00:00NBA tips off tonight.
00:02And the big one, obviously, is in the garden.
00:05You got it.
00:06The Mecca, baby.
00:07Madison Square Garden and New York Knicks are hosting the LeBron James 76ers.
00:13I don't know what this era is going to look like
00:16and how this ending is going to be for LeBron James,
00:19but no question about it.
00:21You've got a lot of question marks.
00:22There's a lot of great basketball players on that Sixer team,
00:25and Embiid has got to be the centerpiece of this.
00:28He's got to play more than 39 ballgames.
00:31But, again, this is going to be an interesting story this year
00:34with this 76ers team.
00:36I work out with Reese every summer, so I already know the type of player he is.
00:40I'm here a lot.
00:43The reason why I'm here is because of him.
00:45What's the two-man action kind of looking like between you and Tyrese?
00:48I think there was one play.
00:49You guys ran a bigger role, do a pocket pass for you, finish up in A1.
00:52I know you guys work out a lot,
00:54but how does that kind of translate from practice to on the court?
00:58Yeah, I mean, that's what you just said.
01:00To be able to put the reps in and practice, to rep it, rep it,
01:03and then be able to go from a practice court to a main court to the game.
01:08That court is aggressive.
01:11So that's a good set for us.
01:13It's a good movement for us.
01:15It's a good – and know that we can have that in our back pocket whenever we need it.
01:18This is a connection that we have,
01:19and some of the best things for us offensively is going to be to get up the floor,
01:25you know, pace and space.
01:26We have athleticism.
01:27We have guys that share the ball.
01:28We have guys that can attack the paint with the dribble, with the pass.
01:32So we're just hanging behind the defense.
01:36So is LeBron going to be the Robin to Tyrese Maxey in this dynamic here?
01:43Last time he had something like this set up, it was with D-Way down in Miami,
01:48where you have an opportunity for a one-two punch to be able to go,
01:51and then the other guy obviously isn't beat in this conversation.
01:55We said it earlier, too, that Nick Nurse has got quite a dynamic to work around
01:59to try to get the basketball in the hands of some of these guys.
02:02What's the role of LeBron going to be?
02:04This is the final chapter in what is one of the greatest NBA careers of all time.
02:11You know, the debate on who's better, Jordan or LeBron James, Magic Johnson,
02:17Kareem, all those guys.
02:19I think it really is something here for LeBron to go out on top.
02:22Let's remember something here.
02:24Everybody kind of remembers, but they really don't want to remember
02:27how Jordan ended in Washington.
02:3020 points, going nowhere, and it was really a sad ending kind of in a way.
02:35And people try to erase that now because of that ending that he had in D.C.
02:40How will this ending be?
02:42LeBron has had a storybook career.
02:44You know, look, I'm a Michael Jordan guy.
02:46I think Jordan's the greatest player that's ever lived.
02:48I actually think that Jabbar is the second.
02:51The most unstoppable shot in the history of the NBA is the skyhook.
02:55Who would you want to have on the box with 10 seconds left in a game?
03:00Would you want a guy shooting a 30-footer or you want a guy shooting a 5-footer?
03:04That's why I take Kareem all the time.
03:06However, LeBron James is in that conversation and has a chance to go out
03:10and expand that legacy.
03:12The guys win NBA championships in three different cities with three MVPs
03:17in those cities as well.
03:19It's been quite a career.
03:21If you were going to have a class on how you represent yourself
03:25and how you go from rags to riches, LeBron James is your course.
03:31This guy has turned himself into a billionaire,
03:33and this guy is one of the greatest basketball players, not only just that,
03:37but truly one of the greatest American sports athletes that's ever lived.
03:41And the final chapter looks like it starts tonight in the place that we saw win
03:48a championship just a few months ago, and that's in the Mecca of Madison Square Garden.
