James Gandolfini and Edie Falco Star in Knicks 2010 LeBron James Video – Hollywood Life

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What actually occurred to Tony on the finish of The Sopranos? Well, in some universe, he enters the Witness Protection Program and tried to recruit LeBron James to play for the New York Knicks. Three years after the traditional HBO collection got here to an finish, James Gandolfini and Edie Falco reprised their roles of Tony and Carmela Soprano in a beforehand unseen video from the Knicks made to recruit LeBron to the crew. The clip was unearthed by the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast and proven on-line on Tuesday, April 16.

The video picks up two years after The Sopranos finale, and it begins with a title card that reads “Two years later (Somewhere in New York).” Edie’s voice can then be heard as they’re seen on display screen. “Tony, I’m so glad we moved to New York. Life is so much better now,” she says. Carmela is seen leaning in at a laptop computer on a kitchen counter as she talks to Tony.

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Tony is sitting on a sofa studying The New York Post, and he then lowers the paper, displaying James with a full-grown beard. “Life’s good here, Carm. Even if we are in the Witness Protection Program,” he says as he smiles. Carmela then mentions that they should “find a place for your friend LeBron to live,” earlier than asking Tony in regards to the NBA star. “He’s a modern guy, but he respects tradition,” he says. “He’s gonna be entertaining a lot of people in New York.”

Tony then tells her that she wants to search out him an incredible place to stay. “You’ve gotta find something magnificent, something there’s nothing in the world like it, one-of-a-kind, like he is,” he says, earlier than Carmela exhibits him a video of the Knicks taking part in at Madison Square Garden, and Tony agrees that it could be nice for LeBron. Jay-Z’s “Public Service Announcement” then performs as a display screen with the phrases “City of Winners” within the Knicks’ font and coloration scheme is proven.

Other than The Sopranos clip, there are various extra clips of different New York-based celebrities all through the video, though a few of them haven’t aged very properly together with Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Harvey Weinstein. Other celebs embody Chris Rock, Robert De Niro, and Spike Lee, per Consequence. 

The video was seemingly made after LeBron turned an unrestricted free agent in July 2010 after his first few seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Despite the Knicks’ efforts, he went to Miami for the 2010 season, the place he stayed by way of 2014. Gandolfini died of a coronary heart assault in 2013.