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Great news then.

I have to check that interview. When available on youtube, someone please post it.
 
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Here's 6 more minutes of the interview that I haven't seen yet:


And the rest of that snippet we got the other day:


And another 3 minutes:


This final video includes the quote on his contract as posted by bobcat22 above.

Can anyone who saw the interview on CNN confirm what else we're missing? Seems like this is all that's available at this point.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>LeBron James after Day 1 of camp: &quot;I&#39;ve never player with a point guard like Kyrie Irving.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cavs?src=hash">#cavs</a></p>&mdash; Sam The Bullshit Whisperer (@SamAmicoFSO) <a href="">September 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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With Kyrie, Dion, and Love...this will be a better situation for LeBron offensively than he ever had in Miami. Literally for the first time in his career LeBron doesn't have to be "alpha" on offense, and can expend all his energy on doing all the little things that lead us to W's.
 
With Kyrie, Dion, and Love...this will be a better situation for LeBron offensively than he ever had in Miami. Literally for the first time in his career LeBron doesn't have to be "alpha" on offense, and can expend all his energy on doing all the little things that lead us to W's.
Let's not get it twisted, LeBron will be the alpha on offense and should be. But it is nice to be able to have some nights where Kyrie or Love could be the guy.
 
Let's not get it twisted, LeBron will be the alpha on offense and should be. But it is nice to be able to have some nights where Kyrie or Love could be the guy.


^ This.

I get the fact that some guys on here are desperate to see Kyrie lead the team in scoring, etc, but bottom line, LeBron is the most efficient scorer on the team and should take the most shots.

Everyone will get touches and open shots. LeBron isn't like Kobe and Melo when it comes to trusting his teammates, but he will be the centerpiece of the offense, not Kyrie, not Love.
 
Let's not get it twisted, LeBron will be the alpha on offense and should be.

LeBron probably will still be the alpha on offense, but I don't agree he necessarily should be. Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love are two of the most gifted players in the league offensively. Irving is well above average at every facet of scoring the ball, and Love is an exceptional rebounder and great passer, but LeBron is great at all of those things and more. What Kyrie and Love are good at are mainly offensive skills, but LeBron's impact on a basketball court extends beyond that...especially defensively.

Everyone says that LeBron's best skill is he puts his teammates in the best position to succeed. That's why LeBron could lead teams to 60 win seasons on his own in a way that Ky and Love couldn't. He adapts. Kyrie and Love are at their very best when they're scoring the ball. LeBron should be the glue connecting everybody together.

Honest to god, (even though this will never happen) if LeBron ends up as the second or third leading scorer on this team, but we still end up with a dominating team with 60+ wins, he should definitely get the MVP award in my eyes.
 
Honestly, I could see LeBron distributing even more now (we have guys capable of spotting up very well) and putting his stats more in line with Oscar Robertson. He could very possibly average a triple double for an entire season which would be a sight to see for sure.
 
Honestly, I could see LeBron distributing even more now (we have guys capable of spotting up very well) and putting his stats more in line with Oscar Robertson. He could very possibly average a triple double for an entire season which would be a sight to see for sure.

I don't think his rebounding numbers will approach 10 this season with Kevin Love, TT, and Andy down low. Would be tough.
 
I don't think his rebounding numbers will approach 10 this season with Kevin Love, TT, and Andy down low. Would be tough.

I'm not so sure. And I didn't necessarily mean this season. I can just see him settling in when he learns how much he can trust his teammates to make shots. Not to mention I see coach getting interesting with lineups and long clankers are always a possibility for a rebound closer to where LeBron will roam.
 
For him to even think about averaging a triple double his points would have to drop in the 17 pppg range. Way too many good players on this roster to think he's going to have the usage to average 20+ along with 10 assist. The rebounding is far fetched to unless he plays about 25 minutes at pf in small ball lineups
 
LeBron will focus less on facilitating and rebounding loads, but on offense and defense, he will be very active. I would like to see LeBron conserve his energy for the playoffs and let Love be the top scorer of the team, but that's not going to happen.

I can see Love averaging more shot attempt than LeBron since he's the second most efficient player on the team behind, LeBron, but Kyrie shouldn't get near the amount of shot attempt as those guys. He's not as efficient as them. Those guys can do more with less. The offense wouldn't be efficient/effective with Kyrie as the centerpiece. It's simple basketball 101. I know Kyrie is fun to watch, but doing fancy plays and taking a lot shots don't translate to winning games.
 
The team is better off with its top two most efficient players taking the most shots, and that's why we can all anticipate that LeBron and Love will be the first and second scoring options.
 

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