As you probably know, Cavaliers teammates Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye host their own podcast, Road Trippin', alongside the team's sideline reporter Allie Clifton. Turns out Kyrie Irving pondering whether the earth is flat or not was good pub. On a recent episode they were able to land LeBron James, which means they walked to the back of the team plane and said, "Hey man, you wanna do this?"
It was on this podcast that James revealed he recently apologized to his wife, Savannah, because being married to the highest profile athlete on the planet is probably pretty freakin' crazy sometimes.
"I am addicted to the process. I’m addicted to the process," he said, as transcribed by USA TODAY. "It’s so funny. I just told my wife the other day, I apologized to her. She was like 'What are you apologizing for?’ I said ‘Because the journey that I’m on to want to be the greatest to ever play this game or to the point where no one ever forgets what I accomplished, I’ve at times lost the fact of how important you are to this whole thing. … I want you to understand that along this journey while I’m playing this game there will be times that I lose the fact of how important you and my three kids are – my babies are.’"
Later on Irving interjected, though this time he didn't do so to argue about science, but rather asked LeBron what he learned from reading Paulo Coelho's popular novel The Alchemist, which is basically about finding your destiny.
"The whole thing about empowerment of yourself and having your visions become a reality and the more and more that you dream and actually talk about something that you want to do, it can become true," James answered. "That was one of the one things I got out of it. As complex as that book is and as deep as that book is – it is so, so deep – I was able to figure out a way to translate it to my life at that point in time where I was like, oh I can remember when I was the 11-year-old kid and I was telling myself ‘Why me?' some days and I was always telling myself ‘OK, let’s change the narrative of why me, why us, why are we put in this position? Let’s change the narrative.’"
James also admitted that he cries when he watches The Lion King, as well as during that famous scene where Will yells at his dad as he walks out on him on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
"Every single time, I shed a tear," he admitted, adding earlier that real men cry. "It could come from obviously me being part of a single-parent household and never seeing my father and things growing up when I was a kid, but it’s just an emotional part."
You can listen to the whole thing on iTunes here.
