LeBron James and Draymond Green are not in the mood to hang out these days, but they put in some time at a barber shop a few months ago. James, Green, and others like rapper 2 Chainz met up at a New Orleans barber shop over All-Star Weekend to film the half-hour episode that included insight into a variety of topics. The group drank wine, smoked cigars and talked about some of the biggest moments of their careers.
All of this took place at Aidan Gill For Men with cameras rolling, and the results were pretty great.
It’s a perfect format to get players talking—just shooting the breeze with people in a barber shop. The video was aired on ESPN but is the brainchild of Uninterrupted, the media company started by James after his second “Decision” to return to Cleveland. One of the goals of Uninterrupted is to make viewers feel like they’re getting intimate conversations they wouldn’t get elsewhere—or, maybe, they shouldn’t see at all.
That’s a vibe that definitely works here, and the results are very interesting. For starters, James and Draymond broke down how they experienced Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals. Both players said that, in the moment, neither player realized it was turning into an epic until it was over.
“You don’t know at that point in Game 7 ‘Yo this is about to be one of the greatest Game 7s ever,'” Green said. “You don’t know this block is about to happen. You don’t know that Kyrie’s about to hit this shot after neither one of our teams have scored after 4:32. You don’t know that.”
James later talked about Dan Gilbert’s infamous Comic Sans-scribed letter to Cavaliers fans after LeBron left for Miami in 2010.
Our owner at the time, when I left decided to put out this f*cking article that we all know about where he completely bashed me and like disrespected not only me as an individual but disrespected my name.
And my name is not just me personally, it’s my wife. My kids. My grandfather, you know what I’m saying? My mother. So many more people.
That letter was something that James was willing to forget. But he said he had a much harder time convincing his wife and mother that things between Gilbert and James were cool.
Some people were on the fence. My wife, my momma and my wife was like ‘f*ck that. I ain’t with that. My mom was definitely like ‘f*ck that. We ain’t going back.’
For me it was more I had to finally just be like ‘you know what mom it ain’t even really about that. Me going back is more of this. It’s more of a bigger picture. IT’s more of an all these kids. All these people that need inspiration. That need a way out. And I’m that way out.
There’s lots of stuff in there worth watching, including Charles Oakley probably taking a shot or two at Russell Westbrook and the importance of Olympic basketball to James and Durant. There’s also an adorable dog named Trappy. Everyone was very complementary, and I hope Uninterrupted keeps making content like this. It’s what they do best.
