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the king.
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LeBron James Can Ron saying with your chest.
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LeBron James Twitter handle at King James has served his validation that he viewed himself to someone wearing the crown, even when there was evidence to the contrary.
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Rappers 2019 NBA champs and 3 2020 there was a guy named Co I Leonard Serving is the reigning NBA champion in NBA Finals.
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M v P.
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It was Kevin Durant Steph Curry wearing the crown the year before that.
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There's a new dynasty in the NBA and the year before that.
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What crown are you talking about?
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LeBron James?
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Critics would ask, Where is it?
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Evidently they were never listening to James at all.
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I would not stop until I see real change.
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They didn't know championships have paled in comparison to the man he was determined to be.
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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.
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The hopes and expectations never departed from the doorsteps of LeBron James.
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They just moved in the obligations demands Don't forget Kobe LeBron.
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Speak out.
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LeBron Briana Taylor, LeBron Justice from Rianna Taylor.
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Time and time again, expectations never faded.
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They elevated seemingly in some kind of subliminal way just to make this mountain of a man Crump to his figurative knees.
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And just in case James was somehow overcome.
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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.
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When you are the face of this franchise, you went championship script, your family, period.
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Most folks don't spend their careers, their lives, dealing with such enormous expectations.
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So as the clock ticks on the year, we all can't wait to be over.
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Just think of all.
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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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Hit in the end.
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James Talk.
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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.
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LeBron James life in 2020 Yeah, Stephen A.
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Smith on LeBron James and for more.
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We're joined now.
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By Mark J.
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Spears, senior N b A writer for the undefeated mark.
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When you think about the scope and you think about the arc of LeBron James's story, where do your thoughts first take you?
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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.
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You know, it puts him in the same breath of Elgin, Jerry Wilt, Magic, Kareem, Shaq, Kobe.
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You know, he lived up to put up Thio.
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All the pressure of wearing that Lakers uniforms, which is brighter.
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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.
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So certainly winning a championship in the Lakers uniforms great and off the court.
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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.
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So while 2020 has been nightmare the most, he certainly has a lot to be proud of this year.
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Yeah.
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In 2020 he really continued to define his legacy in so many ways.
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What was it like covering that and seeing him do it the way that he did it?
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You know, it was interesting.
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There was, Ah, lot of teams in the bubble that succumb to the bubble.
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Like the Lakers didn't play anybody higher than 1/5 seed and Miami.
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He deserves a lot of credit for focusing and doing that.
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But the Lakers, led by LeBron, was were steady the whole way.
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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.
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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.
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Uh, that allowed people to vote and will have an impact on the runoff in Georgia as well.
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Mark, when we talk about LeBron, we always try toe.
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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.
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Like Michael Jordan has six championships.
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He hasn't lost in any finals.
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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.
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Um, could he catch Jordan?
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He has time.
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He he hasn't fallen down.
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The Lakers are better now than they were a season ago.
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Uh, it's not out of the realm of possibility him catching them or there, I say, even passing him.
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But I think it's solidifying that he is the goat.
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That's probably his greatest motivation right now is a player because he's done everything else, Mark.
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What will defending the title looked like this season for LeBron and the Lakers, especially after the short turnaround.
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I think the biggest challenge is staying healthy.
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Uh, this team, I believe, would beat the team in the bubble with with some of their new additions.
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But when you have when you hear that number.
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Oh, it's the shortest layoff.
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73 73 days.
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That applies mostly to the Miami Heat in the Lakers.
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They're the two teams that were in the final.
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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.
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So on paper, I think they are the best team and there's no close second.
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But will they succumb to that short layoff?
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Will LeBron's age finally hit him with this?
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Well, Anthony Davis's injuries in the past resurface.
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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.
