New Delhi, July 18 -- NEW YORK - The room had been humming for twenty minutes, the kind of ambient noise that fills large convention spaces when several hundred people are watching a basketball legend hold court without quite believing it. Then LeBron James said four words and the Jacob K. Javits Center lost its mind. James, appearing Friday at Fanatics Fest during a live taping of his "Mind the Game" podcast alongside Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton, told the audience he wants to join a franchise that shares his operating model, that trusting the process matters to him more than anything, Fox News reported. The phrase belongs, in the vocabulary of professional basketball, to one franchise.

The crowd recognized it within a second....