pat riley made his career. have him patrolling the locker room with the personalities, stars in your locker room. this is big time. this is as big as it getsch this has the the potential, not there, but has potential to be jordan/pippen. there is no excuse on the face of this earth for this team not to represent the eastern conference in the nba finals next year. anything less would be a flat out failure. >> larry: stephen in the future, try to be more direct in your comments. >> yes. >> larry: we have more comments from lebron. here's what lebron said, "when i called my mom i thought i would hear a different reaction. she said it was a great move. it was ultimately going to make me happy. when i heard that from my mother it was out relief i was looking for through out this whole process." rick, how good will this team be you, play aid lot of ball and played on championship teams? >> i have. i caution because i played on teams that were stacked with talent. i can think of kobe bryant, shaquille o'neal, karl mal

so you're saying pat riley was contract tampering. [ laughter ] >> nope. >> jimmy: different pat rileyou and lebron and chris are friends and you thought, wouldn't it be great if we could play together. but did you think that it would -- it could actually happen? i mean, it's -- seemed like such a long shot when you first heard the rumors of it. >> when i first heard rumors of it -- >> jimmy: you started the rumors. you didn't first hear them. you were a party in the rumor, so -- i heard the rumors. you were the rumors. >> i was apart of the rumor. >> jimmy: you were, yeah. >> and at first i was just like -- i mean, no way that can happen. you never think that three players -- let alone two. we tried to get two. you never think that three players, especially in this day and age, never happened before. especially with the money that those guys are making. never think they we all could play together. so it was just like, yeah, okay, whatever. >> jimmy: and you actually took less money than you would have made elsewhere. you are getting less than either of those guys. which is not that sm

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