Stop acting dumb when we tell you Bron wasn’t appropriately embraced in LA lol all you have to do is look at Luka..nobody has stopped supporting the team or defaced his murals. Nobody in Miami is telling Giannis he’ll never be DWade..That weird shit was exclusively for Bron in LA
This was dead ass early in his career where he wasn’t trying to be a hero or an avenger. He built a murder suit to go and fucking kill the people that kidnapped him.
The jokes come later after he wraps up business 😭😭
LeBron will make $4M a year from the Sixers. Living in Manhattan and helicoptering to Philadelphia could cost him over $1M of it. He'd be spending a quarter of his salary to avoid living in the city he plays for.
Run the numbers. Shams says the flight is 45 minutes from Manhattan. Twin-engine charter rates run $3,000 to $5,000 an hour, so call it $8,000 a round trip. With 41 home games plus practices, that's 100+ commuting days. $800K a season, minimum.
Then taxes. A New York City resident pays up to 14.8% combined state and city income tax. Pennsylvania is a 3.07% flat tax. On a $4M salary, choosing Manhattan over Philly adds $300K+ a year, and New York taxes residents on everything they earn everywhere.
So why does a man who just took a $48M pay cut spend seven figures on a commute? Because the paycheck stopped mattering years ago. LeBron earns roughly $80M a year off the court. His entire Sixers salary equals about 18 days of being LeBron.
The vet minimum was a gift of cap room to the front office so Embiid, Maxey, and Jaylen Brown get surrounded with actual depth. And when your day job pays 5% of your income, you arrange the day job around your life. His family, his media company, and his business all run better out of the biggest market in America.
Kobe ran this exact math two decades ago, flying from Newport Beach to Staples every day. What he was actually purchasing was hours with his daughters. LeBron at 41, on possibly his last contract, is buying the same thing.
In 2025, Philly won 24 games and looked like they were just gonna have to thug out Embiid & PG’s contracts…
Headed to the 2027 season, they swapped PG for JAYLEN BROWN
Maxey established
Edgecomb panned out immediately
Signed LeBron James
Fuck it if an org can comeback this fast so can the MCU lets go Thor lock in
Most MJ fans are probably unaware that Paxson did this… they definitely didn’t talk about this in The Last Dance… I wonder why??
but If JR Smith scored 14 in the 4th Q of a Finals closeout game including 10pts in the final minutes to secure a championship it would be held against LeBron for 40 years…