Team goals.
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Basketball statisticians at the barbershop will discuss this. Who wins between LeBron James… and a “CGI humanoid” played by Don Cheadle? Anything to stop the debates about “MVP”, James’ next big game is against the Goon Squad in the long-awaited Space Jam sequel, ONE New legacy. “It’s one of the biggest games, if not the biggest one I’ve ever played,” said James Weekly entertainment in a new cover story, complete with a first look. “The Goon Squad is probably the best team ever formed in the history of basketball.” The 36-year-old enters Michael Jordan’s Jordans (presumably) in the animation-live-action hybrid, but this time it is he who needs the help of the Looney Tunes team.
Playing an exaggerated version of himself, James and his tech genius son (Cedric Joe) are sucked into the Warner 3000 entertainment “Server-verse” by a disgruntled AI, Al G Rhythm (Don Cheadle), who wants to steal followers from media. It looks like it would be an easy exchange, but, unfortunately, to escape, James gathers Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety and the rest of the gang to take down the Goon Squad. While he searches for them on the servers, he gets lost in some family movies. “It was a complicated thing just in terms of what you might want, like, ‘Oh my God, look, there are Mad Max, and there Casablanca! ‘”Said director Malcolm D. Lee EW. James also provoked The Matrix and Wonder Woman, but we won’t know until the feverish dream arrives on July 16 on HBO Max and in theaters.