92%ers this is for you! We’ve got King James himself stopping by on this episode of New Heights presented by Hershey’s. Shop Reese's Chocolate Lava Big Cup now at a store near you. LeBron sits down with Jason and Travis to talk all things Wild Card Weekend, how close he came to playing in the NFL, some of his favorite times hooping in Cleveland, the Championship that means the most to him, and his real thoughts on playing with Bronny. We also settle the debate on which league owns Christmas, get the backstory on a legendary pick-up game against Michael Jordan, and find out how much longer “this fuckery” can go on. Finally, as promised, we look ahead to the divisional round of the playoffs and blindly rank our favorite Will Ferrell movies. If you want to join us in supporting the relief efforts in California, please visit https://www.redcross.org/nflYou can listen to new episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. https://Wondery.fm/NH_RT See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Calling all 92 percenters, Jason Kelsey and Travis Kelsey are football's funniest family duo, and every week they provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. In New Heights, the two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about their games and share unique perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines.
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Joining us today, the 6'9", born from Akron, Ohio, the number one pick of 2003 NBA Draft, 2004 Rookie of the Year, 20-time NBA All-Star, four-time MVP, four-time NBA champion, three-time gold medalist, and the NBA all-time leader in career points. That's right, 92 percenters. Please welcome Northeast Ohio's finest, Mr. LeBron James!
Oh, my God. Yo, Jason, that might be the greatest introduction of all time. Falling at the end with the powder. Oh, my goodness. You guys are fucking unbelievable. This dude is just wearing the powder, too. Right, right.
Who's going to clean that shit up now? Kylie is not going to be happy about this. We got a list of questions. Again, you do not have to answer, but we do have to ask them. There's a story about you playing in an infamous pickup game with Michael Jordan when you were 16 years old. What was it like? Is that true? Like, can you tell us how you played? Yeah.
So when I finally was able to get on the court. First of all, MJ, Antoine Walker, and the rest of those guys did not let young guys get on the court at all. And I was 16 years old. I was sophomore in high school. And it takes a while to get on the court. It's usually when the older guys, they get tired and they don't want to play no more. They're like, whatever. But I did it.
And I was able to get on the court alongside. I was on the court with Michael Jordan, Antoine Walker, Penny Hardaway, Ron Artest, Michael Finley, all these guys. Who guarded you? Nobody. I was unguardable. Ah! I was 16. There's a, there's a, uh, 16, the baby from, yep. That was the baby from, I was in Chicago at, uh, MJ's, uh, court. It was called hoops.
There's a clip right now of actually metal world piece talking about that moment as well. Like, Oh man, I got to check it out. When I finally got out there, I was like, I'm busting ass, man. It's time to show up. I was nervous as hell being out there with MJ and the rest of those guys. Are you kidding me? I was like, oh, I'm about to go crazy. And I did. I did, man. That's awesome, man. I did.
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