Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman got a king-sized shoutout from LeBron James for his World Series heroics — but it came with an unfortunate typo.
After Freeman, 35, hit a first inning home run in Game 4 on October 29, his fourth home run of the series, Los Angeles Lakers star James, 39, posted via X, “FREDDY FREEMAN WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾.”
On the Friday, November 8 episode of the “New Heights” podcast, Freeman responded to James spelling his first name wrong.
“I’m very particular about my name,” the World Series MVP told hosts Travis and Jason Kelce. “Spell it right, you know?”
Hours later, James amended the mistake and wrote via X, “*Freddie! Anyways you’re a fkn STUD!! Finish yall breakfast!”
“I heard he corrected it,” Freeman continued on the podcast. “He put the ‘ie’ on it because I think a lot of people started correcting him. I don’t know why I’m particular about my name.”
The Kelce brothers backed him up, with Travis, 35, saying, “It’s a good thing to be particular about it.”
“There we go, yeah,” Freeman said with a laugh.
Spelling error aside, Freeman — who was born Frederick Charles Freeman — was glad for the love from his fellow L.A. Sports icon.
“LeBron has come to a couple of Games throughout the course of the regular season,” Freeman said. “It’s pretty cool. As athletes, you just respect everybody. LeBron is the greatest basketball player of all-time, so it’s pretty cool. It’s special. I guess it just means you’ve done something really good.”
The Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in five Games to capture the World Series title last month, which was kicked off by Freeman’s instantly iconic walk-off grand slam in Game 1.
However, to hear him discuss it now, Freeman says it’s all just a fever dream.
“I don’t really remember it,” he admitted on the podcast. “I kind of blacked out. I can’t remember the feeling.”
Freeman’s celebration, in which he posed like the statue of liberty, became almost as memorable as the grand slam itself. It turns out he doesn’t really know what happened there, either.
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Once he crossed home plate in a raucous Dodger Stadium, Freeman made a beeline to celebrate with his father.
“I knew my dad was sitting front row,” he explained. “For some reason I was like, ‘You know what, I’m going to share this with him.’ So I ran over and just screamed in his face. There was no words. There was nothing. We were just screaming at each other.”
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