{"id":72664,"date":"2014-02-18T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=72664"},"modified":"2023-12-22T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:08:08","slug":"lebron-james-full-interview-with-steve-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/lebron-james-full-interview-with-steve-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebron James Full Interview with Steve Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hg6sSYAoomU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After a week of controversial teasers, the full NBATV interview with LeBron James aired on Monday night and it didn't disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>A very open LeBron discusses everything with Steve Smith, from his single mother raising him to becoming a family man and raising his two kids with his wife off the court to dealing with high basketball expectations, becoming a villain and then a leader and a champion that continues to find motivation on the court.<\/p>\n<p>One of those motivations on the court is Kevin Durant who LeBron praises and says the way KD plays every single night is inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>It's a must see interview with plenty of it's own inspiring moments from the NBA champion that will probably be wearing a Miami Heat jersey for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\"At this point, I can't,\" James said when asked if he can picture himself being with another team. \"At this point, I can't. We don't know what can happen from now to July, so what I've been able to do this whole season to this point is just worry about what's at hand and that's winning another championship. And hopefully at the end of this year I can put myself in a position where I can hold that Larry O'Brien Trophy up once again and then I will assess what I have to do with my future after that.\"<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Below is the interview broken up into segments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A4AQj2ivku0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OW84oEF9PRo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qXLw9-2Xfw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nROwFKIakcE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-fBBk5StW3U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0_cfpz3uEA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GWJzGMglNXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtRPYfjqi_s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oaw600DaoLk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w0PXf6tnFbw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Video by NBA Showtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week of controversial teasers, the full NBATV interview with LeBron James aired on Monday night and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,3,74,23],"tags":[896,1261,1673],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-72664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-nba","category-nba-videos","category-video","tag-lebron","tag-nbatv","tag-steve-smith"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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