LeBron James on Playing in the NFL, Jordan's Pick-Up Games and Favorite Career Milestone | Ep 120
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
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4.8 • 15.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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92%ers this is for you! We’ve got King James himself stopping by on this episode of New Heights presented by Hershey’s. Shop Reese's Chocolate Lava Big Cup now at a store near you.
LeBron sits down with Jason and Travis to talk all things Wild Card Weekend, how close he came to playing in the NFL, some of his favorite times hooping in Cleveland, the Championship that means the most to him, and his real thoughts on playing with Bronny.
We also settle the debate on which league owns Christmas, get the backstory on a legendary pick-up game against Michael Jordan, and find out how much longer “this fuckery” can go on.
Finally, as promised, we look ahead to the divisional round of the playoffs and blindly rank our favorite Will Ferrell movies.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to New Heights early and ad-free, plus unlock access to exclusive episodes of the show. |
| 0:07.7 | Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify today. |
| 0:12.1 | Today's sponsor, Peloton, has what you need to keep you on track for your fitness goals as you enter the new year. |
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| 0:45.5 | Dude, I'm pretty pumped. I'm nervous, but I'm pretty pumped. I've always wanted to ask them. |
| 0:49.9 | Just everything on my mind. I know. It's going to be hard. You're not going to have that much time. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm not. |
| 0:54.9 | I don't even know it's on the rundown. |
| 0:56.4 | I'll take care of the rundown. |
| 0:57.5 | You just freeball it. |
| 0:59.9 | LeBron, do you think I could play in the NBA? |
| 1:03.0 | You don't want the answer to that. |
| 1:05.9 | He saw me try and dunk last week. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.8 | All right. |
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