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Marc RaimondiOct 14, 2025, 02:55 PM ET
- Marc Raimondi's archetypal twelvemonth covering the Falcons was 2024, but it wasn't his archetypal twelvemonth astatine ESPN. He joined the institution successful 2019 and was a apical combat sports reporter. He besides covered nonrecreational wrestling and wrote the publication "Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Pro Wrestling's New World Order Changed America," which was published by Simon & Schuster successful 2025. Raimondi besides worked for the New York Post and Newsday, opening successful 2009, covering precocious schoolhouse and assemblage sports, positive the NFL, NFL, MLB and NHL.
ATLANTA -- Atlanta Falcons moving backmost Bijan Robinson broke disconnected an 81-yard touchdown tally connected "Monday Night Football" during his team's eventual 24-14 triumph implicit the Buffalo Bills astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
It was the longest rushing play anyone has had this play successful the NFL. And it prompted a absorption from NBA large LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers.
James posted a compliment connected X, stating that Robinson is "so cold."
Robinson said successful his postgame quality league that his transportation with James goes beyond conscionable the societal media shoutout. Robinson is represented by Nicole Lynn of Klutch Sports Group, an bureau founded by James' longtime person and cause Rich Paul, who is besides Klutch's CEO.
"That's my dude," Robinson said of James aft the victory. "He gives maine truthful overmuch proposal and conscionable maine being successful the Klutch bureau and seeing him and getting to speech to him and conscionable bask the moments with him, man, it's ever a blessing."
Bijan truthful COLD!!!!!!!!! 🥶
— LeBron James (@KingJames) October 14, 2025Robinson said the interactions he's had with James person been other special, due to the fact that the Lakers prima is his "favorite athlete."
James' past portion of proposal to Robinson: "To effort [to] beryllium the champion successful the league." He's moving connected it. Robinson presently leads the NFL with 822 yards from scrimmage, contempt him having played 1 less crippled than astir different players owed to the Falcons' early, Week 5 bye. On Monday, Robinson had a career-high 238 yards from scrimmage, including 170 yards rushing successful a show that made him an MVP candidate.
"I was like, 'Man, I'm going to support trying each azygous time,'" Robinson said of however helium responded to James. "And helium was conscionable saying, 'When you tally the shot similar that, you marque it enjoyable for maine arsenic a fan, arsenic a spectator to watch.'"
Hoops was decidedly connected Robinson's caput Monday, arsenic it usually is. Robinson takes inspiration from hoops players known for their ballhandling skills, similar Allen Iverson and Dallas Mavericks defender Kyrie Irving. After the Bills game, Robinson compared his violative enactment to erstwhile Stephen Curry gets blistery -- the handbasket looks wide and the Golden State Warriors defender "can't miss."
"And erstwhile I find those creases, you got to instrumentality vantage of it and you got to marque those guys miss tackles and marque them not privation to beryllium determination anymore," Robinson said. "So that's what we did tonight."
The past clip Robinson and James saw each other, Robinson said, was astatine the assemblage shot nationalist title crippled earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile the 2 were playfully "bickering." Robinson played astatine Texas, and James is an Ohio State fan. The Buckeyes bushed the Longhorns to marque it to the rubric game.
"When I bash get to spot him and get to pass with him, I americium evidently like, '...
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