LeBron Knew Carmelo Anthony Was Going to Announce His Retirement

LeBron, I'm curious if you could walk us through, the day starts with Carmelo Anthony, someone who you are very close with in your contemporary, announcing his retirement, and then you getting ready to play in a Western Conference Finals game as sort of the last man standing, if you will, from that class. What was that like for you? Well, I kind of knew the announcement was gonna happen, because I shot the video a week ago. That you guys seen today. So, people probably think I'm lying about that too, huh? I shot that video like a week ago, so I already knew the announcement was coming, just didn't know which day, but it happened today. And, but it's still a bittersweet, obviously. That's one of my best friends, you know, when I got to this league, even before I got to this league, I mean, when we have so many moments, when we were in high school, from competing against each other to, you know, sitting outside of a hotel room, you know, at two or three o'clock in the morning on the steps of a hotel, and just talking about our journey up until where we were, 17, I was 16, he was 17, and what we could possibly do going forward, what we could possibly do for our mothers, what we could possibly do for our families if we just continue to stay focused. I believe we just, we was a driving force for one another. We were locked at the hip since high school, and then you guys saw that once we got into the NBA, and he was always a motivating factor for me. I've been in the Western Conference, I was in the East, so I would play our games, you know, and then I would rush home to my, rush home downtown Cleveland where I had like an apartment my first two years in the league, and rush to turn the Nuggets games on, you know, and watch Melo play. All the way to the point where we didn't make the playoffs my first year, I was in Denver for his first playoff game. You can look that up too, just in case you think I'm lying about that too. So, definitely just a bittersweet moment today to see one of my great friends. I don't ever like to say call it quits, I mean, just to say that, you know, it's an amazing run, amazing accomplishment, amazing career, and we just, we always, we'll be joined at the hip no matter what.