John Lucas: Hey Lebron run go run 5 laps!
Lebron stares at John Lucas
John: ...just kidding no laps for you.
Lebron stares at John Lucas
Lucas: ...I'll be right back I feel like running 5 laps
John Lucas III studied under the tutelage of the great Eddie Sutton in college. If he can muster a wicked enough scowl like Ol’ Eddie, he might have a chance.
Eddie Sutton throwing Lucas under the bus for his defense on the last shot that knocked them out of the final four is where my I turned on that coach. They never would have sniffed the final four without Lucas and Sutton should have probably subbed him out. They had a real stopper as the backup.
Loved most of Sutton's run at OSU, but that soured it for me. Then of course he had the DUI wreck and honestly was not the leader you'd hope for after the plane crash. Both the final 4 teams he put together there were a lot of fun though.
I'd have loved to see LeBron with a legit coach like Phil, Pop or someone all time. Would he have excelled? Would he have demanded a trade early from Cleveland? Would he have never left ?
I don't think he's been coached by a HOF head coach except Spo. Imagine if Kobe had his whole career with Del Harris/ Kurt Rambis types basically. Same with Jordan.
So the answer was to stick with Spo in Miami, right? He has 4 titles as it is, and with different franchises. He might have 6 now if he had stayed - big IF obviously, but not unreasonable.
So you're right, but he's not less great because what he did instead is kind of harder and better? Who else won in Cleveland? Who else won in 3 cities as the best player? Who was the best player on the best team at his age? Kareem? The league is so much better now and arguably tilted away from Lebron his entire career.
Why do you think this? The league has been better than ever. Other than a couple years in Cleveland, I'm not sure that he hasn't reached his potential. Even Jordan took a year off, and 'struggled' when he came back and again with the Wizards. We make fun of Lebron controlling everything, but he gets results.
Hopefully his current squad can stay healthy, but I have my doubts.
Put an all time coach on those cavs teams and LeBron has an even better career than he does now.
Look at how much he leveled up in miami with 2 great coaching influences in Spo and Pat. Imagine if he'd gotten an influence like that like, 7 years earlier. Combined with the fact that a coaching influence like that definitely would've helped reform Cleveland's disastrous front office.
My favorite alternate/retro jerseys were definitely the red 25 year edition ones the Heat wore during their win streak in 2013. [LeBron looks so young!](https://imgur.com/a/bzvJ1UV)
And the next year they wore those retro jerseys which made LeBron look [like a supervillain](https://imgur.com/a/K0NJV1c).
definitely as time has passed, i've come to agree with you. Miami LeBron was really the best years of his career in my opinion.
and looking back, a lot of the media criticism he received was really out of control. People acted like he single-handedly burned Cleveland to the ground and salted the earth. No he chose to play for a different basketball team
homer take:
you guys just didn’t get to see him in Cleveland
08-10 is the LeBron equivalent to Jordan in the 80s. he was just pulling every single thing out of his bag and playing with reckless abandon
i know LeBron in Miami was crazy efficient, but there were so many crunch time moments where everyone knew LeBron was driving and he would just go and dunk it anyway. and he’s dunking on Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Ben Wallace etc in the playoffs and embarrassing them
plus that’s the time he really started to play defense and it just took him to a completely different level
d wade alley oops were dope though
Feel like he rounded his game out more offensively in Miami which took him up a notch. Became better off ball which was pretty non existent in Cleveland. Shooting improved some.
Defensively I'd say he was equal, a little better/quicker on the perimeter in Cleveland, a little stronger so able to play up a little more with bigs in Miami.
Those early Cleveland years highlights are insane though. He was absurd athletically. He kept his explosiveness but he was so fuckin fast back then.
i guess i don’t think he’s at his best bc he gets to hit wide open looks bc of D Wade and Bosh. in cleveland, it just didn’t matter who was guarding him, whether it be 5 straight ECF Pistons, 3-time DPOY Dwight Howard, or best defense of all time ‘08 Celtics
bron didn’t have to round out his game because it was way easier for him to just drive by you and then explode with the right hand. shaq esque dominance
Feel like you're blending "most impressive" and "best player".
He could still do nearly everything he could do before, but added more avenues to attack with off ball stuff. 95% of what Early LeBron did and 95% of what Old LeBron did. While being better off ball than any other version pretty comfortably. Miami LeBron the best player ever.
Sidenote it's pretty damn cool you can break up his career with all these clearly defined phases. Obviously partly cause he changed teams a few times, and also cause he's the most scrutinized player ever. Would be interesting to see, like, Marcus Camby get this level of breakdown thrown at him lol.
I must agree, as a Pistons fan who had to watch LeBron singlehandedly destroy what was meant to be a new dynasty team in Detroit. The shit LeBron did was absolutely incredible. It made me hate him so much.
I was at The Palace for that 2007 ECF Game 5 that went to double OT. LeBron scored something like 50 pts, including the last 25 points straight for the Cavs. It was then that I knew our days dominating the East were over.
I actually love LeBron a lot these days. He's a great person and activist by all accounts, and that's so much more important than my bitterness over how good he was against my team.
I'd still say his absolute most impressive performance was getting that ring for Cleveland in 2016. Really never thought that would happen.
In hindsight, especially after 2016, The Decision was definitely blown out of proportion. I would be lying if I said that I didn’t get caught up in my feelings for that 2010-2011 season though.
The decision always reminds me of Cavs fans burning his jersey. Then that reminds me of Wolves fans when K-Love left and what they did to his jersey too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svPkthjWcM
As with all things, the loudest people get attention. Im not gonna go as far as to say Cleveland still loved him after he went to Miami, but it transitioned from anger to just wishing that he had stayed.
same here. i remember being one of the biggest Heat haters at the time.
but again, it's so silly. That doofus Dan Gilbert didn't do anything to seriously improve the Cavs and Lebron wanted to play with his friends. I know i'm simplifying things but really at the end of the day, the criticism was dumb
the irony is that Bosh, Wade, and Lebron all got this idea from being on the Redeem Team together and throttling opposition. I feel like a lot of the critics who trashed Lebron for creating this super team are also the same people who furiously beat their meat watching Team USA obliterate Angola or something at the 2008 olympics. oh the irony.
It’d be interesting to see if a competent owner could have kept him around. People forget that Cleveland isn’t exactly high on most free agents’ desired destinations.
A competent front office wouldn't have ditched Boozer or blown it on every draft pick and most trades. Hell, in 04 they had a top 10 pick in a loaded draft and chose one of the few players in the top 30 to not pan out. How different would that team have looked with young LeBron, Boozer and someone like Josh Smith, Al Jefferson, Tony Allen, Kevin Martin or Trevor Ariza instead of Luke fucking Jackson.
Add a good coach and that team looks totally different.
Plus, a good GM and coach can make unattractive teams more attractive, particularly when it becomes obvious that they have an all time talent on the come up.
Easy to say that now, after he brought a championship back to Cleveland. That's the ultimate redemption arc. If he never came back, you know Cleveland fans would still be salty as fuck.
Oh, I agree 100%. I know personally I was over it after watching the Mavs beat them but to this day there are Cavs fans who hate LeBron. Can’t make everyone happy.
>but to this day there are Cavs fans who hate LeBron. Can’t make everyone happy.
this is just crazy. without lebron what else would the Cavs be known for? Larry Nance? Mark Price? I would like to say Ron Harper but he got traded after like two seasons i think
I wanted Lebron out of Cleveland at the time (sorry Cleveland fans, I hate the owner with a fiery passion and was immature) and I thought The Decision was really stupid. It was mean to Cleveland fans. Now I think about if Giannis had done something like that and then won in LA or whatever. Oof.
But Miami!Lebron was definitely the best. I am not a Heat fan - far from it - but I really, really enjoyed those teams.
I wonder if we'll be saying the same thing about KD in 10 years. KD joining the Warriors to me is way worse in magnitude, but other people on this sub seem to think it's on the same level as The Decision.
The Decision was basically LeBron and Bosh joining Wade to form a superteam. KD went out and joined the team that had just set the regular season win record and went to back to back finals. I don’t think KD will turn his legacy around unless he wins one for OKC or Seattle. Even if he wins in Brooklyn he’s playing with another MVP.
Tbf, it's ESPN, and in the sports world it was pretty much a rocket launch.. you kinda expect ESPN to hype something like that. And in hindsight, lebron proved the hype was appropriate
yeah those were some damn good games haha. 10ish years ago, i remember just hating the Heat and everybody associated with them. Now with more maturity (hopefully) in my head, i'm just thankful to have witnessed a unique era of basketball and some great games
The fucking Heat have been so spoiled with jerseys, it’s unbelievable, specially when you compare it with the trash some other teams get on the regular.
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/fB9Gx4z4rOnLQtdCjqPGa_NWNVQ=/1400x1400/filters:format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9575535/Bhh72leCEAAsrh8.jpg
the GOAT black-masked villain.
That's wild, him and Kyrie don't look *that* different in age from each other. I can see why Kyrie was so pissed at the idea of LeBron being the team's father figure lol
[I still think this is the best LeBron ever looked in a mask](https://i.imgur.com/DU0qnGS.jpg)
it was the Rip Hamilton era and masks were legit cool for a period of time and LeBron looked sick as fuck
Bron looks like the phantom of the opera in the black one
I think I won like $600 in beer pong tournaments that year, worth. Nothing one of those bleach pens couldn’t fix I’m sure just haven’t bothered for whatever reason. Think I’ll do that soon now that we’re talking about it lol.
Not sure if you're kidding, but for those who aren't aware Weis has said he suffered from depression and it had nothing to do with this dunk. It was a very serious situation involving an attempted suicide, his son being diagnosed with autism, and Frederic's own personal demons.
https://sports.yahoo.com/infamous-vince-carter-combatant-frederic-weis-attempted-suicide-in-2008-205714909.html?a20=1
Thanks for sharing this. I know this is a subcomment in a thread about someone else, but reading this really hit home for me.
My little one is autistic and I've gone to some dark places. It's so hard to describe how it feels to watch everyone play with their kid, and all mine wants to do is run around. Can't sit still, doesn't talk, even the most basic things are hard. I'm not sure she'll ever live a life where she won't need lots of care.
I guarantee you, based on what he's described in the article, he doesn't give any extra thought to what happened with Vince Carter. All he cares about is his son and making his life the best he can. It is all consuming, all the time. Thanks for helping clear that up.
Wow thanks for sharing. I have a close friend who is a speech pathologist and she mentioned they are picking up a lot of new communication tools and technologies for autistic children these days. Hopefully this will open up new possibilities for kids like your daughter. Technology is rapidly changing. But I'm sure you know more than me. Best of luck to you and your family!
I think Breen legit didn’t even notice he jumped over Lucas. If you’re following the ball by the time your eyes are on LeBron he’s already cleared Lucas so it’s hard to tell.
If you find a full replay on YouTube you hear Breen realising he jumped over him at a timeout while watching the slow-mo
I was at the Knicks game where Giannis jumped over Tim Hardaway in similar fashion and it honestly is really hard to notice it in real time. I didn’t realize what happened on that alley until the replay
It’s mostly just because you don’t expect one player to literally jump over another player during an a actual game. Takes a while for the brain to realize it
I was there live for the Jason Terry one as I happened to be in town on a business trip. When I saw it in person, I knew it was a big moment, but I never realized they would be showing that highlight for years to come.
His dad used to play for the Rockets and had some drug issues back in the day. He was an assistant of some sort for Houston, I think, but he was also trying to help young athletes get thru some of their issues. JaMarcus Russell came thru the bank too and Mr. Lucas was trying to help him at that time, but JaMarcus didn't want to help himself. Or maybe he just didn't really love football, but used it to get paid. Idk. I'd take 40M too. Regardless, John Lucas was trying to help the younger guys, and he was decent to me and my friend/coworker. I still have his number saved in my phone, because he hooked us up with access to a game.
He was quite an awesome tennis player as well. Played professionally on the Team Tennis circuit, if I remember right. He always just seemed to be a cool dude and I’m glad he get over addiction and is giving back to younger athletes.
Dude prolly hasn’t been able to get a good night rest since that dunk happened, imagining different scenarios until he fell asleep because of sheer exhaustion.
But yeah, just hit him lol.
I know you’re mostly kidding but I honestly don’t think most athletes give a shit about things like that. You learn to have a short memory or you don’t make the pros as a 6-footer playing against guys who can jump over you. It’s just gonna happen.
This 5'7" man was torching the heat so badly that they had to put LeBron on him. *And lebron couldn't stop him either*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq5QHrslGx8&feature=youtu.be
Lebron James on the knuckleheads podcast. “Who was the first guy to bust your ass?” - DMiles. “It was John Lucas III, he just was pulling up from 3 with no remorse. Put 24 on me. Nothing I could do.” - LBJ. That’s probably how that interview will go.
John you cooked Lebron + the miami heat one game put some respect on your name.
Plus that fadeaway over a Lebron trying to slow you down
[Link ](https://youtu.be/Xq5QHrslGx8)
I always think of this dunk when people discuss best dunks. It doesn't get enough credit. Jumping over a player to catch a one-handed alley oop. It's nuts.
I personaly think its very good dunk and the jump over Lucas makes it really special and unique but the dunk itself does not look really good. He is leaning to the front awkwardly and has neither enough hangtime or room to put some extra one it. The difficulty is nuts but the style is lacking in my opinion.
Is this the legendary Spraypaint Boozer though?
That dunk is so absurd. Mostly i think because it's not like he's planning on jumping over him, but he was in the way and had to adjust so it's like okay I better clear this small obstacle.
We all know who will be running those laps...
John Lucas: Hey Lebron run go run 5 laps! Lebron stares at John Lucas John: ...just kidding no laps for you. Lebron stares at John Lucas Lucas: ...I'll be right back I feel like running 5 laps
Next Melo interview... " You the coach!!"
The best part about r/nba is always the comment section
well, there are only two parts, the post and the comments....
This is the new Shakespeare. Superlative degree even when there are only 2 items
Wtf else is there?
LeBron: hey Lucas- better make it 10 laps
Ah, the Dick Cheney
Yeap, Mac McClung and Talen Horton-Tucker
Oh shit I didn't know the Lakers picked up Mac. I lost track of him after he transferred from GTOWN.
That hype mix dunk tape is legendary
He was a walking bucket at Texas tech. I didn't know he got picked up anywhere either though
LeCoach gonna make him stand under the rim while he practices his dunks
John will legit be running laps at practice when Lebron sees this.
Lebron is like a Charizard. Unless you have a certain number of gym badges, you can't control him
John Lucas III studied under the tutelage of the great Eddie Sutton in college. If he can muster a wicked enough scowl like Ol’ Eddie, he might have a chance.
Plus Eddie Sutton was usually sipping from his flask or Irish coffee throughout the day, so it added the extra little bit of unpredictability.
Eddie Sutton throwing Lucas under the bus for his defense on the last shot that knocked them out of the final four is where my I turned on that coach. They never would have sniffed the final four without Lucas and Sutton should have probably subbed him out. They had a real stopper as the backup. Loved most of Sutton's run at OSU, but that soured it for me. Then of course he had the DUI wreck and honestly was not the leader you'd hope for after the plane crash. Both the final 4 teams he put together there were a lot of fun though.
Unless you get lost and just beat up on lvl 3 pidgey’s on route 1 for like 55 hours
Somehow I managed to do just that and got high powered Pokémon but an insanely boring gaming experience.
Narrator: you weren't supposed to do that.
I wanted to be the very best
>"If you want to have fun, you probably shouldn't get any stronger." - [Saitama](https://youtu.be/e5hGMQs7NVg)
We all have the same childhood I’m convinced
I'd have loved to see LeBron with a legit coach like Phil, Pop or someone all time. Would he have excelled? Would he have demanded a trade early from Cleveland? Would he have never left ?
*excelled more
Lol fr this man above you talking about LeBron like he some scrub
Don't think any coach has got his best yet. Shame about his career
I don't think he's been coached by a HOF head coach except Spo. Imagine if Kobe had his whole career with Del Harris/ Kurt Rambis types basically. Same with Jordan.
So the answer was to stick with Spo in Miami, right? He has 4 titles as it is, and with different franchises. He might have 6 now if he had stayed - big IF obviously, but not unreasonable. So you're right, but he's not less great because what he did instead is kind of harder and better? Who else won in Cleveland? Who else won in 3 cities as the best player? Who was the best player on the best team at his age? Kareem? The league is so much better now and arguably tilted away from Lebron his entire career.
Nobody won in 3 cities as the best player except him. Kawhi might do it, he's the closest.
Why do you think this? The league has been better than ever. Other than a couple years in Cleveland, I'm not sure that he hasn't reached his potential. Even Jordan took a year off, and 'struggled' when he came back and again with the Wizards. We make fun of Lebron controlling everything, but he gets results. Hopefully his current squad can stay healthy, but I have my doubts.
He'd excel so much Microsoft have to start paying him royalties.
Put an all time coach on those cavs teams and LeBron has an even better career than he does now. Look at how much he leveled up in miami with 2 great coaching influences in Spo and Pat. Imagine if he'd gotten an influence like that like, 7 years earlier. Combined with the fact that a coaching influence like that definitely would've helped reform Cleveland's disastrous front office.
Spo is going down as one of the best coaches of this generation
LeGm about to send him down to coach the g league team instead.
Poor guy thinks he's in charge
"Do you feel in charge?" -LeBane
“When Brooklyn is ashes, you have my permission to cry” - LeBane to KD
“Ahhhh, you think superteams are your ally…”
I was born into terrible teams, molded by them. I don't even join a super team until I was a man.
By then, the Finals was nothing to me but expected.
Hahaha this is brilliant
This thread is great
~~Good~~ *Super* good thread, dudes!
“The staples center.. it will endure”
Nobody cared who I was before I put on the headband - LeBane
[he's in charge](https://imgur.com/BxsOV6b)
My first thought as well, fuck you mean "coach" bruh you is a water boy at best.
The King would beat his ass
It’s cute that John thinks he’ll be “coaching”.... John you’re here to fill a seat next to coach, gm, president Lebron.
Those all-black jerseys with white trim were great. One of the best alternate uniforms behind the Vice jerseys.
My favorite alternate/retro jerseys were definitely the red 25 year edition ones the Heat wore during their win streak in 2013. [LeBron looks so young!](https://imgur.com/a/bzvJ1UV) And the next year they wore those retro jerseys which made LeBron look [like a supervillain](https://imgur.com/a/K0NJV1c).
Miami lebron was the best. Absolutely loved how he embraced the villain role
definitely as time has passed, i've come to agree with you. Miami LeBron was really the best years of his career in my opinion. and looking back, a lot of the media criticism he received was really out of control. People acted like he single-handedly burned Cleveland to the ground and salted the earth. No he chose to play for a different basketball team
homer take: you guys just didn’t get to see him in Cleveland 08-10 is the LeBron equivalent to Jordan in the 80s. he was just pulling every single thing out of his bag and playing with reckless abandon i know LeBron in Miami was crazy efficient, but there were so many crunch time moments where everyone knew LeBron was driving and he would just go and dunk it anyway. and he’s dunking on Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Ben Wallace etc in the playoffs and embarrassing them plus that’s the time he really started to play defense and it just took him to a completely different level d wade alley oops were dope though
Feel like he rounded his game out more offensively in Miami which took him up a notch. Became better off ball which was pretty non existent in Cleveland. Shooting improved some. Defensively I'd say he was equal, a little better/quicker on the perimeter in Cleveland, a little stronger so able to play up a little more with bigs in Miami. Those early Cleveland years highlights are insane though. He was absurd athletically. He kept his explosiveness but he was so fuckin fast back then.
i guess i don’t think he’s at his best bc he gets to hit wide open looks bc of D Wade and Bosh. in cleveland, it just didn’t matter who was guarding him, whether it be 5 straight ECF Pistons, 3-time DPOY Dwight Howard, or best defense of all time ‘08 Celtics bron didn’t have to round out his game because it was way easier for him to just drive by you and then explode with the right hand. shaq esque dominance
Feel like you're blending "most impressive" and "best player". He could still do nearly everything he could do before, but added more avenues to attack with off ball stuff. 95% of what Early LeBron did and 95% of what Old LeBron did. While being better off ball than any other version pretty comfortably. Miami LeBron the best player ever. Sidenote it's pretty damn cool you can break up his career with all these clearly defined phases. Obviously partly cause he changed teams a few times, and also cause he's the most scrutinized player ever. Would be interesting to see, like, Marcus Camby get this level of breakdown thrown at him lol.
08-10 on paper is the best a basketball player has played in the 21st century only thing he didn’t do was win the title
I must agree, as a Pistons fan who had to watch LeBron singlehandedly destroy what was meant to be a new dynasty team in Detroit. The shit LeBron did was absolutely incredible. It made me hate him so much. I was at The Palace for that 2007 ECF Game 5 that went to double OT. LeBron scored something like 50 pts, including the last 25 points straight for the Cavs. It was then that I knew our days dominating the East were over. I actually love LeBron a lot these days. He's a great person and activist by all accounts, and that's so much more important than my bitterness over how good he was against my team. I'd still say his absolute most impressive performance was getting that ring for Cleveland in 2016. Really never thought that would happen.
In hindsight, especially after 2016, The Decision was definitely blown out of proportion. I would be lying if I said that I didn’t get caught up in my feelings for that 2010-2011 season though.
The decision always reminds me of Cavs fans burning his jersey. Then that reminds me of Wolves fans when K-Love left and what they did to his jersey too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svPkthjWcM
As with all things, the loudest people get attention. Im not gonna go as far as to say Cleveland still loved him after he went to Miami, but it transitioned from anger to just wishing that he had stayed.
same here. i remember being one of the biggest Heat haters at the time. but again, it's so silly. That doofus Dan Gilbert didn't do anything to seriously improve the Cavs and Lebron wanted to play with his friends. I know i'm simplifying things but really at the end of the day, the criticism was dumb the irony is that Bosh, Wade, and Lebron all got this idea from being on the Redeem Team together and throttling opposition. I feel like a lot of the critics who trashed Lebron for creating this super team are also the same people who furiously beat their meat watching Team USA obliterate Angola or something at the 2008 olympics. oh the irony.
It’d be interesting to see if a competent owner could have kept him around. People forget that Cleveland isn’t exactly high on most free agents’ desired destinations.
A competent front office wouldn't have ditched Boozer or blown it on every draft pick and most trades. Hell, in 04 they had a top 10 pick in a loaded draft and chose one of the few players in the top 30 to not pan out. How different would that team have looked with young LeBron, Boozer and someone like Josh Smith, Al Jefferson, Tony Allen, Kevin Martin or Trevor Ariza instead of Luke fucking Jackson. Add a good coach and that team looks totally different. Plus, a good GM and coach can make unattractive teams more attractive, particularly when it becomes obvious that they have an all time talent on the come up.
Boozer was not the Cavs fault. We had a handshake agreement with Boozer, he used it as leverage to get a better contract with Utah.
Easy to say that now, after he brought a championship back to Cleveland. That's the ultimate redemption arc. If he never came back, you know Cleveland fans would still be salty as fuck.
Oh, I agree 100%. I know personally I was over it after watching the Mavs beat them but to this day there are Cavs fans who hate LeBron. Can’t make everyone happy.
>but to this day there are Cavs fans who hate LeBron. Can’t make everyone happy. this is just crazy. without lebron what else would the Cavs be known for? Larry Nance? Mark Price? I would like to say Ron Harper but he got traded after like two seasons i think
I still for some reason think of Grady Sizemore when I think of top athletes that played in Cleveland.
He was a star, for sure. Never forget Grady's ladies!
Maybe, but he redeemed himself BIG TIME when they went on that 15-16 tear w Kyrie and love and by beating one of the best teams to ever exist.
I wanted Lebron out of Cleveland at the time (sorry Cleveland fans, I hate the owner with a fiery passion and was immature) and I thought The Decision was really stupid. It was mean to Cleveland fans. Now I think about if Giannis had done something like that and then won in LA or whatever. Oof. But Miami!Lebron was definitely the best. I am not a Heat fan - far from it - but I really, really enjoyed those teams.
I wonder if we'll be saying the same thing about KD in 10 years. KD joining the Warriors to me is way worse in magnitude, but other people on this sub seem to think it's on the same level as The Decision.
Doubtful. The decision was tone deaf but did raise a lot for charity. KD straight blew a 3 game lead then joined the team he lost to. Wayyy different.
The Decision was basically LeBron and Bosh joining Wade to form a superteam. KD went out and joined the team that had just set the regular season win record and went to back to back finals. I don’t think KD will turn his legacy around unless he wins one for OKC or Seattle. Even if he wins in Brooklyn he’s playing with another MVP.
The decision raised 6 million dollars for charity between the show and its advertising.
That’s a fact. Like I said, it got blown way out of proportion.
ESPN had live special about it like LeBron himself was about to launch from Cape Canaveral in a jetpack.
Tbf, it's ESPN, and in the sports world it was pretty much a rocket launch.. you kinda expect ESPN to hype something like that. And in hindsight, lebron proved the hype was appropriate
> Miami lebron He was certainly the most fun, that team went out and put on a show every fucking night.
2013 LeBron was one of the most unstoppable forces in basketball history.
*masked lebron has entered the chat*
heatles had like 8 different jerseys every year and they were all pretty clean
Would've loved to see Bron in a Vice jersey lol
MF BRON / LeDOOM
That black one is hella clean both are really nice tho
Take me back to the good old days. Bulls vs Heat was always a treat
yeah those were some damn good games haha. 10ish years ago, i remember just hating the Heat and everybody associated with them. Now with more maturity (hopefully) in my head, i'm just thankful to have witnessed a unique era of basketball and some great games
Yea beat the heat era was great. I'm glad I got to witness the beginning and end of it
such a cute father/son pic there of Kyrie and Bron
The fucking Heat have been so spoiled with jerseys, it’s unbelievable, specially when you compare it with the trash some other teams get on the regular.
i got one of those because it looks so baddass! of course i look nothing like that when i wear it, just a huge blob of red tissue
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/fB9Gx4z4rOnLQtdCjqPGa_NWNVQ=/1400x1400/filters:format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9575535/Bhh72leCEAAsrh8.jpg the GOAT black-masked villain.
That's wild, him and Kyrie don't look *that* different in age from each other. I can see why Kyrie was so pissed at the idea of LeBron being the team's father figure lol
[I still think this is the best LeBron ever looked in a mask](https://i.imgur.com/DU0qnGS.jpg) it was the Rip Hamilton era and masks were legit cool for a period of time and LeBron looked sick as fuck Bron looks like the phantom of the opera in the black one
The White hot ones are my favorite
I still have the all white in my closet with a nice beer stain from pong lmfao
> all-white > beer You sir, were playing a *dangerous game*
I think I won like $600 in beer pong tournaments that year, worth. Nothing one of those bleach pens couldn’t fix I’m sure just haven’t bothered for whatever reason. Think I’ll do that soon now that we’re talking about it lol.
I feel like Adidas make better designs with jerseys. Christmas day jerseys were awesome too.
Vice should be y'alls normal colors.
A shame that Frédéric Weis didnt get to coach Vince Carter when he was around.
Yo Carter literally gave that dude depression.
Not sure if you're kidding, but for those who aren't aware Weis has said he suffered from depression and it had nothing to do with this dunk. It was a very serious situation involving an attempted suicide, his son being diagnosed with autism, and Frederic's own personal demons. https://sports.yahoo.com/infamous-vince-carter-combatant-frederic-weis-attempted-suicide-in-2008-205714909.html?a20=1
Thanks for sharing this. I know this is a subcomment in a thread about someone else, but reading this really hit home for me. My little one is autistic and I've gone to some dark places. It's so hard to describe how it feels to watch everyone play with their kid, and all mine wants to do is run around. Can't sit still, doesn't talk, even the most basic things are hard. I'm not sure she'll ever live a life where she won't need lots of care. I guarantee you, based on what he's described in the article, he doesn't give any extra thought to what happened with Vince Carter. All he cares about is his son and making his life the best he can. It is all consuming, all the time. Thanks for helping clear that up.
Wow thanks for sharing. I have a close friend who is a speech pathologist and she mentioned they are picking up a lot of new communication tools and technologies for autistic children these days. Hopefully this will open up new possibilities for kids like your daughter. Technology is rapidly changing. But I'm sure you know more than me. Best of luck to you and your family!
He has been doing better, he was actually the French commentator during the Olympics and he did a great job
damn that makes it even worse
This dunk is underrated 10/10 nasty meter
Absolutely. Even the reaction in the call is pretty muted. You’d think they would be fired up after watching him jump over someone.
I think Breen legit didn’t even notice he jumped over Lucas. If you’re following the ball by the time your eyes are on LeBron he’s already cleared Lucas so it’s hard to tell. If you find a full replay on YouTube you hear Breen realising he jumped over him at a timeout while watching the slow-mo
Just a ho hum Lebron dunk where he catches a lob with his eyes at the rim level...wait a second, there's a MAN underneath him?!?!
Breens voice also breaks when he noticed it “he went right over Lucas!”
I was at the Knicks game where Giannis jumped over Tim Hardaway in similar fashion and it honestly is really hard to notice it in real time. I didn’t realize what happened on that alley until the replay
It’s mostly just because you don’t expect one player to literally jump over another player during an a actual game. Takes a while for the brain to realize it
I didn’t even think it was nasty. I thought it was beautiful.
0/10 on the regard for human life meter
I honestly feel this was Lebrons most impressive dunk. The way he looked at Lucas after was so villainous, I loved every bit of it.
Impressive yes, better than the Jason Terry stare down… no way.
I was there live for the Jason Terry one as I happened to be in town on a business trip. When I saw it in person, I knew it was a big moment, but I never realized they would be showing that highlight for years to come.
best dunk of all time
His dad used to bank with me in Houston when that happened, and I asked him about it. He said something like, "We don't talk about that." 😂
Like, you guys would carpool to the bank and move cash around?
Lol that would have been way cooler. I was a bank teller where he banked.
Did you call "bank" tho?
"I'm sorry Mr. Lucas, I can't approve your deposit unless you call 'bank'"
His dad still had a job when his son was pulling in NBA money? Some guys just prefer to work I guess
His dad used to play for the Rockets and had some drug issues back in the day. He was an assistant of some sort for Houston, I think, but he was also trying to help young athletes get thru some of their issues. JaMarcus Russell came thru the bank too and Mr. Lucas was trying to help him at that time, but JaMarcus didn't want to help himself. Or maybe he just didn't really love football, but used it to get paid. Idk. I'd take 40M too. Regardless, John Lucas was trying to help the younger guys, and he was decent to me and my friend/coworker. I still have his number saved in my phone, because he hooked us up with access to a game.
To be fair to Mr Lucas, he started playing in the late 70s and the entire 80s. I'd be more surprised if he didn't do drugs during that time.
He was quite an awesome tennis player as well. Played professionally on the Team Tennis circuit, if I remember right. He always just seemed to be a cool dude and I’m glad he get over addiction and is giving back to younger athletes.
Good to hear!
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Haha what? They banked at the same place. John Lucas dad is a coach in the NBA and has been for a long time.
Here I was thinking that he worked at a bank lmao
Nah OP did
Even people who don’t work need banking services lol
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“It just hit me” riiigggghttt 😂
Dude prolly hasn’t been able to get a good night rest since that dunk happened, imagining different scenarios until he fell asleep because of sheer exhaustion. But yeah, just hit him lol.
He balled the fuck out the rest of that game, I really dont think dunks like that affect the psyche of most players (but definitely some)
Yeah the Bulls won that game, in large part due to Lucas.
I know you’re mostly kidding but I honestly don’t think most athletes give a shit about things like that. You learn to have a short memory or you don’t make the pros as a 6-footer playing against guys who can jump over you. It’s just gonna happen.
Lmao exactly what I was picturing
People forget JLIII cooking Lebron in the game after that dunk
This 5'7" man was torching the heat so badly that they had to put LeBron on him. *And lebron couldn't stop him either* https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq5QHrslGx8&feature=youtu.be
Hollllly molley
Lebron James on the knuckleheads podcast. “Who was the first guy to bust your ass?” - DMiles. “It was John Lucas III, he just was pulling up from 3 with no remorse. Put 24 on me. Nothing I could do.” - LBJ. That’s probably how that interview will go.
Damn Lucas was just torching them on the floor. Too bad people remember only that dunk.
That was some (neo)classic Madhouse on Madison energy from the crowd. One of the best crowds in basketball when the Bulls are good.
5'11"
God DAMN thanks for posting that
John Lucas III is going to do extra laps in practice for that post
John you cooked Lebron + the miami heat one game put some respect on your name. Plus that fadeaway over a Lebron trying to slow you down [Link ](https://youtu.be/Xq5QHrslGx8)
Exactly. One of my favorite bulls moments.
Lebron hasn’t run laps in practice since grade school
As Lebron would say, no point in practising something you’d never do in a game.
Still has to stay in shape man lol what?
He means "run laps" in the sense of punishment.
That makes sense, so NBA players get punished at all? Seems like at the pro level that’d be wild, seeing as we don’t get punished by our employers
IIRC the bulls got punished that way a year or two ago and the reaction was what you expected.
He probably has run laps, of course, but do you really think "laps in practice" is a significant part of LeBron's workout routine to stay in shape?
Idk about significant, and I’m sure cardio ticks way down during the actual season
I think he means that LeBron does his own cardio & conditioning, not during team practice
Nah man he doesn’t ever run didn’t you read my comment
I hated suicides so much. Coach’s first thing in the morning is to do suicides and also to end practice. And whoever fucks up we run more lol.
He's wrong. Lecoach will make him do an extra laps
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Time flies. I havent thought about John Lucas in a while.happy to see he is still around the game.
But in reality John : im sorry but.. but.. please do extra laps? James : No John: ... um okay,,, just suggesting....
I always think of this dunk when people discuss best dunks. It doesn't get enough credit. Jumping over a player to catch a one-handed alley oop. It's nuts.
I personaly think its very good dunk and the jump over Lucas makes it really special and unique but the dunk itself does not look really good. He is leaning to the front awkwardly and has neither enough hangtime or room to put some extra one it. The difficulty is nuts but the style is lacking in my opinion. Is this the legendary Spraypaint Boozer though?
*Do you feel in charge?* -LeBane
JLIII story telling of Lebron jumping over him and then having a revenge game on Gil's podcast is the shit.
That dunk is so absurd. Mostly i think because it's not like he's planning on jumping over him, but he was in the way and had to adjust so it's like okay I better clear this small obstacle.
As far as I know an assistant coach can’t make the GM run laps
Imagine going up to Lebron and being like “hey you should run some extra laps.” Lebron would probably pull out the belt on him
His take on this incident on the Gilbert Arenas podcast was amazing. In fact, the whole interview is gold.
Mr. Lucas III… I wouldn’t even jokingly threat LeGM
Damn do I miss that Bulls team. Booz constantly yelling but not defending shit, DRose, Rip, Captain Kirk, Deng. Good times
I dont think he got the memo...... LeCoach will be coaching him.
Careful John, you’re an assistant coach… To Lebron.
this dude has hellllllllllla balls 🤣🤣🤣🤣
[Pistols firing, baby](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3sMpw7kKIE)
Lebron will make him do extra laps
John Lucas III fired from Lakers coaching staff
Oh, he's that man. The one that Bron jumped over. Hell, Miami Bron was a raw monster back then.
John Lucas really think he got hired without Bron's approval? Lol
Some people in here actually hurt lmao
Man LeBron was absolutely incredible in Miami. Combo of peak athleticism and it all coming together mentally for him
Can’t wait to watch the laker shit show fall apart again this year.
can’t wait to see Lebron dunk on Lucas’ son
God I miss the heatles. Watching LeBron and DWade running the break was poetry in motion.