Speaker 1: Okay, we continue on Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete on five
Speaker 1: seventy l a sports.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Kevin has been working on something special, okay, and it
Speaker 1: is ready about Luca Doncion, so we will have that
Speaker 1: coming up. But now Rodney, let's welcome on the man
Speaker 1: who has been there for all of them, and we'll
Speaker 1: ride this wave to the end. Dan Wiki La times,
Speaker 1: our good friend, Dan.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show, guys. That's how point break ends
Speaker 3: for Patrick Swaythey's character. He just rides away to the
Speaker 3: end and it's not a happy ending for him.
Speaker 2: No. He goes to a big wave, the giant once
Speaker 2: in a once in a fifty year wave. Is that
Speaker 2: what it was?
Speaker 3: Now? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'll never see them again. No,
Speaker 3: I never see them again.
Speaker 2: And Keanu Reeves lets him go, lets him go.
Speaker 3: Let's the let's the seas swallow him right, Like, why
Speaker 3: you know they call it nautical justice, Rodney, nautical justice,
Speaker 3: they don't call it that. I don't know what I'm
Speaker 3: talking about. I'm some punch drunk.
Speaker 2: I bet you are no sleep for Dan Wiki man. Dan,
Speaker 2: this before we get into the like specific question, just
Speaker 2: your thoughts on last night and that whole atmosphere then
Speaker 2: I mean Dallas Lakers, Luca Lebron, Mavericks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hyperbole to say, like, so I've been covering
Speaker 3: in a games after like fifteen seasons or something like that.
Speaker 3: This will be one of the games I remember forever.
Speaker 3: I don't know if or when I'll ever be in
Speaker 3: a situation where the arena is so emotionally charged in
Speaker 3: that way where you know everybody is wearing some version
Speaker 3: of a Luca Doger jersey. It seemed like, guy's the
Speaker 3: craziest thing that happened. Obviously there's the cheering, and there's
Speaker 3: the fire and eco chance if you guys notice this
Speaker 3: or not. But early in the second half, Luca got
Speaker 3: called for a travel and the crowd booed, like everyone booed,
Speaker 3: which was like like when when will you ever see
Speaker 3: the road team committed turnover and the home the home
Speaker 3: fans boo the decision like that that was it was
Speaker 3: a one on one experience, and you know, as my colleague,
Speaker 3: you know, Dylan Hernandez sort of wrote like, you know,
Speaker 3: like kind of like Otani going and Homer in Japan,
Speaker 3: like you know, it's this is what we expected you.
Speaker 3: We expect you to put on a show and not
Speaker 3: only do you do it, but you you somehow even
Speaker 3: raise the bar. And uh, I think as LA fans
Speaker 3: start to forge these bonds and these relationships with Lukadagic,
Speaker 3: like you look at what look at what he meant
Speaker 3: to Dallas and you know if you if you buy in,
Speaker 3: like there's a chance will mean this for you here
Speaker 3: to in La.
Speaker 1: If you're a Nico Harrison, how did you feel last night?
Speaker 3: Probably discourt Like honestly I would I would have mostly
Speaker 3: just been angry and like kind of cursing the basketball gods, right,
Speaker 3: because the way out of any of these decisions right
Speaker 3: is to win, right, and they have not won and
Speaker 3: not necessarily even you know, partly obviously in Nick Harrison's
Speaker 3: vault because he made the trade. But you know, look,
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis plays a half of a game, wants to
Speaker 3: do the right thing and be there for his new
Speaker 3: organization and gets hurt and then you don't see him
Speaker 3: for you know, five weeks, like Kyrie Irving, you know,
Speaker 3: blows out his knee and you don't see him. You know,
Speaker 3: it is a very like unfulfilled vision. But like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, that's the thought I had and there's been
Speaker 3: like a lot said and then there will be a
Speaker 3: lot said kind of about what what Nico Harrison did
Speaker 3: and shouldn't have done and all that stuff. I think
Speaker 3: my new general rule guys is, if the tribute video
Speaker 3: is gonna be that good, you don't do the trade.
Speaker 3: That's how you know if you've got to If you've
Speaker 3: got two minutes that are that good, that means probably
Speaker 3: he's that person should still be a part of your
Speaker 3: organization if you want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but when a tribute video good for Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: when they did.
Speaker 3: It here in La not that good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but still but it's been there.
Speaker 3: It was good, It wasn't that good? Was it wasn't that?
Speaker 2: There's been tribute videos. What I'm what I'm saying is.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you one is when it's like, is that
Speaker 3: like that organization? Like because it's because you're watching him
Speaker 3: from eighteen, you know what I mean? Like you hear
Speaker 3: his English skip better, you see his silliness, you see
Speaker 3: his goofiness. Like these are the things that like we're
Speaker 3: starting to see a little bit being around him to day,
Speaker 3: Like uh, they like they lost the other night and
Speaker 3: one of the I won't say who but a Laker
Speaker 3: sports staffer. You know, they lost the game. I think
Speaker 3: it was the night Luca got ejected and he was,
Speaker 3: you know, pretty upset, and Luca hit him with the
Speaker 3: tap you on your left shoulder, but I'm on your
Speaker 3: right side. After the game, you know, like for just
Speaker 3: like a quick little smile and like he has this
Speaker 3: kind of ease and energy to him that like it
Speaker 3: enables people that are around him like really really ride
Speaker 3: for him. And then you know, for the fan base
Speaker 3: in Dallas, like who had just gone through that kind
Speaker 3: of like you know, multi generational run with Dirt Davitski
Speaker 3: to like feel like they had it again and maybe
Speaker 3: even had it better. You know, I think that's why
Speaker 3: they they've reacted the way they've reacted. Like, you know,
Speaker 3: I saw somebody say something along the lines of I
Speaker 3: think it was Jason Gallagher who said Massan used to
Speaker 3: work on JJ Reddick's podcast. Said like people will say
Speaker 3: that like, you know, we're turning on the mass But
Speaker 3: it feels more like the MAVs turned on us. And
Speaker 3: I think that's because how much they meant and none
Speaker 3: of this is this is like really running the unfortunate
Speaker 3: part because this does all sort of read as shaded
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis, and it's not. It's not and it was
Speaker 3: gonna be a whole of fame. Anthony Davis deserves to
Speaker 3: be one of the seventy five best players of all time.
Speaker 3: That stuff's all true, like Lucas, just at a different
Speaker 3: level like this is I mean Ronney, Like I didn't
Speaker 3: see major Johnson play. I imagine he made people oh
Speaker 3: yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: But but at the same time, look at won at
Speaker 2: t and won a title and won a title, and
Speaker 2: when any and one really I mean, he got to
Speaker 2: the finals, they won a title, and and for this
Speaker 2: for this to be you know, again going back we
Speaker 2: talked about this a little bit earlier Dan, for this
Speaker 2: to be all on Nico and and this not be
Speaker 2: a club wide organization decision, it's absurd that he takes
Speaker 2: the run of it. And then you've got the owner
Speaker 2: coming out and said, I hired the basketball people to
Speaker 2: do the basketball things and make the decisions and not
Speaker 2: take ownership of we.
Speaker 3: Collectively make Who else is it on?
Speaker 2: You mean, I mean, you don't think you don't think
Speaker 2: they're the owner, you don't think they call the owner.
Speaker 2: Let's sign this sign on this.
Speaker 3: Trade for sure, But usually how that works though, is
Speaker 3: like when it's your idea, you know, generally speaking right now, Look,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 3: pretend to know. I'm not gonna be naive. I'man to
Speaker 3: tell you, I don't want to pretend to know that
Speaker 3: I know exactly how this happened. But like the way
Speaker 3: that it's been mostly presented to me was that this
Speaker 3: was Nico Harrison's like deep and then when it is
Speaker 3: your idea, you have to argue for it. Right, do
Speaker 3: you have to sell your idea? You have to sell.
Speaker 3: You have to sell your idea to ownership that this
Speaker 3: is what I think we should do. Ownership was happy
Speaker 3: to do it, or at least to some degree, we're
Speaker 3: obviously willing to do it. They didn't want to pay him.
Speaker 2: The money to the dumb owner in the league. If
Speaker 2: you're going to allow that to happen, you're incompetent. As
Speaker 2: Fred said, I don't know how you made money. Rodney
Speaker 2: made money in your life, and if you.
Speaker 3: I mean like I would tell you to google. I
Speaker 3: would tell you to google how he made his money
Speaker 3: and involved two words I and do.
Speaker 2: I do mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Dan, and we talked about this certainly,
Speaker 1: and I know you'll agree. If Rob Polinco wants to
Speaker 1: bring somebody up from the G League, that's your job. Rob.
Speaker 1: You make a decision if you want to fill out
Speaker 1: the ninth spot on the roster. Okay, Rob, go ahead.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna trade Lebron James, then you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a conversation with Genie Boss.
Speaker 3: I mean, usually guys, if you're gonna trade future first
Speaker 3: round draft picks, like I mean, that's usually, like I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, like, that's usually where the bar is on
Speaker 3: this type of stuff, right when you get everybody involved
Speaker 3: and like like sure there may be like kind of
Speaker 3: the rubber stamping, but usually if you're talking about like
Speaker 3: what the team's gonna look like in two years from now,
Speaker 3: you know, ownerships involved, and this is the type of
Speaker 3: trade that like, honestly, like is gonna have you know,
Speaker 3: a ten year minimum ramification on the Dallas packricks, Right,
Speaker 3: Like you're just the and you just I don't know
Speaker 3: what needs to happen for you to be a MAVs
Speaker 3: fan and to feel good about being in that arena again.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Fred Fred just put
Speaker 2: it out that that you don't make a decision without
Speaker 2: the owners signing officer. Sure, are you agreeing with that?
Speaker 2: Are you agreeing with that? Or no?
Speaker 3: Look, ownership obviously signed off on this. I'm just saying, though,
Speaker 3: if you're the person who has the idea, you got
Speaker 3: to own it.
Speaker 2: And he's owned it. He showed up at the arena.
Speaker 2: He owns it. But what I don't like is that
Speaker 2: the ownership threw him under the bus and said it's
Speaker 2: all on them. They made the decision or he made
Speaker 2: the decision. I trust the management all of that. When
Speaker 2: yeah all got in a room and had a conversation
Speaker 2: about this is what we're going to do, and instead
Speaker 2: of saying collectively as an organization, we made this decision,
Speaker 2: you said, Hey, I hired the guy to make the decisions,
Speaker 2: and he made that decision. So I'm out of this.
Speaker 3: Ronnie. I don't disagree with you. I will just say
Speaker 3: that I believe you know there are seating capacities on lifeboats.
Speaker 4: Yeahs town, It's just like you know fire Nico is
Speaker 4: a snappier chant.
Speaker 3: Then sell the team Patrick like there's an element of
Speaker 3: that too, right, Like and Nico was the first person,
Speaker 3: Like he was the one who executed the trade. He
Speaker 3: was the first person out there to justify it. And
Speaker 3: like one of the craziest things about this trade, and
Speaker 3: like had it even worked for Dallas, like really truly worked, right,
Speaker 3: Like I remember in the day after that that deal
Speaker 3: talking to people down there who were like skeptical that
Speaker 3: their fans would accept it even if it came with
Speaker 3: a championship attached to it like that. That's and I
Speaker 3: think that we saw that bear out right, Like you
Speaker 3: saw how those people reacted to Luka Doncic, You saw
Speaker 3: how Luca reacted to those people. You know, That's that's
Speaker 3: probably why, like even you know, I'm not sure there
Speaker 3: are people in that crowd that would trade it.
Speaker 2: Here's my where's my question? Since we're we're putting like
Speaker 2: Luca on this big time pedestal now, right because he
Speaker 2: went back to Dallas and went crazy, are we going
Speaker 2: to put him under the same Are we going to
Speaker 2: put him under the same standard as Lebron James or
Speaker 2: anybody else. He's got to come He's got to come
Speaker 2: here and win a title within the next two three years.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's the expectation. Yeah, okay, you know.
Speaker 2: I'm just checking. I'm just checking. I'm just checking because
Speaker 2: because everybody's like, now, okay, we've got our guy. This,
Speaker 2: this is the standard, this is he's the epitome of everything.
Speaker 2: And we won the trade and we won all this
Speaker 2: and came here. You gotta go win it. You gotta
Speaker 2: go win a title. And if he doesn't win a
Speaker 2: title here, are we going to keep him under the
Speaker 2: same scrutiny as we do other people that goes go
Speaker 2: to places and don't win a particular title.
Speaker 3: I mean I think, like I mean, I would, I guess,
Speaker 3: I hope. So I think you know are you? Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 3: You are going to commit to being angry about time?
Speaker 2: I want you to say that within you give him
Speaker 2: a timeline within two three years, three years, three years,
Speaker 2: got to win a title here.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm smarter than to do it last time. There
Speaker 3: was a three year timeline issue around the Lakers, like
Speaker 3: you know, Jimmy puff off his chop. I will not
Speaker 3: make any timeline predictions. What I will say is that like, yes,
Speaker 3: he will have access to and he currently has access
Speaker 3: to you know, a team that believes it is good
Speaker 3: enough to win a championship right now, if he doesn't
Speaker 3: perform in the playoffs, he will hear it. You will
Speaker 3: hear it from me, They'll hear it from fans. That's
Speaker 3: a thousand percent. I think what will happen? I think
Speaker 3: the reason Rodney, why you're hearing this from me today
Speaker 3: and why my fans are are are riding like so
Speaker 3: hard for Luca today, right is like I mean, was
Speaker 3: how vulnerable he was?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Like, That's what it is is that you like, it's
Speaker 3: from a it's you know, we saw the We saw
Speaker 3: the hug Lebron James gave him as he walked up
Speaker 3: the court. We saw his lip quiver as he looked
Speaker 3: at his like, you know, professional basketball life sort of
Speaker 3: you know, be condensed into a two minute package, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. And then like not only did
Speaker 3: he do all of that stuff, and you know, particularly
Speaker 3: the emotional sort of toll of like you know, being
Speaker 3: there and you know, like going through what was obviously
Speaker 3: like a very emotional thing for him at a place
Speaker 3: that he didn't want to leave, right, He didn't want
Speaker 3: He didn't ask for this, which is unique in the
Speaker 3: NBA when it comes to star trades. Right, it almost
Speaker 3: never happens this way, you know, to then not only
Speaker 3: do that, but then to go play the way that
Speaker 3: he played, particularly right away in the first quarter. It
Speaker 3: is sort of the quote unquote like Luca Magic. And
Speaker 3: I think I think Laker fans like while like you know,
Speaker 3: understanding that you don't hang banners for special nights in Dallas,
Speaker 3: you know, in early April, and that there are bigger goals.
Speaker 3: I think people should feel comfortable plenty, comfortable celebrating what
Speaker 3: was like a special game, like a really special moment,
Speaker 3: particularly in a franchise by the way that is like
Speaker 3: full of these types of moments and these types of games, right,
Speaker 3: and and is comfortable linizing them like that. It can
Speaker 3: be both. It's not a title, right, it's not a title.
Speaker 3: But you know, like nobody want a title the you know,
Speaker 3: the night that Kobe outscored the Mavericks figure it right
Speaker 3: in Dallas, Like nobody want to tell that the game
Speaker 3: people talk about like you know that that's a special No, No, let's.
Speaker 2: Not put I know, I know, and and I may
Speaker 2: get killed for this, but let's not let's not put
Speaker 2: it up there. Look, Celtic City just came out right,
Speaker 2: we just watch I don't know if you watch it.
Speaker 2: I watched it. I'm not a Celtic fan. I hate
Speaker 2: the Celtics. I'm a Laker guy. You know, the first
Speaker 2: time that the Lakers beat the Celtics in the finals,
Speaker 2: after they chronicled Jerry West, you know, you know all
Speaker 2: of that, all of those things, you know all of
Speaker 2: those things, and then finally, you know, magic with the
Speaker 2: hook shot. Winning and beating them in Boston Garden was
Speaker 2: a big deal. And I just heard some people, you know,
Speaker 2: equating it like, oh my god, this is this is
Speaker 2: on the on that line. No it's not.
Speaker 3: It's champs. But I mean, I think though, and I
Speaker 3: think this is like a larger sort of I don't
Speaker 3: want to say, and Rodney at like, you know, I've
Speaker 3: got a lot of love for you, Ronny, So if
Speaker 3: the fields pointed at you, I apologize, Like I refuse
Speaker 3: to believe that there are just seventeen good moments in
Speaker 3: Lakers history, like more than that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And I think that as fans. I think that as
Speaker 3: fans sometimes when it comes to basketball, like in particular,
Speaker 3: in our conversations about basketball, we're way too binary when
Speaker 3: it comes to championship or not championship. That the amount
Speaker 3: of uncontrollables seriously that go into winning a championship. Luck
Speaker 3: flat out luck. Like like you you talk to people
Speaker 3: around the NBA, you talk to coaches, you talked to players,
Speaker 3: people who have won the title, stuff like that, Like
Speaker 3: luck is always a part of it. And if you don't,
Speaker 3: if you don't, like you know, own that and like
Speaker 3: sort of understand that at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: Like there is like an element of this that's just
Speaker 3: like you know, like either your role snake eys or
Speaker 3: a seven, Like it's kind of out of your control.
Speaker 3: So you just I think you have to make the
Speaker 3: most and enjoy when the game gives you an opportunity
Speaker 3: to celebrate it. And like, I just don't know what
Speaker 3: else you could have wanted out of that game, Like
Speaker 3: I wrote this, like everybody there got what they wanted,
Speaker 3: except maybe for Nico Harrison, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like like like the fans got the show they wanted
Speaker 3: from Luka Doncrich, you know, like the the Lakers got
Speaker 3: the win. You know, the people in the crowd got
Speaker 3: to celebrate a player that they felt like a really
Speaker 3: really deep connection with and like, yeah, Laker fans should
Speaker 3: be excited that they're the ones who get to keep them,
Speaker 3: Like they should be excited about that, like it was
Speaker 3: an exciting thing. Now if he goes zero for twenty
Speaker 3: in the playoffs or you know, like stinks, like those
Speaker 3: two things can both be true. He could have provided
Speaker 3: this incredible moment and then also stunk in the playoffs
Speaker 3: and and have to assess that. And if you stink enough,
Speaker 3: you know that the shine comes off the great moments.
Speaker 3: But but I think you know this early into his
Speaker 3: is ten years a Laker, like you know, put putting
Speaker 3: it out him that he needs to win a championship
Speaker 3: in a year or two. You know, I maybe maybe
Speaker 3: I just covered too many games this season, like.
Speaker 4: Dance.
Speaker 3: It's not stupid.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 3: I think it's bad practice, I know, but we do.
Speaker 3: We do it though, drive too fast too on the freeway.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't, I know, but we do it.
Speaker 2: And why don't we do it with him?
Speaker 3: I made myself for lunch today buttered noodles because it's delicious.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't have done it. I should ate a vegetable.
Speaker 2: I'm like a figure exactly.
Speaker 3: No, and I should know better. But but like you
Speaker 3: know that just because like we don't have to do
Speaker 3: it that way. We don't have to. Look, he needs
Speaker 3: he's not at all time, La, he's been for you.
Speaker 2: You're missing the point, a man. To the point is
Speaker 2: we do it for other people. We do it. We
Speaker 2: did it for Lebron when he first came here. We
Speaker 2: did it. He's got to win us a title and
Speaker 2: to Rodney and the clock ticking age age, no, it's
Speaker 2: who he is, Lebron, right, we got to do it.
Speaker 2: And then when he did it in the bubble, people
Speaker 2: discredited it because.
Speaker 3: It was the bubble. Those are crazy, right, so so,
Speaker 3: but we did it for him.
Speaker 2: We did it. We did it for him when he
Speaker 2: went the Miami. We did it for I mean, are
Speaker 2: we not doing it for for him? Now? Why are
Speaker 2: we not talking about Okay, when's that title coming?
Speaker 3: What happened twelve hours ago?
Speaker 2: We didn't do that for other people? Though, it is
Speaker 2: my point, we should I get.
Speaker 3: My point is we should, Dan, We.
Speaker 2: We should respect everybody's religion and culture and everything. But
Speaker 2: we don't. Okay, you.
Speaker 3: Of course, Okay, so.
Speaker 2: Let's not let's not be.
Speaker 3: I think I think specifically like here, I do think, Okay,
Speaker 3: there is a belief, there is a belief that this
Speaker 3: Lakers team is good enough, okay, and I believe that
Speaker 3: and that and and like we'll see what happens. I
Speaker 3: think if this team is not good enough, okay, and
Speaker 3: for some reason it doesn't work on the playoffs, this
Speaker 3: is going to be an incredibly critical offseason, right as
Speaker 3: they try to put together, like the most their first
Speaker 3: real crack at like a thoughtful way of building a
Speaker 3: Lukadacic team, right because they haven't done that yet, Like
Speaker 3: this is still all kind of being held together by
Speaker 3: scotch tape to a degree, right, Like this wasn't the plan.
Speaker 3: It came to them. They've made it work with what
Speaker 3: they've had. This summer, they will have an opportunity to
Speaker 3: like actually like build the house that they want to
Speaker 3: build around Lukudancic. Okay, whether that's one summer or two
Speaker 3: summers to do it, that's that's when the real work happens.
Speaker 3: I just like, and look, he should be held by
Speaker 3: high standards. He's going to make sixty million dollars, you know,
Speaker 3: like seventy million dollars. That comes with responsibility. He needs
Speaker 3: to be available, he needs to be trying on defense.
Speaker 3: He needs to look like he's in shape like that
Speaker 3: stuff all is going to fall on his lap and
Speaker 3: it should today like right now. I just think that's
Speaker 3: just like a wild place to go.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, listen. We talked about it for
Speaker 2: an hour, Dan, just so you know, I celebrated what
Speaker 2: he did. It was an incredible moment for a guy
Speaker 2: because I had that moment. I had that moment as
Speaker 2: a player in Detroit are facing Detroit when I was
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia playing him in a playoff game where it
Speaker 2: was a revenge type of game and I had one
Speaker 2: of the best games I've ever had against them, and
Speaker 2: we blew him out. So I understand that. I understand
Speaker 2: all of that, and I get all of that, and
Speaker 2: and I I appreciate what he went through because it's
Speaker 2: not easy when all of it is on you, all
Speaker 2: of all of all you want to do as a player,
Speaker 2: all you want to do is go off against your
Speaker 2: former team. And he did that in that moment when
Speaker 2: everybody was either rooting against him or rooting for him.
Speaker 2: Most people are rooting for him to go off against Dallas,
Speaker 2: and that's not easy.
Speaker 3: For the craziest thing in there was that like I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know who was rooting against.
Speaker 2: Him, nobody, nobody really why.
Speaker 3: That's why this was different. This was different than almost
Speaker 3: any game that I've ever been to. You know, I
Speaker 3: wasn't thinking the other night when I mentioned sort of
Speaker 3: like to Lebron, like hey, like you've lived a version
Speaker 3: of this, and like, no he hasn't. People in Cleveland
Speaker 3: not were furious with him, hated him, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: like he chose I think, you know, he chose to
Speaker 3: kind of do things the way that he did them.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, like there was again an element
Speaker 3: you saw even like Trey Young tweet about this is
Speaker 3: like this was done to Luca, right, and yeah, there
Speaker 3: was the revenge element. Like to me, like the things
Speaker 3: that I think I want to focus on and like
Speaker 3: wanted to focus on and try to focus on them,
Speaker 3: like my stories and stuff like that too, is like
Speaker 3: that stuff is all true. It was like though, like
Speaker 3: the things that I thought the biggest takeaway for me
Speaker 3: from that game, at least in the short term and
Speaker 3: potentially in the playoffs long term, was that like the
Speaker 3: Lakers really felt like a team. Yeah, like you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, a group that's been kind of put
Speaker 3: together like on the fly, Like there's real long term utility,
Speaker 3: I think, and like the most powerful images of the night.
Speaker 3: In addition to like Lucas sitting there his lip quivering, honestly,
Speaker 3: his teammates celebrating him in the huddle, you know, like
Speaker 3: that that is a moment that doesn't happen in the
Speaker 3: NBA this way, you know, really.
Speaker 2: They played for him, They talked about it, they talked
Speaker 2: about it, and they for him, and like you never
Speaker 2: see that. And then and the you know this because
Speaker 2: you cover the n b A, the n b A
Speaker 2: of of of the sports, it's more individual than all
Speaker 2: of the other sports, and you don't see that very
Speaker 2: often where a team comes together and go, we got
Speaker 2: your back tonight. And and they.
Speaker 3: Didn't shoot last night, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 3: he wasn't he wasn't mad that he didn't get the ball,
Speaker 3: like like he talked about how like you know, he
Speaker 3: told me that this was like what they should have
Speaker 3: was that they like really love each other already, but
Speaker 3: it's been a short amount of time and like they're
Speaker 3: they're like, you know, Austin told me he was too
Speaker 3: afraid to even look at Luca during the pregame because
Speaker 3: you like, he didn't want to see him because he
Speaker 3: knew what it would I meant to him, you know,
Speaker 3: like I think that that to me is the stuff now.
Speaker 3: And look like I asked Jaj about after the game,
Speaker 3: he said that we don't know, Like we don't know
Speaker 3: if they're gonna win a championship. I can't tell you.
Speaker 3: We don't We don't know what the matchups are going
Speaker 3: to look like. We don't know if they're going to
Speaker 3: draw the Clippers, who are like red hot, and the
Speaker 3: Clippers beat him in the playoffs. It could happen, right
Speaker 3: like the Clippers have beating Lucada just before in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: You know, it's been hard. They've lost to him too,
Speaker 3: But but we don't know. I think what we do
Speaker 3: know what we do know, and I think this is
Speaker 3: where you know, my focus is, and I think fans
Speaker 3: focus should be too, is like you know, in the
Speaker 3: story of this team, and in the story of this
Speaker 3: team this year, and then really the story of this
Speaker 3: franchise moving forwards, Like if this works for Luca with
Speaker 3: the Lakers, if this works, we can point back at
Speaker 3: this night and you know, like He's in his postgame
Speaker 3: interview right like, and he really said it for the
Speaker 3: first time, like this is home, but it's time to
Speaker 3: move on. And part of moving on is building a
Speaker 3: new home somewhere else. And it looked like that Luka
Speaker 3: Doncics last night was at home with the Lakers.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Dan, thanks for coming on, guys.
Speaker 3: Love, I've got more. I've got more noodles to go
Speaker 3: make with but with butter, with butter from the Dad
Speaker 3: from like the Dad the Dad Playbook is like, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like what I grew up, Rodney grew Apasta was
Speaker 3: for me when my mom was out of town, chicken
Speaker 3: nuggets in the toaster oven. There are some butter noodles
Speaker 3: an them, and it's just like it's just like a
Speaker 3: trip to Venice.
Speaker 1: Hey, Dad of the Year, Dad of the Year, love it.
Speaker 1: Take it easy, all right. So Kevin has been working
Speaker 1: on this Luka Dancic Report. We'll call it that and
Speaker 1: we'll have it next.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Mercy, mercy, Marvin Gay have some mercy not of
Speaker 2: mercy going on right now. Rodney Pete fred Rogan getting
Speaker 2: real with you. I don't know if they can allow
Speaker 2: me to get real. I don't know if they I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know. I don't know if they
Speaker 2: allow me to get really real on here as we
Speaker 2: close out the three hours. But we'll see. We'll see
Speaker 2: Rodney pet Fred Rogan on a Thursday.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know. If on Instagram you check this out.
Speaker 1: I find it absolutely hilarious. I think it's one of
Speaker 1: the funniest things. Some people don't like it, to be
Speaker 1: very honest with you. It's called Meme Runner GPT, and
Speaker 1: it's AI generated. And what these guys do is they
Speaker 1: take players and put them in a news conference setting,
Speaker 1: and the players say what you think or what you
Speaker 1: would want them to say, what you would want them
Speaker 1: to say. I mean, it's really brilliantly done. And anyway,
Speaker 1: they had Luca Dandrich so they did what on Luca
Speaker 1: after winning last night in Dallas. So if his news
Speaker 1: conference could have been really what he wanted to say,
Speaker 1: it might have gone like this.
Speaker 5: All betrayals happened for one reason. Benedict Arnold betrayed America
Speaker 5: during the Revolutionary War because Congress didn't give him enough respect.
Speaker 5: Rudis stabbed Julius Caesar in the back because he became
Speaker 5: too powerful, and Judas turned Jesus over to ponscious Pilot
Speaker 5: because he was greedy and wanted a little silver. History
Speaker 5: is full of traders, men of low character, cowards so
Speaker 5: comprehensively dishonorable that we're still disgusted by their treachery centuries later.
Speaker 5: But none of these examples will ever compare to the
Speaker 5: actions of that treasonous rat, Nico Harrison. After I single
Speaker 5: handedly brought the Mavericks to the NBA Finals last year,
Speaker 5: the man traded me to the Lakers because I like
Speaker 5: a little beer. It's an unspeakable act and the people
Speaker 5: of Dallas will never forgive it. Sure, I might have
Speaker 5: shed a tear or two during the pregame show, but
Speaker 5: I wasn't crying about the video. I was crying about
Speaker 5: the pain I was about to inflict on my former
Speaker 5: teammates because tonight was about payback and the Slovenian Stallion
Speaker 5: was playing for vengeance. Forty five points on sixteen of
Speaker 5: twenty eight from the floor. By the end of the game,
Speaker 5: the fans were all chanting, Fire, Nico, Fire, Nico. Tonight
Speaker 5: wasn't just a basketball game. It was Nico's public execution
Speaker 5: and I was the hangman. I'll see you in the afterlife.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Some people don't think those are very funny. I'll always
Speaker 1: find them just hilarious, justin hilarious. What do you think, Rodney, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're very very interesting and hilarious. I've seen them with Otani.
Speaker 2: And those. Yeah, tany ones are are funny. It's uh,
Speaker 2: it's uh interesting the ones that that you you know,
Speaker 2: people pick and choose to put out there as much
Speaker 2: as possible, you know, because there's a flip side of
Speaker 2: that coin, as Robert de Niro would say, and he
Speaker 2: there's a flip side of that coin. You know, it's
Speaker 2: it's the lebron flip side. As I tried to point
Speaker 2: out with Dan Moiki, it's the oh yeah, you guys
Speaker 2: were in the ABYSS after Kobe retired, right and you
Speaker 2: had family infighting and you had to go to court
Speaker 2: to figure that out. I came to town and got
Speaker 2: you a championship. And nobody appreciates that. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of flip sides, and I've seen that one too,
Speaker 2: and it's it's interesting, which is also scary what AI
Speaker 2: can actually do, What AI can actually do with this,
Speaker 2: But I just was thinking about the what we just
Speaker 2: talked about with Dan and just it. I get it.
Speaker 2: I understand the excitement, and I'm not down to trying
Speaker 2: to downplay it at all because it is exciting where
Speaker 2: it is. And that night last night was I was
Speaker 2: all for it because I felt it one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I felt the emotion I felt going back at your
Speaker 2: old team. I felt all of that. I really did.
Speaker 2: And then and then I started to think about just,
Speaker 2: you know, just a lot of things that get lost
Speaker 2: into all of this is that we have vilified, vilified
Speaker 2: Lebron James for the last two three years since he's
Speaker 2: been here, even that he won, even though he won
Speaker 2: a title after the Lakers were in Lakers were the
Speaker 2: laughing stock of the league before he came, after Kobe retired.
Speaker 2: They even before Kobe retired where they had no chance
Speaker 2: of winning. They were the laughing stock of the league.
Speaker 2: And he came and they and they want a title,
Speaker 2: but nobody wants to give him credit. Even on this station,
Speaker 2: we talk about Lebron ruined the franchise, and then we
Speaker 2: talk about him signing off on on on people that
Speaker 2: come here, as if he made the decision for Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook or whatever. But we don't give him credit for
Speaker 2: making the decision or signing off on the Luca trade.
Speaker 2: It's all about Luca. It's all about Rob Palinka. It
Speaker 2: just it just is really, when you really think about it,
Speaker 2: it is absurd how we blame him for all the
Speaker 2: bad stuff that happens with the Lakers, even though they
Speaker 2: want a title, and we blame him for not or
Speaker 2: for bringing in guys that were his buddies or whatever,
Speaker 2: and yet we don't give him any kind of credit
Speaker 2: for Luca. As we praised Luca, and we praised one,
Speaker 2: you know, Rob Polinka and the Lakers for making this trade,
Speaker 2: and everybody bilifies Nico in Dallas. Nobody gives him any
Speaker 2: credit for basically okay in this trade. Because to think
Speaker 2: that he didn't have any kind of idea that this
Speaker 2: was going on is absurd because if you believe that
Speaker 2: he had ideas on other things that happened with this organization,
Speaker 2: and then you don't believe that he had anything to
Speaker 2: know or anything to do with this situation going on
Speaker 2: with Luca here, then your delusion.
Speaker 3: Know h.
Speaker 1: Good, all right, we will wrap up our world of
Speaker 1: delusion when we return yeah, bet we will, Ronnie, that's
Speaker 1: that's cold. We just disagreed. I'll throw back Thursday. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: well listen, we appreciate everybody listening today. Obviously Rodney quite
Speaker 1: passionate when it comes to Lebron and the way and
Speaker 1: the way that he is perceived in the marketplace, and uh,
Speaker 1: it is a point of passion for him. I'm just
Speaker 1: at the opinion. Look, you know last night was about
Speaker 1: Luca and certainly that little chat meme runner GPT thing.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, it was about Luca. If Rodney's still there, Uh,
Speaker 1: it was about Luca. But I do understand his his
Speaker 1: passion and his feeling about Luca, I mean about Lebron.
Speaker 1: I do understand that. And yeah, he becomes very passionate
Speaker 1: about it. And that's what we do. That's who we are.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to express our passion when we do this,
Speaker 1: and that'll do it for us today. Now tomorrow, Dodgers
Speaker 1: are back in action. They are taking a day off
Speaker 1: and probably enjoying that as they regain their bearings. We'll
Speaker 1: have Dodger Talk tonight on the radio station with David
Speaker 1: Vasse and our special guest will be Buster one. So
Speaker 1: seven o'clock be listening for that, Ronnie. Thank you, Kevin
Speaker 1: really appreciate it, and we'll talk to you guys tomorrow