Why LeBron Chose The 76ers To Chase Ring Five

Again, just like you said, just because of the comfortability, really no ties with Philadelphia, just the way the city of Philadelphia, how they have like that – reputation right the fan base you know tend to be a little bit harsh they will accept you obviously but if things go sour they'll turn on you quick and I think that's something that was kind of like okay and then obviously the Jalen Brown thing that maybe was overblown maybe it wasn't a big deal But it just seemed like it was.

So yeah, all signs pointed to other teams.

So when I heard the news, I was pretty surprised.

I would have been shocked if it was one of the other teams or if it was a team that we didn't really talk about.

That's where I would have been shocked.

But what about you? Did you have...

I'm sure you were kind of surprised, as you mentioned.

Yeah, I mean...

To me, all along, that was the best choice if he wants to win a championship.

So I wasn't surprised by that decision.

I guess I was just more of like the storylines, right? I felt that obviously going home to Cleveland, he's coming home, kind of finished his career there.

He can go back to Miami, right? That's another story chapter that he has, right? And you got the fun, go play with Steph, right? kind of retirement tour there with Steph, which would be a lot of fun.

Then he got Philadelphia, and you just know that's for winning.

That's what he was talking about.

I don't know how much fun he's going to have in Philly.

I'm sure he's going to have fun, but when you look at it, I think he chose winning over just playing with his boys or playing with Steph, playing with Draymond, things like that.

I know he's really close with Maxie, so I think that's one of the things that... um i'm sure like helped him make his decision i'll be curious to see how his relationship is with jalen brown right like do they talk uh i mean we obviously know what jalen brown said about brawny and how lebron responded yeah i'm sure they've squashed it right you know i'm sure they've talked and like they they're probably not buddy buddy but it'd be interesting dynamic as the season progresses

yeah yeah it was yeah it's i know there was a lot of talk with that like so obviously not only just a brawny thing but when jalen brown wasn't selected to the olympics not that it was lebron's fault but there was this talk of kind of the whole nike like crew and it was like there was like certain particular reasons why he wasn't selected so i feel like it kind of was deeper than that but then again maybe maybe we just kind of saw it wrong.

Or maybe it's like, you know what? It's something that can be kind of mended if there even is anything.

So yeah, I think I don't know.

I think if LeBron would have gone to any of the East teams, it would have made those three teams better.

I personally think LeBron, and I think we talked about it, I don't know about on the show or off air, that I think LeBron was waiting to see if any trades happen, if Golden State traded for Anthony Davis, did somebody go get Kyrie Irving? You know what I mean? I really think...

he probably had Philly in the back of his mind, but he was waiting for something.

And when he probably realized there was really nothing that was going to happen, he knew he had to make a decision rather quick.

And he was like, Hey, let me just go to a team.