the way to get to Los Angeles and become a Laker, it is hard to take a deep dive in and focus on your team 110% to the year Prior he was set in on winning a championship in Cleveland.
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This meant something LeBron James had approved not just to himself, but to the entire world that he could win a championship with his team.
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Not Dwayne Wade's team.
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That Pat Riley, not Chris Bosh, is seen, but with his team.
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And once he did that, the pressure was let off.
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And now LeBron could be a little more selfish and think about himself.
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And within that we talking championship.
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Jacoby.
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Right, We talking championship talking championship.
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LeBron James.
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This is going 95% in on a championship, maybe 5% out on getting L.
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A.
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Maybe staying healthy, whatever may have been added into the equation.
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So David Griffin was absolutely right.
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For what he said.
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It's interesting.
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I think the two things could be true at the same time.
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One dinner if it can be right about that season, right after winning the championship, still wearing the Cavs uniform?
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Maybe LeBron James wasn't locked in as he once was after the victory parade in Cleveland.
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However, I also believe this second thing to be true.
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That's changed now after missing the playoffs after watching these other players be considered the best player in the league.
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The Durant's the co wise after watching the entire playoffs play out after people no longer talking about him.
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The same after engineering Anthony Davis to his team.
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I think he is that winning animal again.
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I think this year is going to be the LeBron James Vengeance Year, where he reminds everybody once again that he is the best player in the N B A.
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Do you think that that could happen?
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Absolutely agree.
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And here's the intangible that LeBron James has that people don't understand when I say he is the greatest of all time is because he knows how to take that switch and turn it on and turn it off.
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See, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant.
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These guys never turned their champion switch off.
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And maybe that.
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That's why those air your your goats magic chances turn off like Bernie.
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Turn off.
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LeBron James knows how to play at literally the highest level of basketball, a championship level in the nose.
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You know LeBron knows how to do.
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Let me save it for tomorrow.
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Let me save it for the next year.
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I know Anthony Davis say here I know Boogie Cousins and the rest of these guys aren't here.
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I know that MBA in the championship hopes heart here the same.
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So I'm gonna average 28 88.
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I'm a cruise to it because I'm going to say what I have to get a championship the next year, and I believe LeBron is smart enough to where he knows how to turn that thing on it off.
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Trust me, brother.
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I seen it before, and I think that's what Griffin's getting to in a certain degree is like your LeBron turned it on and he got that championship.
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And then maybe the next year he wasn't hungry.
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Maybe he wasn't the same winning animal to use Griffin's words, but I think that winning animal is going to be back this year like I really have high expectations for these Lakers.
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A lot of it has to do because they'll be powered by vengeance.
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LeBron James and I'm so here for Venice.
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LeBron James.
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I just wish Lance Stephenson was still in the team.