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It could be a professional athlete or it could be an artist
It could be a doctor
It could be anything in the world, a president of the United States
But you got to put the work in
And I think if you put the work in, the results will happen organically
And most importantly, you got to find happiness, too
You know, if you're having fun, enjoying what you're doing, then it just makes
It makes it so much easier
It makes it so much easier to just, like, you want to do it every day because it's something that you really enjoy doing, and you don't look at it as work
I mean, it's
It's not
It's not about just
It's not a lot
It's not about a little girl or a little boy or whatever the case may be
If you want to play, then you got to put the work into it
You got to put the work into it
And
And it really can't be much excuse
You don't need much to play the game of basketball
You know, my first basketball, who was literally was
It was a crate, a milk crate that I cut the bottom out and nailed it to a telephone pole, you know? And so, you know, just
Just play it as much as you can
Learn about it as much as you can watch it
You know, I was watching the game of basketball a lot, too, when I was a kid, when I wasn't able to play it
Just trying to learn, learning from the best, you know, seeing the intricate parts of the game, how important a bounce pass is, how important a chess pass is, how important, you know, just being a great teammate and things of that nature
So this game is the most
It's the most beautiful game in the world, and it gives back to you when you
When you commit to it and you put all your
Your passion and your love and your joy and your cry and everything
Got the name
Good
Lt will do an intro for you
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome LeBron James
Before I get started on the speech that I have, I want to acknowledge audelize that was lost Sunday morning
Alyssa Altobelli, John Altobelli, Carrie Altobelli, Peyton Chester, Sarah Chester, Christina Mouser, Ara Zalbania, Gianna Bryant, and Kobe Bryant
Now, I got something written down
They asked me to kind of stay on course, or whatever the case may be, but Laker nation, man, I would be selling y'all short if I read off this shit
So I'm gonna go straight from the heart
The first thing that come to mind, man, is all about family
And as I look around this arena, we're all grieving, we're all hurt, we're all heartbroken
But when we're going through things like this, the best thing you can do is lean on the shoulders of your family
And from Sunday morning all the way to this point, now, I heard about Laker Nation before I got here last year, about how much of a family it is
And that is absolutely what I've seen this whole week
Not only from the players, not only from the coaching staff, not only from the organization, but from everybody
Everybody that's here
This is really, truly, truly a family
And I know Kobe and Gianna and Vanessa and everybody, thank you guys from the bottom of their heart, as Kobe said
Now, I know at some point we will have a memorial for Kobe, but I look at this, I look at this as a celebration tonight
This is a celebration of the 20 years of the blood, the sweat, the tears, the broken down body, getting up, sitting down, everything, the countless hours, the determination to be as great as he could be
Tonight we celebrate the kid that came here at 18 years of age, retired at 38, and became probably the best dad that we've seen over the last three years, man, tonight is a celebration before we get to play
Love y'all, man
Kobe is a brother to me
And from the time I was in high school to watching him afar, to get in this league at 18, watching him up close, all the battles that we had throughout my career, the one thing that we always shared is that determination to just want to win and just want to be great
And the fact that I'm here now means so much to me
I want to continue along with my teammates, to continue his legacy, not only for this year, but as long as we can play the game of basketball that we love, because that's what Kobe Bryant will want to
So, in the words of Kobe Bryant, mamba, out
But in the words of us, not forgotten
Live on, brother
I had one coach, and he used to say, put yourself in situations where you're not in
You're not comfortable
Oh, yeah, that's my favorite saying
It is a question not related to the game, but since it has been a lot of publicity yesterday and today about godfather part two, which is the scene or the moment or the phrase or the quote? You like more from the movie? Oh, from the godfather
There's too many different phrases and too many different lines in that movie to just categorize one
But quit is the one
Quit inspiration represents you more
I mean, each movie is 9 hours long
I mean, what do you want me to do? I mean, there's so many
I don't know
I'll let you pick one and I roll with it
It's a great trilogy
Yeah
So you're holding the autobiography of Malcolm X along with Alex Haley
I don't know how far you are into the book, but what's your biggest takeaway so far? I kind of just started a couple days ago, but I've read and I
A lot of
A lot of notes over the years
It's my first time actually reading this from start to finish
But just a very, very smart man
Smart man
And basically his words, in the sixties and what was going on is actually what's going on today
I watched the whole game
I seen the whole game
I was at home watching the game
And, you know, I said he was going before the game even started
When I seen
I said he was probably going to score 70 tonight
I don't know what made me say that
And my friends was with me and they was like, okay
So when he got to, like, 70, I was like, well, he might as well go for 80 now
So, I mean, I'm a fan of the game, and to see that performance was unbelievable
2% of Liverpool, how does that come about? I read about the franchise and how amazing it is, and I actually made a trip over to Liverpool as well and see all the sights in the arena and everything
So it was pretty unique
Crouchy is actually a Liverpool legend
I don't know if you knew that
No, I knew that
No, I knew that
I didn't get an opportunity to see him play when he was with the club, but I definitely knew that
The current captain, Jordan Henderson, just scored his first goal for England the other day
It was amazing to see
You fan of his? No, absolutely
And I saw

It could be a professional athlete or it could be an artist

It could be a doctor

It could be anything in the world, a president of the United States

But you got to put the work in

And I think if you put the work in, the results will happen organically

And most importantly, you got to find happiness, too

You know, if you're having fun, enjoying what you're doing, then it just makes

It makes it so much easier

It makes it so much easier to just, like, you want to do it every day because it's something that you really enjoy doing, and you don't look at it as work

I mean, it's

It's not

It's not about just

It's not a lot

It's not about a little girl or a little boy or whatever the case may be

If you want to play, then you got to put the work into it

You got to put the work into it

And

And it really can't be much excuse

You don't need much to play the game of basketball

You know, my first basketball, who was literally was

It was a crate, a milk crate that I cut the bottom out and nailed it to a telephone pole, you know? And so, you know, just

Just play it as much as you can

Learn about it as much as you can watch it

You know, I was watching the game of basketball a lot, too, when I was a kid, when I wasn't able to play it

Just trying to learn, learning from the best, you know, seeing the intricate parts of the game, how important a bounce pass is, how important a chess pass is, how important, you know, just being a great teammate and things of that nature

So this game is the most

It's the most beautiful game in the world, and it gives back to you when you

When you commit to it and you put all your

Your passion and your love and your joy and your cry and everything

Got the name

Good

Lt will do an intro for you

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome LeBron James

Before I get started on the speech that I have, I want to acknowledge audelize that was lost Sunday morning

Alyssa Altobelli, John Altobelli, Carrie Altobelli, Peyton Chester, Sarah Chester, Christina Mouser, Ara Zalbania, Gianna Bryant, and Kobe Bryant

Now, I got something written down

They asked me to kind of stay on course, or whatever the case may be, but Laker nation, man, I would be selling y'all short if I read off this shit

So I'm gonna go straight from the heart

The first thing that come to mind, man, is all about family

And as I look around this arena, we're all grieving, we're all hurt, we're all heartbroken

But when we're going through things like this, the best thing you can do is lean on the shoulders of your family

And from Sunday morning all the way to this point, now, I heard about Laker Nation before I got here last year, about how much of a family it is

And that is absolutely what I've seen this whole week

Not only from the players, not only from the coaching staff, not only from the organization, but from everybody

Everybody that's here

This is really, truly, truly a family

And I know Kobe and Gianna and Vanessa and everybody, thank you guys from the bottom of their heart, as Kobe said

Now, I know at some point we will have a memorial for Kobe, but I look at this, I look at this as a celebration tonight

This is a celebration of the 20 years of the blood, the sweat, the tears, the broken down body, getting up, sitting down, everything, the countless hours, the determination to be as great as he could be

Tonight we celebrate the kid that came here at 18 years of age, retired at 38, and became probably the best dad that we've seen over the last three years, man, tonight is a celebration before we get to play

Love y'all, man

Kobe is a brother to me

And from the time I was in high school to watching him afar, to get in this league at 18, watching him up close, all the battles that we had throughout my career, the one thing that we always shared is that determination to just want to win and just want to be great

And the fact that I'm here now means so much to me

I want to continue along with my teammates, to continue his legacy, not only for this year, but as long as we can play the game of basketball that we love, because that's what Kobe Bryant will want to

So, in the words of Kobe Bryant, mamba, out

But in the words of us, not forgotten

Live on, brother

I had one coach, and he used to say, put yourself in situations where you're not in

You're not comfortable

Oh, yeah, that's my favorite saying

It is a question not related to the game, but since it has been a lot of publicity yesterday and today about godfather part two, which is the scene or the moment or the phrase or the quote? You like more from the movie? Oh, from the godfather

There's too many different phrases and too many different lines in that movie to just categorize one

But quit is the one

Quit inspiration represents you more

I mean, each movie is 9 hours long

I mean, what do you want me to do? I mean, there's so many

I don't know

I'll let you pick one and I roll with it

It's a great trilogy

Yeah

So you're holding the autobiography of Malcolm X along with Alex Haley

I don't know how far you are into the book, but what's your biggest takeaway so far? I kind of just started a couple days ago, but I've read and I

A lot of

A lot of notes over the years

It's my first time actually reading this from start to finish

But just a very, very smart man

Smart man

And basically his words, in the sixties and what was going on is actually what's going on today

I watched the whole game

I seen the whole game

I was at home watching the game

And, you know, I said he was going before the game even started

When I seen

I said he was probably going to score 70 tonight

I don't know what made me say that

And my friends was with me and they was like, okay

So when he got to, like, 70, I was like, well, he might as well go for 80 now

So, I mean, I'm a fan of the game, and to see that performance was unbelievable

2% of Liverpool, how does that come about? I read about the franchise and how amazing it is, and I actually made a trip over to Liverpool as well and see all the sights in the arena and everything

So it was pretty unique

Crouchy is actually a Liverpool legend

I don't know if you knew that

No, I knew that

I didn't get an opportunity to see him play when he was with the club, but I definitely knew that

The current captain, Jordan Henderson, just scored his first goal for England the other day

It was amazing to see

You fan of his? No, absolutely

And I saw