The company will be supporting local community events in Chicago, like the Chicago Bulls’ Pacific Garden Mission Thanksgiving Dinner, as well as the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Season of Giving.
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“It doesn’t change”, he said. “The main thing is still the main thing, and that’s to win a championship”.
Heading into his 13th National Basketball Association season, LeBron James knows exactly what it takes to get through the gruesome National Basketball Association schedule.
As members of the team have repeated, the Cavaliers aren’t so much concerned with starting the season as they are with finishing it. The team started slowly a year ago, mainly due to chemistry and talent issues, and still finished hot, making the Finals pretty easily. LeBron James and Derrick Rose will start and the game from the United Center is on at 8 pm ET as the Cavs try and start the year with a win after winning the east last season.
The loss dropped James to 2-4 in the league’s showcase event, and it’s that record – fairly or unfairly – that will ultimately define his legacy.
“Father time is undefeated”, he said.
And while the opening-night matchup pitting the two Eastern Conference rivals will certainly draw major interest and a large TV viewing audience, James isn’t letting himself or his teammates get caught up in the hype.
The Cavs added veterans Mo Williams and Richard Jefferson to bolster their rotation, but there’s nothing they can do to prevent ankle sprains or bad luck from derailing dreams of a title.
After practicing for the first time since receiving an anti-inflammatory injection in his back, increasing the chances he’ll play in Tuesday’s season opener in Chicago, the Cleveland Cavaliers forward said he would never consider sitting out practices to preserve his body. Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said Rose will be evaluated throughout the game as far as how he’s feeling. It really is. If he is healthy, engaged and has the rest of these guys around him. In the playoff loss to Cleveland past year, six Bulls averaged over 30 minutes per game in the series.
James played a career-low 36.1 minutes per game last season, and Blatt hopes to trim that number a few this season.
“I believe our league is the greatest league that we have in the world”, James continued. When I’m not able to do it to my level, then I’ll quit.
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IRVING UPDATE: The All-Star point guard could miss the first month – or more – as he recuperates from surgery. All the drives to draw contact have taken their toll on the 23-year-old. He won’t be back until December, and maybe the Cavs will keep him out until 2016. But don’t worry, David Blatt isn’t nervous. He’s confident the experience will make him better.
