{"id":30920,"date":"2016-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/matthew-dellavedova-floored-by-huge-lebron-james-compliment\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:00:00","slug":"matthew-dellavedova-floored-by-huge-lebron-james-compliment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/matthew-dellavedova-floored-by-huge-lebron-james-compliment\/","title":{"rendered":"Delly floored by huge LeBron compliment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | Twitter<\/h6>\n<h3>Australian NBA champion with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Matthew Dellavedova, says it was an \u201cincredible feeling\u201d to hear megastar teammate LeBron James shut down critics who said he wasn\u2019t up to NBA standard.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty incredible feeling having someone like LeBron say that about you,\u201d Delly told FIVEAA\u2019s Rowey and Bicks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be able to be teammates with him for the last couple of years and get to know him and have that mutual respect is pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/271366973&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After the Cavs beat Golden State Warriors to win the 2016 NAB championship, LeBron publicly took aim at those who had criticised the Aussie export.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a guy who\u2019s dedicated, who never cared about guys saying, \u2018Delly\u2019s not fast enough, Delly\u2019s not strong enough, Delly cant shoot it well enough, Delly\u2019s not an NBA player.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell guess what? Delly&#8217;s a champion, thank you Delly,\u201d LeBron said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"500\" width=\"800\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lebron.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SInow\" target=\"_blank\">@SInow<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Delly said LeBron\u2019s belief when the team was down 3-1 in the Finals series rubbed off on his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the leader of our team and we\u2019ll follow him in whatever he says. When you\u2019ve got him saying it doesn\u2019t matter, we\u2019re still going to get it done, everybody believed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to win two games on the road to get the job done. Everybody was writing us off but we still believed that we could get it done. When you\u2019ve got the best player in the world on your side you\u2019re always a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delly said the championship win was still sinking in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t really had a chance to think about anything because so many things have happened. It almost feels like we won a month ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/local-footy-drug-club-livid-over-claim\">LOCAL FOOTY \u201cDRUG\u201d CLUB LIVID OVER ACCUSATION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/alan-hickey\/over-the-moon-a-fiveaa-listener-s-massive-25k-gift#1\">\u201cA MIRACLE\u201d \u2013 FIVEAA LISTENER\u2019S MASSIVE $25K GIFT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | Twitter Australian NBA champion with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Matthew Dellavedova, says it was an \u201cincredible feeling\u201d to hear megastar teammate LeBron James shut down critics who said he wasn\u2019t up to NBA standard. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty incredible feeling having someone like LeBron say that about you,\u201d Delly told FIVEAA\u2019s Rowey and Bicks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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