On the Motivation of LeBron James should better doubt anyone. In the German night and Friday (1.00 PM EDT) play of the NBA Superstar with his Los Angeles Lakers against the Dallas Mavericks in order to Maxi glue in a Test-first basketball game against another Team for four months. A week later, it’s in a duel with the LA Clippers then about to mark the spot for the Playoffs, at the end of the 35-year-old basketball team to its fourth championship title to celebrate. Because of this moving year 2020, with the death of his friend Kobe Bryant, Corona and then the huge boost for social and Anti-racism themes, for the self-proclaimed King James has been fighting for years, that hasn’t changed.
“Every year has its challenges and hurdles. You have to adjust and mentally grow. The mentality for me has not changed, although we have a pandemic, and the long interruption of the season,“ says James, while he is sitting on a cheap chair, and even on a huge Monitor right in front of his face can be observed. Life in the NBA bubble, the upcoming games without the Roar, Screech, Clap and Boo in the audience, probably months without his wife and children – all that comes to Yes even. Brakes James does not want this.
“Everyone asks me how it is in the bladder and how it works, and I always say: It is 2020. Nothing is normal in 2020. No one knows whether it will ever be the same again as it was. But you adapt and find a way. This is the life,“ says the model athlete.
James is a dazzling League, the most valuable part of the inventory and in the case of the Lakers, in the meantime, in a club, the self-confidence of such a large self and self-understanding radiates as the number 23. “Of course, everyone knows that LeBron still wants to win a title,” says Germany’s national players, are the glue that has wrapped up for the time on the grounds of Disney World in Florida, where all the teams live up to the end of their season, only his Golf bag, and an E-Piano. “His passports, as he attacked the basket, his players involved, and makes you better, that’s really unique. A great player and it makes a lot of fun to stand against him on the field.“ The German national player dares with no real comparison to be made between James and the most famous basketball players of all time, Michael Jordan – “the different Eras, it plays today as 20 years ago”, says nevertheless: “LeBron is the best of times, if the Player goes to the All-around”.
Lakers, Clippers and Bucks favorites to win the title
On Thursday, the opportunity against James gets glue to train and to play. While he was with the Mavericks hardly any real chances in the Final Playoffs, the Lakers, next to the city rivals, the Clippers, and the Milwaukee Bucks to the three favorites. Lakers Coach Frank Vogel feels that the circumstances for his Superstar and the Team is not so bad: “This environment helps our concentration. It’s just Basketball. There is no distraction, just Basketball.“
For James, otherwise surrounded by security people and excited people, life in the bubble, as for all other an unusual experience. The past few months. “Since my first year of High School I had the, I’m not travelled through the country and around the world to play Basketball. This was the first Time that I had a longer time at home with my family,“ he says. “Before that, I’ve traveled since I was 15 years old. For more than 20 years. To every day see my wife, my children, that was a blessing.“
