Live broadcast, February 23 news in the 2024 NBA simulation draft released by ESPN today, James’s eldest son ranked 10th in the first round brownie and is expected to be selected by magic.
Later, ESPN dug up James’s speech in 2021that he would retire if he was traded to magic, and wrote: “Will LeBlanc change his mind?”
In The Shop broadcast in May 2021, James’s complete conversation with friends & Partners Maverick Carter is as follows:
MC: he moved to Orlando. I didn’t even want to go to Orlando. He actually moved there.
LBJ: that’s part of the reason why I didn’t take my daughter to Disney (note: Orlando has the largest Disneyland in the world). You need to understand that every time I hear Orlando now, I have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and I stayed in Orlando for 95 days.
MC: Orlando (magic) has no chance in the free market?
LBJ: they have no chance.
MC: What if you were traded to Orlando?
LBJ: I won’t go.
MC: I will retire. This is over!
LBJ: I will retire! If LeBlanc is traded to Orlando, then LeBlanc will settle in Malibu (California city famous for beaches and sunshine) and he will not go there.
James and Maverick Carter in the show
ESPN show today