Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman bought a king-sized shoutout from LeBron James for his World Collection heroics — however it got here with an unlucky typo.
After Freeman, 35, hit a primary inning residence run in Sport 4 on October 29, his fourth residence run of the sequence, Los Angeles Lakers star James, 39, posted by way of X, “FREDDY FREEMAN WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾.”
On the Friday, November 8 episode of the “New Heights” podcast, Freeman responded to James spelling his first identify unsuitable.
“I’m very specific about my identify,” the World Collection MVP advised hosts Travis and Jason Kelce. “Spell it proper, you already know?”
Hours later, James amended the error and wrote by way of X, “*Freddie! Anyhow you’re a fkn STUD!! End yall breakfast!”
“I heard he corrected it,” Freeman continued on the podcast. “He put the ‘ie’ on it as a result of I believe lots of people began correcting him. I don’t know why I’m specific about my identify.”
The Kelce brothers backed him up, with Travis, 35, saying, “It’s factor to be specific about it.”
“There we go, yeah,” Freeman stated with fun.
Spelling error apart, Freeman — who was born Frederick Charles Freeman — was glad for the love from his fellow L.A. sports activities icon.
“LeBron has come to a few video games all through the course of the common season,” Freeman stated. “It’s fairly cool. As athletes, you simply respect everyone. LeBron is the best basketball participant of all-time, so it’s fairly cool. It’s particular. I suppose it simply means you’ve achieved one thing actually good.”
The Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in 5 video games to seize the World Collection title final month, which was kicked off by Freeman’s immediately iconic walk-off grand slam in Sport 1.
Nevertheless, to listen to him talk about it now, Freeman says it’s all only a fever dream.
“I don’t actually bear in mind it,” he admitted on the podcast. “I type of blacked out. I can’t bear in mind the sensation.”
Freeman’s celebration, wherein he posed just like the statue of liberty, grew to become virtually as memorable because the grand slam itself. It seems he doesn’t actually know what occurred there, both.
“I don’t try this,” Freeman stated. “I normally simply hit them and run across the bases, however a slam within the World Collection. That’s the one fashion I bought. I bought nothing else.”
As soon as he crossed residence plate in a raucous Dodger Stadium, Freeman made a beeline to have a good time together with his father.
“I knew my dad was sitting entrance row,” he defined. “For some cause I used to be like, ‘You realize what, I’m going to share this with him.’ So I ran over and simply screamed in his face. There was no phrases. There was nothing. We have been simply screaming at one another.”