“If you lose LeBron, you lose the whole …

“If you lose LeBron, you lose the whole enterprise,” one Team USA staffer remembers thinking. “You can’t have LeBron doing that. They get off the bus and Coach K pulls him aside immediately and says, ‘Look, you have to trust that I’ll never ask you to do something I don’t feel is important. . . . You have to trust that we’re doing this for the right reasons.’ . . . That’s probably the first time LeBron James has been talked to that way.”