1/13/2024 0 Comments Tom brady press conference lebron![]() Between the two of us, we'll find the right mix of athletes.” I have to say, like once you have LeBron, Tom Brady and go reach out to other athletes. LeBron was like, “I love this idea, let's do it together. “Oh, everyone's gonna think it's like the comeback in the Super Bowl, but actually it's this game in the undefeated season, week nine against Buffalo.” So, it just sort of picked up. Tom is a cofounder of Religion of Sports, our company, he said the same thing. ![]() He said, “It's actually Game 6 against the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals in 2012.” He's like, “I heard everything, I knew what everyone was saying about me after that Game Five against the Celtics down in Miami, and so actually it's this game.” I said, “Can we do something around that?” He said sure. So out of curiosity, I was working with LeBron on Shut Up and Dribble a couple years ago, and I asked him, “What is your game?” Probably expecting that it would be one when he went back to Cleveland and he won there. He said something that was very personal to him. GC: Without going into the details again with Kobe, I remember talking to him about that and saying, “That's interesting that he didn't say a big playoff game, or Finals game, or anything like that. It was so important to him to show up and play in those games.ĮSQ: Could you talk about how Greatness Code started, when Uninterrupted came in, and how you chose the athletes? Because it's like emotionally, mentally, how he compartmentalized what was going on in his personal life-and yet showing up. I think it was early in his career when he was going through the trial in Colorado, and he was sort of going back and forth, going back and forth, he said he thought one of his most memorable games was during that period. 81 points, 61 points, so many playoff performances, et cetera. As a fan, I probably had a lot of different versions of what I thought Kobe's most memorable game was. The origins of Greatness Code actually had a lot to do with Kobe-because he was the first athlete of that stature I ever worked that closely with and intimately with. But every once in a while I'm like, He's no longer here and it’s just so strange. That happened in January and everything that's happened since, just like in terms of the world. Gotham Chopra: It's still shocking, especially this year, to think about. It’s incredible-with the tone of the documentary, how somber and reflective it was at times, I would have believed someone if they told me it was made after Kobe’s death. Stick around until the end of the interview, where Chopra says why you should expect something entirely different than The Last Dance.ĮSQUIRE: I watched Muse for the first time last night. In 2021, ESPN will release the nine-part Man in the Arena, where Chopra will chronicle a different all-timer: Tom Brady. We talked to Chopra about Greatness Code, as well as his next project-which will likely be the first drop-everything-and-watch sports docuseries since The Last Dance. (Prepare yourself for a rendering of Michael Phelps as an actual goat.) Audio: Whooshes and wubs and booms that are definitely not meant for my dinky laptop speakers. Shaun White compares his Olympic trial run to storming Mordor? The Eye of Sauron, looming behind a superpipe. Usain Bolt says he ran like a bat out of hell? Bats, flying at your face. Doesn’t feel right calling Greatness Code a TV show, either-it’s more of an experience paired best with your hallucinogen of choice. Words will do absolutely no justice to it, but Greatness Code feels like something you’d rather watch in the planetarium at your local science center. Greatness Code isn’t all talking heads, either-Chopra and animation director Lauren Fisher teamed up to illustrate the stories in each episode. Chopra, who directed the reflective 2015 documentary, Kobe Bryant’s Muse, finds greats like Katie Ledecky and Kelly Slater at their most reflective in Greatness Code-and the result is a hell of a story collection. In Greatness Code’s seven episodes, which run about six to eight minutes long, Chopra puts together a documentary series that tells us more about the modern athlete than any 10-hour-long counterpart you could name. Their answers aren’t what you’d think, so don’t expect Brady to swoon over his 28-3 Super Bowl comeback. ![]() No anger, no hype, no excitement, which, you know, you think would be counterintuitive to dropping 45 points on the Celtics in Game 6 of the 2012 NBA Conference Finals.įor Greatness Code, which is now streaming on Apple TV+, director Gotham Chopra asked seven athletes-which include James, Tom Brady, and Alex Morgan-to talk beat-for-beat through their most defining career moments. ![]() In the 1,258 NBA games LeBron James has played, he says his best one came when he felt absolutely nothing.
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