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Dave McMenamin
Dave McMenamin
ESPN Staff Writer
- Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN.
- Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.
Mar 26, 2025, 10:15 AM ET
LeBron James is relaunching the “Mind the Game” podcast with a new basketball brain to pick at.
Two-time MVP Steve Nash will be James’ co-host on Season 2 of the podcast, which will debut Tuesday, sources told ESPN.
James’ last co-host on “Mind the Game,” JJ Redick, is now his coach on the Los Angeles Lakers. James and Redick were equal participants in selecting Nash as his successor, sources told ESPN.
The first season of “Mind the Game” was an immediate success, averaging 1.5 million views per episode and quickly amassing more than 500,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Nash, 51, retired from playing basketball in 2014 but has since served as the general manager for the Canadian men’s national team and has been a coaching consultant with the Golden State Warriors and the head coach of the Brooklyn Nets for 2½ seasons, posting a 94-67 record (.584). Eleven of his 18 years as a player overlapped with James’ playing career in the NBA.
James recently posted a series of tweets to X, expressing his view of a need for a shift in basketball coverage.
Exactly made my point but anyways. Happy this convo has started. It ain’t about ‘face of the game” and it ain’t about one person or one show, it’s about the culture of basketball,, the most beautiful game in the world. Our game has never been better. Incredible young stars from…
— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 1, 2025
The new season of “Mind the Game” will have the same director, Jason Gallagher, who was Redick’s longtime director on his various podcast ventures before he went into coaching, sources told ESPN.
