FIRST TAKE | Shannon SHOCKED LeBron huge retirement hint after his 40-piece in Lakers win over Nets

FIRST TAKE | Shannon SHOCKED LeBron huge retirement hint after his 40-piece in Lakers win over Nets

And Wilton that’s some pretty good company so that’s a little bit of a snag for the Rockets as they try to sneak into the play in that where where the Lakers end up taking on the Nets Anthony Davis early on this game is so big for La Means virtually nothing for Brooklyn

LeBron Outlet Davis Lakers lead by 15 but it wasn’t LeBron’s passing which is always top of mind that actually stole the show more on that in a second Austin Reeves 170 run for La they’re up 23 at the break in a game they’ve got to have

That run the largest in the NBA this season right off in the third LeBron 43 this is his 1,485 game the reason I’m bringing that up is because he’s been talking about the end in just a little bit you’ll hear more about it LeBron five for six from

Three through three he matched his season high with 40 pulling up again he had nine triples tying his career high 40 points seven boards five dimes a huge win LeBron looking over his shoulder at the Nets and father time how long do you expect to continue

Playing in the NBA LeBron n out of 10 at your age and with your accomplishments is is still like a head burer for a lot of people yeah uh not very long not very long um I’m on the other side obviously at the hill so I’m not going to play another 21 years

That’s for damn sure but uh not very long um I don’t know what uh when that door was closed as far as I when I retire but I don’t have much time left I have not heard him talk like that for a while 40o games by players 39 or older

LeBron’s done it twice Michael did it three times in that stint with the Wizards punch their tickets tomorrow hey that’s going to be that’s going to be big what time of game come on we got hey chat we got to watch the game as a

Family as a family I’mma get on and turn the game on and y’all come in and we’ll talk we’ll talk the whole time the game excuse me oo I don’t know if you saw this tonight but goat James Dropped 40 points with a career a career best three-point shooting uh performance to

Lead the Lakers past the Nets LeBron James went near perfect he was nine of 10 from behind the arc and the one was a running three where he took off running to the left corner and let that thing bam P up yeah he would let him go from

Central Park but he said that’s not enough and then he then he then he went to Sag Harbor which is up in the Hampton he said that’s not far enough and then he let one go from itha I say God dog on Goat James hey if you know you know what

I should have patented that because I am the first to ever call that man goat James and now you see everybody in Goat suits everybody wearing goat masks go antlers I gave him that name oh you think he was the first look it up I guarantee you never heard anybody

Refer to him as gold James until I did until you did but that boy dropping that boy dropping 40 man you know what I’m saying and I got Old Goat Jay look at that that goat Jay right there oh so you got his so you you kept his Funko

Too I got oo goat and goat James goat Funko hey you you might you are you gonna ever give us our stuff back come on man I bought this what you mean somebody sent you that by accident how you accidentally send something to somebody you ever sent somebody something by accident hold you

Bought the LeBron one or you bought I ask you a question have you ever sent somebody I guess you I bet you ain’t never deposited no money in somebody’s account by accident did you oh no I never do that okay hey but sometime sometimes back in the day you ever send

A text message to the wrong person Yeah by accident back then you couldn’t un you have no un that was for you oh my bad yeah CH so hey who they play who they played they played Dess LeBron who’s Ed his 21st season of The League

Then handed at the end at the end of uh at the end of his career after the game he was asked how much longer would he play he said not very long I’m on the other side obviously of the Hill uh I’m not going to play another 21 years well

We know that that’s for damn sure 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 how you on the how you on the other side of the hill at 38 39 and dropping

Goddamn 40 against the Nets you n for 10 from three but you’re on the other side of the hill I don’t know what hill he on but Jack a on it hey no no Jack fell down hey you a hit that bar huh yeah I

Heard it I don’t know what H you on but Jack ain’t on it yeah Jack fell down hey Ultra but here’s the thing uhuh he got that 40 on 13 on 17 shots damn that’s that’s incredible incredible efficiency right I mean he look he saw it go in

Like he said he said now I’m able to get on the court and do things in between games so I’m able to keep my rhythm he’s shooting like 40% from the three right um making his free throws he look he’s still gonna be able to get down field or

Get down heel the question is oo how much longer does he want to keep up this kind of monal training how much more time does he want to uh keep up with this monal dedication because that’s that’s what it comes down to is that how much longer does

He right how much longer can he keep his mind sharp and will there be other things that interest him because you know Kobe body started to break down but then Kobe started to see like man you know what I kind of want to do it I want to kind of

Be in the movie thing I want to do this short and anime features I want to do that and he had the same kind of passion can LeBron develop a passion for something outside of basketball right I mean what would that be too when when you think about he has a production

Company um I think he he his production company got they got to do three features I think one with Jesse Owens one with Jim Thorp and another to be uh name later right uh he he he was phenomenal they they play for the game

Really a part of me was sad uh that that game should have been over oo they played great they were up by like 26 points and then the the Nets cut it all the way down to eight and LeBron should have been on the bench but if he’d been

On the bench we wouldn’t have saw this virtuoso because he scored 17 points in in the in the fourth and they needed all 17 to withstand because cam Thomas started to heat up right uh uh and so they and they started to turn the ball over that’s what really got him in

Trouble in the third is that the turnovers and so uh and that that’s that’s crazy man when I when I think about it I sit back in hindsight I look at look at some of the great basketball players in our era think about some some of the friends I know some of the

Players like LeBron himself and and and Westbrook and and and and D the D Wades and and I think during my time in my era when those individuals were in their Prime and you know me I like to do everything I like to challenge everybody obviously as you can see when people

Come on come on the show I love the but like the fact that like I used to consist consistently beat LeBron 101 you know in competitive competitive games at the YMCA it’s crazy to see what he does in a structed environment in five on five or just just dominating the NBA for

21 years I’m like but you you know but I’m saucing you up in the gym knowing One V one situations which is not that’s not structured basketball because it’s five on five but I mean I just sit back and think about that and I I kind of I

Don’t know I just kind of pride myself on my on my game and thinking like I could have went to the NBA but I chose I chose football well I think everybody glad you chose football oo yeah Kobe Bryant’s 2000 NBA Finals ring sold for a record

$927,000 at auction broke Soul yeah who would s who would sell his ring his father the sale broke the record set by bills Russells 1957 championship ring which sold for 75,000 in 2021 uh I guess Kobe parents had fallen on hard times and the ring that he gifted

His dad uh ended up on the trade market now we shouldn’t be surprised by this because they started Hawking his stuff while he was alive they were selling his high school memorabilia his trophies that he’s won uh and things of that nature so I don’t think anybody is

Surprised by this I know I’m not so Kobe’s parents they they didn’t they didn’t get along he didn’t get along with Mom Mom and Pops I guess I I don’t know the back I don’t know the backstory I I guess I mean Kobe Kobe started dating Vanessa shortly after he got to

La yes sir they ended up getting married yes sir shortly and if I’m not mistaken I think the crooks of the argument now I don’t like to speculate but uh you hear things that he got married without a prenup and his father being a former NBA player say son that’s career

Suicide um but he did it he was in love and uh he did it and uh and and the and the mom dad didn’t go to the wedding no so I don’t I don’t get everybody like well Kobe bro so so you don’t show up

How I mean your mom’s alive you and real you your mom’s alive your mom and grandma don’t come to the wedding obviously Real’s gonna feel some type of way you’re gonna feel some type of way right but you won’t okay well Vanessa should have just put that aside right

Huh a lot of times people say things they would never do themselves right oh you just let that slide oh you turn the other cheek hey that that’s that’s tough though yes I’m I’m I’m think I’m thinking like it’s bad enough me and hurricane Paula we didn’t we didn’t see

Eye to eye throughout the years is is bad enough but this is a situation that’s not about you that’s not your wedding that was not Kobe and his mom’s wedding that was their son wedding you couldn’t swallow your pride you couldn’t bite your tongue say you

Know what son I don’t agree with that but I love you I love you so much right that I know how important this is for you that day especially that day oh yeah that’s I I didn’t know it was that bad I I don’t know I don’t damn

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FIRST TAKE | Shannon SHOCKED LeBron huge retirement hint after his 40-piece in Lakers win over Nets