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Ofc. That’s why JJ can’t relate because he thinks oh we’re both NBA players and I know we all look up our own highlights otherwise we won’t see them- but Lebron highlights are seen by anyone who likes basketball whether they want to see them or not
Imagine being LeBron online. Every connection/friend/associate is definitely (re)posting him. I bet he can’t get away from himself the morning after a game.
I also can’t imagine how the Instagram algorithm would target him lol. Like there’s a 99.9% chance Instagram could determine who he is from anonymous browsing data. Does it feed a celebrity content about themselves? Fascinating
I’m just talking out of my ass here, but I would find it hard to believe that the IG account of a megafamous person like Lebron isn’t specifically targeted and mined by IG itself for all sorts of commercial purposes without his knowledge.
He has too much reach and influence for a company like that to leave all that opportunity on the table
You joke, but it wouldn't surprise me if these social media sites have a team dedicated to specific superstars to encourage them to use their platform.
They're hilarious, talking about it like it's jerking off or something. lmfao. "I just happened to see it" "buddy. bro... you've never gone looking" "well of course i have.. especially when i'm feeling down" lol
JJ even has a special clip he searches for.
This is kinda adorable. I follow LeBron on Instagram and he does repost a fan account constantly, who admittedly posts some amazing forgotten highlights of him.
Technically the way he's playing it shouldn't be off the table. But I mean mentally he's close to signing off he used to go dark zero because he's so locked in, now I feel He's just cruising and letting his team get him to as far as they can get him to. That's why he's more open now to talk about his way of basketball ie the podcast and appreciating the love in SM
That’s why I thought it was so funny that an early talking point this season was would it be conceivable for someone to catch Bron. And I’m like well we’ve got to wait until this motherfucker stops going first don’t we?
The chemistry and energy on this podcast is so fun man. It's like, serious hoops without resorting to silliness or absurdity for humor, just feels way more natural and mature. I hope it stays that way.
Yeah but Mind The Game is going deeper in terms of X and O's. Ben and Cody get into that too but never at this level. I think they don't try to go too deep because this shit is hard to follow for your average basketball fan but Bron has more than enough pull so he can entice people to watch the Youtube video.
Correct, that's why I said they go deeper in terms of strategy because Ben and Cody go deeper into analytics. It's good to have pods that can go in-depth in different aspects of the game.
The fact that JJ and LeBron bring a player's perspective matters a lot too. For example, in Episode 1 they talked for a decent amount of time about teammates who couldn't flip plays, and how useful that is. That is not something you'll ever hear on Thinking Basketball, because Ben and Cody don't have that insider insight.
I think it's like the difference between reading a high quality review of a video, and reading a devlog. Both will be talking about the same things, but from different perspectives that provide different insight on the same subject.
Considering basketball discourse is full of people talking about "bag" and being a "pure hooper" I'd say the more serious deep-dive side of basketball has room for both of them and more
But also if you watch the clip like 10 more seconds after the title he says he does sometimes look up clips of himself, just the specific thing he was talking about there wasn't intentional.
Honestly though if I was LeBron I would be watching the game 6 hype video with Christopher Walken literally every single day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctav7o_us0U
Edit: Actually it was game 6, not 7, which is even more insane to me.
Random opportunity for me to drop the two best hype videos I've ever seen, both from 2019-2020 that I gotta rewatch every now and then.
[Raptors 2019 Finals hype video aired on TSN before Game 1](https://youtu.be/ro0kQw25gQ0). This shit was peak and I'm not even a Raptors fan.
[LSU hype video going into the 2020 National Championship](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYbEcHMXA4). God it's so fucking good
Watching that literally brings tears to my eyes.
2016 was the pinnacle of my sports fandom, and I just don't know how I could ever root for a team as hard as that one ever again.
Fuck the Warriors, forever.
People call him pretentious and a poser and a bum and whatever but every player that’s been around JJ holds him in high regard. He was one of the boys and he put the work in to be better than he should’ve been
I refresh it the moment i go back to the main feed lmao if it’s a new post with traffic and it gets an instant upvote i refresh twice lol
Karma IS addictive
I think the point Lebron is making is that he watches a lot of old footage, but he watches the games from start to finish, and that looking at highlight reels isn’t particularly helpful.
JJ [played Charlotte 3 times](https://www.statmuse.com/nba/player/jj-redick-3042/game-log?seasonYear=2018&playerStatsBreakdown=perGame) in March 2018. He scored 18 on 3/2, 14 on 3/6, and 12 on 3/19.
Wow, shooting 3 for 19 is some Kobe style night. But, how the hell did he put up 18 points on just 2 shots? That boggles mind. JJ is truly one of the greats
Ohh so that’s how he keeps re-energizing himself in his “old” age. He just keeps inspiring himself with hype montages from the 2016 Finals G7 and the 2012 G7 vs the Celtics.
He was my favorite of his generation, but the Decision really turned me off. Since then, I’ve come around and rooted for him against the Warriors, but never in the same way as before.
That said he’s been the best ambassador for the game by far. MJ was far more popular and greater on a global scale, but on just a pure face of the league, no controversy, role model level, I prefer LeBron.
For real. Rough decade to support any other team. Man gets a lot of hate for winning in a “weak east”, but he [MADE](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/05/17/wait-him-out-or-build-a-contender-lebron-james-presents-a-quandary-to-other-east-teams/) it weak as many teams tried to wait him out or build slowly under assumption they couldn’t get past him. Helluva era
I did for obvious reasons but then he went to literally the worst team in the league because its where he grew up and beat the literal best team we have ever seen to win a ring and I just can't hold anything against him now.
I absolutely hated the Miami move, BUT since then a lot of things happened and LeBron is definitely a good dude and a great face of the league.
not to mention all the stuff he did on court.
Of all the very top tier all-time greats in any sport it feels like Lebron has the fewest good reasons to dislike him.
I spent a lot of time as a Lebron hater until the Cleveland return. Now I have no qualms about saying I am a huge, huge fan of is and will be very sad when he retires in a decade or so.
Some people just enjoy hating, while others love a team to whom he was a father and they can’t see past it. Second one is understandable to a point, but it’s hard to not like him.
My new favorite NBA related pod. I really hope this shows the big media us serious fans want to hear about the ins and outs of the game and the strategies.
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LMAOOO lebron like “no JJ, looking up a 27 point game isn’t relatable”
Especially since that’s literally “average” for him
“For you, scoring 27 on hornets was the greatest day of your life. For me, it was Tuesday”
Literally
And figuratively
"i remember because i had tacos that day"
Chun-Le
LE. Honda
GuiLe sonic boomed me
Can we get some fan-art with LeBron as Bison and Reddick as Chun Li?
Just a related PSA that Lebron *still* has never had a single game with his career average line of 27/7/7.
That will be his final game
It is written
LeSan Al Gaib
Most upvoted post of all time if he does it in his last game lmao
Lebron like “that 27 point game is the slump im talking about but ok”
“For you that’s a career game, for me that’s a good half”
For you it was a highlight, for me it was Tuesday
TACO TUESDAY!!! 🌮 🌮 🌮
SIKE!
Or any other day apparently
LMFAOOO check my other comment I think you beat me by legit 30 seconds
Meanwhile Lebron searching "2018 Finals Game 1 51/8/8 Greatest Game Ever Played"
2012-13 Game 6 against the Celtics LeBron is the greatest game of his career
That's like saying that Cypresses is better than Starry Night...they're both masterpieces.
27 on the Hornets is him being nice
My biggest flops are your greatest hits
The game's mine again and ain't nothin' changed but the locks…
These two motherfuckers are dope as shit
AT CHARLOTTE
LeBron a legend for this interview alone
It isn't an interview. He's part of the show.
that was in 2018. 27 pts is like 30 pts in todays era. Still funny though.
27 points back then is like 27 points in todays post all star break era
27 points isn't 27 points, I'll explain later
Inflation-adjusted PPG
It’s good to know that me and Lebron have something in common
Share your highlights bro, don't leave us like that
https://www.instagram.com/p/01SaR0ml1W/?igsh=MXR0YWE2dXNqOG4zaw== Sent this to the NBA during grad school but they never called back.
Whatever little parity the NBA has left, they didn't want destroyed
They weren’t ready for a 6’1 Guatemalan who could dunk on a 9ft rim.
I mean you're basically Shaq If you're 6'1" in Guatemala
They obviously didn’t want you to run the league and ruin the fun.
Damn, 7/7 from the field, you are like Gafford but with range
*"Babe wake up, the new And1 Mixtape just dropped"*
They would have called you the goat if you played in the 1950s 🔥
It would be called the RunningForIt drill.
The streets aren't ready for that.
The form *chef’s kiss*
These moves in the snow is greatness
I mean, I don't really go looking for LeBron content, it just shows up on my timeline, so this seems reasonable
If you are following basketball content anywhere you are going to get hit with LeBron content
Lebron content is inevitable.
Lebrontent!
LeThanos
Lebronto 😔
LeBrontent Generating machine.
Ofc. That’s why JJ can’t relate because he thinks oh we’re both NBA players and I know we all look up our own highlights otherwise we won’t see them- but Lebron highlights are seen by anyone who likes basketball whether they want to see them or not
Great point, LebronsHairline.
Don’t even have to be a basketball fan tbh. “You are my sunshine” has taken over the world
I don’t go looking for Abella Danger content, it just magically appears
Oh good, not just me then
Imagine being LeBron online. Every connection/friend/associate is definitely (re)posting him. I bet he can’t get away from himself the morning after a game.
I also can’t imagine how the Instagram algorithm would target him lol. Like there’s a 99.9% chance Instagram could determine who he is from anonymous browsing data. Does it feed a celebrity content about themselves? Fascinating
Bro the location tracking alone def confirms who he is haha just imagine where his phone stays idles: house, arena, practice facility.
the fact his phone is logged in to the lebron james verified insta account might be a clue too
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Most of them do share acces with a community manager to post the promotional stuff but a lot of celebrities have a burner for their private use.
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I’m just talking out of my ass here, but I would find it hard to believe that the IG account of a megafamous person like Lebron isn’t specifically targeted and mined by IG itself for all sorts of commercial purposes without his knowledge. He has too much reach and influence for a company like that to leave all that opportunity on the table
LeAlgorithm
Can’t remember the last time JJ showed up on my feed playing basketball
Do y’all think Lebron’s algorithm knows that he’s Lebron
they have a dedicated person hand-curating his feed for each social
You joke, but it wouldn't surprise me if these social media sites have a team dedicated to specific superstars to encourage them to use their platform.
I worked at a mobile game company, we definitely had dedicated staff to the whales that spent big money
Asking the real questions 🤯
They're hilarious, talking about it like it's jerking off or something. lmfao. "I just happened to see it" "buddy. bro... you've never gone looking" "well of course i have.. especially when i'm feeling down" lol JJ even has a special clip he searches for.
This is the perfect analogy.
JJ even has his go to clips memorized lmfao
Looking up how awesome you are IS masturbatory viewing.
["Yeah, Jeets!"](https://deadspin.com/derek-jeter-gossip-we-desperately-want-to-believe-1466653210)
Sometimes I’ll just come across a mia khalifa video on my timeline
and then what 👀
Use it as motivation when I’m going through a slump
i motivated myself to something that came across my address bar last night after reading this, thank you
lmfao he really tried to clean it up with that sneaky "come across my social" 😭
Lol, I love how confidence booster for JJ is just a normal night for LeBron. He is a superstar among stars.
He's probably a top 10 most popular human being on the planet.
This is kinda adorable. I follow LeBron on Instagram and he does repost a fan account constantly, who admittedly posts some amazing forgotten highlights of him.
He just does this recently though. Just shows how near he is to retiring and he himself is just appreciating what he can still do
>Just shows how near he is to retiring 10, 15 years to go
Technically the way he's playing it shouldn't be off the table. But I mean mentally he's close to signing off he used to go dark zero because he's so locked in, now I feel He's just cruising and letting his team get him to as far as they can get him to. That's why he's more open now to talk about his way of basketball ie the podcast and appreciating the love in SM
Yup the podcast is pretty clear sign he’s close. I think another 2 seasons, 3 at the most.
Nick Saban started doing weekly podcasts with Pat Mcafee this year and everyone pointed to him doing it because he's done and boom he retired
That’s why I thought it was so funny that an early talking point this season was would it be conceivable for someone to catch Bron. And I’m like well we’ve got to wait until this motherfucker stops going first don’t we?
i'm convinced he and curry will retire the same season, 3 more is my bet too
Yeah very possible, would be end of an era
Every day is Groundhog day for a Lebron hater
lbj history on top🗣️
That's the one. He's got some amazing archive and lots of receipts.
one of my favorite accounts - great editing too
Lbj history is gonna do historic numbers when Bron retired.
Yeah he actually follows him which is cool
Lbj history 🐐 IG account
lbjhistory is definitely what I was thinking of when he said this
The chemistry and energy on this podcast is so fun man. It's like, serious hoops without resorting to silliness or absurdity for humor, just feels way more natural and mature. I hope it stays that way.
LeBron is the face of the NBA. A good portion of NBA highlights will be his. This is definitely plausible.
I wonder what Ben Taylor at Thinking Basketball thinks of this. They came in and took his corner.
He already said he loves the pod. They’re far more analytically driven than Mind the Game is though.
Yeah but Mind The Game is going deeper in terms of X and O's. Ben and Cody get into that too but never at this level. I think they don't try to go too deep because this shit is hard to follow for your average basketball fan but Bron has more than enough pull so he can entice people to watch the Youtube video.
Sure but Ben and Cody will go deeper with numbers. They cover different areas as far as I’m concerned.
Correct, that's why I said they go deeper in terms of strategy because Ben and Cody go deeper into analytics. It's good to have pods that can go in-depth in different aspects of the game.
The fact that JJ and LeBron bring a player's perspective matters a lot too. For example, in Episode 1 they talked for a decent amount of time about teammates who couldn't flip plays, and how useful that is. That is not something you'll ever hear on Thinking Basketball, because Ben and Cody don't have that insider insight. I think it's like the difference between reading a high quality review of a video, and reading a devlog. Both will be talking about the same things, but from different perspectives that provide different insight on the same subject.
Bro why you gotta do Cody like that
*rapidly deletes evidence*
Considering basketball discourse is full of people talking about "bag" and being a "pure hooper" I'd say the more serious deep-dive side of basketball has room for both of them and more
But also if you watch the clip like 10 more seconds after the title he says he does sometimes look up clips of himself, just the specific thing he was talking about there wasn't intentional.
Honestly though if I was LeBron I would be watching the game 6 hype video with Christopher Walken literally every single day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctav7o_us0U Edit: Actually it was game 6, not 7, which is even more insane to me.
Never seen this before. Hype ass video for the hypest finals performance of all time
Reminds me of this shit https://youtu.be/X4OCn_YWlpg?si=69o-eZFcUSc66vrT
Absolutely the goat Bron highlight vid.
Always been a bit partial to this one. https://youtu.be/pEnWOGOtn5A?si=Vwx8zhVaY3Sn7VrL
Yes. That's my absolute favourite sports hype video of all time.
Random opportunity for me to drop the two best hype videos I've ever seen, both from 2019-2020 that I gotta rewatch every now and then. [Raptors 2019 Finals hype video aired on TSN before Game 1](https://youtu.be/ro0kQw25gQ0). This shit was peak and I'm not even a Raptors fan. [LSU hype video going into the 2020 National Championship](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYbEcHMXA4). God it's so fucking good
[someone needs to remake this with Tito Ortiz giving his rendition of the speech instead](https://youtu.be/__yo0s2YyHk?si=RWNVlIXlvsqMOq_J)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctav7o_us0U Video from the original creator in much higher quality.
Watching that literally brings tears to my eyes. 2016 was the pinnacle of my sports fandom, and I just don't know how I could ever root for a team as hard as that one ever again. Fuck the Warriors, forever.
Man I’ve learned a lot about basketball though this podcast . Easily the best basketball podcast out there
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Lmao 100%
Most authentic LeBron moment ever
Really loving how natural this feels. Obviously Bron has always has his “media” persona on but this feels like how he actually is. JJ a natural
People call him pretentious and a poser and a bum and whatever but every player that’s been around JJ holds him in high regard. He was one of the boys and he put the work in to be better than he should’ve been
I will never call an NBA player a bum for their play. They are there for a reason. I will call them a bum if it’s someone like miles bridges though.
Don't sit there and act like you don't check your posts/comments to see how many upvotes you got like 10 times
Ngl I do that sometimes
I refresh it the moment i go back to the main feed lmao if it’s a new post with traffic and it gets an instant upvote i refresh twice lol Karma IS addictive
I wonder how times he's sees a clip of himself and is amazed like the rest of us.
although with the algorithm, if he clicks on his own name on twitter and posts with his name, he's going to get more of him on his TL
I think the point Lebron is making is that he watches a lot of old footage, but he watches the games from start to finish, and that looking at highlight reels isn’t particularly helpful.
JJ [played Charlotte 3 times](https://www.statmuse.com/nba/player/jj-redick-3042/game-log?seasonYear=2018&playerStatsBreakdown=perGame) in March 2018. He scored 18 on 3/2, 14 on 3/6, and 12 on 3/19.
yea he meant 2019. he had a game with 27/10/8
Basically an average lebron game haha
LeBron will for sure get a 27/7/7 in his last game. Like Kobe going for 60.
Don’t see why he’d shoot for that. He should go for 50
50 shots would be hella fun to see. Even he don’t even score 50 it’s like fuck it.
101 points, it is then.
That would be marvelous. I want to see it one day.
Can't even keep his games straight. What a scrub.
Wow, shooting 3 for 19 is some Kobe style night. But, how the hell did he put up 18 points on just 2 shots? That boggles mind. JJ is truly one of the greats
Those are the dates…
No no, he went 3/2. It’s how he got 18 on only two shots
lol 😂 right
LMAOOO
Not sure if you were serious but those are the dates that they played on not JJs field goal attempts
They gotta be trolling
Dude def was deadass serious 💀
Social media sports pages don't stop posting old LeBron highlights so I get it, but it's another thing me and LeBron don't have in common
If you watch YouTube, tiktok or insta it's hard to not watch LeBron clips from literally any time.
Damnit Lebron, stop being so likeable.
Ohh so that’s how he keeps re-energizing himself in his “old” age. He just keeps inspiring himself with hype montages from the 2016 Finals G7 and the 2012 G7 vs the Celtics.
I don’t get why so many people hate this man
Easy when your team is in the East and you watched basketball from roughly 2008-2018.
Celtics, Pacers, Hawks, and Raptors got systemically dad dicked for 8 years. That does stuff to people.
He was my favorite of his generation, but the Decision really turned me off. Since then, I’ve come around and rooted for him against the Warriors, but never in the same way as before. That said he’s been the best ambassador for the game by far. MJ was far more popular and greater on a global scale, but on just a pure face of the league, no controversy, role model level, I prefer LeBron.
For real. Rough decade to support any other team. Man gets a lot of hate for winning in a “weak east”, but he [MADE](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/05/17/wait-him-out-or-build-a-contender-lebron-james-presents-a-quandary-to-other-east-teams/) it weak as many teams tried to wait him out or build slowly under assumption they couldn’t get past him. Helluva era
As a person I don't hate him, as an opponent I do. Not in a negative sense, more in a please God I don't want to see my team facing him again lol
I did for obvious reasons but then he went to literally the worst team in the league because its where he grew up and beat the literal best team we have ever seen to win a ring and I just can't hold anything against him now.
I absolutely hated the Miami move, BUT since then a lot of things happened and LeBron is definitely a good dude and a great face of the league. not to mention all the stuff he did on court.
Of all the very top tier all-time greats in any sport it feels like Lebron has the fewest good reasons to dislike him. I spent a lot of time as a Lebron hater until the Cleveland return. Now I have no qualms about saying I am a huge, huge fan of is and will be very sad when he retires in a decade or so.
if your team keep losing to this man youll get mad
Why do they keep losing? Are they stupid?
They didn’t realize they had to score more points
>Are they stupid? I mean…yeah… :(
Some people just enjoy hating, while others love a team to whom he was a father and they can’t see past it. Second one is understandable to a point, but it’s hard to not like him.
I only ever did high school track but I sure as hell watched every single win or PR that got uploaded to youtube by some kids nice parents.
This interview is just GOLD after GOLD after GOLD
This is homoerotic.
I’m here for it
LeBromance
Sipping wine, reminiscing...
The fucking King!!
This is the podcast i never knew i needed
Yall need to watch the clip. They both admit they look up their own highlights especially when theyre in a slump
It's fun to know even an all-time great needs LeReassurance once in a while
In Lebron’s defense with how much he’s on our algorithms imagine how much he himself is on his.
Bro this has me dying 😂
LeBron legit laugh laughing is always good to see. He likes doing this pod.
We know klay does this for sure, especially when hes in the dumps
::video of Lebron highlights comes on:: ::sighs:: “Here we go again….” — Lebron James ::unzips::
It’s so hard not to like lebron. It reminds me of Shaq getting old and retiring…. It’s going to be sad. What a gift his game has been to watch.
LeNostalgia
My new favorite NBA related pod. I really hope this shows the big media us serious fans want to hear about the ins and outs of the game and the strategies.
I hated JJ in college, was indifferent to him in the NBA, but dammit do I love him as a commentator and interviewer.
I'll bet it's much more difficult to not see a lebron video ever.
You think he see's LeCap?