LeBron James is featured on the cover of the September edition of GQ. (Ben Watts/GQ)
Limited in his comments in the wake of his dramatic free-agency shift from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat, LeBron James opened up in an interview with J.R. Moehringer for the September edition of GQ.
At a time when James was being obsessively shielded from the world by his team of handlers, J.R. Moehringer had unprecedented inside access: a pair of face-to-face meetings shortly before The Decision and a follow-up phone call six days after the fact. During that postmortem interview, when Moehringer asked James what he’d change if he had a do-over, James replied, “Nothing at all.”
LeBron took a dislike to those who questioned a focus other than toward the sport.
“People questioning how much I love the game,” he said, “that’s never been something I haven’t cherished. Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.”
Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, who ripped James for his choice to go to Miami, was also a topic of conversation in the GQ story.
“I don’t think he ever cared about LeBron,” James said. “My mother always told me: ‘You will see the light of people when they hit adversity. You’ll get a good sense of their character.’ Me and my family have seen the character of that man.”
GQ interviewed J.R. Moehringer on the post-Decision aftermath, predicts how the first season in Miami will go down, and crowns the single most insane moment from his time with James,
