Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton react to Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James passing Robert Parish for most games played in NBA history. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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Video TranscriptMost games played in NBA history.
He passes Robert Parish.
Shoot, pass, or dribble on this.
People are still taking LeBron James for granted.
What say you?
LeBron James?
I will dribble on that.
There are probably people that don't acknowledge the fact that LeBron is 41 years old and has 20-plus years of service in the NBA, and what he is doing is absolutely otherworldly and special.
We'll be telling our kids and our kids' kids about watching LeBron James one day.
But also, like, here we are talking about LeBron James on a Monday morning, fresh off of March Madness, fresh off of a lot of, you know, crazy things that have happened in sports.
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There is still a level of any time LeBron does anything, it is more interesting and will command more eyeballs than anyone else in the NBA doing anything.
So I kind of go both ways about it.
I shoot.
I, I am very definitive that I think that the, the LeBron era is being taken for granted, and here's what But it's not unique to just LeBron.
As a society, we tend to just fall in love with players when they're no longer playing.
When you are still a player, people aren't yet territorial with your legacy.
They are once you stop playing, and I don't know why we refuse to appreciate greatness when we see it, but that just seems to be the way the world is.
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Whether LeBron is your GOAT or not, I believe one thing very strongly, and something Caroline just referenced.
In 20, 30 years, we're all gonna be the uncs sitting on the front porch telling our grandkids, "No, no, no, this young buck you're talking about here, he's not that good.
I watched LeBron James."
That's what we're gonna be saying because we refuse to accept it while it's happening.
While it's happening, it becomes, "Oh, is LeBron better than Michael Jordan?
I'm not sure."
Right?
Like, that's what we do during this era.
I don't love it, but it's just inevitable.
Once somebody stops playing, I feel like that's when everybody starts to get territorial with what they saw and what connected with them.
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Which is why in 20, 30 years, many of the people, keep your receipts.
Like in a social media world, I want you to keep the receipts.
Print them out right now.
And then, you know, however we actually view receipts in 30 years, whatever that way is, you'll ask your house to show it to you.
You'll be able to see the same people that are today saying, "Oh, LeBron's overrated.
LeBron's played so many games, he's a stat compiler," whatever the ar gument is, those same people in 30 years are gonna be sitting there saying, "Oh, no, no, no, I watched LeBron James."
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