From: Sports Illustrated April 30, 2012 Issue, By Lee Jenkins
(note: these are only just the good nuggets that resonated with me, not the whole article/interview)
LeBron James 2012 Best Plays !!! just had to get you in the zone !!!!
"He went for rings, presumably fistfuls of them," No, not a fistful, " James says. "I don't need a fistful. but I need one. I need to get one first. I have short goals--to get better every day, to help my teammates every day--but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing".
I Dream About It !!!! How It Would Look !!! HOW IT WOULD FEEL !!!!! It Would Be Sooooooo Amazing !!!! Wow !!!!! That Is Absolutely Amazing !!!!! Thank You LeBron !!!! and to You and I who are attracting these key Golden Spirit Nuggets !!!!
"On the night last June 2011 when the Mavericks beat the Heat in Miami for the NBA championship, James drove to his house in Coconut Grove and did not come out for two weeks. "I couldn't watch TV because e very channel--doesn't matter if it was the Cartoon Channel --was talking about me and the Heat," James says. "On the Cooking Channel it was likee, " So We're going to make a turkey burger gourmet today, and LeBron James failed!" James Says, "I didn't hear what they wanted to say, I didn't care what they were talking about."
James quietly reflected on his season in the cross-hairs, which started with the television special at the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich, Conn., and will forever be remembered for the words TAKE MY TALENTS. People felt like they really knew LeBron, and when he did something that went against the grain, it shocked everybody, and the public didn't really know how to deal with that."
"I lost touch with who I was as a basketball player and a person," me, and I felt like I had to prove something to people, and I don't know why. Everything was tight, stressed." In Cleveland, where he played seven seasons, James had the loudest laugh in the locker room. He used to bellow "Waffles!" from the back of the bus when he was hungry. Hew amused himself by simply transposing someone's initials. he was JeBron Lames. But in Miami, he adopted what he calls "the villain mind-set," stacking his anger on top of everyone else's. He skulked across the court, stone-faced, a glower (to look angrily) replacing the familiar grin. Former Cavaliers coaches watched him on TV and flashed back to Game 1 of the 2007 NBA Finals in San Antonio, when they saw him seething (To be in a state of turmoil or ferment: The nation seethed with suppressed revolutionary activity.
b. To be violently excited or agitated: I seethed with anger over the insult. See Synonyms at boil1.) during introductions."That's not good," they told one another. The Spurs swept, and James sputtered for much of the series. Jubilance has always been a staple of his game.
There was only one person who could talk James out of the house. "This is what you love to do and you've been doing it at a high level for a long time, and you don't really need to change anything," James told himself. "Just get back to what you do and how you play, smiling all the time and trying to dominate at the highest level. Do it with joy and do it with fun and remember that not too long ago this was a dream for you..Playing in the NBA was the dream. Don't forget that again. just go out and improve."
"A lot of people are intimidated by LeBron, but he wants the truth, " says Dambrot, now the coach at Akron. "He's not too big to take criticism. I told him, 'You have to do more things you don't want to do. you have to do more offensive and defensive rebounding AND AND THE ELEPHANT, g, moving without the ball, all the basics that made you great going back to the beginning.'" On a table in James's living room was a book about leadership called, "The Ant and the Elephant by Vince Poscente. , a gift from a friend. James is not much of a reader, but he opted for the book over TV. "It's about an ant who is trying to find his way to this great place, this oasis, but the only way to get there is to train an elephant who wants to get there too," James says. "At one point the ant is on the elephant's back and they are walking though the sand and there is a pack of lions, and the elephant scares the lions off. The ant is like, I have the toughest friend in the world. But later that day the elephant sees a mouse, and he gets scared and runs away. The ant can't understand how this big creature could be so dominant over a pack of lions but so scared of a mouse. The ant has to train the elephant to let him know, You are the biggest, baddest thing out here." James pauses for a moment. And as a 250-pound force of nature, he can relate to the elephant. "I took a lot from that, " he says.
For years coaches have harped on James to move off the perimeter and into the post, where he can pass out of double teams or bulldoze to the hoop.. Dallas provided the motivation. "I didn't do it because people told me I needed to do it, " James says. "I was looking at myself thinking, How can I get better and ultimately make our team better? The post game was something I needed to work on." He flew to Houston and spent three days with former Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwan, videotaping the workouts. Olajuwan showed James variations of the Dream Shake to use against bigger defenders, smaller defenders and when the shot clock is winding down. James uploaded the video onto his computer and took it everywhere he traveled repeating the footwork in individual sessions with his private trainer.
James also believed his ball handling was deficient, so he went to Kentucky to work with Brandon Weems, a high school teammate and Wildcats assistant director of basketball operations. James practiced with two basketballs at the a time while Weems shadowed him as he dribbled, leaning against him and smacking his wrists and hands. "The greats always say uncomfortable, " says Spoelstra. "LeBron is no different. He came back looking like a new player in terms of his offensive skill set." James traditionally shot three-pointers with the guards after practice. Suddenly, he was bodying up with the centers. ""If I'm going to work more in the post, I have to give up something," James says. "I had to decide, Is it the mid-range? Is it the fadeaway? To b e more efficient, it had to be the three, because I'm more effective in the paint."
Coach Frankie Walker would give an MVP trophy to everybody on the roster. "I didn't understand it, " James says. clearly, he was the MVP. "You're going to be in the limelight a lot, " Walker told him. "You have to remember to bring your teammates with you." An only child raised by a single mother, James yearned for family, and he called his teammates brothers. He still does. In 2009 he wrote a 256-page book, Shooting Stars, about his teammates at St. Vincent-St. Mary.
For the whole article google LeBron James Interview with Lee Jenkins (I did try to get the direct link here but, I would have to sign up w/ Sports Illustrate) I'm definitely lookin out for ya !!!
There was definitely some good Conscious Based Nuggets, on Feeling, Having Fun, Smiling, Laughing Feelin Good, Imagining on how it would FEEL to have a Championship Rings, His Revelation on Continued Improvement and Being Humble, Remembering where you came from and remember that his past dream was to just Play in the NBA !!!! He's Already Living the Dream Before the "Ring"... Well, we all know now that LeBron James has officially Won the 2012 NBA Championship !!!
Thanks for being here w/ me !!!!! got some Amazing Joe Dispenza Heavy Hitting Interview !!!! Wow !!! I will definitely post !!!! this is a Must Watch, See, Hear Do, Transform, and Change !!!!! I Absolutely Love It !!!! His Best Interview !!!! and the Real Life Story on How We Changed/Transformed His Life !!!! C u soon !!! Oz / DWU
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