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NBA Finals set, we have Laker news we must discuss, and there is
only one man we can do that with, the esteemed Dan Wiki, our
insider from the LA Times. Dan, how are you today? I'm feeling
very esteemed, you know, I think you should. It's like one of
those like kind of like nice this this is like my favorite climate day.
I'm sitting outside of a coffee shopping long beach of your year, some traffic
and it's like it's I can wear like like warm clothes on top and like
shorts on the bottom. I love that. It's my favorite's top of the
shorts on the bottom. Huh, that's crazy. That's the look we're going
for, like early morning tea time yet I have that cool. Yeah,
you gotta be warm in the morning, but so you can take it off
in the afternoon. Yeah, you gotta be ready. You gotta be ready.
Look at that man. All right, Dan, let's get started with
the NBA Finals first. I understand it's television driven. We've all done this
for one hundred years. Don't you think this is a little absurd this many
days off before they actually start playing the finals? Yeah, I mean it
is not ideal, right, Like I think on one hand, right,
like ultimately, like it should help the oncourt product, right, like Christap
Sporzingis, it's an extra time for him to get healthy, different things like
that. But no, I want to like keep it going, right like
like these games. It's been kind of an interesting playoffs, guys. A
lot of blowouts, but a lot of like really like kind of like fun
performances too, in like really interesting series and interesting games. I will want
to see these two teams play, you know, And I would also like
to just officially close the book on like the previous seas that move on to
what's next, and the NBA is kind of like, nah, see you
June sixth, see you in a week, which and then this is just
you have to do it because it's not just TV though to Fred it's I
mean, it's buildings, right, and it's like you have to like you
have to lock in these dates to make sure that like you know, like
BTS isn't coming through town or somebody like that, you know what I mean,
you have to really no, absolutely, like you'll get K Pop right
out of it. You'll be playing you'll be playing at Marist instead of the
Guard. So like, yeah, I mean I think that's that's why you
lock all this stuff in and you fix it to dates. And it's just
like you know, in a perfect world, your conference finals are more competitive
and they go deeper. Does this does this hurt Dan? Though? I
mean, uh, first, we'll get your take on the on the teams,
but but does this hurt the the average fan or not even the kind
of lukewarm fan. I know you and I are fans. We're fans of
the NBA. We're gonna watch. Yeah, like you just said, but
that that general person that's out there, the fact that it's this much time
off, is it gonna hurt that fan base. That's just like I thought
it was over. Now I'm not even gonna win. When does it start
again? I can't catch up with it? Yeah, I don't think so.
I mean if there was maybe like you know, just like a plethora
of like other stuff going on, you know right now, like if it
was like, oh, I'm gonna lose myself in college football or I'm gonna
lose myself in this, you know, but like we're still so early in
the baseball season, right, Like, I mean, what is it OTAs
are going to distract the average trand from the NBA Finals? I think like
if you're watching the finals, you're watching the finals probably either way. I
just think it's more of a momentum thing, you know, like like in
a way like you know, is this good for the league? And the
way that you know that extra week between the Super Bowl and the conference championships
at times can be good for the NFL where you're just like you have to
fill the time. So you just talk about like you know, we're going
to talk a lot about Kyrie irving over the next week, and about a
time in Boston and kind of the trade that's the Dallas in this image and
all of this stuff. And it's like, is that good? Does that
drum up interest or does that cause fatigue? I don't know. I think
generally three. I think the average fanne'l find it one way or the other.
Right, like the finals or the finals, like it's gonna be something
you you're probably either gonna watch or you weren't gonna watch. And if it
was on it started on Saturday, you'd be there. And if it starts
a week from Saturday, you'll probably be there. Then two, Dan wi
is with, uh, all right, Dan, let's move to the Lakers
now, you know, And I love this the reporting. And it's funny
when you've done this as long as we all have and you hear the same
thing every year, it just makes you go insane to to trains of thought.
First, here's what we gotta do. We're gonna go out and we're
gonna find a third star. We're gonna get a Tray Younger, a Donovan
Mitchell, and we're gonna do that. Or or the reporting we need depth
we can't fool around with a third star, And in the reporting, Lebron
seems to indicate he would rather have a team with depth than a third star.
I think from what we have gone through, we know depth is more
important than the third star. So if that's the case, why are we
agonizing over this? Well, so I think I think Fred, generally speaking,
you're right. I think if we look around the league and look at
teams that have had success, and look, Boston has three stars, I
mean they really have, I mean four, you know they Minnesota certainly has
three stars. Uh yeah, yeah, Dallas has I mean Dallas, Dallas
has two. Right, Like they're a little bit of an outlier in that
sense. But look like not all stars are created equal to right, Like,
when you're paying these guys max money where they are at what stage in
their career, without like going like way down the salary cap hole. I
mean, like there's just a difference between paying Jason Tatum at twenty seven and
Lebron James at thirty seven, Like a significant financial difference between those two numbers.
And when you're paying older max players, it's just like fiscally, it's
harder to add a third one to that group, right, Like, it
puts you up against things like the second Apron. It limits your ability to
use exceptions. You know, you unbalanced your roster. I think, like
look at Phoenix, there's like a really good example, you know, and
it's just you end up playing three quote unquote stars and then you know,
largely like a bunch of minimum players, and it's just it's a really hard
way to win. The Lakers couldn't do it with Russell Westbrook, Anthony Davis,
and Lebron James. That all being said, Fred, if the right
star was available, yeah, at a cost, the Lakers felt that was
palatable. Uh, there's no doubt in my mind that that's the road they
would go down. I don't think that. I don't think that guy totally
exists. So it is like a really so basically right, like, what
what that would look like is the Lakers trading like their best offer, their
best offer they can put out on the table and sort of a fun thought
exercises like you can trade Austin Reeves, you can trade your number seventeen pick
this year's draft, Dan Stop. They can't do that. They're gonna use
that for James? Easy, Okay, you can trade your seventeen pick in
this year. Fred, you can trade glad you made yourself laugh on that.
You can trade you can trade number twenty nine, I'm sorry, not
twenty nine. You can trade twenty twenty nine your first round pick, and
on draft night you can trade your twenty thirty one first round pick. Now,
the caveat of those things is like those picks. If you're going to
put both of those picks into a trade, you pretty much have to unprotect
them. You can't really, you can't give yourself a lot of wiggle room
because of rules that you know they would have to convey the second round picks.
It gets it gets up, so like basically it's two unprotected first round
picks. You're seventeen in this year. Austin reaveson, if you want,
you can throw some swaps into there, that's your best offer. I don't
is Donovan Mitchell good enough to necessitate that offer. I'm I'm willing to talk
about it. I'm not totally sure that I think it is. But it's
on the flip side of that, it's Cleveland taking that offer. I mean,
I know there's no guarantee that you know, they make it more uh,
you know, so, like so is Trey Young worth that I don't
believe. So, you know what I mean, if Devin Booker was available,
and I'm not saying he is, but if Devin Booker was available,
sure, like you talk about it, you know, I think it's just
a tier up of player right now than like what they the means they have.
So I think we can talk about this as an option, you know,
for the Lakers, like really choosing a path. But I also kind
of believe the market will choose it for them too, if that makes sense.
Yeah, what what do you because of? You know, Vincent didn't
play at all? You know they they did, you know they they lost,
right, but you know the close games? How far off do you
really think they are? And do you think that that if they word to
keep you know, the nucleus of this team, can they compete next year?
I mean, I think it's reasonable, Ronnie to think that, like
Lebron James will be slightly worse next year than he was this year. But
that's just like a time thing, And I think it's reasonable to think that,
you know, Anthony Davis may deal with some sort of injury that he
didn't deal with this year, because that's sort of a history thing, right,
So if you put those two things into account, like yeah, no,
I mean, they're going to be further off next year than they are
this year. But I think they feel like getting Gay Vincent Jared Vanderbilt back
will will boost a lot of what they want to do. Defensively, they
think they're going to be upgrading at a head coach, you know, and
I think that they're going to be aggressive in other ways to try to get
better, you know. Plus you add in things like, you know,
does Austin Reeves have a better season? Does he does he develop more?
Does is there a pathway from Max Christie? And does he matter on your
team? And different things like that with like young players. So those things
I think may negate some of the regression you might expect from from your top
two guys. But look, man, you look around the West and it's
just like, I mean, it's Denver. I mean, I'm sorry,
it's Dallas this year. There's five other teams that could be there next year.
There are five teams that could have been there this year if things have
broken slightly different, Like it's it's gonna be hard, and you're gonna have
to be good and the Lakers are gonna have to win on the margins,
and they're gonna have to do it in a way that they haven't really done
as much, and certainly didn't do this year. You know, they missed
on a lot of their free agency signings, whether it be for injury,
because of fit or whatever. They didn't have a great off season. They
need to have a great off season like they do, and it's gonna be
a challenge. It's not a great free agency class. I'm writing about this
actually right now, I'm staring at my computer. You know, it's not
a great free agency class. There's gonna be a lot of competition on the
trade market, and so you have to really like I guess, like you
know, you have to like mine for diamonds out there in a way that
you look around. I mean, the thing and I'm writing this is what
I wrote about in the lead of my story, is like look at Derrick
Jones for Dallas. You know, a guy that's there on a minimum contract,
never really been considered like this, like key cog winning piece, put
into the right situation on the right team, and you know, he walked
up the court a Conference champion. He's still a young player in the league
despite being experienced, and you know, like the Lakers should be on the
hunt for these kinds of guys. Yeah, and Dan does this speak to
also, And we talk about this another sport, especially baseball, as we
looked at, you know, teams in the Dodgers, everybody thinking they should
win it every single year. But it's really about the team that gets hot.
Arizona got hot last year in the playoffs at the right time and they
went to the World Series. Dallas gets hot right at the end of the
year. I don't I don't think most people wouldn't have picked Dallas to be
in the finals. It's a long shot maybe, but not picking them be
in the finals. Everybody had Denver going and they had somebody, you know,
maybe somebody else care but Dallas. No, But they got hot.
Kyrie and Luca figured it out where they play off each other better than anybody
right now, and they are just the hottest. Their role players fed into
that as well, got hot with them. So it doesn't always just mean
that you got to have the three stars, you got to have all the
stars. It's really about who gets hot at the right time. Now,
the Celtics are a good team and ben Aga team all year long. They're
kind of the the opposite of what I'm saying. But doesn't it always come
up to a team that happens to get hot at the right time. Well,
I think you need a window, right Rodney. And and when you're
assessing your team, you need to assess sort of like how wide your championship
window is. Boston has a very wide championship window, right, Like they
have really young players that are under contract. They have you know, it
is their time right now, right to go for it and be in the
mix. Every season, Dallas made that push. You know, they assessed
their situation and they saw window at the trade deadline and they pushed their chips
in and two trades that at the time people wondered if they were giving up
too much, you know, to kind of go all in on PJ.
Washington and Daniel Gafford, And those have been highly impactful trades, you know,
for for for Dallas, and a massive reason why that they are,
why they're in the position they're in. They assess their window properly. I
mean, I think with the Lakers, it's fair to say that the window
is closing to some degree unless they do something or find way or find ways
to drop it open a little more. And I think that's you know,
look, you can't control getting hot like that just kind of happens. Injuries
are a part of this. You got to be healthy, You got to
be lucky. It's really really hard to win, right, it's really really
difficult. But you need to put yourself in the as possible positions. And
that's where I think again, like you know, hitting hitting in free agency,
uh, making sure that the guys you sign and the guys you invest
in are available and on the floor, that you hire the right coach,
like I mean for the Lakers, like a lot of the stuff just had
like like this isn't a this isn't really a summer I think where they can
afford to go two for three or three for four even right, like this
has to be a four for four summer. You know, they gotta do
They got they got to use the pick, right, They've got to hire
the right coach. They've got to keep their guys healthy and getting like their
younger players improving, and then they need to improve the roster. Like like
now that sounds like a lot it's because it is. But if they do
it, you know, sure they could be in the next chair. Of
course. Well that you said, hire the right coat, who's the right
coach? Yeah, that's what I'd like to know, Dan, because in
your reporting, uh, sources inside tell you you know, we're hey,
don't believe the noise from outside. We still got a long way to go
thing, All right? Do you buy that? Uh? Maybe a little?
You know. I look, I think they're going to ultimately land on
JJ Redick. I think that seems like the momentum is moving in that direction,
and it has been for a long time. I can say that James
Brago impressed a lot of people this week. I can also say that I
think, you know, should JJ Reddick get the head coaching job, the
Lakers will have significant sorry about those guys, the Lakers will have significant interest
in trying to glure Jj Barrego for a top assistant position. So it's a
Frank Bogel model, Dan, It's a Frank Bogel model. I mean,
I mean, it really is right, Like I think they're looking at it
that way where they are they are looking. I mean, I've I've done
some reporting, you know, I mean, they're talking about assistant coaches both
internally and externally, you know, with candidates and stuff like that. You
know, Scott Brooks is a name I've heard. James Brago's a name I've
heard. Jared Dudley is a guy that you know, uh has real close
Lebron James ties and has obviously done a really good job in Dallas. You
know, Jean Rondo is a name that I reported this week. They got
a people in a tizzy a little bit on the internets as as a player
that they could look to add to their to a coaching staff. You know,
Greg Saint Gene worked for them when they won the title in twenty twenty.
These are some of the names that I'm hearing right now. Obviously,
we'll see what happens when they hire a coach, but I think the front
office is going to be more involved in staffing than they were when they with
Darvin Ham, and it seems like they're going to have They're gonna put more
resources behind it financially too. Yeah, I didn't answer a question. I
don't know who the right coach is though it's a fred It is a it
is a very hard job head coach of the Lakers is always a hard job.
Yeah, this version of it is a very difficult job. Fair,
But again we're we're kind of circling back to where we were. Here comes
Frank Vogel. And by the way, we're picking your assistance, or at
least one of them, and it's going to be Jason Kidd. Okay,
Darvin hand comes in. All right, Darvin, you you get your own
You get your own assistance. You got it, you got it. Okay.
Now we go to a new coach and we're back to you're the coach
and meet your staff. Yeah. I mean, look, I think if
you're going to hire, particularly like in the case of JJ Reddick, right,
Like, if you're hiring a guy who hasn't been in this position before,
you're going to have the ability. Should you want it to have a
very strong opinion on coaching staff? Like that's just the reality of it.
It's like the Lakers, if you're the Lakers, if you're the Lakers,
right, I mean, look, should And I mean I think it worked
with Frank Vogel. Like the issues with Frank Vogel weren't coaching staff related,
right, you know, and a lot of the you know, the fear
about Jason Kidd and Tranqule. Those two have a tremendous relationship, you know,
and and then that worked out, you know, incredibly. Well,
I think that's you know, but that's the Lakers default to their past success
a lot. And so so that's kind of the that's kind of where we're
at on that. You know, I think they're looking back at what's worked
for them in the past, and that'll be you know, the place where
they correct. They do tend to kind of react to their mistakes by by
doing some version of the opposite. And I know in this case, I
would point to perhaps hiring a more experience coach that doesn't those guys really aren't
out there in mass on this market. So maybe this is one of the
ways where they correct, you know, what they view to be a mistake,
which was you know, not having a bigger voice, not not ensuring
that there was more experience, more head former head coaching experience, Darnham staff,
you know then than the last the last round. Yeah, I mean,
and you mentioned Frank Vogue at work. It didn't work because he's gone
and it was gone in two years, I mean, and and and then
yes, they won a title. But I think it it just I think
three years it undermines that head coach. And and if you're Frank Vogel,
you don't think Frank Vogel, who's been around and coached in the league before,
he doesn't know who's a good assistant and not a good assistant. J.
J. Reddick has been around basketball even though he's you know, he's
a broadcaster. Now, he knows who's who, he knows what catches up.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I think it's just that his
hands. I just think it's a bad recipe for any head coach, as
friendly as they can be, it's a bad recipe. Yeah, Runnie.
I think that it's one of those things like you know it works when it
works, and it doesn't, whant it doesn't. You know it is.
I don't think there's a right or wrong way necessarily do this. I mean,
it's it's probably like hiring coaches, probably most akin to like drafting a
quarterback. It's so difficult. You know, at least when you draft a
quarterback you have much more information available to you. But but it is it's
really really hard to know. So much depends on timing and situation. For
guys and guys that were good coaches before or bad coaches now, or depending
on their roster and the personnel they have, the system they need to run
because of the players they have. You really, in a perfect world,
you want to get everybody aligned, you know, And I think when you
you know, when you do when you're hiring somebody like JJ Reddick who has
not been a head coach, if you're the front office and you want to
have a voice in that, like, there's more opportunity to do it there,
certainly than if you were saying, I don't know, hiring Doc Rivers
or Nick Nurse or somebody like that. All right, well, we appreciate
your insight today, Dan, And what will you do this weekend? That's
a great question. Kind of barbecue a little bit, hang it, hang
a TV outside we're gonna do. We're gonna live my lifelong during a dream
of having an outdoor television, Okay, and uh yeah uh. And then
after that, I guess it's all downhill from there for me. Guys,
I'll reach the mountain top. You're gonna love the outdoor TV. That's a
very cool thing. Yes, I can't wait. I literally take the one
from our bedroom now and bring it outside and like, just like, let
it sit on a table. And I love it. I just love it.
And I was able to do I was obviously so happy, but I
was able to luck my way into a free television of decent size. And
so it's like, you know, let's throw it outside, like am I
worried to throw a cover on it. If it gets wet, it gets
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All right. So here's the problem. USC goes to the Big ten
and it's gonna be tough in a Big ten. Now, Lincoln Riley and
everybody at USC has one goal that is to win a national championship. So
that means every game is precious and every game counts. So when you're playing
a very difficult college schedule. I'm not saying the pack wasn't difficult, but
it's not a Big ten. When you're playing a Big ten schedule, you
really get no weeks off, no little sisters of the poor. Every week
is tough. So in your non conference games, many schools around the country
you've heard of this, you know, you know, we'll just line up
cream Puff Tech and we'll play them one week and one other week we'll play
somebody else that you've never heard of. Alabama Junior South Lincoln, we'll put
we'll put them in there and we'll run them over, and we won't put
ourselves in a position to lose a game when we are looking at who's going
to be in the national Championship. Yeah, I believe. I believe this
year USC opens with l s U. Yes, in vas right, that's
no, little sister. That is what we do. Though. You know,
we never played I believe in a hundred years, played in like a
cream puff like that. And the one time we did, we got them
off the schedule. I think it was. You see, but we we've
played LSU and Auburn and gone back to Ohio State and played uh, you
know every year. You see though Alabama does it every year. They've they've
got two or two teams at least one to two teams that they played that
are Alabama State or or you know, Michigan plays Appalachian State. Remember they
got beat by on one they did, matter of fact, yep. So
they schedule those teams so you know, it's when you're entering the Big ten
and I get it. You know, like you just said, Fred,
it's gonna be murderer's row. Every team you play, it's gonna be difficult.
Even you know, it's not just the teams at the top of Ohio
State, in Michigan and Penn State. You gotta face Wisconsin, you gotta
face Iowa. You know those those are gonna be tough matchups on a weekly
basis. And you don't want to look up and you have a hiccup against
the team that you probably should have beaten because you didn't get up for that
game. So, I mean, I understand it, but that's just not
who we've been. Okay, well maybe you should be that. Let to
talk about eliminating Notre Dame too a little bit. I think they wanted to
go to you know, only playing them every every couple of years instead of
could you imagine that? I can't now that right? That is troubling to
me. That's troubling. I didn't go to us, So you did boy
to play Notre Dame like every couple of years because they're going to be too
tough. What doesn't work, I don't think so either that doesn't work at
all. That doesn't work. And again you know, it's obviously it's a
new day in college football, and you got to plan for The thing is,
now that se is moving to the Big ten, do you think they
get in? Maybe Ucla for that matter, if they get it, ever
get it going again with Washington and Oregon. Do they get a little bit
more of a leeway now that the playoffs have expanded to be a team that
has two losses or even maybe three losses sometimes because of the schedule, that
they may be able to get in to these playoffs scenarios as opposed to when
they were in the pack. If they lost to you know, Washington State
and the other loss was to Arizona, might be a little bit more difficult
for them to get in. All right, twelve teams make the playoffs?
Right? How many go from the Big ten? Let's just try that sec
How many Big twelve? How many? Yeah? I don't know if there's
a guarantee number other than the conference championship, correct, But I'm just let's
just go. There's six of them, say, six conferences, right,
six of them go automatically. Okay, So that means you've got six more
slots, right, yeah, Okay, So if you have six more slots.
How many do you think the Big ten get? How many losses will
there be? How many do the SEC get, the Big twelve get?
How many? You only got six left? Now you think they're gonna take
four from the Big ten, three from the Big ten. No, they're
not gonna take four. They're not gonna take four. But you know,
if they say, okay, the conference championship, we're gonna take the two
teams that are playing in it, you're automatically going to to the playoffs if
you're in the Big ten or you're in the SEC. And wait a minute,
you said there are six conferences that have a guarantee. I think I
think I don't know if it's six. Off the top of my head,
I staying out there, I'm thinking, you know, Big ten, SEC,
ACC, you got the Big twelve. Really that's it now? Because
no more pat all right, so I don't know who else goes from major
conferences. Okay, so let's argument to eight would be at large? Then
well no, if you use your model, got four? Well oh yeah,
yeah, okay, So if you use my model saying both teams that
go to the conference championship get in, is that what you're saying, right,
there's eight, you got four left. Right, USC's just got to
be better than the other into Big ten. If you third into Big ten
and your record was, you know, ten and two, but yet you
didn't make it to the conference championship, you still got a chance to get
in. I agree with that. So now that it becomes this and just
let's be realists, the USC got to be ten and two this year.
Yes, No, I said let's be realist. I didn't say let's let's
hope against hope. I said, let's be realist. I'm about this.
I'll tell you after we beat Lsu. Okay, that's fair. Yeah,
I'll tell you after we beat Lsu. All right, So there's a chance
you'll never tell me blow them out. If we blow them out, it
says one thing. If we barely beat him, it says one another thing.
So i'll tell you after we beat Lsu. Okay. So again,
if somehow USC happens to lose that game, I guess you won't tell me
anything about the Trojans because you're only telling me after you beat them. Yes,
which means i'll tell you how can we beat them? Right? Buying
that? Hey, if you're selling if you're selling it, you want me
to buy it? Sitting right here, sir, I'll buy it. Whatever
this goes into vapor anyway, So just whatever. But here's the funny thing.
I won't forget you said that. I know you won't. I know
you won't. I know you won't. Oh no, you'll be texting me
right from I'll be in Vegas. You'll be texting me that night talking about,
Hey, okay, what do you got? Yeah, what do you
think I will? I definitely will. Uh? You know what we should
do? Why don't we do this now? Why don't we play a little?
Uh? What should we play? Know your lateness? Play a little
know your squad right now, one o'clock hour? Oh your squad? Why
not? Let's let's do that right now, come on call, let's call
in. Give me some give me some work on a Friday. No,
no, no, no, And let's do this. Let's do this right
after the break. Let's do it right after the break. Uh, that's
right. That was the tease for Know your Squad? Oh it was yeah,
a six nine, seven seventy first caller. We hope Ronnie's capable picking
you up and putting you on the air. And if he is, don't
count on it. Fred, I understand the way today's gone. Anything can
happen. It's Friday. I don't understand what happened. No one does anyway,
Uhlan, whoever calls, we're gonna put you on. You're gonna play
Rodney and Ronnie next come on. Oh yeah, coming back to your breakdancing
days. Huh Ronnie, Yeah, get that cardboard down and do your spin
move Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan on a Friday, we don't care Friday.
That's apparent very much. So that's abundantly obvious today. Yeah, because I'm
asking the question right now, what are we doing? What are we doing?
We're gonna play a little uh play little know your lakers? Okay?
All right? Man in Diamond Bar? Are you there? Mac? Are
you there? All right? Here for it? How you doing? Man?
Came back? Can you hear me? Yeah? We got you now?
All good with you today? Doing good? Never long? There he
is all right there he is talking about let's go, baby, Mac.
We're gonna play. No your Lakers. I give you a question in five
choices. Answer before I give you all five choices, you're locked out.
You have a challenge. Use your challenge. It's upheld. You will retain
your challenge. Use your challenge. It's denied, you will be locked out
of the next question. You got it? Got it? Ronnie? You
ready to fire this up? Happy Friday, Rogan and Rodney. I am
ready to have fired up. Let's go. Good luck to all. Which
of these players holds the record for highest three point field goal percentage and a
single season of forty four percent? Anthony Peeler, Vladimir rod Monovic, Steve
Blake, Sasha will you chich Sasha Baron Cohen, Vladimir red Monovitch. That
is rad Okay, it is not Steve Blake. Try Mac. The answer
was Vladimir red Monovitch. Ronnie, well done, seriously, thank you.
I mean that I'm not exaggerature. Yeah, I know, I'm impressed.
No, you don't care. It's Friday. I don't care. Okay.
Lakers lost to the Pistons in five games in the two thousand and four NBA
Finals. By the way, that is when my eyes burnt out of my
head and I had stigmata. If anybody cares about me, but they lost?
What Kevin? What is Kevin Mada? Where my eyes? Basically caught
on fire and were burning out of my head, and your palms were bleeding
profusely. Yeah, and that's when they gave me morphine. And I saw
like tigers with human heads eating people when I was on morphine, and I
said, stop giving me morphine. Are you sure that was morphine? Fred?
And not ellis not mushrooms tigers eating their young. I just took it.
It was very odd. Well Fred does do that? Doctor says you
can take this? And French? Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah?
Why not? Here you go? Oh no, I'm I'm mister barmore
doing this door? Fred, Yeah, I'll go in that door. Okay,
sure, film let me get lost in the bathroom. No, I
look at it like that closet full of tain saws that's in there. What's
going on? Fredie, Like you take your phone into that bathroom. Imagine
you'd be banging on door help, right, I could. I wouldn't have
been able to get out of the bathroom. See, I look at it
like this, Rodney. Let's say you're on medication. I don't know if
you are. You don't have to tell me. But for the purpose of
the conversation, let's say you're taking some sort of medication, and I am
very good. I don't know what it's for. It's none of my business,
Yes I am, But you are taking it in and it's doing something
for you. Fair. Fair, I don't even know what it is,
but I'll take it because your take can get and I think it'll do something
for me. That's the way it works with you. I'm big pharma for
me. It's good for you, it's good for me. You're an antibiotic.
It can't hurt you. Why shouldn't I take it. That's how marais
ended up pregnant. Fred, See yeah, do that stuff. Maybe that's
why good, Kevin. Maybe that's what it explains the size of your ankles
here, Fred, get off my ankle. Your ankles blew up. Fred,
get off my ankles, he said, Kevin Man. He said it
worked for her, and go work for me. Now my ankles are pregnant.
Let's go to the next question. Lord. Lakers lost to the Pistons
in five games in the two thousand and four NBA Finals. Shaq and Kobe
led the Lakers and scoring with an average of twenty six and twenty two points
per game. Who was a Lakers third leading scorer in that series with an
average of six points per game. Karl Malone, Gary Payton, Derek Fisher,
Devin George or Wally George. Devin George. Yes, Rodney is okay,
Jesus no for Mac, Rodney already said Derek Fisher. Okay, now,
Mack, do you think you have a delay? No? Okay,
good, okay, all right, No, we know, we know,
but that was wrong. Here's the next one. Come on. Who holds
a single season record for most seeals per game with an average of three point
four? All right, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Norm Nixon, Eddie
Jones or Rashita Jones Norman, Yes, Rodney j Right, right, o
red O, Magic Johnson. All right, here's an next one. Lakers
missed the playoffs in two thousand and five after Shock was traded to Miami.
Kobe Bryant, the leading scorer that season with an average of twenty seven a
game. Who was their second leading score that season? Lamar Odem, Chuckie
Atkins, Chris Mim Karan Butler or Gerrod Butler, Lamarrodem, Chuckie Atkins,
No, Chris Min Butler, Ron Butler, Rodney, No, it's not
Lamar odim whoa no, Mac, It doesn't matter how many times you say,
lamar owld him. It wasn't room wait wait, wait, wait,
time out. I was stuck in the bathroom time out. That's not all
I love it. Mag. He's a listener. He've been listening. That's
my man. Way to go back. Man, that's a ripping my emotional
fabric. Man, My God got him right between the eyes. I love
it all right. Here's the next one. Magic Johnson, the Lakers career
leader and assists with ten forty one, who was second in team history and
assists was six Thy three hundred and six, Nord Nixon, Kobe Bryant,
Jerry West, Gale good Richard B. F. Goodrick, Kobe Bryant,
Correct, Rodney, I mean Ronnie. So this is it the final question.
I already won. Well, not necessarily, damn it. But you
can win, okay, you have you have three, Ronnie has two.
Max can get on the board. Here if Mac gets it, Rodney wins.
Simple, Come on, Matt, give me a celting who was the
Lakers leading scorer, and Mike d'An Tony's on a full seat. Whatever he
said, all right? Was that Mac? Yes, that was Ma,
How delayed is Mac? How how much of a delay is he? On?
I think Ma's messing with you, Fred, Mac, are you there?
I'm here mag mag playing the game. Mac Macs messing with you.
F should give him a prize, Fred, give him some Fred, Yeah,
you know what you can. You can shake Ronnie's hand. That's all
we got. No glossy, Fred, a black and white glossy. Come
on, No, we don't have like, we don't have those glassy No,
I bet you do. No, I don't board. He got him
in his backpack? What are you talking about? First of all, Max
said he already has a dartboard. Did you hear that? I did back?
I don't think I didn't hear that. All right, here's a final
question. Let's go, let's get done. Who is the Lakers leading scorer
in Mike dan Tony's only full season as head coach in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen?
Pagasol, Nick Young, Jody Meeks, Jordan Hill or Jordan spark Gasol
Nick Young? Rodney has won the game. But Swaggy Peaky Swaggy, well
there you go, and Iggy Oh no, Nick, thanks for listening.
We really appreciate it. It was fine, all right, goodbye, Nick,
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