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00:00LeBron didn't play. He sat out with ankle soreness and a foot issue, ending his 20-year run of appearing in the games.
00:09He did, though, show up just to tell everybody why he wasn't playing. So he at least, I don't know what that meant.
00:16Why come at all? Should have just stayed home if you have all these problems. Here's LeBron. He had to show his face.
00:22Kind of more a maintenance type of wear and tear situation?
00:26I mean, it's a little bit of both. I was hoping that it would feel a lot better this morning, but it's not as where I want it to be.
00:35And with 30 games left and us trying to make a playoff push in the Wild, Wild West, I felt like it was very important for me to kind of take care of myself and understand what's coming on.
00:45So I want to say it's maintenance. Well, it is maintenance. But at the same time, it's like, you know, I have to look out for myself when it comes to this to this injury that I've been dealing with for years, you know.
00:57And so I hope to be available on Wednesday. You know, we have to have a makeup game. So I am headed back to L.A. tonight.
01:06There will be no vacation for me. So I head back to L.A. tonight and head back to rehab tomorrow and get ready for practice on Tuesday.
01:15And hopefully I can play against Charlotte on Wednesday and hopefully play against Portland on Thursday. So it's a big stretch for us.
01:22He kept bringing up the Wednesday thing because they're playing Wednesday night. They're the only, you know, they're playing that makeup game from the fires with Charlotte.
01:30There are some who have suggested that he didn't play last night as like a give back to the league for rescheduling that game on Wednesday at the end of the All-Star break, that he did that to kind of stick it to the league, that he didn't play in the game.
01:42He's like mad that they had to put their makeup game at the end of the All-Star break.
01:48You know, he's just he's just got such a brutal existence. I mean, it's got to be rough for him, you know, but I'll give him this much. I will give him credit.
01:59We all know how brilliant he is, how great he is. And he plays all the time. So I don't have a problem with him being one of these load management guys.
02:09If he says he's injured, I believe him because he he's just always in the lineup and grinding and he's 40 and he's still a badass and he's unstoppable.
02:19I get all that. But, you know, any thought or even concern or question of like, you know, there's some kind of brutal existence here.
02:31We've gone through this with the five-star hotels, the team plane, the luxury buses, the luxury food. They all I mean, they have chefs cooking food on the plane.
02:41And don't even tell me I'm wrong. I've been on them. I've done it with the Steelers. I did it with the Thrashers. I know how they live.
02:48They stay at the Four Seasons and at the Ritz Carlton. There is no such thing as suffering in the NBA.
02:53I guarantee you that. And believe me, there are better hotels in San Francisco than the Ritz Carlton and the Four Seasons.
03:07Don't get me started. And I've stayed in them. And believe me, you they've got the life of Riley.
03:12I don't want to hear, oh, I don't get a vacation. Are you kidding me? His life is a vacation.
03:18Like, do you know how much money this guy has made with between his NBA career and all of his productions and movies and documentaries and commercials?
03:27I mean, this guy, he could buy literally any team he wants in any sport outright himself by himself.
03:34Michael Jordan did it. You don't think LeBron James is going to own a team soon? I bet he owns the team in Vegas.