James: The park period is the purest basketball, which tests your concentration

Recently, Lakers forward LeBron James updated his podcast program "Mind The Game". On the show, he talked about the park period in 2020:

"I agree with many people that it is the purest form of basketball. There is only basketball there. Usually, we have the ability to do anything as we want, we make a lot of money, and we have all kinds of conveniences. But these do not exist in the park. You can't say 'Oh, I want to go to the restaurant' or 'I want to do this', you can't do these at all. In the park, everything is just basketball. Of course, we are also paying attention to many things off the court, such as social injustice, police violence, etc., and these discussions are very necessary. But when basketball games become the focus, they are all just basketball. When everything revolves around basketball. "

" Among all the championships I have won, the level of concentration that time was unprecedented. How long can you maintain this concentration until the task is completed? Because you have many reasons to be distracted, you are used to a specific lifestyle, and you can say, 'I don't want to do this, why am I here? I can't eat anything I want, I can't do what I want, and I can't see my family...' You can easily forget your original intention of coming here. "

A few days ago, the 2020 Lakers champion guard Kentavius ​​Caldwell Pope also defended the value of the Lakers' park championship.

"Just as we talked about before, that season was not over. Whether you want to go home or not, that was your own choice. We joked at the time, 'You might as well just give us the championship', but we didn't want this result because we played so well that season. We had been beating our opponents... We didn't complain about anything, we just wanted to play. Those opponents also knew in their hearts that we would definitely teach them a lesson."