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People know I take Halloween very seriously.

It's my favorite holiday, by the way... by far.

Beetlejuice, it's one of my favorite movies.

"I'm a graduate of Harvard Business School."

"I travel quite extensively."

"I lived through the Black Plague, had a pretty good time."

"I've seen The Exorcist about 167 times,

and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it."

"Not to mention the fact that you're talking to a dead guy."

"Now, what do you think?"

"You think I'm qualified?"

Could you imagine me having shown up to the game on Sunday

and playing the game like this?

Like, "From St. Vincent-St. Mary, uh, number 23, um, Beetlejuice."

- James! - James.

"It's showtime!"

Basketball is a beautiful sport.

- It's more than a game. - It has given me everything.

And one!

- The people expect a lot. - It's a lot of pressure.

No!

And there's no greater feeling than being on the court. I love that.

And the 2023-24 season is underway.

When you talk about the NBA, there's 450 players from around the world.

- It's so competitive. - Most are playing to survive.

But some guys make it look easy.

I'm Jayson Tatum.

- Jimmy Butler. - Domantas Sabonis.

- Anthony Edwards. - LeBron James.

Gonna be an exciting season.

Whoo!

- We got threes like that all day. - Easy assist if you throw me the ball.

Keep your foot on the gas.

Sit on his lap! Sit on his lap!

♪ Bang, time to show you What we came to do ♪

- Tatum. - He's kind of unstoppable.

- He has the talent. - Here we go!

But for some reason,

there's not a championship that's coinciding with that.

Can he deliver in the clutch?

I would cut off one of my fingers to win a championship.

Jimmy Butler's a machine!

He ain't Jimmy Buckets for nothing.

One of the top personalities.

- He has the bravado. - He shows the silly side.

I love it when people get to express theirself.

♪ Shake your ass, shake your ass ♪

Sabonis catching bodies!

He is the big man. He often gets forgotten about.

But he's 110% at everything he does.

He wears the hard hat every night.

This is a guy you would love to have on your team.

I got you. Come on!

Being a leader lights a fire in me.

Edwards... Hold on!

He'll try to snatch your soul out of your body anytime he dunks on you.

A superstar is here. The future face of the NBA.

But is he mature enough to lead his team?

Oh shit!

Nobody can stop me.

Yeah!

LeBron James!

No other player in history has sustained the elite

over a long period of time like LeBron.

- Surprised at myself at this point. - Yeah, old man!

I wanted to be the greatest of all time.

- We made history. - For how long?

Because this season feels like a changing of the guard.

I'm not tired.

This next generation, they have big shoes to fill.

I just wanna get home and drink some wine.

This season, the access is different from anything I've done.

- All the games, all the plane rides. - Doing something I love every day.

No one's ever seen me in an intimate space like this.

Tigey!

The Big Bird is here.

- It's a year-round job. - We had our ups and downs.

You're not with your family as much.

You wanna show Daddy your dino?

Every day is a sacrifice.

It's not always as sweet as everybody think that it is.

♪ We are born the same... ♪

You know, we almost lost our son in the summertime.

Anthony Edwards out for personal reasons.

Jimmy Butler is taking a leave of absence.

- We don't know the details. - Sometimes, it's hard.

- We're not superhuman. - Hey!

But basketball has given me so much.

- Ah! - Ah!

♪ It's only you that makes me all I am... ♪

Every year in the NBA, 100 players get swapped out.

You gotta work for your spot.

- Everybody has something to say. - Don't give a fuck what you think.

It might be a game for you, but, like, this is my life.

Let's fucking go!

Ooh, ooh. The main goal never changes.

Boom!

We just gotta fucking win.

What do you wanna do? Ride with me?

- Thank you. - Of course. Of course.

Good seeing all of you.

♪ And the winner is Hov, my man ♪

♪ Speech ♪

♪ First of all, I wanna thank my connect ♪

♪ The most important person With all due respect ♪

♪ Thanks to the duffel bag The brown paper bag ♪

♪ The Nike shoebox For holding all this cash ♪

♪ The Roc Boys in the building tonight ♪

♪ Hey ♪

♪ Oh, what a feeling I'm feeling life, hey ♪

♪ You don't even gotta Bring your paper out... ♪

LeBron, any part of you think this could be your last season?

Last time we spoke to you,

you mentioned that, you know, your basketball future was uncertain.

You were potentially considering retirement.

How quickly after that did you realize, "I have a lot of gas left in the tank"?

♪ Rare guns If you dare come near the fortress ♪

♪ This apple sauce Is from the apple orchard ♪

♪ This kinda talk Is only reserved for the bosses ♪

What's up, boy? J-Hood, what up, boy?

Three. Four total. Catch and shoot.

Shake. Drift, catch and shoot.

Oh, you crazy.

This is season prime time.

Meaning season 21.

Playing over two decades

with the amount of minutes, the amount of games I've played,

'cause of my dedication to my work,

I think it's a huge part of the reason why I'm still able to play at this level.

Get up, girl! Ooh!

LeBron is going into his 21st season.

You know how hard it is to be who LeBron has been for 20 years?

We talk about the guys who have played this deep into their career.

He is pushing the limits of what a player's prime is considered.

So, AD... AD, be up so he can't... so he can't snake the dribble.

When you're LeBron James, like, he truly knows how his body feels.

Like, I don't see any degress.

I don't see anything that suggests that he needs to walk away.

Anyone who has spent any time paying attention

to what's happened in the NBA in its 77, 78-year history

will recognize that there's only a few players

that are worthy of putting their name in the record books

as... as one of the greatest to ever do it.

And the things you need to do in order to be a part of that conversation

starts with championships...

LeBron James captures that elusive title.

I'm LeBron James

from Akron, Ohio.

Cleveland!

This is for you!

This historic 2020 NBA championship

belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers!

I wanna be that team this season.

I'm trying to put my mind into that emotion right away.

And also facilitate that to my teammates as well. This is where we come together.

- Hook it up. - This guy's got our group. What we got?

- Together. One, two, three! - Together!

Dada!

Dada's having a good day, isn't he, buddy?

Yeah. He gets to see his...

He gets to see his babies.

Just smell.

Ah.

Ya.

Rylee, your brother just blew out my candle.

I wonder who taught him how to do that.

- Me! - Yeah.

- You not gonna blow it out again? - Nuh-uh.

- I can trust you? - Yeah!

- I can trust you? Okay. - Yeah. Yeah.

- Are you... - You just gonna smell it?

I thought you weren't gonna do that.

Rylee, what kind of coffee does Dada drink?

- Coffee. - No. What kind?

- Cappuccino. - Good job.

Coffee today is normally always cappuccinos,

a lot of cappuccinos, you know.

I think I'm on cappuccino six.

I actually made three of them myself, so I'm proud of myself for that.

See that artwork right there?

That's perfection.

- Yeah. - Yeah, don't do that.

It's not yours.

This is Dada's.

You got your apple.

My barista skills are still very beginner level.

But it's because I have a job that I must try and master/conquer first,

which is basketball.

And Jimmy Butler will cleave it in.

Describing my style of play, my game, I legit can do it all.

- Can he win it here? - I can shoot threes.

Yes!

A guard? I'm a pretty good defender.

Butler... Here, talk to the hand.

I'm like a king of all trades, I think that's what the saying is.

The Black king of all trades.

Oh, Jimmy frickin' Butler puts it in!

I gotta... I gotta brace myself.

- First day of the new year... - Yeah. Imagine that.

I'm emotional, man.

Jimmy Butler is living a kind of a life

that is atypical for an NBA superstar.

He is also, you know, a bit of an eccentric.

He's been showing up to Media Day with a different hairstyle

basically to troll all the media

'cause we gotta use that profile pic of his

every time we identify him in the starting lineup

on these national broadcasts.

"What are you doing, Jimmy?" But, like, to him, it's a big, long joke.

I think it was a month before Media Day.

It was literally my nanny.

Oh, she was like, "You know what? Just emo it."

And I was like, "That actually is a great idea."

Jimmy, what are you doing?

Media Day.

Rylee, look at your dad.

- I don't like this hair. - You don't like this hair?

Oh, Brayan!

Why not?

This is Dada.

Dada's emotional right now.

So the story of Emo Jimmy,

I feel like it started as him kind of just like...

"What you do over the weekend?" I'm like, "I went to emo night."

"Oh, what's emo night?" Like, "Just a bunch of people at a bar,

listening to the same stuff we've been listening to since high school."

He's like, "What are you listening to?" "Here it is."

"I like that." "Okay, great." Like...

And there goes Emo Jimmy.

♪ Am I... ♪

What's happening?

How are you, brother? You good?

- Leave me alone. I can't break character. - Okay, all right.

Don't make me break character right now.

♪ Who I am this week ♪

♪ Drop a heart ♪

♪ And break your name ♪

♪ We're always sleeping in ♪

♪ And sleeping... ♪

Yeah, yeah, yeah, laugh it up.

♪ We're going down, down... ♪

I got to be emo for a day,

but I'm low-key kinda emo all the time.

I mean, aren't we all feeling that way

and some, like, emotions just take over?

And they're having words.

- Oh yeah! - Eye to eye!

- What's gonna happen? - That is a no-no!

Yo, yo, yo, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill. The cameras is on.

It made so many people's day.

"This basketball player, he's actually up there, you know, being who he is."

There's no way you just wanted to do this.

- Yes, I did. - Well...

What's wrong with you?

'Cause, man, like, the whole lip ring...

♪ A loaded God complex Cock it and pull it ♪

You think you can shoot better than Brett?

- Here we go. - Yeah!

Welcome to NBA Pro!

You scared?

I ain't never scared.

One.

You gotta get 100.

Deuce Tatum is my five-year-old son, soon to be six.

The most famous person in Boston, the biggest personality.

My best friend, my mini-me.

Deuce, you wanna say something?

- Hi! - Oh, that...

Scoot up so you don't hit my ceiling.

See all them marks? You did that.

And your daddy gonna have to lift you up to clean it up.

You know, as a kid, I dreamed about being

the best basketball player in the world,

as every other ten-year-old did.

Kobe was... he was everything for me.

I just felt the connection.

I used to watch all his games and highlights on YouTube,

and he really inspired me

to wanna go after and chase my dream.

I got to meet Kobe. Got his autograph.

You know, as a kid, going to school,

one day, we had to write a one-page essay on what we wanted to be when we got older.

She got to me and I said, you know,

"My favorite player is Kobe Bryant. I wanna be in the NBA."

She kinda laughed and was like, "You need to be more realistic."

And I remember going home and crying and telling my mom I was embarrassed.

And I'll never forget. She kinda just wiped the tears off my eyes.

And she was like, "Remember this moment."

I've always been competitive,

and I think the thing that Jayson and I have in common is,

whenever someone doubts us or tells us we're not capable

or that, you know, something we can't do,

it just flicks a switch,

and, you know, from then on, it's like, "All right, I'll show them."

Growing up in St. Louis,

my parents had me when they were 19.

They, you know, never were together.

But, you know, my dad,

he was the person that, you know, introduced me to the game.

When Jayson was born, I put that basketball in his hand.

We were on our way home from the hospital,

and I said, "Hey, I don't really know what fatherhood is, you know,

but I know that I play a sport,"

and I was like, "Hey, this ball is gonna bond us together."

I was like, "I'm not gonna just teach you how to grab a rebound or dunk the ball."

"I'mma teach you everything. And how I'mma teach you, you might not like it."

My dad pushed me to work as hard as I did.

We had our ups and downs.

Jayson was trying to decide which high school he wanted to go to,

and we chose Chaminade.

Hi, my name is Jayson Tatum,

and one reason I came to Chaminade was because of sports,

mainly basketball.

I've known Jayson for over a decade.

We've been working together since he was a high school freshman.

When I reached out to Drew, he told me no.

Like, "I don't work with people that young."

And I was like, "Listen, I will take out a payday loan."

"I will borrow money. I'll make payments."

"I don't know what I'll do, but just give him a shot."

And he was like, "If he gets through the workout without quitting,

then I'll work him out."

The first workout, all I did was basically just run him to the ground.

I mean, 30 minutes of non-stop, high-intensity drills.

I got a call from Brandy, and she said,

"Man, Jayson said that was the hardest workout he's been through,

but he said something really cool you'd be proud of."

"He said, 'Mama, they're gonna have to carry me off the court before I gave up.'"

And that's when I knew that he really had something here and here

that was gonna allow him to, you know, really take his game to a special level.

He was number one in the country. And he was still, every single morning,

meeting me at 6:00 a.m., making, you know, 500 shots

by the time most of his competitors were, you know, waking up.

He saw how much his mom sacrificed for him

to give him all the best opportunities that he could possibly have.

The thing I've always loved about Jayson was he put all of his eggs in one basket.

There was no plan B.

'Cause I had dreams of playing in the NBA.

Never let anybody tell you what you can and can't be.

With the third pick in the 2017 NBA Draft,

the Boston Celtics select

Jayson Tatum from Duke University.

When I first got here, I was 19. I was just happy to be in the NBA.

I wasn't thinking about leaving my mark here in Boston.

I just wanted to play basketball.

Tatum.

Tatum drives.

Tatum finishes.

He can do it all.

Tatum finding some space. Side three... It's good.

Tatum, off the bounce, gets inside...

Tatum's been unstoppable.

Jayson Tatum is scorching right now.

I've made All-Stars and all those things,

multiple conference finals, and, you know, been to the Finals.

And, essentially, the only thing I haven't done is win a championship.

If you wanna succeed here,

you hang your championship or you don't.

In order for Tatum to be included with the names like Bill Russell,

John Havlicek, Larry Bird, Kevin Garnett, on and on and on,

he's gotta lift the Larry O'Brien Trophy.

He had so many opportunities

where he's in the Eastern Conference Finals

or right there in the NBA Finals.

It's over. The Golden State Warriors return to a familiar place.

They're on top of the NBA world.

He knows that, and I don't think he's scared of it, but that's reality.

I think he has greatness in him. Is he ever gonna be great?

Being one of the best players and being on Boston,

there's the expectation that comes with that.

Whether you turn on the TV and watch it or not,

you're always gonna hear it. Those clips, those comments are always there.

What a persecution complex you people have.

I do not think he's been over-scrutinized at all.

I think he's getting the standard superstar scrutiny,

comes-with-the-territory kind of stuff.

If you're Jayson Tatum,

you have to understand that you win or lose by you.

If y'all win a championship, Jayson Tatum had a big part in that.

If the Boston Celtics don't win a championship,

they're gonna point at Jayson Tatum

'cause they'll be like, "You're the leader."

"Why aren't y'all winning?"

It's great to see. You know, I'm playing for the best franchise in the NBA,

and, um, hopefully we can get number 18 this year.

- I brought your phone. - Thank you.

Jayson Tatum is carrying a great weight

of tradition on their backs.

Jayson Tatum, in this group that he's playing with,

the Boston Celtics,

have a really rare chance to create something special for themselves.

This is when he's not just the face of the Celtics,

but he could be the face of the league if he wins.

And everything that the Celtics have done and everything he is doing

is trying to make sure that he is in the best position to win this year.

Um, it's not easy.

You know, you study greatness,

and it takes years.

The day after every season, you gotta make that decision again,

regardless of how the last season went.

You know, it's a credit to him because he makes that decision daily.

Whatever their Celtic thing is,

they have a chance to build it right in front of our eyes.

They're young enough. They been through a lot.

They're experienced. There's no more excuses.

The deal with LeBron.

If there's anything he hates, it's talking about rest.

He hates the fact that we gotta talk about him and his minutes,

and as he's getting older because all those things talk about his mortality.

When you're younger, you're always

listening to what people are saying.

You think that their word is bond.

You think everybody in the media is right.

You realize, when you get older, like, none of that shit really matters.

I kinda stay in the moment before the game,

just kinda just, like, getting my body into form,

listen to my music around the same time as well.

I love so many genres of music and so many artists that

it's literally just a vibe. It's like, you know,

it depends on which artist I'm into that day.

Anywhere from, you know, Jay-Z, Eminem, Nas.

♪ Make history before you go ♪

♪ Fuck the misery You living po', we gettin' dough ♪

♪ Except the dollars Other reasons why I'm living, yo ♪

♪ Time is valuable ♪

♪ Lo and behold We young, Black, and powerful ♪

First game of the year, big game. It's been a long road.

Seventeen years together. Eighteen years together.

Ups and downs, but primarily ups.

But we're, uh, we're excited, man.

We're excited to, uh, to be at the place that we're at right now, physically.

You know, I don't think it's ever been done before.

Season 21. I mean, we're in uncharted territory,

but we won't stray from our foundations.

Before every game, we try to do what's called, uh,

you know, like, a... like an activation.

Prepping his body, his muscles, his joints, his tendons

for the stresses of playing, you know, some heavy minutes.

America, LeBron James

gets on my nerves.

Y'all don't know the dynamic of our relationship.

We really... Outside of the... outside of the floor,

we really don't hang with each other

'cause he gets on my nerves, and I get on his.

So we just make it look good for the cameras.

The way he commits to the game, the way he takes care of his body,

the way he locks in, it's no surprise,

with his level of professionalism,

how he's able to still do what he do at year 21

at a very elite and high level.

From Ball Arena here tonight,

as they just wheeled those rings right by us,

we got the Lakers and the Nuggets.

What?

I'm good.

No, you keep it open.

I don't mind hearing this shit. It's good. It's motivation.

♪ But I've come through ♪

♪ And we mean to go on And on and on and on... ♪

That song is so iconic. I mean, "We Are the Champions."

I've been there four times to the mountaintop.

I've heard that song four times in the NBA.

And, uh, you know, I would love to hear it again.

This is game one of the season.

We're here at the defending champions', uh, arena,

the Denver Nuggets.

We got a long time, a long season to be worrying about, like, statistical shit.

I mean, like, how we're gonna play. We gonna watch film.

We can do all that shit. Just, like, play free.

To the hits, defense, we fly around.

Motherfuckers get beat, be there to protect them.

Get a mid. Get a X if you need it.

Come out and come back in, all right? So just play hard as shit.

- Together on three. One, two, three. - Together.

It's a rematch of the Western Conference Finals

from a season ago.

The oldest player in the association,

but he's like fine wine, people.

He's only getting better with age.

And the NBA season is underway.

And James already!

At 38, he pulls off an acrobatic move,

and here come the Lakers.

- Did you say 38 years old? - And almost 39.

Twenty-first year in the league? Doesn't look it.

I'm here. I'm here.

LeBron, driving, all the way,

got to the rim, throws it up and in.

Just a freight train.

You can't keep giving space to LeBron.

That's his best offense, is just get his body into you,

pulling you into the rim.

You got... see ball, ball, ball. I got ball.

I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. Red. Red. Red.

What do you want me to do?

Me?

We came into the season with Darvin Ham talking about

wanting to keep LeBron on a minutes restriction,

28 to 32 minutes per game.

Now that we have a highly, highly balanced, skilled, athletic, younger team,

those guys gonna step up and do a lot of heavy lifting early.

Yeah, you stay high.

As soon as... as soon as... as soon as you go right here,

he's throwing it here, and it's right there. Misdirection shit.

- Hey. - Get another fucking stop.

Stay organized.

Yeah, I know. I know y'all got me on fucking old-man time percentages and shit.

Play eight minutes and shit.

Two shots in eight minutes. Just getting cardio.

I hate this shit already. This shit's garbage.

I know I'm in better shape than everybody.

His passion for winning is second to none,

and I think the toughest part about it is

he gets this, "Oh, he's controlling the team. Right."

And the reality of it is...

that's not true.

But for him, it probably becomes very, very frustrating

to be positioned as you have the control without actually having the control.

The minutes restriction, it's something I just... I don't agree with.

I've never agreed with it.

I prepared my body physically

and mentally prepared my mind for... for battle.

I've had, you know, conversations and talks and battles with my coaches,

and I get it,

but I also understand me, and I get me, and there's nobody gets me more than me.

Um...

When you signed your deal, did it hit the same as the first one?

Yeah, the first one hit. You like...

We ain't from shit. We come from shit.

So we get that first million,

like, for a... for a... for a Black kid outta the hood,

when you get a million dollars, bro, we know that ain't the A-all, be-all.

But it's more than our family's ever had before,

so that is, like...

I ain't never signed a contract more than my first one.

Like, for the feeling.

That first one, you like, "Shit!"

I was given the keys to a franchise at 18 years old,

and then around about 19, 20, I realized I was the face of the NBA.

They never told me, but I was looking around like,

"Oh shit."

I mean, can you imagine being 18, 19, 20, 21 years old

with a bunch of money and being able to do what you wanna do

and not be able to just walk into a movie theater

and not be able to just go to an amusement park

or not be able to hang out with your friends and go out and just

be a kid?

I think he's just a normal person.

Everyone thinks he's, like, the legend of basketball.

But all we think is, like, he's our dad,

and he's, like, just, like, a normal person.

I can only turn like this right now.

The James household is a fun household, I think.

We have lots of interesting personalities.

LeBron, obviously, he is crazy.

"Hey. How you doing?"

Bruh.

This is my Holy Trinity right here.

Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, and Jason.

The big three.

I will say I'm Freddy Krueger.

Bosh is Michael Myers,

and then D-Wade is definitely Jason, I would say.

But they are the big three.

I didn't start the superteams. They started the superteam.

I'm telling you, I come from a horror movie family who played way too...

Look, my mama's saying... Look.

Get my mama here. She's the one who started me on horror.

My whole family, and they play too.

- Like, they play around. Don't, like... - Scare each other.

You scare... You get scared the shit out of you

if you're not on your Ps and Qs, for sure, in my household growing up.

It just happened. Just from watching scary movies...

It was my mom, myself, my two uncles.

And my mom can attest to this 'cause, you know, right now, everybody, like,

they think I lie about everything when I tell the truth about everything,

but it's so good, people think I'm lying.

So I came home from school one day, and we was living on Hickory Street.

Um, our first house that we lived on...

- Family house. - Our family house.

And I walked through the door,

and my cousin Brent had the green... he had the green and red sweater.

He had the fucking hat on, the Freddy Krueger hat,

and back in the day... What them girls used to wear on their hair?

A nail... a hair clip.

Yeah, hair clips, and he had, like, the hair clips on his nails, right?

On his fingers. He had them on his fingers.

And all I remember...

This might be too explicit for the camera, but this is Netflix. They're passing.

I've seen a lot of shit on Netflix.

I come around the corner... No, no, I walk in the house,

and he jumps out of nowhere and said, "Where you going, little fucker?"

And I fainted.

Oh.

Gone. I know where I was going to. Night-night land, that's where I went.

Yeah, that's when it started.

- We're ghosts. - Ooh.

Whose food is that? Savannah?

She got French fries tonight?

That man is crazy.

He is. He is crazy.

He wants to live in my skin.

Literally, if I let him crawl in my skin, he would live there.

Ah!

Both of us are really young at heart.

I think that's the best way to keep things fresh and new.

We are two peas in a pod.

He's my bestie.

You get older,

and you really start to dial in on the shit that's really important.

You understand what the true meaning of a partner is.

You really, truly understand what family really, truly means.

Then your eyes... you able to see more.

I wouldn't be who I am, I wouldn't have had the career I've had,

I wouldn't be who I am without her.

I'm proud of us keeping a

sense of normalcy in such an abnormal situation.

It's a part of doing it our way.

Come on, bro, we late!

You guys look great.

See who I can hop, skip, and jump over right quick.

Basketball, I'm okay at it,

but that's not the best thing that I'm even good at.

Please pass, Pop.

- Okay. - Yes!

The greatest domino player in the world,

I can only go by what I know,

what I've seen,

and who I am, is myself.

I learned to first play dominoes growing up.

That's how my dad taught me how to count, learn probability,

and learn to kick ass at a early age.

Shout-out to you, Pop.

My dad, he lives with me. He's doing incredibly well.

We have a phenomenal relationship. Dominoes every day.

He's at as many games as he can make it to.

No, I tell you who did it.

I did it.

I won.

Hey, Rod, can I get a, uh...

Let me get a victory...

I don't know. A victory something, man.

Just make it good, Rod. Make it good.

Dada gotta go to work. Dada gotta go to work.

Aw.

I love you, buddy. Dada will see you tonight, okay?

Time for Heat basketball. Put that mic down, pick up the basketball,

and get ready for the action because it's the Heat-Lakers coming your way.

If you're Jimmy Butler, and LeBron is coming to town,

you know that they're coming back feeling very comfortable

'cause this was a court they played on, and there's a familiarity there.

But you also probably are still, in the back of your mind,

thinking, "This is my house now."

The 30th pick in the 2011 draft,

the Chicago Bulls select Jimmy Butler from Marquette University.

The team I was drafted by, the Chicago Bulls,

they could never beat, hell, LeBron and/or the Heat.

So it gave me a opportunity to, like, make my name in this league.

"Yo! You need to find a way to beat the Heat."

Six seconds.

Four seconds.

James on the drive... Stripped by Butler!

Picked up by Noah.

When I came into the league, early on, you hate the Heat.

You hate LeBron.

Hell, you hate any word that rhymes with "Heat."

Feet. We don't like feet.

Jimmy Buckets, from the day he stepped into the league from Marquette,

you knew you had to have your hard hat on.

You cannot step out on the floor

when Jimmy's on the floor and not be ready to go

'cause, uh, he'd dog you.

Jimmy Butler is a fucking dog.

That's his... that's his DNA. That's what he's known for.

I respect Jimmy. Real shit.

In Jimmy we trust.

LeBron James, good to see that man back in the Heat's house.

No question.

The minutes restriction got lifted,

and I just knew that, you know, for me personally,

it wouldn't be something that, you know, will last throughout a whole season.

I don't think it lasted as long as they would have liked.

But it worked in my... in my benefit.

Yo, expect no-calls. Be strong with the ball, all right?

They do a lot of reaching and grabbing and shit.

- Defense, one, two, three. - Defense.

And look at this matchup.

Butler against LeBron.

The past versus the present.

- Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo! - Turnaround. Nope.

Huge defense by Jimmy Butler.

Love him taking this challenge, guarding LeBron right now.

I'm never nervous. I really think I can beat anybody at anything

'cause, sooner or later, I feel like they gotta have a bad day.

But I also realize that people don't view, you know, dominoes

as part of training. I do.

I see the game differently because the game slows down a little bit.

It's teaching you, like, whatever hand you're dealt,

everything's not gonna be going your way.

Are you just gonna throw your dominoes in? No.

You know how to manipulate the game in so many different types of ways.

But you still gotta figure it out. You still gotta find a way to win.

So if y'all think... y'all think y'all can beat me at anything,

I'm all for it.

I'm good. I'm good.

Baby, go back. Go back.

It's all right.

Nine points for Butler.

Butler... Yes.

Bang, bang!

Shit. You always wanna be a winner.

Who wants to lose in anything?

AR, throw me one...

- That's it. - That's it?

Can we get some more towels, please? And hand towels.

Oh, no, no, we just need, uh, body towels.

I am at the top of my game mentally and physically every single day.

If there was somebody on the floor that I felt was in better condition

or was better fit for the moment than me,

then I could possibly sit down for a little longer.

I have not seen that yet.

♪ Ooh, la, la ♪

♪ It's Young Mula-la ♪

♪ Me no do ra-ra, boom-boom, kumbaya ♪

♪ Vroom-vroom, zoom by ya ♪

♪ Me and all me goon brada ♪

♪ Mario Brother shroom power Make me doom-doom-da-da ♪

♪ Ooh, la, la, ah, oui... ♪

I do not look up to anybody in the league right now currently.

Not at all.

Yeah, not the slightest.

♪ Ooh, la, la ♪

- ♪ Ah, oui, oui, ooh, la, la ♪ - ♪ Ma chérie, ma chérie... ♪

Yeah, I wanna cook LeBron one-on-one. Like, who don't?

If you say you don't, you ain't... you don't wanna compete.

♪ Ooh, la, la, ah, oui, oui ♪

♪ Ooh, la, la, la, la ♪

♪ Looking for M's like I lost a friend ♪

♪ Jump out of my bed Like, "Where that bread?" ♪

♪ You gon' hold the egg Waiter, bring the check ♪

♪ When we talk, we Kalashnikov Keep us in your thoughts ♪

♪ Fully dressed at the crack of dawn Weapons letting off ♪

♪ I can hear them from the block See them creeping through the fog ♪

♪ Season's greetings Now feeding season can start, oh my God ♪

♪ Look alive, lookin' like I live life On a crooked line ♪

♪ Doin' fine, you want maximum stupid I am the guy ♪

♪ First of all, fuck the fuckin' law We is fuckin' raw ♪

♪ Steak tartare Oysters on the half shell, sushi bar ♪

♪ Life a bitch and the pussy fish ♪

♪ Still fucked her raw, I'm a dog ♪