Le Batard & Friends Presents: The Step Back

By Dan Le Batard

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Category: Basketball

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Hosted by Dan Le Batard, Amin Elhassan, and Israel Gutierrez, this limited series is part nostalgia machine, part media autopsy—pulling apart the biggest athletes of our time through the moments that made them unavoidable. Season one belongs to LeBron James. From the Sports Illustrated cover that anointed him before he could legally celebrate, to The Decision that broke the internet before we even used that term, to “Shut Up & Dribble,” a phrase that accidentally defined an era—this is the story of how one athlete bent the relationship between sports, media, and power into something new. Each episode revisits a single flashpoint – alongside a rotating cast of guests who were there, covered it, or lived it- the show asks the uncomfortable questions, finds the human ones, and occasionally gets distracted in ways that feel… familiar. The Step Back is a time capsule with better context, worse timing, and just enough perspective to realize we might have missed the point the first time.

Episode Date
There's Always This Year (feat. Hanif Abdurraqib)
Jul 21, 2026
Shut Up & Dribble (feat. Jemele Hill & Cari Champion)
Jul 01, 2026
Lebron Inc. (feat. Pablo Torre)
Jun 16, 2026
I'm Coming Home (feat. Iman Shumpert)
May 27, 2026
The Decision (feat. Jim Gray)
May 19, 2026
The Chosen One (feat. Sonny Vaccaro)
May 12, 2026