Rich Paul GETS REAL On LeBron’s Best Teammate

Rich Paul GETS REAL On LeBron’s Best Teammate

we got to talk a little bit about Lebron and uh some of the discourse around him so recently there was a conversation about who was LeBron’s best teammate and your guy’s friend Stephen A Smith had this to say you know when we start asking about the greatest you know the the greatest teammate for LeBron James and stuff like that you know wait a minute now wait a minute let’s not forget Dwayne Wade if it weren’t for Dwayne Wade I could make a legitimate argument there would have never been a Kyrie LeBron didn’t know how to win until he got to Dwayne Wade let’s call that what it is he didn’t want to go to the free throw line he didn’t want to take game-winning potential game-winning shots during an allar game it was a lot of stuff that happened but the combination of South Beach Pat Raleigh coming to Cleveland and putting them rings on the table you want one of these am I lying so rich what are your thoughts on Stephen A Ron didn’t know how to win until he got with Dwayne Wade I think I understand what he was trying to say um it just didn’t come out how he probably wanted to say it uh when you talk about each teammate you know and and I’m going be quick with this like I can’t I think it’s unfair to try to decide who was the best M they all won yep that’s the goal to win I think there’s different moments and times what I will say is about D way specifically is the art of coexistence matters when you’re trying to be successful at anything MH and dwade was extremely selfless dwade because they had a friendship going in there was automatically a respect for one another to where when there were hard times he could take on the challenge of holding LeBron accountable in those moments there’s already respect there as friends that makes that a little bit easier it was way County remember going in but LeBron Trump’s any of that because his his he’s just such a big thing and so how do you coexist and often times as star players it got to be about me MH and the reason why that worked is because dwade was selfless enough he had enough awareness to understand no this needs to be about us this idea of the handh holding and not knowing how to win again I understand what Stephen A was trying to say and just for context for some people who probably couldn’t pick pick it up there’s this there’s winning and then there’s winning a championship M right Gilbert as you know I was sitting there Courtside plenty of times in DC series when you guys couldn’t get past the Cavaliers right I think 29 straight points in the fourth quarter against Detroit that team had won a championship had went to six straight NBA uh uh Easter Conference fin so 2017 you go to the finals against Spurs and and they’re big three and their continuity Etc so winning that is winning now getting over the hump to win a championship you know that takes a lot that takes number one Talent right and so I think when he decided to leave uh and and and to Miami the biggest thing was about being able to actually win having enough to get over the hump especially after what Boston had just done and so I think the biggest component for me was the fact that dwade being who he was and when you really think about it it all makes sense when you get to know dwade at his core forget the basketball player he’s just a good a good dude and he knows who he is he never tried to be somebody he wasn’t and so that embracing helps we need to exude that more just in humanity because we’re taught it got to be all about me but nobody nobody is successful by themselves that doesn’t work now the the The Narrative of the handh holding and couldn’t get out of this and you had to go to a a um press conference um and and have a chaperon that wasn’t the case that first year they were trying to make sure that both parties felt prioritized so there was a strategy of doing the press conferences together so no one would seem to be above no one else which is the actually the right thing to do but that can’t be looked on him saying like oh I needed this chaperon because I don’t agree with that um but but again I know what Stephen A was trying to to say in that manner now Kyrie in the finals so I’m not going to touch on him because I don’t want to distract him I will say his talent was a huge reason why the return is there right the belief to know you can win and then when you think about ad again Midwest know who he is when you think when you think about ad’s parents great people you know there’s there’s no there’s no um you know the out there’s no noise that says that that creates this animosity or this competitiveness internally right because that tends to drive a wedge but I was there Randy was there Maverick was there glow was there Savannah was there The Supporting Cast was there so it wasn’t like you know it’s this it’s it’s all on how you come into the NBA right so when you look at Dwayne Wade he got to be a entity for one year right 16 points a game and then a mega star came in which was Shaquille O’Neal yes so he got to grow with another entity he got to learn from another entity that was bigger than him yes right so he already learned how to coexist with something that was big so when LeBron comes he has this already I I know how to deal with this yes this is this is easy for me I’m older I’m better but I know how to deal with this yes Kyrie had a team by himself and when he was getting into his stardom he felt the success and then his enti comes it’s like wait wait and that’s tough what is this for anybody right yeah okay okay and the winning I’m winning why is he getting all the credit that kicks in right and it was the same with you know Melo right the success happen and right when he’s getting ready to blow it becomes who team is this when certain players already got to share that responsibility fair point so if LeBron was there when Kyrie was a rookie and stuff this wouldn’t have been an issue now Kyrie moving around when he’s with Luca right it’s easy now I’ve already I’ve already tested same thing with ad got Superstars to come in and he learned he already learned but but yeah I I think but I don’t I don’t take I’m not choosing which one I think it they’re all different all different I think you embrace you know the that partnership for all of them and that and because they they you know they they really all won but the art of coexisting matters when you’re trying to be successful and and that translates over to too understanding how to coexist that matters man that really did

Rich Paul GETS REAL On LeBron James’ Best Teammate as he joins Gilbert Arenas & The Gil’s Arena Crew to fire back at Stephen A Smith for his comments saying LeBron needed Dwyane Wade & The Miami Heat to win and sets the record straight on who between Wade, Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis is LeBron’s best running mate during his legendary NBA Career.

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