Ladies and gentlemen please welcome LeBron James.
Before I get started on the speech that I have, I want to acknowledge all the lives that was lost Sunday morning.
Alyssa Altobelli, John Altobelli, Keri Altobelli, Payton Chester, Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser, Ara Zobayan, Gianna Bryant and Kobe Bryant.
Now I got something written down.
You know they asked me to kind of stay on course or whatever the case may be.
But Laker Nation man I would be selling y'all short if I read off this shit, so I'm gonna go straight from the heart.
The first thing that come to mind, man is all about family, and as I look around this arena, we're all grieving, we're all hurt, we're all heartbroken.
But when we going through things like this, the best thing you can do is lean on the shoulders of your family.
And from Sunday morning all the way to this point, now I heard about Laker Nation before I got here last year about how much of a family it is.
And that is absolutely what I've seen this whole week, not only from the players, not only from the coaching staff, not only from the organization, but from everybody, everybody that's here, this is really truly truly a family.