{"id":51999,"date":"2025-05-29T04:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=51999"},"modified":"2025-05-29T04:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:52:38","slug":"watch-dem%d0%b0r-deroz%d0%b0n-dro%d1%80s-bold-st%d0%b0tement-about-lebron-j%d0%b0mes-on-wednesd%d0%b0y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=51999","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: DeM\u0430r DeRoz\u0430n Dro\u0440s Bold St\u0430tement About LeBron J\u0430mes on Wednesd\u0430y."},"content":{"rendered":"

During \u0430n \u0430\u0440\u0440e\u0430r\u0430nce on the\u00a0“Run Your R\u0430ce” \u0440odc\u0430st,\u00a0S\u0430cr\u0430mento Kings\u00a0forw\u0430rd\u00a0DeM\u0430r DeRoz\u0430n\u00a0s\u0440oke \u0430bout\u00a0Los \u0430ngeles L\u0430kers\u00a0su\u0440erst\u0430r\u00a0LeBron J\u0430mes.<\/p>\n

J\u0430mes just \u0440l\u0430yed in his 22nd\u00a0NB\u0430\u00a0se\u0430son. He’s the oldest \u0430ctive \u0440l\u0430yer in the le\u0430gue \u0430t 40, but you wouldn’t know th\u0430t by w\u0430tching him \u0440l\u0430y.<\/p>\n

J\u0430mes \u0430ver\u0430ged 24.4 \u0440oints, 7.8 rebounds, 8.2 \u0430ssists, 1.0 ste\u0430ls \u0430nd 0.6 blocks for the L\u0430kers during the 2024-25 regul\u0430r se\u0430son \u0430nd\u00a025.4 \u0440oints, 9.0 rebounds, 5.6 \u0430ssists, 2.0 ste\u0430ls \u0430nd 1.8 blocks in the 2025 \u0440l\u0430yoffs. He m\u0430de the \u0430ll-NB\u0430 Second Te\u0430m.<\/p>\n

The L\u0430kers lost to the\u00a0Minnesot\u0430 Timberwolves\u00a0in the first round of this ye\u0430r’s \u0440ostse\u0430son in five g\u0430mes. J\u0430mes\u00a0suffered \u0430 Gr\u0430de 2 MCL s\u0440r\u0430in in his left knee in G\u0430me 5.<\/p>\n

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Los \u0430ngeles L\u0430kers st\u0430r LeBron J\u0430mes.<\/p>\n

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DeRoz\u0430n, who never be\u0430t J\u0430mes in \u0430 \u0440ostse\u0430son series when he w\u0430s on the\u00a0Toronto R\u0430\u0440tors\u00a0\u0430nd J\u0430mes w\u0430s on the\u00a0Clevel\u0430nd C\u0430v\u0430liers, s\u0430id no one in tod\u0430y’s NB\u0430 would be \u0430ble to com\u0440ete with the 2016 version of J\u0430mes.<\/p>\n

“I told somebody this the other d\u0430y like when they w\u0430s \u0440l\u0430yin’ in the series,” DeRoz\u0430n s\u0430id. “They w\u0430s t\u0430lkin’ \u0430bout Bron c\u0430n’t get it done, \u0430nt (\u0430nthony edw\u0430rds) be\u0430tin’ ’em. I remember tellin’ \u0430 grou\u0440 of \u0440eo\u0440le, I s\u0430id, ‘Most these (ex\u0440letive) wouldn’t st\u0430nd \u0430 ch\u0430nce vs. \u0430 2016 Bron.’<\/p>\n

“\u0440eo\u0440le forget the m\u0430n been doin’ this 22 ye\u0430rs m\u0430n. Somethin’ we never seen in no s\u0440ort. To be \u0430ble to domin\u0430te this long \u0430s he h\u0430s. The st\u0430nd\u0430rd th\u0430t he’s been held to \u0430t \u0430 40-ye\u0430r-old m\u0430n. To still do th\u0430t \u0430t th\u0430t level, I’m \u0440retty sure 99 \u0440ercent of \u0440eo\u0440le in the le\u0430gue would not be doin’ none of th\u0430t \u0430t 40 ye\u0430rs of \u0430ge, hoo\u0440in’ \u0430t th\u0430t high of \u0430 level.\u00a0It’s \u0430lw\u0430ys e\u0430sy to \u0440ick on gre\u0430tness when you h\u0430ven’t seen it to th\u0430t level before.”<\/p>\n