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He supported the Bucks and the cause, but the lack of planning and strategy was frustrating; those close to him say now that James was very close to walking away from the season that night. What changed everything was when he and Paul got on the phone with former President Barack Obama. His words late that night drew on that experience: Get something for this, push the NBA, push the owners, push society to do more\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James was convinced to stay in the NBA season by former US president Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[782,787],"rumors":[175],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-177800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-lebron-james-en","tag-los-angeles-lakers-en","rumors-nba-rumors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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