LeBron James' wife flies first class while her best friend sits in business. Would you cover friends who can't keep up?

“We talk about this a lot because there’s two different lifestyles that exist. Like we’re not delusional to that and I think Savannah has accommodated where I’m at,” McDaniel said. “So like if we want to go away, I can’t just be like, ‘All right, we going away tomorrow, because I’m on a budget.’ We don’t move like that, even though people think we do.”

According to Forbes, LeBron James’ net worth is at least $1.4 billion. Suffice it to say that plenty of people shared their thoughts on James’ and McDaniel’s approach to their wealth-gap friendship.

Savannah James weighs in — and so does the internet

McDaniel was also upfront about crafting a spending plan that she sticks to, even if it means sitting in a different section than James. “And I think…like even if we’re going on the same trip, I don’t feel the need to be in first because that’s not in my budget,” McDaniel said. “Like so, we always laugh about it.”

James said that her friends haven’t tried getting her to cover their expenses on a trip or vacation. For her, it’s simply a non-issue.

“My friends are very respectful of my situation. All of them,” James said on the podcast. “It’s no expectation of like, taking care of something or just having me be responsible for them. It has never ever been that.”

First class or bust?

Social media users were eager to chime in with their own takes on how they’d handle a flight if they were sitting on a mountain of wealth themselves.

“No shade, but if I didn’t wanna buy my best friend a first class ticket I’ll buy the same ticket she’s buying,” one user wrote on X. “Either way we flying the same regardless never separately.”

A Reddit user said they couldn’t bear the thought of sitting in first class without their best friend alongside them. “I could NEVER sit in first class w/o my bestie if I could more than afford to get her a first class seat as well,” the Reddit user wrote. “If we’re childhood besties, and I have an abundance of wealth, I’m treating my friend to nice experiences!”