Rich Paul LeBron Philly love for the game
Rich Paul on LeBron to Philly: "This is a love for the game decision. Nobody at this level, this accomplished, this successful in life, still wanting to play the game, I don’t know what else you can say about it."
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Listen. What were the deciding factors? Well, I think, you know, obviously, the most important thing is once you had a conversation with your family and they are okay with it, I think it's all, you're skiing downhill at that point. Now you can really. So, but wait a minute, he has the conversation with the family because he's thinking about Philly. And once, and so, but, because like, I imagine if it's Golden State, you don't have to talk to anyone. It's right there. It's very easy. Yeah. Right? Yeah. So, but Philly or Miami is. The distance, yeah. That plays a huge role. I think he talked about it, you know, being just so far away. But, you know, I think it's a testament to what his family has always meant to him and how they supported him in understanding just his love for the game. Man, this is the love for the game decision, right? Nobody at this level, at this accomplished, you know, this successful in life still wanting to play the game. I don't know what else you can say about it outside of someone being very obsessed with the game of basketball. And also choosing, you'd say, well, the Thunder and the Spurs are in the West, but actually the East is better than the West right now. The best team in basketball is in New York. They just proved it against San Antonio. the Sixers are obviously now retooled with LeBron and Jalen Brown the Celtics may have gotten better with all these maneuvers we'll see so by the way I'd just like to point everyone out the influence of this show Bob Myers came on he was able to pitch the Sixers here to Rich and then
