Did LeBron James Just Play His Last Game In The NBA? | Chris Paul On The Pat McAfee Show

0:00 NBA story is potentially LeBron's done.

0:03 Okay.

0:03 As a kid from Ohio, how would that make you feel?

0:07 Would you would you look in the mirror and say, "You know what, AJ?

0:13 Our stars are hanging them up.

0:17 They're playing."

0:19 Yes.

0:19 It starts making you feel old.

0:20 Just LeBron James playing basketball has just been

0:23 my a part of my life seemingly since memory.

0:26 So, for him to hang it up, I didn't expect to start thinking like this.

0:29 It can't go out the way.

0:31 That cannot be the last time.

0:32 That cannot That just cannot be.

0:33 And I don't want to repeat what I said last hour,

0:35 but it kind of stopped because Chris Paul was on and he

0:37 has much better takes than than we would ever have.

0:41 There's no way that is the way LeBron James' career ends.

0:44 Last night there, I cannot have it.

0:46 Just as somebody that has been there's no way that Foxy,

0:50 you're a diehard Lebron James fan as well.

0:52 There's no way that's how this whole thing stops.

0:54 I didn't invest my time in being I didn't

0:57 get into fights with people about Michael Jordan stuff.

0:59 Me talking out of my ass not knowing anything about what basketball used

1:02 to be back there to defend LeBron for it to be 145 a.m.

1:07 on prime getting swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder with nobody

1:12 really celebrating until afterwards going this could be his last warm up.

1:15 This shouldn't we be doing this for the last couple

1:17 weeks if we think this is what it's going to be?

1:18 This guy's given a lot to the game.

1:20 Foxy Pat, we've watched LeBron our entire lives.

1:22 And if we know anything about LeBron,

1:26 there's a 0% chance this is going to be it.

1:29 There's a,000% chance that next year we're going

1:33 to see him at every single away arena getting

1:36 a standing ovation and they're going to he's going

1:39 to make it all about himself one more time.

1:42 LeBron fan.

1:43 I love LeBron.

1:45 He knows exactly what he'll do.

1:46 He deserves it and that's exactly what he'll do and that's what

1:50 I hope he does and I'll be watching every single one of them.

1:54 AJ, what does that mean?

1:55 What he just I mean he took a shot at him.

1:56 You're saying you're his biggest fan then you just take a complete shot

1:58 at him saying he's a his ego is out of control or he's selfish.

2:02 Is that what you're trying to say?

2:03 No, I'm saying what the heck.

2:05 That's what Foxy's trying to say.

2:07 I don't know why you guys He said he'll make it about himself.

2:09 That's what someone with a giant ego would do.

2:11 That's not LeBron.

2:12 That's super negative way to take it.

2:14 I just think he's the greatest of all time and he deserves

2:17 that from every single away arena and all fans worldwide that love basketball.

2:21 Go back to the Cavs for another year.

2:22 That'd be cool.

2:23 Go play one more year for the Cavs.

2:25 Go play for the Pacers.

2:26 Uh D, but it sounds like you think it's potentially over.

2:29 Is that what it sounds like?

2:30 Uh potentially.

2:31 I wouldn't say a Z.

2:32 I'm not with Foxy though.

2:33 I don't think 0% chance.

2:35 Uh I think it's a 25% chance.

2:37 75% chance he comes back.

2:39 25% chance he retires and goes off into the night.

2:43 Uh, and I only say that because of the things that he's been saying.

2:46 He's been kind of putting it out there.

2:48 You know, LeBron is like very uh very locked.

2:52 Yeah.

2:52 Very locked in on what he's actually putting out there.

2:54 So, he talked about, hey, I'm going to spend a lot more time.

2:56 My wife, we see I've never seen him post a lot during playoff runs,

3:00 especially when he was with the Heat.

3:02 He would go zero dark 30, but I've saw him posting,

3:04 you know, golf videos down 03 in a series.

3:07 I've never seen that from LeBron.

3:09 So, the love of golf, chasing the bug.

3:11 We just saw the Kevin Hart roast.

3:13 Kevin Hart said it a couple weeks ago, "Hey,

3:15 I thought about giving up standup and giving up

3:17 this to chase this new golf love thing." So,

3:20 um, I wouldn't be shocked if he just launches a new brand,

3:23 does a decision 2.0, and says, "Hey,

3:26 I'm going to go off spend time with my family,

3:28 spend time on this course." Whatever he wants to do though, take your time.

3:31 Uh, like CP said, is probably the last thing on his mind.

3:34 Getting swept is part of it.

3:35 He's been swept.

3:36 He's won championships.

3:37 He's done all the things that basketball, you know, you can experience in that.

3:40 So, whatever he does do, man, you know,

3:42 we we'll be watching and we'll be talking about it.

3:44 Yeah.

3:44 If he takes his talents to the golf course, that'd be a crazy way to end this.

3:47 Okay.

3:48 Maybe it' be a crazy way to end this if that's what he was to do.

3:51 And on that note, whatever he wants to do makes him happy.

3:54 I will certainly celebrate the hell out of it.

3:56 I just don't love the fact that it could

3:58 be over the way that it ended last night.

4:01 Uh LeBron James, uh maybe he doesn't start on team next

4:04 year and maybe he gets picked up halfway through his season,

4:07 3/4 way through the season.

4:08 Maybe he just does another playoff run.

4:09 Maybe he doesn't have a playoff run.

4:10 Maybe he joins a team that could go in a win.

4:12 And maybe I said it in brief passing there and everybody kind of shoot it off.

4:16 Maybe he does come play for the Pacers.

4:17 And LeBron James is never playing basketball again.

4:22 Whoa.

4:22 That came out of nowhere.

4:23 It feels like the conversation yesterday after our show

4:28 and I should have been paying attention more was like, "Hey,

4:31 we didn't even bring up the fact that this could

4:32 be LeBron's last game tonight." I'm like, "Last game tonight?

4:35 10:30 on prime?

4:37 Got to get swept?

4:38 I don't I hope not.

4:40 This doesn't feel like how this is supposed to go.

4:42 Is there ever a right time though, you know, like is there ever a proper exit?

4:46 He has said that he doesn't want to do

4:47 the entire you know last trip around tour.

4:50 He has said that publicly.

4:51 I think he has earned that if that is what he wanted to do.

4:54 What are your thoughts on trying to step

4:56 away from the game when it's been your entire

4:57 life and you've given so much and you're

4:59 already playing the way you're playing as a 40-year-old.

5:02 How much more can you do this?

5:05 Yeah, it's tough.

5:06 Um, I I think what he'll do is probably what he said.

5:10 I think he said go talk to his family, evaluate it.

5:14 I know when you get up to that that age and 41 or whatever,

5:17 he didn't show that he got the ability to still play at a high level,

5:21 get himself ready for the games, but it's the the mental aspect of it, right?

5:26 Even though you're grateful for the opportunity

5:27 to play and do all these different things,

5:30 there's a point where the the off seasons just get a little bit longer

5:33 and the preparation for each game

5:35 and the time away from your family, it's tough.

5:38 It's tough.

5:38 And so, I guess we'll all be uh seeing what he decides.

5:42 It when you watch him play and you see what he's able to do at this age,

5:48 does there not become something in his mind though where it's like,

5:51 hey, maybe I do do this till I'm 50.

5:53 Never would have guessed that I could still do this at this age.

5:55 Why not do it till I'm 50 and just

5:57 prove I'm the greatest professional athlete of all time?

5:59 Like that that is that's still possible to Pierce.

6:02 He's still hanging high.

6:04 I I mean he's hanging, you know, he's he's everywhere somehow still at that age.

6:10 I pulled my hamstring taking a dump

6:13 of the spicy riatone from Carbone at 4:30 this morning.

6:17 Can you hear me?

6:17 I'm 39, Chris.

6:20 I'm 39 years old.

6:22 I'm not proud of this.

6:23 I'm up.

6:24 Huh?

6:25 I'm 41.

6:28 Could you handle the spicy riatone from Carbone, the Zezy's club, you think?

6:31 Or you think you're pulling your hamstring

6:33 getting up at the toilet at 4:30 a.m.?

6:34 What do you think, Chris?

6:35 Honestly, maybe you're a little better shape than me.

6:37 I messed up I messed up my hamstring enough times.

6:39 I'm cool.

6:41 That's what I'm saying.

6:41 He's 41 still doing it.

6:43 This guy, you're not the body, human body is not supposed to be doing this.

6:46 And if that was it last night, bravo, buddy.

6:49 Congratulations.

6:50 What a run, bro.

6:52 Absolutely.

6:53 Well, run from the Hummer in high school.

6:56 Uh-huh.

6:57 Okay.

6:57 All the way through now,

6:58 we've seen this dude do everything that he's ever done basically.

7:01 And obviously, there's been a couple wars that have happened

7:04 because of things that he said and beliefs that he's had.

7:07 But I think anybody in the public eye is going to have that.

7:09 I think that's going to happen,

7:10 especially if you're growing up in front of everybody.

7:12 And uh what a run.

7:14 If that was it, I I don't like it.

7:16 First of all, I don't like that that was it.

7:18 I don't First of all, just would like that on the record.

7:21 But if it was, good for you, dude.

7:23 What's that debut?

7:24 What were you saying?

7:25 It's got to end, you know, somehow some way, you know, there's no great ending.

7:28 Yeah, it's it's getting SWEEPED BY OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER AT 1:00 A.M.

7:31 ON[ __] PRIME IS under career, though.

7:35 I'm going to remember that.

7:36 Someone will remember.

7:38 How I tell you right now, that's the last thing that's on his mind, right?

7:42 Is that And I'm telling you, like some of y'all,

7:44 like Pat, I know you got a a little girl, right?

7:49 Yeah.

7:48 So in in having family and kids and for him

7:51 giving 23 years of his life to this game,

7:55 training off seasons, missing, you know,

7:58 so much and so many other people have done it in other fields.

8:01 Don't don't get me twisted,

8:02 but there's a time where you just sit back and you evaluate.

8:06 You know, Bronnie is obviously in the league playing.

8:09 Bryce is at Arizona, you know, getting ready for his sophomore year.

8:13 You got Zuri playing volleyball and doing all

8:15 these things and B like there's there's there's life too

8:20 and he also started to chase that little white ball around.

8:24 True.

8:24 He break off right now.

8:25 Yeah, he started chasing that thing around.

8:27 Imagine if he figures out tempo challenge challenge

8:30 BY at the PGA Championship maybe in two years.

8:33 Easy.

8:35 Better.

8:34 How do you feel about Michael Block in a Whoa.

8:37 Deb butt.

8:38 D butt I missed it.

8:40 Plus 500,000 is it's throw some throw 10 bucks on.

8:44 Yeah, I'll take it.

8:46 Blocky is currently plus 500,000 to win a PJ championship this weekend.

8:49 Obviously, that is some of the largest odds that you'll ever see on anything.

8:53 And in my history with Blocky, that guy brings electricity.

8:57 Maybe he does this for all of us.

8:59 But LeBron picking up the sport of golf, it's like this guy's retiring.

9:03 He's becoming a YouTube golfer.

9:04 Oh, this guy's got to be done.

9:06 But also, that's a huge decision.

9:07 We're watching it with Aaron right now.

9:09 It's a huge decision to make to give up your life, but obviously life keeps life