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Welcome back to A King's Rain, the new narrative podcast series from The Athletic,

detailing the bronze, life, career and impact. I'm the host of this series, Andrew Schlecht.

You know, there was a time that the entire basketball world, or at least it felt like the

entire basketball world thought LeBron James wasn't clutch. One thing that really pissed me off

is when people used to always get on him about not taking the last shot.

James Edwards III details that narrative and the moment when LeBron broke through to having

his Jordan moment. And then Joe Barton looks at the long arc of LeBron's international basketball

career from the disaster in Athens during the 2004 Olympics. I hate to say this, but it was,

it was a very dysfunctional team. To the iconic redeem team. In 2008, our goal was not just to

win the gold medal, was to win the respect of the world and the respect of our country.

I think we checked each one of those blocks. And at the end, an exclusive interview

with former team USA head coach Mike Schaeffsky, who tells some awesome stories about coaching

LeBron, Kobe Bryant, and the rest of the redeem team. First, let's get to James and that special

night in Detroit in 2007, when a young LeBron went up a whole new level in his career.

From the moment Mike Brown met LeBron James, Brown knew that he was different.

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