LeBron James has racked up over 56,598 career minutes, but Savannah James has been with him from as early as his gym days in high school when he had absolutely nothing—”no cameras, no lights.” And it’s the first time we are hearing from Savannah James talking about the realities of her personal life. At the newly-launched podcast series called Everybody’s Crazy, she has been on a roll with this week’s episode focused on monogamy, forgiveness, and friendship.

As powerful as she is, she isn’t one to back down when it comes to speaking her mind, even when it’s to her husband. The podcast had instances where she talked about the bond that they share, but what struck us the most was what would her reaction be, if god forbid, something messy were to happen.

In case you’re wondering who might back out first – the mentally strong King James or his queen, we have our answer with a piece of advice that she gave to a caller on the show. She said, “If I feel like I’d give purely, and if it does not feel right to me and the relationship has just died down and there’s no conversation ahead as to why… I’m okay with just letting it go.”

Even if there was any rift coming their way, she also would prioritize her emotional bond over everything else. But as she confessed, it would be difficult walking away or moving on, “I think that’s something I struggle with, personally. Walking away from friends, but I’m also like… it’s not that I need the closure and not that I can’t walk away but it is the closure, there’s always that question of like, why. What was it? Why?

“I feel like for me it’s like a different relationship. you know like, I consider my husband to also be my friend. My best friend. But I don’t know, it’s different”. This is when we see the struggle going on for both of them as they talk to a caller, trying to solve their relationship queries. With a husband, there’s never a fine line. It’s all a blur after a certain point and both of them understand that. They were vocal about the fact that “you can forgive your man but not your friend”. 

LeBron and Savannah go way back. Before they got married, they were childhood friends. Both share a successful marriage and have raised three wonderful children, of which Bryce and Bronny are all set to embark on their individual journeys in the NBA soon.

LeBron James feels he wouldn’t be anywhere if it weren’t for Savannah

In conversations with the Hollywood Reporter in the past, LeBron got vocal about his wife and his high school sweetheart. He said, “[Savannah] was down when I was at my high school, no cameras, no lights. And she was there with me. You wouldn’t be talking to me right now if it weren’t for her”. He continued saying, that Savannah was the only one with him during his struggling days in the gym when he practiced his shooting.

So what’s the secret to their long-lasting love?

She briefly touched upon it in a previous episode of the same podcast series. Savannah feels that it’s that need to build youthfulness and excitement even after two decades of their marriage. It is paramount to the foundation of their relationship. She said, “So, we speak about that often, and you know, like, something that’s really important to me is dating Like, yeah, we’re married, we’ve been together for 22 years, but, like, I want to feel young and fun, so I want us to date, you know?”

King LeBron and his Queen were together for 10 years before they decided to get married and move on to the parenthood as the next phase. After 22 years of together, looking back at all these years, she knew what worked for them: Taking one phase at a time and figuring out things together. “Those are phases and you just have to be able to know what exactly it is out of those phases that you want.”

Truly, they’ve set ‘power couple goals’ with their realistic way of handling their marriage away from the public eye.