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It was Kevin Durant Steph Curry wearing the crown the year before that.

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Critics would ask, Where is it?

Evidently they were never listening to James at all.

I would not stop until I see real change.

They didn't know championships have paled in comparison to the man he was determined to be.

The man that he is from the passing of Kobe Bryant toe a global pandemic from the stoppage of the NBA season in March to the killing of George Florida in May that even threatened to halt the NBA season completely.

The hopes and expectations never departed from the doorsteps of LeBron James.

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Time and time again, expectations never faded.

They elevated seemingly in some kind of subliminal way just to make this mountain of a man Crump to his figurative knees.

And just in case James was somehow overcome.

This all there was that everlasting reminder off what being a Los Angeles Laker actually entail from the days of Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West from Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Magic Johnson to Shaq and Kobe.

When you are the face of this franchise, you went championship script, your family, period.

Most folks don't spend their careers, their lives, dealing with such enormous expectations.

So as the clock ticks on the year, we all can't wait to be over.

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James had to endure the sadness and heartbreak that came with it, how it all deteriorated into turmoil in disbelief.

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This historic 2020 MBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers, with the latest crown his fourth hovering over his head, his support this world.

LeBron James life in 2020 Yeah, Stephen A.

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We're joined now.

By Mark J.

Spears, senior N b A writer for the undefeated mark.

When you think about the scope and you think about the arc of LeBron James's story, where do your thoughts first take you?

Well, I mean, with all due respect to the Heat into the Cavaliers, I think winning the championship with the Lakers just takes everything to a much higher level.

You know, it puts him in the same breath of Elgin, Jerry Wilt, Magic, Kareem, Shaq, Kobe.

You know, he lived up to put up Thio.

All the pressure of wearing that Lakers uniforms, which is brighter.

There's greater pressures he's had in his career, and I also think because of it and him resigning with the Lakers, he's gonna get his jersey in the rafters at Staples Center one day.

So certainly winning a championship in the Lakers uniforms great and off the court.

I believe that the more than a vote initiative impacted the election greatly and pushed millions of blacks and women and other people of color to register to vote.

So while 2020 has been nightmare the most, he certainly has a lot to be proud of this year.

Yeah.

In 2020 he really continued to define his legacy in so many ways.

What was it like covering that and seeing him do it the way that he did it?

You know, it was interesting.

There was, Ah, lot of teams in the bubble that succumb to the bubble.

Like the Lakers didn't play anybody higher than 1/5 seed and Miami.

He deserves a lot of credit for focusing and doing that.

But the Lakers, led by LeBron, was were steady the whole way.

I'll never forget that game in which he knocked the Nuggets out on and how he basically impose his will to push them to the finals and eventually win the championship.

So, um, but the more than a vote initiative, uh, it kind of got started up big in the bubble after they took those three days off that was sparked by the bucks, and I think it gave it some even more juice and it already had, and a nim packed it having arenas open all over the country.

Uh, that allowed people to vote and will have an impact on the runoff in Georgia as well.

Mark, when we talk about LeBron, we always try toe.

Unpack his motivations at this point with everything that he's achieved, what still drives him, solidifying the goat argument that seems to be very important to him.

Like Michael Jordan has six championships.

He hasn't lost in any finals.

But if if LeBron, at the age of 36 which he will be on December 30th, can get that fifth title, Um, I think it helps him in the argument greatly.

Um, could he catch Jordan?

He has time.

He he hasn't fallen down.

The Lakers are better now than they were a season ago.

Uh, it's not out of the realm of possibility him catching them or there, I say, even passing him.

But I think it's solidifying that he is the goat.

That's probably his greatest motivation right now is a player because he's done everything else, Mark.

What will defending the title looked like this season for LeBron and the Lakers, especially after the short turnaround.

I think the biggest challenge is staying healthy.

Uh, this team, I believe, would beat the team in the bubble with with some of their new additions.

But when you have when you hear that number.

Oh, it's the shortest layoff.

73 73 days.

That applies mostly to the Miami Heat in the Lakers.

They're the two teams that were in the final.

So for somebody that's 35 years old, they have that short of arrest for Anthony Davis, who admittedly has had injury woes, that is concerning to me.

So on paper, I think they are the best team and there's no close second.

But will they succumb to that short layoff?

Will LeBron's age finally hit him with this?

Well, Anthony Davis's injuries in the past resurface.

That is the thing that I'm worried about the most for the Lakers is a short lay off having a negative effect on them.