With Saudi Arabia reeling in the world’s biggest footballing legends, athletes from other sports were salivating at the financial prospects. Even the NBA’s athletes were in shock. The fan community got a mini heart attack when LeBron James said he would play in Saudi Arabia, amid rumors of a two-year $1 billion deal.

In a recent podcast episode, a 53 YO ex-Laker dissects the NBA’s all-time scoring leader and his Saudi trip.

7-time NBA Champion on LeBron James “greasing the wheel“

Soon after he joked about playing in Saudi, LeBron James actually flew to Saudi Arabia to conduct a basketball camp for children. The 53-year-old ex-Lakers star Robert Horry discussed the same on his podcast, “Big Shot Bob with Robert Horry“. His co-host asked him, “Do you think LeBron is using this opportunity to ‘grease the wheel’ a little bit?”

The 7x NBA Champion responded, “I don’t think so. He of course put it out there because Saudi Arabia got a lot of money!” Horry further added, “I guarantee you this camp, he’s making about $5 Million in Saudi. And so, he’s going to go take that bag and I ain’t mad at him.”

“You know, people don’t like certain countries but hey, you have to take advantage of the opportunities while you still can,” he concluded.

The former teammate of Kobe Bryant further talks about the massive developments that Saudi Arabia is making to grow their different sporting leagues.

Saudi Arabia’s plan for entering global sports

Robert Horry describes the massive development of sports infrastructure that is happening in Saudi Arabia. He mentions in his podcast, “You should see… they literally built an island! Brought in sand and built an island. Now they’re building basketball courts and football courts. It’s massive.”

Saudi Arabia’s sports development plan  involves buying  the world’s best players to play for their national sports leagues. The world of football is already getting affected as incredible  talents are already  playing for the Saudi Arabia leagues because of the money involved.

In fact, after seeing Neymar Jr.’s potential contract, even LeBron James joked about moving to the country for a bigger bag.

Professional athletes from different leagues like the NBA have tweeted about their interest in joining the Saudi Arabia leagues.

If basketball players were to get offers like that of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr. or Kylian Mbappe to play for a Saudi Arabian Basketball team, many NBA fanbases would be heart broken as their favorite franchise players might leave the country in a hurry.

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