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This is the baseline discussing the hot
button topics of the NBA. Welcome everybody

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your tune to the baseline. Cali
warrnt Shaw discussing the hot button topics of

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the NBA. Just because the championship
has been awarded to a team doesn't mean

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the NBA still ain't got no steam. We are fresh direct into the off

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season, and the NBA just does
not disappoint with all of the news and

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all the things that happened in me. Can't even let a damn team celebrate

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basket the glory of its own greatness. We already got to be focusing our

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attention to all of the havoc and
the chaos. And my man Shaws with

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me, you know, brother from
another mother www. Dot Shawsports dot Netwick

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Ahunda PNC bro. I mean,
can can we breathe? Can we can

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we inhale? You know what I'm
saying? Uh? What do they call

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that? In? Uh? Grandeur? Can we inhale? In the grandeur?

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You know what I'm saying. It's
been it's been ten years since no,

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I'm sorry, fifteen years. It's
been fifteen years since you know,

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the Celtics have been able to sniff
victory, and already the rest of the

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NBA is like, yeah, yea, enough of that, all that noise

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and stuff like that. Let's get
rid. Let's let's let's go into you

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know what I'm saying, it's stinct
level chaos. You know what I'm saying.

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Things happen in the association. It's
nuts, bro, Yeah, no

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doubt, brother. Yeah, it's
really interesting I think for me to watch

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and see how everything's going, because
everyone was like, oh, you know,

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f those Celtics, we don't care
about that. But the rules changed

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this year. This is the first
year that they move things up for teams

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to be able to negotiate with their
own free agents basically right after the NBA

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finals, So it almost became like
kind of like how we say in football,

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like kind of like a black Monday. All right, it's over now,

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let's let's get back to business.
So the rest of the league starts

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kind of like doing stuff immediately,
nothing more bigger than obviously what will be

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the main topic of conversation when we
bring in a very special guest, you

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know, to kind of talk about
one of the coaching hires. But other

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coaching moves have been happening. Player, stuff has been happening. It's been

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a really really wild situation going on
here, so exciting times in the NBA.

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As always brother and hey, I
have you to kind of kick through

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the news and notes with as always
here on the basis. Yeah. Absolutely,

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And by the way, this ain't
no special guests. This is this

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is a legend. This is the
OG. It's the OG. We're not

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We're not We're not basking, you
know, putting people on any kind of

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surprise notice. Man, if you
all know how the baseline roles have been

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rolling with us, you know,
one of our one of our people's,

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one of our founding brothers who've been
always down with us since day one,

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especially during the show, and he's
always doing bigger and better things. And

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obviously the big news of topic is
in regards to the Los Angeles Lakers,

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which we'll get into a little bit. We got our man, you know

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what I'm saying, our resident.
You know what I'm saying, Los Angeles.

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Uh, you know what I'm saying, four to five Lake. I

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mean, he would probably be you
know what I'm saying, the King of

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Lilive if they were for Jack Nicholson
and Lebron James, but our Manajerbari Davis

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will be joining us in a little
bit to talk about, you know,

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the hiring JJ Reddick and the state
of affairs of what he is now going

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to have on his lap and where
the Lakers organization are going to be moving

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forward after this hire. So a
lot to get into and as always,

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to some great, great content being
created. With that being said, Sean,

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let's run right through the news and
notes that's going on, because obviously

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we're chomping at the bit to get
our man Jabbari on to talk about what's

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going on with the Los Angeles Lakers. But listen, man, the NBA

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stories. The NBA storyline doesn't sleep, and already moves have been made,

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one of the more notable ones,
and actually I found it to be very

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curious. This could be one of
those sneaky ones, you know what I'm

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saying that we may not be talking
about because it happened so early, like

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immediately after the NBA Finals, But
the Oklahoma City Thunder trading to get Alex

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Caruso to the Thunder, a trade
moving Josh Giddy to the Chicago Bulls.

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I don't know if I'm necessarily surprised
by this move. I actually think that

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this is actually a pretty good move. If you're the Oklahoma City Thunder,

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will we be talking about this move, you know, as being one of

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the more underappreciate, ciated or underrated
moves that will take place in this offseason,

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minus what's going on with free agency. If this obviously yields success for

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the Oklahoma City Thunder, I think
people who know no right, they know

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this was a great move for Oka
see opens up so many things for them.

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They retain, you know, all
the draft equity and capital that they

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had without having to give that up. And I can I can probably theorize

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as to why that happened. You
know, not necessarily that they snuffed the

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bulls so to speak, or you
know, got one over, but you

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know, Giddy being twenty one rookie
scale contract, there's a lot of upside

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there too where they probably felt like, hey, we don't necessarily need to

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give draft equity. But Cruso as
a guy who obviously would fit on a

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lot of teams. I think I've
heard some a lot of comparisons already,

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like this is Okayc's version of Derek
White, and I don't think there's an

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exact comp I think Derek White's a
lot more versatile offensively than Crusoe is.

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But Cruso has become a very competent
three point shooter in addition to what he

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does in terms of defense and all
the intangibles as well too as a team

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connector so I think for okay See, they got exactly what they needed again

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allows them to open up some other
things. Don't know if they need to

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keep Blue door or move him on
to Baby to fill you know, get

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like a true power forward. Those
are some of the rumblings of rumors coming

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on or they just run with this
roster and keep it pushing. But okay

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See is in a great, great
position. Sam Presty continues to be one

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of the great gms in the NBA. And a little tidbid for you.

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I was actually on the phone with
our special guests up to come here Jabari

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when the announcement happened, and he
just said, osh, you know him

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as a Laker fan, he was
like, this is not what I want

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to see. Okay See getting better
in the Western Conference. Yeah, absolutely,

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I think this is an awesome move
by the Oklahoma City Thunder. And

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listen, if people want to try
to make those comparisons between him and Derek

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White, Let's remember when Derek Wright
came over to the Boston Celtics. You

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know, he was marginally like a
role player until you know, he found

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his way to become one of the
key players. And listen, Caruso is

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still in the of his career.
The versatility for him to be able to

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switch on front court defenders, I
think is key, and I think the

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Oklahoma City Thunder learned that the hard
way when dealing with the Dallas Mavericks.

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So this clearly is a play that
if you're going to keep a guy on

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the floor if he can't score the
basketball, like you were probably hoping Giddy

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would be able to do or facilitate
the way that he was doing when it

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was during the regular season will in
the postseason when everything is truncated. I

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think it's important that you kind of
pick and choose. You know what you

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want your your X factor players to
be doing. And Cruso has always proven

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to be a guy where his ability
to be versatile to defend surpasses any marginalization

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of his ability to score the basketball. But I even think that he's proven

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to be a formidable scorer when he
was playing with the Chicago Bulls, had

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more than enough opportunity for him to
open up his game. So I think

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that this was a great play for
the Oklahoma City Thunder, and I completely

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agree with Jabari Oh Ish, you
know what I'm saying. Oh, Ish,

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you know what I'm saying. So
that's how we play. All right,

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let's keep it moving, shaw.
Malik Monk is decided to go four

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on seventy eight with his deal.
Are you are you loving it more for

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the Kings that you're loving it more
for Monk? I both this is a

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win win. The Kings get to
keep one of the better off the bench

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scorers in the NBA. Malik finds
a home, you know, after being

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I wouldn't say a journeyman, but
you know two previous teams. You know,

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I think the Lakers probably made a
mistake by not, you know,

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resigning him, and now he is
going to be there in Sacramento for the

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long haul. And I think he
took a little less money. I don't

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think this is the full amount of
money he could have actually gotten here.

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So I love this both, both
both of those guys. And Milik Monk

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continues to rain points off the bench
and a put in Sacramento offense. Yeah,

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he's gonna have more than enough opportunities. And it's probably a safer play

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as well too, because it looks
like with what's going on with Darren Fox,

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and the Kings. You need a
security blanket. Not saying that he's

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taking over Fox's role or anything like
that, but I think making sure that

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you secure everything possible to make sure
that your focusing attention is extending your start,

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keeping your start, because you're eventually
going to deliver the super Max.

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If that's one of his guys,
then you want to make sure that you

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are fully on board with supporting whatever
will best make him happy to come to

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the table and make sure a deal
gets done in order to fortify that that

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you know that that core for the
Sacramento King. So good on the Kings

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on handling business early and often,
because I think it'll pay off in the

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in the end when it really comes
down to keeping Diarra Fox. All right,

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let's keep things moving Shaw. Pascal
Siakam four year one, eight nine

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Indiana Pacers, no doubt. Yeah, good for him. You know,

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Siakam in a great, great position
to uh stay with this organization that traded

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for him and you know, gives
him some flexibility think you know, even

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into the latter part or part of
his career, but gets to see what

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this team can do, you know, on the peripheries here right now,

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as they made the Eastern Conference finals. So based on weren't making this deal

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with I guess, you know,
the handshake wing agreement that Siakam would ultimately

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come back, and now we get
the news that, hey, we're we're

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at that stage. So I'm excited
for I'm excited for the Pacers here and

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I think again that allows them to
be ultra competitive and when they get Math

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run back as well. To this
Pacer team is going to continue to be

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dangerous in these are Conference I think
that's going to be the key shaw.

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I think whatever version of Benedett Matherin
comes in, I think is going to

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go a long way. And how
this money stretches for the Indiana Pacers.

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Look, we can have this conversation
later on in the year when we start

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doing our previews for this team.
I think that this core works. I

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think Sam being with the Pacers work. The only problem that I have is

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that this type of money that you're
giving you are certifying Pascal Siakam to be

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like that one b You know what
I'm saying to a player, right I'm

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still on the fence about that aspect
of it. I think it comes easy

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with the type of team that the
Indiana Pacers have. But anything that changes

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that dynamic and you're enforcing Sam to
be something that I just don't know he

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has ever shown to be, which
is this aggressive score. I think if

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it sits on on Halliburton and maybe
whatever they do next may maybe it be

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mathin. But whatever happens in this, if you keep Siakam where he is,

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where his maturation is slow and steady
as it is, then the money

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money is good. But if now
all of a sudden giving this money suddenly

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says that their expectations that he's going
to be what they thought he was supposed

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to be in Toronto, you could
be running yourself a disservice because then there's

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gonna be these situations like what happened
in the playoffs where you get often on

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Siakam, which you cannot afford to
do because clearly the Celtics are still in

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play, the seventy six ers are
still in play, right So, like

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to me, it's an interesting sign. It's definitely necessary and needed. I'm

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just worrying about how the dynamic plays
because of the amount of money being given

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the extension and what the optics look
like. Yeah, well it's a valid

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question. I think with him as
a number two, maybe sometimes number three,

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depending if you know Miles Turner or
Mathurine are hot that night. But

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what Yakom does give you is playmaking, rebounding, and scoring, you know,

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at a very very high level,
especially if he's not the one that

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the offenses or sure the defenses are
focusing on. So I like this deal

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for Indiana absolutely, all right,
Scottie Barnes, He's definitely a raptor.

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I can't do the I can't do
the dinosaur thing. But five year up

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to two seventy, we kind of
knew that this was coming. The commitment

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was there, and you know,
now he's he's he's all in, right,

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or at least for the first you
know, I'm saying first five years.

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Is there an opt Is there an
opt out in his five or no?

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The deal full deal won't be reported
until July sixth, so we won't

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know all that, but I'm sure
it's probably the full max. You know,

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five years, it's up to two
seventy with with incentives, you know,

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him making this, him doing that, or with Casey b all Stars

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owning, maybe owning the Raptors.
After that, you know what I'm saying

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either way, Scotty Barnes is going
to be very comfortable you know, in

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Toronto. He's not gonna have to
worry about you know, money for sure.

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Absolutely. All right, So and
it's a great play. So there's

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there's no arguments with that. All
right, let's go ahead and focus our

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attention on the coaches. Seaw uh
Chris Finch for your extension to be the

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head coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Duh, Yeah, I love this obviously.

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You know, giving the Minnesota Timberwolves
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since the KG Days is an important
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and a core that has just been
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think on the sideline. So,
yes, he had an unfortunate incident with

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his knee, and I don't think
that impacted you know, their their their

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loss in the conference finals, so
Dallas Mavericks. But you want to he

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was moving more than he was moving
more than his assistant head coach. On

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one leg. He's and he's,
he's, he's he's in he's in his

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seat for a reason, and I
think it's just this says at head coach

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is getting you know, tapped for
potential coaching jobs here now as well too.

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But you know, Finch is the
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him. You love to see that
for this Minnesota Timberwolves team, and and

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and a roster that we you know, we weren't too sure about just a

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year ago. So it's funny,
you know, how three sixty five can

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change your whole view on a team, on a franchise, and even the

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coach I thought he was ever really
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that knicks was going to work,
and he got it to work this year

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to the tune you know of the
Western Conference. I'm just curious when Finch

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first came in because I can't recall, but wasn't he brought in to really

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help innovate the offense for the Minnesota
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like the exact role, you know, but you know, brought in,

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you know, and kind of works
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now has you know, master control
of what that team and organization. The

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reason why I was just bringing that
upshaw is because if that was the case,

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and to see what he was able
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among one of the best teams defensively, I think speaks volumes to the type

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of coach that he is, because
most cases, once you get kind of

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trapped into that style of coaching that
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kind of like what happened with Quinn
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you kind of lose you know,
where you want to have your imprint

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why everybody was looking at you to
begin with. So for him to be

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able to pivot in this kind of
direction, it'll be interesting to see what

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now he does in year three of
the success of the Minnesota Timberwolves. But

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if he's somebody that can also amplify
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as quickly or as rapidly as he's
done with the defense, now that he

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has his core team that he's working
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what I'm saying, It says a
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can can be. And eventually he's
going to be in those conversations where you

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know he's going to be among one
of the top two to three coaches in

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the NBA. Because eventually he's getting
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without question, Sir, yes,
sir, all right. So a couple

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of other interesting news and notes in
the coaching sphere of the NBA. I'm

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sure people have already seen this one. Blindsided by this one. Many Williams

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getting acts in Detroit. What one
year removed from a four year, eighty

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million dollar deal, I believe was
that what it was. As I've comes

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too fast, So yeah, money
Williams out of there. You know,

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they uphauled their their front office,
trading Langdon's now and I think as the

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president and Trey Weaver's moved on,
He's going to be a consultant in Washington

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now or whatever. But the money
Williams saying it's listen. I guess they

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didn't want to wallow and a mistake
that they felt they made. And maybe

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he wasn't reaching the coaches, I
mean reaching the players. Rather, we

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had the whole you know, Jaden
Ivy situation from the from this past year,

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and like it was just really weird
vibes there. And while we have

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all liked and praised Monty in the
past his life, the way he ended

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Phoenix maybe got a raw deal,
but his one year tenure, if you

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will, in Detroit was was was
was too much, too muchual assisted to

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say the least. So I mean, I'm sad for him in that regard.

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I think he can go somewhere and
be a leade assistant, maybe the

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Celtics, you know, as they
lose Charles Lee, you know, and

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Money is going to continue to get
quite a bit of a change here,

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you know, even though he's been
excommunicated from Detroit. Yeah, I just

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wonder if this is more of a
play for Trajan, like he wasn't going

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to be on board unless he had
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And clearly I don't think the philosophy
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that there was probably some kind of
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like, look, you know,
I respect you, ill love you,

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but you you wouldn't be my guy, you know what I mean, and

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under these circumstances, And there's no
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Shaw that I just don't know I
whether or not many Williams like I know

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he wants to coach, but sometimes
like sometimes it's got to stop, man

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and just kind of take a moment
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aspect of things, because it just
doesn't feel right knowing that you've been with

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two different teams in the span of
what three four years, and in those

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two different teams, your your your
career, your coaching career has been abruptly

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cut short. Whether it's because of
you know, a bad you know,

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stretch of games, or something else
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within the locker room, within the
culture, it's just emanating you know wrong.

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So it'll be interesting to see what
what happens moving forward. I hope

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he, you know, Lance you
know safely certainly is going to land softly

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with a lot of green underneath his
belt. But yeah, finally, Sean,

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Kenny Atkinson, he's been hired by
the Cleveland Cavaliers about damn time.

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So, like Kenny Atkinson deserves to
be a head coach in the NBA.

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I don't know why it took so
freaking long. Well, Kenny Atkinson took

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so long. Remember he renigged on
an offer. I think that was a

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Charlotte job. A couple of and
now I would have renigged on that too,

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But you know, he's obviously a
viable Canada. You know, him

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and Brego have just been you know, circling the waters and for their next

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opportunity. Cleveland allows him an opportunity
here now, and next thing order of

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business will be obviously resigning Donovan Mitchell. Then what happens with Aaron Scarland,

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et cetera, et cetera. But
I wouldn't imagine Kenny Atkinson's going to a

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situation if there's doubt that Donnovan Mitchell
is going to be the cornerpiece of that

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of that franchise. So good on
him. Good for Cleveland, get a

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competent coach who's ready to jump back
into the ranks share after being on the

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sidelines with Tief Kurt for the last
few seasons, Well said, brother Well

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Gotta make sure that we bring the
colorful hue of the NBA. Got

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a little green, got a little
gray, got a little purple and gold.

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You know what I'm saying. With
spread love in the Brooklyn Way.

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Uh my man Jabari Davis joining us. If you don't know who he is,

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or you will find out, he's
about to. He's about to lace

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into some niceties about our team,
but we're not. We're not. It's

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not about us, jd. It
is is not about us. It is

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about your team. Okay, it's
about your team, those Los Angeles damned

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Lakers. You know what I'm saying. But I wore my eighty seven Finals

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hat just for you all. Uh
huh right, that is very kind,

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exactly always. And I wore my
Celtics hat just because I knew you were

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coming on with the Lakers out today. So I don't usually wear hats on

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the baseline, but I knew you
was coming, so I had to.

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I had to match that energy.
I don't, I don't. I don't

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know. If you guys released the
videos with folks, we'll see I'm in

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a whole lass purple room, so
like, yeah, I didn't even have

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to do it, but you know, it's all this is your rendition of

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purple haze. Huh. I mean
maybe later on, but yeah, oh

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my gosh. All right, so
JD Man, like, I don't know

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what to make of this. You
go from a situation where overnight the Los

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Angeles Lakers had intense interest intense you
know what I'm saying, interest in Dan

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Hurley. Right, Dan Hurley flies
out there, you know what I'm saying,

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Rick Flair style, Like you know
what I'm saying. They make a

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big old thing of it in less
than twenty four hours. He comes back

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and he says, I'm good,
I'm gonna stay in Connecticut. I'm not

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gonna speak to the drama that the
media made of this, because even I

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felt like, yet, this is
what you do when you're really trying,

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trying to test the water and see
what you'll really gauge where the pulse is,

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not just within the Lakers organization but
just just in general. Right.

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And so now they go ahead and
they make that play for someone who had

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always been discussed as being a possible
candidate in JJ Reddick. And to this

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point, right, it's been months
because of it, and now all of

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a sudden, it's like, oh
my god, they really did it.

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They really went and they offered it
to JJ Reddick, Like, were you

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surprised by the fact that it came
back to JJ Reddick? Were you more

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surprised by the fact that JJ Reddick
was gonna milk it or anything like that,

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Like You're being offered an opportunity to
coach one of the most prestigious basketball

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programs in the galaxy, right,
I mean, you ain't gonna say no

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to it. Yeah, Look,
we can be honest about this. The

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Hurley stuff was actually the surprise when
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I heard that Reddick was a candidate, you know, at the start,

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I was like, yeah, it
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often people try to get cute about
suff or trying to like like oh well,

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when they started doing that podcast together
at the specific time where they did

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it, it was at least something
you know, to raise the eyebrow over

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at that time that I think he
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two months later. No, but
it did not surprise me when his name

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came out there. The Hurley stuff
felt like a smoke screen simply because the

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main candidate had been JJ the entire
time, and it was and quite frankly,

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they couldn't announce it while he was
covering the finals like that. Like,

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you know, y'all know the league. It may not be Sterns League

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anymore, but it's still a league
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major event like that, especially with
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Boston getting ready to get eighteen.
But only the Los Angeles Lakers can can

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can push it, can push it
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can best believe they wanted to spoil
that they were making. Man, they

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were making some tremors bro they were
making. But I'll be quick about it.

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The reality is this, if I'm
not mistaken the Lakers, that this

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is the fourth coach in the last
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franchise history, but fourth coach in
the last eight years. That in itself

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tells you where they are. I'm
always going to be you know, want

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the best, and hey, I
would love to be wrong about this.

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I want JJ Reddick to win because
obviously I'm a Lakers fan. But the

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reality is it's probably it's for me. It's far more likely that it will

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go like Nash in Brooklyn than say
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And the reason why I say it
is once again and the nastal Brooklyn situation

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took place while you guys were kind
enough to allow me to share, you

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know, share the show with you
guys at that time. And you remember

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what I said, he skipped the
line. It wasn't about I wasn't trying

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to gate keep. I was just
being a matter of fact. He skipped

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the line. And what that meant
is not just is it messed up for

405
00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:52.680
all the coaches that you know have
been grinding and working their way up,

406
00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.160
but also you're putting them in a
position to work. Quite frankly, he's

407
00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.559
untested and you simply do not know
how he's going to reach you know how,

408
00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:02.720
you know how he's going to be
able to handle the situation. So

409
00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.039
in essence, I look at the
Lakers job and my heart wants to say,

410
00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.519
hey, the Lakers job isn't a
starter job. The Laker's job isn't

411
00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:11.000
a job that you know, you
know, you just throw someone in there,

412
00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:15.160
uh you know, you know,
willy nilly like this. But my

413
00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:17.960
head tells me, you know,
yes it is. But MANI used to

414
00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:19.720
always say, this is who you
are now, and this is who we

415
00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:25.480
are. Jabari, let me ask
you this this question because obviously the early

416
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:30.559
stuff was out there, but they've
interviewed a multiple multiple candidates. Virego was

417
00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:33.000
rumored to it. I think Sam
Cassel might have, you know, snipped

418
00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:36.359
around it and if he had an
actual interview, you know and name your

419
00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:41.039
your your your coaches. Is is
Lakers Nation in essence disappointed in that aspect

420
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:44.759
because, like you said, I
don't believe that it is a starter job

421
00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:48.160
with all the pressure on there,
and Polinka and JJ came out and said

422
00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:51.599
as much as like hey, and
we're gonna we're gonna gamify, you know,

423
00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.920
learning and like they're gonna take all
these new approaches to what is a

424
00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:57.200
mixed roster. So like we can
get into some of that, I get

425
00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:02.839
a little bit later on, But
the aspect of the candidacy in general,

426
00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:04.680
I don't think that hoarly stuff was
ever really real. But that's just me.

427
00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:07.720
But the other guys out there,
what were your thoughts on some of

428
00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:12.119
those And is Lakers netion as a
whole disappointed, And the fact that they've

429
00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:15.720
hired the first year coach to lead
them to what they want to be their

430
00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.920
next eighteen championship. I mean,
look, and when I say this,

431
00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.640
I'm actually not being funny the Lakers. There's so many lakersmans, You're never

432
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.720
going to get everybody to agree or
even the majority of no. But what

433
00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:30.200
I will say is this, there's
a certain section of fans that I feel

434
00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:36.079
like they are trapped in trying to
get a first class ticket to Copenhagen because

435
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:38.519
they are, you know, going
out of their way. And I purposely

436
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:41.119
made that cringe worthy. It wasn't
because I thought it was that funny.

437
00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.400
They're going out of their way.
Specifically, She's like, oh man,

438
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.680
anybody's just hating. If you have
any questions, anybody's just hate. It's

439
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:51.680
like, no, man, there
are there are legitimate questions to be you

440
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:53.200
know, to be asked. And
quite frankly, you know to your point

441
00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:56.319
that you just made, I feel
like JJ and Pelinka acknowledged that in the

442
00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:00.160
you know, you're at different points
of the press conference. So there are

443
00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.920
folks that are happy about it.
There are folks that are always gonna want

444
00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:06.240
to be optimistic, but then there's
a lot of folks that are like,

445
00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:07.519
all right, I'm just waiting to
see you know it. You know,

446
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.559
it's kind of like when you say
you go out with your boy, and

447
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.119
you know your boy might have a
little history of getting of turning up,

448
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:17.680
but you're still gonna go out with
them. You still you still you know,

449
00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:18.880
you still want to rock with them, you still want to get down

450
00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.799
with him. That's kind of how
a lot of us are, just like,

451
00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:26.640
look, this doesn't look great.
I don't like the silly stuff like

452
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:29.000
oh, they feel like he's pat
Riley. It's like, hey man,

453
00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:30.720
we all watch Winning Time and that's
cool. I love the show. That

454
00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:38.680
was a show. All I'm saying
is nothing is guaranteed, and the odds

455
00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:41.920
are that he's not going to you
know, he's not going to lead them

456
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.079
to a title this year. Beyond
that, I'm just hopeful of you know,

457
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.519
the train doesn't run off the tracks
A man Jabarr Davis joining us here.

458
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:53.440
Why you smirking? Shall I Just
because I'd be like nothing more than

459
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.480
the train to run off the track
to be I mean, but it's great

460
00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:00.079
content, like I mean, and
that not because you know somethings leaders are

461
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.839
like that too. But we're we're
going to get a steady diet of Lakers

462
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.880
content regardless, like it is just
what it is. So from my lens,

463
00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:12.000
well, I'd rather be porous and
rather it be you know, struggle,

464
00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:17.240
you know, then it being something
that's seeing them be successful in any

465
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:21.880
capacity. And the Reddick stuff is
again he's he's hot headed, even as

466
00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:25.759
an as as an analyst. So
I can't wait to see how this coaching

467
00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:29.920
stuff goes. Like even well,
anyway, that's enough, go ahead and

468
00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.400
see let me go into it.
So here's here and this is just only

469
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:40.119
like my perspective of this, Okay, I believe that the Lakers. This

470
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.240
is not a level of desperation.
I think this is calculated. I think

471
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:49.839
the Lakers are reaching back to a
time where there was substance in the in

472
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:55.680
what the head coach represented for the
Los Angeles Lakers. Right and right about

473
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:59.759
now. All of the guys that
you mentioned Shaw that were possible candidates may

474
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:04.920
have have the x's and o's aspect
of it, but the demeanor and the

475
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:11.599
way that they come off I don't
think fits the profile of what the Lakers

476
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.759
I think want to see. Again, I think they want to believe in

477
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.160
the pat Riley era. Hell,
they want to believe in the D'Antoni era,

478
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:22.640
because even d'antonian, I'm not saying
that he was pat Riley. I'm

479
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:26.480
saying there is that aspect of it, whether it's in the style of basketball

480
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.880
being played or the style of how
the coach presents himself to the media and

481
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.960
to the rest of the NBA in
its entirety as a representation of what the

482
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.920
Los Angeles Lakers Lakers are, and
to me, I think the bigger question

483
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:45.599
is what error of the Lakers are
we now entering in with JJ Reddick in

484
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.319
front of it. You know,
they tried doing this in a different kind

485
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.200
of way with Darvin Hand And I'm
not saying this to be disrespectful and being

486
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.880
this to be real. With him
being the first black head coach, right,

487
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.000
there was something to be said about
that. The problem is is everything

488
00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:02.440
about Darvin Ham does not represent the
Darvin Handed we remember him as a basketball

489
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.920
player, even what he represented when
he was an assistant head coach for the

490
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:11.519
Milwaukee Bucks. He was more headstrong
and more you know, brody like his

491
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.839
you know, he was more omnipresent
than what I saw from him as being

492
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.519
a head coach for the Los Angeles
Lakers, it almost felt like he was

493
00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:21.400
just more timid, and so I
know, I don't know if we ever

494
00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:25.079
got the finished product of that.
I don't know if the moment he didn't

495
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:27.960
meet it just overwhelmed him or it
is because of Lebron and AD and the

496
00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.119
dynamics of that. But what I'm
saying is is I feel like this is

497
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:36.559
now It's part of what you saw
from JJ Reddick and the way that he

498
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:41.000
uh, you know, kind of
pronounced himself to the media and everything like

499
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:45.160
that in that in that regard,
you know what I'm saying, Like,

500
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.079
I that's just my perspective I wanted
to get you know, So your take

501
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:51.759
from that if you think that I'm
off base in my assessment of that,

502
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:55.359
JD, No, I don't think
you're I don't think you're off it at

503
00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:56.960
all. Like, look, the
Lakers always are going to swing for the

504
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.680
fences. You are usually you're going
to swing for the fences. It's been

505
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:02.799
that. It's been that way since
the bus family took over, and I

506
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:06.839
recognize that. And to be clear, once again, I would love to

507
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:08.519
be wrong. I would love for
JJ, you know, like slide into

508
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:13.920
that spot and honestly be sitting there
coaching right across from Joe Missoula next June.

509
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:15.200
I would love that. I'm just
not. I'm just not. You

510
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:17.480
know, I'm not boo boo,
So I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not

511
00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:21.240
gonna go out on that ledge.
I'm just gonna wait and see. But

512
00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:25.319
I think the most important thing,
honestly is what is this roster gonna look

513
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:30.039
like? You're you know you got
a d you know you got lebron Rob

514
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.359
Polinka. You are not just on
the clock, you are under surveillance,

515
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:37.160
my guy, you are absolutely underserva. Do you think that this is Polenka's

516
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:39.880
call? Do you think that this
I you know what I'm saying, Like

517
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:44.720
I we know that there's a hierarchy, so we know that at the end

518
00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:46.720
of the day, while you know, we could put it on him,

519
00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:50.319
But do you think that this was
his call to go this way? Or

520
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:52.799
do you really think that it's more
than Genie Buss's call. Hey, I'm

521
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:57.960
willing to roll the dice on this
one. I I I don't think he's

522
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:00.359
in the position if he's not,
if he's not at least agreeing to it.

523
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:04.759
But what I what I actually meant
is what he does with the roster

524
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:07.039
is, in my estimation, is
more important than you know, than that

525
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:10.920
selection. Like, could James Barrego
have been a good guy, a good

526
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:15.000
coach, Yeah he could. Could
you know any of those other guys you

527
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:15.920
know Adam, you know, you
know, you know the Adam and you

528
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:19.680
know, gentleman, you know,
would he have been a good Yeah?

529
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:24.519
Sure, but it wouldn't have been
the sexy splash but more. But again,

530
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:30.559
none of it matters if he puts
out a fraudulent roster. Again again,

531
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:35.640
no disrespect to those players. I'm
talking about the roster construction. I'm

532
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:38.400
not saying that all those guys sucked
and you know any of that. It's

533
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:43.680
just a matter of sometimes, you
know, if the pieces don't fit,

534
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:45.240
you gotta start, you start,
you gotta start questioning, well, who's

535
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:49.839
doing who's shopping for the groceries?
The same guy that hired three coaches in

536
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:52.519
his tenure. Let well, let's
let me jump in here to Jabari so

537
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:58.240
and allows us to bring in some
more Celtics fodder into the conversation. So,

538
00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:02.960
from our lens, Missoula was inherited
a really great roster. So the

539
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:09.000
roster construction last year was good and
he didn't have the buy in from the

540
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:14.400
players. But part of what happened, and obviously because we covered that team,

541
00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:17.039
you know, closely, he also
didn't have the support on the sidelines.

542
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:22.320
So Udokah's main staff, like,
some of them left, some of

543
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:23.840
them stayed or whatever, but they
weren't really bought in. Who's this thirty

544
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:29.239
five year old now who basically skipped
the line and is now the head coach

545
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.639
of a championship level team. David
Sodomyer leaves you know, I think sixty

546
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:37.039
sixty games into the season before the
playoffs even start, and they're left scrambling

547
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:42.639
the first thing, the first thing
the Celtics do after the season ends.

548
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:45.320
Last year, Hey Charles Lee,
come on over here. Hey Sam Cassell,

549
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:49.920
come on over here. They even
got Phil Pressey, a former player,

550
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.239
to bullshit the sideline. Then they
got you know, Van Gundy to

551
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:57.920
come in as a consultant. So
from all that, I think that's where

552
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:00.719
some of these teams now. If
they're going to give first year young coaches

553
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:06.559
a shot, they have to give
them the requis and support on the sidelines

554
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:09.679
and guys who are willing to allow
that young first year head coach to be

555
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:13.840
still be the man. We saw
what happened. It didn't go well in

556
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:17.519
Milwaukee Adrian Griffin and Terry Stotts,
you know, and maybe that's more Griffin's

557
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:22.039
fault than Stotts's fault, whoever you
decide to believe. But that's what I

558
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:23.880
think the Lakers ultimately need to do
here now, is like, can they

559
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:30.360
get a top level assistant sustants to
bolster that bench? You know? And

560
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:32.079
the Celtics were like, well,
let's go ahead and safeguard this because while

561
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:36.119
he was interested in that Laker job
with Charles Lee moving to Charlotte, they're

562
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:37.119
like, no, Sam, you're
going to be elevated here now to our

563
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.360
lead assistant. And so like,
somebody like that comes off the board.

564
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:44.719
But are there guys out there that
you would like to see them bolster like

565
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:46.559
And we need to talk about the
roster as well too, but the support

566
00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:50.880
around JJ is going to be just
as important. Are there guys out there

567
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.639
who you love to see potentially get
into that role alongside Reddick on the sidelines.

568
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:58.559
You guys would experience, guys would
honestly like, I don't care about

569
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:02.320
a name, just guysperience and an
understanding of not just how to manage a

570
00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:06.559
roster, but how to manage a
team, because I like, this is

571
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:08.559
the thing like my my, my
reservations aren't because I'm like, oh,

572
00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:13.360
JJ doesn't know anything, like you
had people saying like they hired a podcaster

573
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:15.519
like that. That stuff's cute.
JJ Reddick knows more about you know,

574
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:22.559
like the NBA over simplification like a
mug. But the question is fair to

575
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.440
say, do you know how to
lead men? Do you know how to

576
00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:30.000
get in there and say, hey
Lebron, this what's up? Hey a

577
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:32.039
d This is what I need from
you. Hey, you know Reeves or

578
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:35.920
whoever else is left, you know, when we get when we get around

579
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:37.679
to the regular season, you know, this is what I need from you.

580
00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:42.400
That's actually what I think is is
I'm I mean, I'm agreeing with

581
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.400
you. I I you know,
the roster is important, but the roster

582
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:51.039
that's supporting JJ and inexperience, you
know, inexperienced by his own admission,

583
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:53.760
you know, gentlemen, is equally
as important. So I appreciate you making

584
00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:57.440
that distinction because it is one other
thing I think that was important too,

585
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:01.840
because you had mentioned Steve Kerr earlier
before Jabari is you remember Steve Kerr had

586
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:08.960
experience with roster construction right with the
front office, which I don't think people

587
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:15.239
you know who truly understand, Like
listen, maybe you don't directly start up

588
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.480
that that you know whatever that that
uh, that hierarchy is or you know

589
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:24.519
what that track is to coaching,
right, but maybe you find an alternate

590
00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:30.679
route that gets you in line with
the same thing because you're being you're intersecting

591
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:36.559
with other parts or other dynamics of
the organization that is instrumental to your success,

592
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:40.039
even at that level. And I
think, to me, that's what's

593
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:45.719
going to be interesting to see here, not just even from the assistant coaches

594
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:52.719
shaw, but also the players and
the roster of players who I think is

595
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:58.480
going to come on board buying into
what JJ Reddick wants to see from from

596
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.960
the team, like that's gonna be
so incumbent upon Polenka and also from the

597
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:06.320
assistant head coaches because remember this is
the one thing too and you know,

598
00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:09.159
I'm not trying to blow up and
make much of a whole thing about this,

599
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:15.280
but JJ Reddick has made comments via
his podcast via his analyst's role.

600
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:20.960
He has spoken and been critical of
certain players. Those same players also are

601
00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:24.480
part of that brotherhood in the NBA. And I think at times, if

602
00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:30.639
you are going to be considered and
taken seriously, how you come across against

603
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:35.440
the guys that you now have to
coach speaks volumes to the kind of moves

604
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:38.800
that Polenka will be able to make
if the intent is to better this roster,

605
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:43.079
to improve this roster, to make
this, as he says, a

606
00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:49.159
championship level roster. Because there's nothing
worse than saying I'm coming on board,

607
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.400
but I'm not coming on board because
I buy into what JJ Reddick is.

608
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:57.320
I'm coming on board because Polenka paying
me money. And if you're playing with

609
00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:00.400
Lebron, James and Ad those are
the guys you don't one on that roster.

610
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:05.960
So that makes it slim pickings for
a guy like JJ Redick given what

611
00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:07.559
he's done over the last couple of
years. And I'm not I'm not I'm

612
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:10.480
not using it to slide him.
I'm just saying that is a real thing

613
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:15.800
that has to be factored and weighed
in and taking the viability why it's important

614
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:20.280
to get surrounded success around him.
Oh and sorry, Warren, I'll just

615
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:23.519
let me piggyback that it's it's extremely
important, Like we can be real about

616
00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:28.639
it. JJ Redick had all defense
you'll had you know, the votes this

617
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:30.960
year. He didn't even put a
D on his top two on his top

618
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:36.000
two teams. Now, look,
y'all know I'll play the bias role at

619
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:40.440
times, but I'm sorry that was
crazy. A D was spectacular last absolutely,

620
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:45.199
Like if you're if you're just looking
at the count, just looking at

621
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.920
the stats and saying like, oh, well, the Lakers defense wasn't great

622
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:51.960
and you're not you know, taking
into account all that he was, you

623
00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.840
know, covering for including our you
know leader. Uh, you know,

624
00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:59.039
honestly, you're you're you're not doing
it right in my estimation. But it

625
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:01.599
is funny that, you know,
like the pivot because you know it was

626
00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:06.159
after the press conference. During an
interview yesterday, he said, well,

627
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:08.480
A D is a top five guy. Part of me is like you,

628
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:12.320
I'm not saying he has to go
and kiss AD's you know, behind or

629
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:16.320
anything like that, but how he
is perceived and how he is accepted from

630
00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:21.760
the players is extremely important. So
I agree with you. Well, part

631
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:23.239
of the conference I already touched on
in terms of, you know, how

632
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:28.320
he wants to connect to the young
and the veteran guys here. But I

633
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:31.639
think this would be you know,
an apropos opportunity to play a little clip

634
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:36.519
you know, it's about two minutes
longest or so where he talks about how

635
00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:40.480
he wants to utilize a d and
Lebron specifically. I think he starts off,

636
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:45.920
you know, talking about Austin Reeves
first, but let's get that and

637
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:47.039
then JABRAI, I kind of want
to hear your your your, your,

638
00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:55.480
your take after that, all right? With any player, Anthony Davis,

639
00:40:55.639 --> 00:41:05.239
Lebron, James, Austin reed any
player on the roster. I can have

640
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:09.199
a vision for how I want to
use them, but there has to be

641
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:14.159
buying in collaboration, right, So
I can sit up here and tell you

642
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:17.239
how I would like for them to
play, but if there's no buy in,

643
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:22.000
then it doesn't really matter. So
I think part of the next two

644
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:27.480
months, and I know those guys
are going to be busy with Team USA,

645
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.719
part of the next two months is
just having conversations. And Anthony and

646
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:37.719
I already had a conversation a week
ago about some ideas both offensively and defensively,

647
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:42.239
and I think both of us felt
really comfortable going forward with that sort

648
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:46.199
of as the base starting point of
how he's going to play on this team.

649
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:49.719
And you know, one of the
things I brought up with him is

650
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:55.960
just the idea of him as a
hub. There's a bunch of guys at

651
00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.840
the five position in the NBA that
sort of operate in that way, and

652
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:07.000
I don't know that he's been used
in that way and sort of maximize all

653
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:10.039
of his abilities. So that's that's
a simple thing with him. With Lebron,

654
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:15.519
Look, you have to certainly,
uh get buy in and talk to

655
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:20.079
him about how he wants to play. You know, him and I have

656
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:23.079
joked about this, but like he
shot of a forty percent from three this

657
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:27.920
year, Like I want him shooting
threes. He's going to have his three

658
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.400
or four bursts every game where he
gets out in transition and does things that

659
00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:34.519
no one at his age should ever
be able to do, but he does

660
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:39.079
it. It's it's really just figuring
out in the half court, putting him

661
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:44.840
in different spots both as a scorer
and a facilitator. That'll be part of

662
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:50.199
the conversation over the next next couple
of months. I'm sorry, Abe,

663
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.320
I'm sorry Sean, real quick,
Jad, you know what that was.

664
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:57.239
You know what that word, Sally
was. I had a conversation with Ad

665
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:00.639
last week and Ad told me,
damn it, man, I'm not playing

666
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:05.599
the five next year, so move
my ass back to the fore. It

667
00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:07.360
was interesting that we said that in
there, you know, like yeah,

668
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:12.360
like you know, there's just plenty
of fives out there. Then you hear

669
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.719
the rumors that they're looking at you
know, Jonnis Valentiunis and other centers as

670
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.519
well, which they should, like, let's be real, we've done this

671
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.519
silly mess the last two years,
and we've seen what took place. They

672
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:27.360
were able to They got lucky that
Ad was as healthy as he's ever been

673
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:30.760
last year playing so, you know, playing so much of that, but

674
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:36.159
it is very clear he's more comfortable
and he has shown to be extremely effective.

675
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:37.599
If you got it, doesn't even
have you don't have to have a

676
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:42.280
star there, just have a big, bruising body that can take that punishment

677
00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:45.840
over the course of the eighty two
Get him to the end of the fourth

678
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:47.800
quarters of games, get him to
the you know, the playoffs, and

679
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:51.239
He's gonna take care of business as
long as you know, obviously, as

680
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:53.360
long as it's healthy. But yeah, I thought that was word salad.

681
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:59.280
That was. But I will say
it was cute the small difference when it

682
00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:01.920
came to read and ads like there
has to be buy in, which kind

683
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:07.519
of felt like preemptive docking. How
Doc will say like, hey, hey,

684
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:08.480
man, you know, if they
don't listen to me, I don't

685
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:12.800
know what I could do. Hey, we got hey, we got buy

686
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:15.800
into prize picks. You know what
I'm saying. We even have a promo

687
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:21.840
code for our buy in. You
know what I'm saying. Yeah, get

688
00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:23.400
on that. You know what I'm
saying. JJ got buy in for the

689
00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:27.920
Lakers and we got buy in with
prize picks. There you go, Lebron.

690
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.599
He said, Well, you gotta, you know, ask him how

691
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:34.159
he wants to be, how he
wants to play. Let me say this

692
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.280
and I will be unequivocal about it. Anthony Davis has been the best player

693
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.280
on the Lakers and the most consistent
player on the Lakers the last three seasons.

694
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:45.000
If you are centering everything around Lebron
as the center of the universe still

695
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:52.039
at this point and that's even with
him putting up incredible numbers and being incredibly

696
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.000
effective at this age. It's crazy. It's taking nothing away from but if

697
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:59.519
you're doing that, you're setting yourself
up to loose. The roster needs to

698
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:05.599
be center around around showcasing Anthony Davis
as either the four Hub, the five

699
00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:07.920
Hub, whatever wherever you're gonna play
him. He needs to be the focus.

700
00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:12.840
You need to start playing to the
throng points of the team and actually

701
00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:16.239
you'll put a legitimate roster around him, but they're not going to do that.

702
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:21.039
So so do you think that?
And again, I don't want to

703
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:23.760
oversimplify this as well, because when
you say hub as a big man hub,

704
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:28.719
whether that's for the five, is
that in the your control the Saboni's

705
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:34.079
role in Sacramento. I think Davis
has some playmaking chops, but not nearly

706
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:37.199
to the level of those two guys, and obviously Simonis does it as not

707
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.199
at a championship level. But you
know what I'm saying, Sibdas is an

708
00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:43.119
all time creator at you know,
like at that bosiness, so like even

709
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:45.480
expecting that and I'm not saying that
you are, but I'm saying for the

710
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:47.920
fans sake and anybody's listening. If
you expect that, you're you're being foolish.

711
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:52.480
What I do think is he can
be he can do more on that

712
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:54.519
end. I've witnessed it. I've
witnessed he can you know what he can

713
00:45:54.559 --> 00:46:00.760
do when you you know, when
properly utilized far too often last last year

714
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:04.039
and then a lot of people they'll
see a clip of it and comment and

715
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.119
you'll make a big deal. But
Darvin was shooting him to the corner,

716
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.719
so that so Lebron can have to
I'm talking about down the stretch of games,

717
00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:14.519
like entire fourth quarters, he was
shooting him to the corner and basically

718
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.239
just like you know, playing the
decoy or the or the slasher role as

719
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:21.639
opposed to actually being in the action. When they did it a little bit

720
00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:23.599
more in the like you know,
like down the stretch of the season and

721
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:27.960
they did two man up top.
It actually worked. But for whatever but

722
00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:30.840
for whatever reason, that wasn't you
know, that wasn't the you know,

723
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:34.480
the angle that they chose to go
last year. What my hope is is

724
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:37.280
that they put him in the action
more often. Look, it's it,

725
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:38.400
you know, just like it's a
make or mis league. It's a do

726
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:40.760
it or don't league. If he
can't handle it, well, then you

727
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:43.920
got to figure some stuff out.
But you, at least, in my

728
00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:46.320
estimation, you at least got give
him a chance when he's displayed the capability

729
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:50.679
of, you know, of being
productive on that side, more productive than

730
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:54.400
just lobs and putbacks. This is
gonna be my final question for you,

731
00:46:54.519 --> 00:47:00.079
JD as far as you know what
my assessment is, especially with you know

732
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:05.599
now that JJ Reddick has been hired
as the head coach, and you mentioned

733
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:08.679
this just a few moments ago regarding
Lebron James. If everything is gonna be

734
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:16.039
centered around Anthony Davis, will will
the Lakers finally succumb to the fact that

735
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:24.079
they should just have Lebron James as
their their point guard and move on from

736
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:28.519
this idea of saying that you really
need like some kind of quote unquote de

737
00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:32.880
facto point guard, like a D'Angel
Russell or I just don't see where if

738
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:40.079
the ball somehow winds up with Lebron
James, that any any conventional point guard

739
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:45.920
is going to thrive and be viable
to any level of a Lakers offense,

740
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.480
even with the other type of ross
around me. That's just me. So

741
00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:52.519
I'm just curious on what your thought
process would be if JJ Reddick can either

742
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:57.599
get Lebron to buy into play that
small forward role, you know, or

743
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:00.639
come off of the point forward mentalitly
that you've had that's gotten you to where

744
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:06.199
you are for so long, and
allow us to have a legitimate conventional point

745
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:08.960
guard, thrive and move this offense
a little bit more. Said that you

746
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:13.320
can get out of what we were
just hearing from JJ Reddick just a few

747
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:17.440
moments ago about what they're envisioning with
Anthony Davis. So funny enough, Like

748
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:21.880
I feel like we've had this conference
speaking generally, we've had this conversation the

749
00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:23.599
last four years with Lebron, like
get the ball out of his head,

750
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:27.360
Like remember when when he when he
came around and Magic was like, let's

751
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:30.119
get some other playmakers. So we
get the ball out of his hands,

752
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:32.760
so he's not you know, it
doesn't have the workload. It sounds nice,

753
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.360
but it's never gonna happen. So
at the very least put him in

754
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:39.280
a position to be successful. Now, if I'm not mistaken, JJ did

755
00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:42.440
mention that he wants him to playoff
ball. He wants him to be able

756
00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:45.880
to you know, create uh,
you know, north and shoot and honestly,

757
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:49.039
I got no problem with that.
If you shoot afford percent, go

758
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.519
ahead and slung him on up there. Man. What I don't need is

759
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:57.159
settling for that every time it's a
close situation down the stretch, especially when

760
00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.440
it's only a one or two point
game. We don't need to settle you

761
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:04.119
know. Wait wait, wait,
you know I'm shooting it. Wait wait

762
00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:07.400
wait, spin the ball way step
back three. We don't need that.

763
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:10.119
Get creative. I need. I
need someone with some off with with with

764
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:15.440
some offensive ingenuity. I need.
That's what has been lacking these last two

765
00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:19.000
years. I didn't want to say
it because I didn't want to know.

766
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.079
You know, come down on Darvin. Y'all know. I'm for the brothers.

767
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:23.239
I want. I want us to
win. I want all of us

768
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:27.639
to win. I'm like Easter Ray, I'm just everybody black, you got

769
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:36.599
me except Miszula. But hey,
hey, he's Italian. Man, watch

770
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:38.960
yourself. You might wind up.
You might you might wind up with a

771
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:45.840
horse in your bed. Listen him
and Mike Turrico line all them Italian brothers

772
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:49.679
up, get it, come get
it. Hey, you know, hey,

773
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:53.400
you never never mind, let me
talk honestly, it really is a

774
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:58.159
matter like it really is a matter
of I just want them to be put

775
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:02.039
in in the best possible pause is
being that Lebron is gonna have the ball,

776
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:06.239
do more to man with AD.
I, for the life you we

777
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:09.800
can't understand why you wouldn't why you
wouldn't utilize that A D is a great

778
00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:13.760
role man, like I, you
know, I went as far as say

779
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:15.119
he's, you know, he's the
best role option I've ever seen, and

780
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:20.039
people were like, he is,
but that's fine if you if if if

781
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.960
you you know, if you prefer
somebody else. But he's also he's always

782
00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.480
look, he's always gonna shoot jumps, He's gonna shoot the mid range.

783
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:30.440
So do it off of action with
Lebron anyway. All of this is,

784
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:34.719
you know, has been the bane
of my existence these last couple of years.

785
00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:37.840
I've been very disappointed with how they've
utilized or how they have not properly

786
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:42.480
utilized a D. I've been very
disappointed with how they've just kind of like

787
00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.360
succumbed to, like, you know, whatever the whims of Lebron were.

788
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:50.719
I would like them to be coached, and I think I think circling back.

789
00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:53.000
I think that's ultimately what scares me
the most is because they are in

790
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:55.800
a position where they need to be
coached and they need to be put in

791
00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:00.679
you know, they want they need
to be aligned properly, and I'm just

792
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:06.320
hoping that this eventual staff can do
that. My next the last one,

793
00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:08.679
I guess to some degree, is
the aspect of the smoke screening that I

794
00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:13.239
think is in play. Or maybe
maybe you wouldn't agree. I don't know,

795
00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:16.960
but yes, the aspect of Lebron
and JJ had a podcast together.

796
00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:20.880
Of course, the question has to
come up in the press conference, it

797
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:24.360
has to come up, and Polenka
and JJ go out of their way to

798
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:31.239
say, well, Ad was involved
in the process, involved in JJ being

799
00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:36.559
selected, while Lebron was supportive.
Lebron went out of his way to not

800
00:51:36.679 --> 00:51:43.280
be involved. I don't know that
you can have a Lebron James led team

801
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:47.639
and that be true. And I'm
I guess what I'm concerned, not concerned,

802
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:52.679
but what I'm over is why are
we still pretending like that, Like

803
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:55.920
what are we getting out of that? I think it looks worse than because

804
00:51:55.960 --> 00:51:58.880
like, well, he didn't want
to be involved, because he had a

805
00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:01.719
podcast with them. It's it's not
collusion, like, hey, you wanted

806
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:05.679
your boy to coach a team,
then so be it. But I think

807
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:08.719
it's always the writer first refusal or
like hey, I didn't really have anything

808
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:13.719
to do with that that I think
Lebron James and his camp tries to fall

809
00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:15.360
back on despite his greatness and all
that. No, dot's take anything away

810
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:20.519
there, but that aspect of him
has always kind of like rubbed me for

811
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:22.719
a little bit wrong. So all
right, So I don't want to come

812
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:25.519
across as though I'm hating on Lebron
because actually, you know, I mean,

813
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:29.599
y'all know, I've come full circle
on that man's career. I stopped

814
00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:31.280
hating back in twenty thirteen when I
said, you know what, why am

815
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:35.360
I hating on this man? Why
am I hating on this man? This

816
00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:37.960
is tough love, That's all it
was. But I will tell you this,

817
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:43.519
that stuff bothers me as well.
Bro, shut your ass up.

818
00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:45.760
I'm sorry, you gotta believe this. Shut your ass up. You know,

819
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:49.440
damn well, you were a part
of that conversation, you know,

820
00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:52.159
damn well. They don't make that
move without that being you know, you

821
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.880
know, without your blessing, straight
out blessing. In fact, we don't

822
00:52:55.920 --> 00:53:01.480
have to bes about this. Maybe
they included a but yes they included Lebron

823
00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:07.440
stop thank you, I mean,
and that's what I'm saying, just we

824
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:10.519
don't have to you know, p
foot around it, right like we we

825
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:15.679
know what's going on here. So
and I think a person of his ilk

826
00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:19.719
that's okay at this at the stage
of his career, like he's earned that,

827
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:23.039
he's earned the right to have influence
on who's coaching him, you know,

828
00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:27.079
when they're trying to and when you
in the ladder and twilight of his

829
00:53:27.159 --> 00:53:30.000
of his career, especially as he's
trying to seek only championship at the stage.

830
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.400
And to me that that comes across
as a little bit just in authentic

831
00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:37.679
and in a lot of ways part
of my final one real quick, you

832
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:39.519
know, before cel you jump back
in, No, I'm not gonna I

833
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:43.760
was. I was just basically saying, I think that that's what happens when

834
00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:46.039
you have so much hand, you
have so many hands in so many different

835
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:52.400
pots, uh, that it's no
longer really about the substance of you know,

836
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:55.480
what it is that you are managing
and controlling and more the image and

837
00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:59.639
the perception of what people have about
you, you know, regardless like that,

838
00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:02.559
that's the power, you know,
power play, you know what I'm

839
00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:07.840
saying. So well, JJ did
say, Hey, the development and what

840
00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:10.880
the Lakers do in the G League
is gonna be very important as well too.

841
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:15.920
And ironically, as a guy who
didn't necessarily defend at the highest level,

842
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:17.400
he's talking about, well, he
wants, you know, defenders on

843
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:22.599
this team. You may know where
I'm going with this, but well,

844
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:27.440
Bronnie James, you know, as
a as a defending wing player, uh

845
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.280
be be a Laker? You know, before all I said and done,

846
00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:32.239
you think that will come to fruition
here for for your purple and goal.

847
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:38.000
I do think it's gonna happen.
Look, I'm not the The topic annoys

848
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:42.079
me, not because you know it's
a legitimate you know, the topic annoys

849
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:45.000
me because I'm just like man again, y'all know, damn well, he's

850
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:46.239
about to pick. They gonna pick
him. They gonna find a way to

851
00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:52.000
get him, whether it's undrafted or
yes. Now, are they gonna move

852
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:54.000
heavn and eard for it? No, because like you're absolutely stupid if you're

853
00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:58.199
doing that. But if if the
opportunity is there, they're gonna get there.

854
00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:04.679
They'll get it, they'll get all
right. Hell, hell of the

855
00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:09.880
last question to ask him, that's
all. And I wasn't even trying to

856
00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:13.599
like be like yeah, whatever,
because like, hey, man, if

857
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.880
he ends up coming in and can
actually defend, that's great. He's an

858
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:21.800
undersized, you know guard that you
know, isn't a traditional point guard,

859
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:24.440
so there's gonna be questions on what
position he's going to play. But he's

860
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:29.360
got room to continue to develop.
Obviously, was nineteen years old. He's

861
00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:32.000
far from a finished product. Let's
let you know, let's wait and see.

862
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:37.519
But yeah, I do think that
well, uh, if the Avery

863
00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:42.280
Bradley comps are are the best we
can get here, I mean that's not

864
00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:46.599
bad, you know. So I
think whatever it is, I'm rooted for

865
00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:50.159
the young man because obviously gonna have
a lot of pressure on him as well

866
00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:52.199
too, So there's no hate there. But I think the Purple and Gold

867
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:55.960
are well on their way for if
nothing else, an intriguing season ahead and

868
00:55:57.000 --> 00:56:00.880
we'll see what what will come about
here in the off season and the rest

869
00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:04.800
of the summer. Summer League should
be a blast and a joy uh,

870
00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:07.000
the Olympics, you know, and
that coverage as well. And JJ is

871
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.840
going to be mending some fences and
building some relationships over the course of the

872
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:14.079
summer here. Uh. But Jabari, as always, you are a gentleman

873
00:56:14.119 --> 00:56:15.880
and a scholar, and it's a
pleasure, pleasure to have the conversation with

874
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:19.599
you about the Purple and goal.
Thank you for providing the inside that you

875
00:56:19.599 --> 00:56:22.519
always do. Yeah, an update
you an update your cap damn it?

876
00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:25.559
Oh, I mean, I mean
I got didn't you down one? Yeah?

877
00:56:25.559 --> 00:56:29.000
I got that. I got the
two thousand and nine You need that

878
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:32.079
one? Yeah? Yeah. I
mean if you you're right, you're gonna

879
00:56:32.119 --> 00:56:36.239
if you're gonna rub salt in the
wound, at least do it within the

880
00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:39.039
last decade or so or something a
couple of decades. I mean, I

881
00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:42.119
mean, if we want to go
there, you know to say ships,

882
00:56:42.119 --> 00:56:50.280
but no, hey six four brother
six four, I saw, I gotta

883
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:58.239
say we're gonna be bad. I
know for a fan. Interesting, I

884
00:56:58.239 --> 00:57:00.679
know, like I know people hate
this about Lakers fans, like when we're

885
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:04.679
just being like arrogant, but I'm
being a matter of fact. We're gonna

886
00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:10.880
be back only only only Celtics.
Fans can embrace that as with love.

887
00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:15.840
You know what I'm saying, and
and you know what I'm saying, and

888
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:20.119
and uh fellowship. No, Hey, honestly, guys, thank you so

889
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:23.320
much. I really do appreciate the
opportunity. I really look forward to,

890
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:29.880
uh toward the middle maybe end of
the summer, being back with you guys

891
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:36.000
on nineteen. Uh. Really excited
about that. I am totally excited about

892
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:37.719
that. We'll get to more of
that later, but I just wanted to

893
00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:40.880
put it out there. I'm extremely
excited about that. Listen, man,

894
00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:44.599
we miss you. You know that
that. You know, this seat is

895
00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:46.480
always open for you. Man,
You're You're wanted the best to do it.

896
00:57:46.679 --> 00:57:50.440
We always have a blast with you
on. And you know what I'm

897
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:52.360
saying, I'm looking forward to to
to you know what I'm saying, getting

898
00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:58.400
uh, getting our banter on like
we normally like to do every now and

899
00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:00.079
again. It's so it's so natural, you know what I'm saying. It's

900
00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:05.159
it's so natural. It's honestly,
it's like Man from the year Straight act

901
00:58:06.159 --> 00:58:10.239
Man and always will be as always
absolutely once again, man, we like

902
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:15.000
to th Man, our brother Jabari
Davis are hopping off ball with us this

903
00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:20.199
week for the baseline Calie Warrenshaw,
we appreciate you guys, thank you for

904
00:58:20.239 --> 00:58:23.159
hopping on ball with us this week
and we'll catch up with you next time.