joining us today to talk about this, steven a. smith, journalist and commentator. ew joyce, high school basketball coach at st. vincent st. mary. he also coached a guy you probably heard of, lebron james. and jonathan abrams, sports writer for "the new york times." gentlemen, welcome. greatly appreciate it. steven, you and i have talked about this over the years, publy, privately. let me put that to you. do these athlete have a responsibility to the community? >> i think they definitely do have a responsibility. but even more so, if you want to get paid, the reality is that if you want to be a role model, you want to go out there and get paid, you have to be a role model to the masses. you have to set an example that people would want themselves to follow or people would expect of themselves and expect of their children, et cetera. especially when you are put in the public eye. i don't think it's fair to them, but nevertheless, it's a responsibility that isn't going anywhere. >> coach, if there is a handbook to be written, one can argue michael jordan probably wrote

plus steven a. smith, john sally, and rick fox here with their takes on the lebron james' sweepstakes. it's next on "larry king live." >> larry: good evening. we have cameras around the country where millions are holding their collective breath. they'll be delirious with joy feeling the pain any minute now. we are going to meet lebron james' high school basketball coach, john sally, former nba star, chomping at the bit to let us know what he thinks, the one, the only, stephen a. smith, with a startling revelation coming, and rick fox, former l.a. laker and boston celtic and star of spike tv's pros vs. joes. when i sat down, this all really started after the season when lebron james did his first interview with us, at his home in akron, early june. we talked about his free agency and his big decision. here's what he said then. in your head, is there places you would look to go? i am not going to ask you to commit, but if you want to commit, do it right here? >> for me, i think my ultimate goal is winning c

steven a., you know i love you. all the best. >> larry: dru joyce, first high school basketball coach, john salley, stephen a. smith in albany.future host of this show. >> larry: see you july 30th. >> that's right. >> larry: another revelation tonight. and he will be at the comedy festival in san bernardino and rick fox, the current star of spike tv's "pros versus joes." great lady with us tomorrow night, queen latifah. time now for dr. sanjay gupta and "ac 360." sanjay? you took my eggs ! it's an "egg management fee." what does that even mean ? egg management fee. even kids know it's wrong to take other people's stuff. that's why at ally bank we offer rates among the most competitive in the country that won't get eaten away by fees. it's just the right thing to do. we make meeting times, lunch times and conference times. but what we'd rather be making are tee times.

steven tyler of arrow smith will be hired as new judges. the news comes days after degeneres announced she will not be back. >>> a former warrior star is back and what he did today could save lives. >>> ronie toriof told a group of children with heart problems that he was inspired to start the heart to heart foundation in february after his own heart surgery in 2005. >> i was very shy about it, but now because of my heart surgery, i'm able to give defibrillators to school to prevent a tragic event. >> as many as 14,000 children suffer from a cardiac emergency in the united states every day. automatic heart defibrillators as well as cpr can be used to stabilize somebody after a heart attack, potentially saving thousands of jobs a year. >> good for him. >> he was a class act when he was here. >> yeah. >> mark is here now and he's going to talk about it's back. football season is already starting to rev up. >> tonight it'll be all about the giants and dodgers. right now a little 49 news and raiders as well. the 49ers starting camp sunday afternoon officially. and they've got their top draft choices all signed. the full complement actually. ant

smith is working to get an interview. if she's able to get it we'll have a live report of what he's saying about the deadly attack. police say 52-year-old steven hayashi was not home when his 2-year-old step grandson walked into the garage where the dogs were kept where they killed the little boy. they put down the three pit bulls as well as two others in the yard. >> we didn't know they had that many. i'm shocked to find it out. >> police arrested high yashlshy for child endangerment and owning an animal that causes great bodily harm. he's in the contra costa jail in martinez for a $125,000 fine. >>> scott mcgrew joins us with details on dell. >> it's a big disappointment for fans of dell. michael dell, founder of dell computer and the company took payments from intel to use only intel chips in dell computers. that's not illegal in any way, shape or form. but the securities and exchange commission said the executives at the computer company then pretended as if those payments were actually sales and misrepresented the income to dell investors. in fact, the s.e.c. says a major part of definitely's profits each quarter weren't really from sales

a 2-year-old boy? >> reporter: steven hayashi told us he feels he is to blame but doesn't feel his penalty should be very severe because he doesn't have any history with the law. christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> a painful loss. we posted the raw video of that interview online. go to nbc bay area.com and search jailhouse interview to watch yourself. >> a reminder. a earthquake struck the bay area today. it hit offshore from daly city 2:30 this afternoon. the depth of 4.2 miles. some people as far away as sacramento say they felt the quake. there were no reports of damage or injury. >> the body of a napa soldier killed in afghanistan last week arrived home tonight. 21-year-old army specialist chase stanley died july 14th. when the vehicle he was riding in triggered an ied. three other soldiers were also killed in that blast. stanley's body arrived at the napa airport about an hour ago. his family invited the public to pay their respects. by lining the routes the hearse took. >>> the mayor runs the bases around major league baseball. mayor chuck reed announced he will ask the city council to put a ballpark measure on the november ballot. team owners have not voted on wheth

smith's steven tyler will join her. >> man, you are brave. >> reporter: ellen's short tenure was considered off key. she hit and scary is a fine line. >> if you paid attention critiques of the show nobody was really thrilled with ellen's performance. she must have known that. >> reporter: rather than helping young talent, degeneres she helped she was hurting the hopeful. writing it was hard for me to judge people and hurt their feelings. >> it was crazy, i think, in a bad way, crazy. >> reporter: it appears the show will be returning back to a three-judge panel with jennifer lopez and steven tyler joining the show's only original judge, randy jackson. >> jill, thanks. "people" magazine was first to report the news of the big changes in "american idol." joining thus morning, reports j-low and steven tyler. is this enough to save the show which has been dipping. >> right. looking at what we are talking about. now the biggest buzz and it is going to keep going until they really figure out who they are going to have. last year when they announced ellen, 30 million viewers for the first show. i think this is a fan