LeBron knows that Kyrie doesn’t like people saying LeBron was like a father to him, so while he has been mostly complimentary of Kyrie in interviews he always calls him a kid.
Rachel Nichols asked him why and here is what he had to say.
James had nothing bad to say about Irving, other than using a choice noun when referring to the four-time All-Star.
“At the end of the day, the kid did what he wanted to do,” James said. “That was his destiny. Like I said, you know, the three years that we had together, unbelievable three years, and, you know, I wish we could have continued that, but it didn’t work itself out. So, now my energy is to the guys that’s, you know, in The Land.”
Nichols then challenged the 32-year-old James on his “kid” label for the 25-year-old Irving.
“Oh, the kid? That’s the kid,” he said. “I used to be the kid.”
Let the drama of the NBA season begin.
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