It’s a safe bet that James didn’t share then, with Bryant, this darker assessment of basketball mortality that he offered to reporters after the game.
“ONLY The man above knows how much time he’s going to give me in this game,” James said. “Once He decides I don’t have any more time to give, then I’ll call it quits.”
Bryant is not religious, so he’s never going to put it that way.
Asked if he remembers Michael Jordan’s final stint with the Washington Wizards, James recalled, “I remember a few plays. We ALL got to go some time. (Expletive), NONE of us can play for EVER. We ALL gotta' go.”