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LeBron James' Uninterrupted acquired the popular podcast Open Run, and James starred in the first episode.

(Uninterrupted)

CLEVELAND, Ohio - LeBron James said his "dream is to actually own" an NBA team, thus declaring for himself a potentially concrete path when his illustrious career comes to an end and he has a large financial fortune at his disposal.

James made the comments during the first episode of a new podcast for Uninterrupted, the on-line, social media-driven platform he created for athletes. He was responding to a question about whether he might want to be a general manager when his playing days are over.

"I think so," James said on the podcast, called 'Open Run,' hosted by actor Jesse Williams and Stefan Marolachakis. 'Open Run' is a popular podcast that was acquired by Uninterrupted, with James the guest for the first show released Wednesday.

"I feel like my brain as far as the game of basketball is unique and I would love to continue to give my knowledge to the game," James said. "And I would love to be a part of a franchise, if not at the top. My dream is to actually own a team and I don't need to have fully hands on. If I'm fortunate enough to own a team, then I'm going to hire the best GM and president that I can.

"But I have a feel like I have a good eye for not only talent, because we all see a lot of talent, but the things that make the talent, the chemistry, what type of guy he is, his work ethic, his passion, the basketball IQ side of things, because talent only goes so far."

James, 31, is entering his 14th pro season. He just signed a three-year, $100 million deal with the Cavs. Oh, and he's coming off a Finals MVP from June, when he led Cleveland back from the largest deficit in NBA championship history to beat the Warriors in seven games.

James has, actually, played in the last six Finals - something no one has done since the 1960s. In other words, as James said on the podcast, he's still in his prime. So he's not riding off into the sunset (and toward ownership of an NBA team) any time soon.

"You definitely listen to the statistics and they talk about the prime is 26 to 31, or whatever the case may be. I don't quite know it anymore because I kind of just threw it out of my mind," James said. "I'm giving my body and giving my mind the best opportunity to just keep going while I can. If I can make a statement and make an impact while I can, I mean, why not?"

James pulled in $77 million in income in 2016, according to Forbes. Obviously, more is on the horizon, from his lucrative basketball contract with the Cavs, his lifetime Nike deal said to be worth maybe more than $1 billion, his media company (SpringHill Entertainment, which created Uninterrupted and has a contract with Warner Bros.) and so on.

Earlier this summer, James told Nike campers that he was chasing the "ghost" of Michael Jordan, whom many consider the greatest to ever play basketball and who is now owner of the Charlotte Hornets.

When James mentioned chasing the "ghost," he seemed to be talking about on-court success - Jordan has one more MVP and three more titles than James. But team ownership could be another milestone in James' larger goal.

As for the podcast, available for download on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Soundcloud, according to the news release, it's approximately 90 minutes long. So James touched on a number of subjects, feeling at ease and clearly vibing with the co-hosts, including:

In Game 7, won 93-89 by the Cavs, James describes feeding Kevin Love for a basket that put Cleveland ahead by 3 points in the fourth quarter. James said Love "had not played up to his standards" in the series, but chose to feed Love because he had a mismatch with the smaller Klay Thompson guarding him. Love delivered with a "key bucket" - a right-handed jump hook in the lane.

On James' famous block of Andre Iguodala, he feared the referees would call goal tending.

How did James chase down Iguodala for the block? He ran like "I had Cujo on my a**."

Following Game 4 of the Finals, in which Cleveland fell behind 3-1 in the series to the Warriors, James and his wife Savannah were up at their house at 2:30 in the morning watching Eddie Murphy's "Raw." The Cavs never lost again. "We sat in the living room laughing our a**es off," James said.

James loves classical music, especially Mozart.

James does think about his "legacy" because "I want to be greatest of all time, so it does creep into my mind, but not where it oversteps what the main thing is, and that's the right now." He also said "this whole legacy thing is much bigger than me jumping up and making a shot, or getting a defensive stop or things of that nature" in reference to his work with the LeBron James Family Foundation. Through his foundation, he's trying to help at-risk, inn-ercity children in Akron learn to read and get to college.

The NBA team from history on which he'd most like to play - the 1985 Lakers.

Speaking of Jordan, James said he along with Ken Griffey Jr. and Deion Sanders were the players he looked up to most as a child. However, James also suggested Jordan gets too much credit sometimes for the six championships the Bulls won with him, or at least Scottie Pippen and other role players do not get enough credit.

Williams stars on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, but generated international attention for his speech on race relations while accepting a humanitarian award at the BET Awards in June. Marolachakis is a journalist and musician.