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First of all, I just told him, happy to have you back, man

Congrats and happy to have you back out there

And obviously it's going, you know, first action in so many months, you know, legs and your lungs is gonna be the first thing to go

But I thought he was great in the minutes that he was out there

It was great to have him back

Last two second game

Thomas has had a big swirl night on you guys

Just curious in your opinions of Kim as an emerging young score

He does that to everybody

Last question

How long? Nine out of ten

At your age and with your

Not very long

Not very long

I'm on the other side, obviously, at a hill, so I'm not gonna play another 21 years

That's the damn sure, but not very long

I don't know when that door will close as far as when I retire, but I don't have much time left

Thanks, Ljdem

First of all, you tip your hat to them

Defending champions, super, super, great team, super well coached, and you tip your hats

I mean, they made the plays down the stretch, you know, to win this series, you know, so you get credit with

Credit is due, that's for sure

No, I just want to get home to the family, honestly

Start looking at the schedule

Obviously, I got, you know, my son, one of my boys, is just trying to decide if he's going to enter the draft or go back to school

I got another kid that's playing au ball right now

My daughter's playing volleyball, and my wife is doing so many great things

So it's about family right now

And then in a couple months, I gotta go to Vegas for training camp, so I gotta rest my body for USAB

But that's kind of the initial thoughts

I don't know

I haven't given much thought lately

Obviously, I thought about it in the past, but then of the day, the kid

The kid has to do what he wants to do, and I don't even want to say kid no more

The young man will decide what he wants to do and how he wants his career to go

So I just think the fact that we're even having a conversation is pretty cool in the sense of that, but we'll see what happens

I don't have an answer to your first question, to be honest

Haven't given it much thought

Obviously, at some point, I'll sit down with rich, my agent, and sit down with my family and see what's best

What's best for my career

So we cross that when we need to

How taxing is very taxing, mentally, physically, spiritually, everything

I mean, to be able to just play this game alone and then to try to play at a higher level is very taxing

It's a lot of dedication, a lot of hard work and a lot of long hours

So, you know, it's very taxing

But, you know, it's rewarding because you, if you love the game and you love the process and you love being great, then you don't mind, you don't mind taking the tax on your body and your mental and your psyche and things of that nature that comes with it

So it's okay

No, because we lost

I don't, I don't, I'm not a participation guy

We lost and, you know, you move on and see how you can get better

But, you know, our season has been derailed all season with just like injuries and guys in and out and, you know, I talked about it all year

He was around us all year

I said, I don't, but it's hard to say who we are, what we can be because we have yet to be whole

I think we was only probably whole maybe one or two times this year, and I know one of them was during the in season tournament

We got whole and we showed what we was capable of doing, but we were just hit with injuries after injuries, after injuries, and it was just hard to, it was hard to come back from that

Mike, overcome with emotion, is exactly how I would describe LeBron's reaction as he shares a hug with Kyrie

We'll get in a minute

But he is still crying tears of joy

Lebron

No, no worries, Kyrene

LeBron, as soon as that buzzer sounded, your emotions let loose

Can you describe what you're feeling right now?

Oh, LeBron, you did what no other team had been able to do, coming back from a three to one deficit in the finals

And to do that, you had to win twice in a place that proved too much for so many teams

What did you find in game five here?

Well, she, in a few minutes on the podium

How do you cope with that when you have games like that you guys usually win? Well, you cope with it by understanding it's just one game and looking at the opportunity we have on Tuesday force a game seven

Obviously

You know, for myself, I want to do whatever it takes to help our team win and I haven't been able to do that the last two

So hopefully I could do a better job coming in on Tuesday

We all as a unit can do a better job and

And we'd be fine

I thought he was great

I mean, you tip your hat off to a guy like that

I mean he made his seven threes

I don't know if it was any of them

Not contested, hand in his face, falling, step backs off dribble

You know, I'm okay with that

We're okay with that

I mean, you know, you tip your head to a guy who makes shots like that and he's the guy that can do it in our league

He's the best shooter in our league

So that's not what we lost

I mean, we give up

We give up 18 fast break points, you know, we give up 15 2nd chance points

You know, Steph was special, obviously, but, you know, him hitting those step back threes is not why we lost the game

Nah, I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world

That's simple

A few things there

So, like with the three ball, we've seen it so often now, no lead is really safe

Think back to early in your career

I came in the league in 0607

I played no minutes my first two years

Yeah, but you know what? If we had a 19 point lead going to the fourth, I might get all twelve minutes of garbage time

For sure people would clear their benches

This was 15 years ago

For sure people would clear their benches with a 17 point lead in the fourth

Nine minutes to go

You can't do that anymore

It's interesting you bring up Steph, because

A long history of great players that have impacted the game, and you can see a lineage between different skill sets