76ers Land LeBron James – Are they a legitimate threat to hhe Knicks?

You guys saw the breaking news on social media. LeBron watch is finally over. The 22-time All-Star is headed to the City of Brotherly Love and he will sign a reported two-year, $8 million deal. Kobe Price said the California Post is on to talk about LeBron's latest and possible final move of his career and of course, his legacy. Kobe, no more speculation. No more asking you where we think he's going to go. Why did you leave the Lakers? It's in. The tweets are out. One, appreciate you coming on. LeBron tweeted that he thought his career was over after his last game as a Laker, that he still wants to compete and to win and have a chance at feeling, at the feeling of winning another championship. Two-part question here. Thoughts on the tweets and why do you think he chose Philly over Miami and Cleveland? Well, first off, appreciate you as always for having me on. When we get into the tweets part of it. I mean, it's honestly, it's eye-opening just a little bit of insight into LeBron's mind from, you know, LeBron's phone or laptop or iPad, whatever he's tweeting off of, right? Like just to get a little bit of insight, you know, not talking to other people around him, not hearing talks to other executives, front office people, the man himself and to hear him say, you know, it makes sense because the important context within this when he was announced that he was not going to return to the Lakers was, that was his decision to come back for 24th, you know, again, a record-extending 24th NBA season. So when he makes that decision, it's two decisions. One, is he going to come back or does he want to come back, period? That's the first decision. The second one is, okay, if it's not going to, if he's going to come back, where is it going to be? And he made maybe one and a half decisions within the first decisions of, okay, you know, being LeBron, I'm going to come back, but it's not going to be with the Lakers. Now you get the other half decision or I guess full decision of, okay, now we know who's the next team. As for the team itself, I mean, it's pretty shocking. I mean, I've been reaching out to people, talking to people, you know, since the decision was made. A couple people have been like, yeah, this was probably the best outcome. But, you know, for LeBron, you know, he said it himself, like this is about competing for championships. And even before LeBron's decision, if you ask me among all the teams, maybe even including Minnesota, that had the best shot of winning a championship, Philly would probably be number one. And now they're definitely number one with LeBron on the side, but just think about it. He's going east where the Knicks obviously reigning NBA champions. That's the only team I could truly put above the Sixers, the Sixers period, especially when you have LeBron. If he stayed West, you still have to compete against the Thunder, the Spurs. Even if you went to a team like Minnesota, even with LeBron Minnesota, they're probably finishing below the Thunder and Spurs. Now in the east with 76ers, as good of a shot of as any team in the east to come out of the east and goes to NBA Finals, right beside or right behind the Knicks. And I'm going to get you to elaborate on if the Sixers are now legit contenders coming out of the east in a little bit, but let's talk about his role, what his role could be in Philly. I mean, there was that little beef between he and Jalen Brown about what Jalen Brown was caught on the hot mic saying about Bronnie. When you have a Jalen Brown, Tyrese, Maxie, Joel and be now LeBron James. What's LeBron's role going to be on this team? And what do you think he accepts as a role? Yeah, and it's also important to point with the Jalen Brown factor that Jalen Brown was a player that LeBron actually endorsed for MVP. I think maybe that was back in January, February last season. But in terms of his actual role for the 76ers, I mean, it's going to be probably very similar. So we saw during the back end of his tenure, maybe that March when he was with the Lakers, the playmaking, the the low post operation because yes, though the 76ers, obviously, they have Joel Embiid, but can you count on Joel Embiid to play 5560 games year in and year out at this point? Probably not. So even with with or without Embiid, LeBron's going to be operating out of the low post, but very it's about easing them into it. We saw this that saw this this last year with the with the Lakers. He kind of eased his way into the season and with all the perimeter talent that the 76ers have again, you have Maxie, you have Jalen Brown, you have Edgecomb, you can they can kind of take the burden off of LeBron and he can focus on other parts of the game playmaking and defense rebounding ease his way into scoring. He doesn't have to be. I mean, there's a there's a strong world in which you know, for the in the first time his career of the Bron could be the fourth leading score just from a points-per-game standpoint on the team, which would be new for him. But that is kind of the role that they would probably be expecting of him just from what they have and what would be best for the team. All right, he's back in the East the Knicks, the Kings of the East brought the broom out against Philly last last playoffs, but now you've got a team with Jalen Brown LeBron James Joel Embiid Tyrese Maxie are the 76ers now a legitimate threat in the East and even a possible finals run. Absolutely. Absolutely again, right by I'll give the Knicks their due. They're the reigning champs. They but they deserve to be number one and so someone knocks them off or if they just don't show the capability of being number one, which there's no reason to believe that would be the case but right behind them or right beside them should be the 76ers again a starting lineup of Tyrese Maxie Vijay Edgecomb Jalen Brown LeBron James and Joel Embiid decent depth on the roster as well, you know coming off the bench. They can go like they can go pretty deep with in terms of the reserve. So this should be a team that is, you know, as good as any team in the East right behind the Knicks right behind the Knicks. They have the scoring the defense can be a little bit troublesome, especially talking about the main five or six guys, but they could be you know, one of the most fun one of the most efficient offenses in the league when you're adding LeBron. I mean they already were training on that pace when they added Jalen Brown in exchange for Paul George, but you have LeBron in there like he's more additive. He doesn't take away anything from the team. He's just additive to what you already do. So they're right there. They're right there to me. They move ahead of the Cavaliers. They move have moved ahead of the Celtics. They move ahead of maybe even the Pistons who obviously are looking around like hey, we're still no, I'm they know that the piss excuse me that the Knicks won the title but they want 60 games of a number one seed but to me the 76 is are right there right behind the 70 excuse me right behind the Knicks in terms of championship equity in these it's like I can't believe we're talking about LeBron James the LeBron James signing with his fourth NBA team coming back to the East and teaming up with the Jalen Brown and the Tyrese maxi. There's a lot of LeBron stands out there that are already ordering that all-black 76 is LeBron James Jersey. Let's talk about this man's legacy. What does this move mean for LeBron's legacy? And when it's all said and done smoke clears. Do you think it's going to be a positive or negative impact on the LeBron James King James legacy? I mean his legacy is pretty solidified after playing 23 NBA seasons, but as long as he's still playing he can continue to add to it, right? So at least at this point, I think it's going to be positive, you know, the ability to compete for for a championship or championships. It is a two-year deal and LeBron. He's he said it before, you know, you give him two years and in a destination on a team. He'll figure it out. So this should be positive, especially if the semi-finals are able to make it to the conference finals make it to the finals potentially even one of finals. I mean, this is a semi-finals team that's been what for the past decade been one of the better teams in the league, but they haven't they haven't had a breakthrough. They haven't even made it to the conference finals, you know this entire time that Joel Embiid's been with the franchise. So if he's able to get them to the conference finals, I mean, that's a victory for them anything beyond that like that's additive to what LeBron, you know, LeBron's legacy and all the accolades. He's already racked up in his career. Yeah, they haven't been to the conference final since 2001. That was the last time they were in the NBA finals. They've been looked at as a little bro. They've been looked at as that team that underachieves, but now LeBron James has a chance to be that guy to get them over the hump. All right, Kobe. Appreciate all the coverage of this LeBron James Reagency, my man. No, appreciate you.