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LeBron James to the Cavaliers, Warriors or Knicks? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see the one doing that.
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A game where you got to go for four.
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. Ladies and gentlemen, it's been
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colonoscopy tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen.
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has been through what I've been through when it comes to this
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situation. And we're fixing our computer
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because Speedy likes to play with the controls and I have no
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idea what he's doing. But I, I have this gas problem.
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I, I don't know what it is, but I, I think it's IBS, irritable
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black barrel syndrome, or it could be I'm locked those
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intolerant, I don't know. But over the last couple of
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years my girlfriend's been telling me, oh, you got IBS, you
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got IBS. I'm always in and out of the
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bathroom, always not as bad as Tommy, but I'm bad.
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So over the last couple of weeks I've been, I've been dealing
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with stomach pains and I've been getting cramps and I don't know
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if anybody has dealt with this stuff.
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You're, you're doing it again, speedy on the camera.
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Stop doing it and and make sure that you're not moving it.
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I'm trying to help you. What do you keep changing the
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thing? If you don't know how to run it,
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let me run it. But I've been through this
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situation before with the problems with, you know, cramps
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and I as an athlete, you know, you play sports, you're running
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and you, you get this like you get this acid in your ribs and
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it feels very awkward. But I'm not running.
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I'm not, there's no acid going on with me.
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And I, I don't think it has anything to do with that.
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So I went to the doctor, my gastrologist, and he told me, he
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tells me that well, we need to do all these different things to
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you. So I went for a CAT scan, got my
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pelvis, all the pelvic areas, my intestines, all of it, you you
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name it. They, they took a picture of it.
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I don't even want to get into it, but they didn't find
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anything. All they told me is they, they
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saw that you have kidney stones. I know I have a 3mm and 4mm,
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that's fine. Then he tells me, well, we got
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to check your your feces. So I don't want to scare anybody
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away on this show. But so I checked it, but they
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want me to do other things with it.
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It's like it's like think finger painting in a way that it's not
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something that you want to talk about on this radio show. 16
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years after LeBron first made his decision to take his talents
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to South Beach, the NBA all time points leader has another choice
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to make this offseason. That choice according to
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Bleacher Report, Eric Pincus, Yes, Pincus as they wanted to
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pronounce his name. I know pink SI don't know.
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I'm sorry. Pink S is that if LeBron James
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returns next year for his 24th NBA season, it would only be for
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either the Warriors, the Cavaliers, or yes, your New York
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Knicks. In the article, Pincus mentions
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how LeBron has always wanted to play with Steph Curry and
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Draymond Green, who probably won't be there next year, and
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that the Warriors would be willing to take LeBron if he
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takes a drastic pay cut. The Cavaliers as well would take
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take back LeBron on a pay cut and James Harden would likely
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opt into his player option in order to stay with Cleveland.
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If LeBron comes back home the New York Knicks.
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LeBron has ties to both the head coach Mike Brown from his first
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run with the Cavaliers early in his career, while Leon Rose was
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Lebron's agent before he signed with Rich Paul and Clutch
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Sports. This report came a day after
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LeBron LeBron James took shots at Luka Doncic for making the
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wrong play at the end of the Lakers loss to the Magic when he
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thought Luca should have shot the 3.3 point shot instead of
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passing it to him with under 7 seconds left as LeBron bricked
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the potential game winner. Reports have also mentioned the
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Lakers are all in on bringing back Austin Reeves on a five
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year Max contract and are expected to be in the
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sweepstakes for Giannis. Yeah, not going to happen,
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especially if LeBron doesn't return to LA.
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While the Knicks are not the favorites in Vegas for James
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service services this offseason, that's the Cavaliers currently.
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This is a new report, so I think obviously the Cavaliers are
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currently the the favorites of getting LeBron.
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Especially with the Knicks having the most room of the
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three teams to afford James May change those odds in the very
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near future. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and
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girls, I am not going to attack LeBron James.
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No, I'm not going to do it. I will not do it because there's
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a very good chance that he could be a New York Knick.
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Here's the facts. If the next if the Knicks decide
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to make this move and bring LeBron James here to New York,
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Giannis is definitely got to be the big picture.
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They have to bring Giannis here before this happens because
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their big move cannot be LeBron James, especially if they fail
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to go to the Finals or even win an NBA championship this year.
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The way the East is really performed, Detroit right now
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looks like they are the favorites are coming out of the
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East because of what they've done to the Knicks and how
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dominant they have been in the Eastern Conference all season
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long. LeBron does not make the Knicks
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a contender. He doesn't.
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So for fans to sit here and say, oh, we can land LeBron James, We
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can get one of the greatest basketball players to come and
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play in New York, we never got Michael, we never got Magic, we
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never got Bird. We'll get James.
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That would be a mistake. Now if Giannis comes and James
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is an add on piece to this team with Jaylen Bronson and Mikhail
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Bridges or whoever, OG and Nanobi or however way they
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design this team, if it fails to win a championship with Karl
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Anthony Towns and OG and Nanobi, Mikhail Bridges and Jaylen
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Bronson and so on, well then it would make a lot of sense to
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bring James in to be a compilational, a compilation
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prize to Giannis. But here's the problem.
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LeBron James went to the Lakers. He won 1 championship in a year
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that it was a bubble year. You didn't play in front of fans
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and no fans can go and watch those games.
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All the teams had to stay in a specific area.
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It wasn't to me a real championship here.
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It was a short season. It was like the 99 champion
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Spurs. And I'm not saying you can't
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give LeBron and Anthony Davis any credit.
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They won a championship. They had to go through the
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Western Conference and they had to beat the best in East.
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But LeBron has not done what he came to the LA and the Lakers to
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do, and that was to tie Kobe and maybe tie or even break Michael
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Jordan's championship record. Now he will never catch Bill
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Russell. He won't.
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So we're not going to even try to even come to that thought or
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even argue that thought. But the fact here is LeBron has
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not fulfilled his spot with the Lakers.
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As a matter of fact, him and Jeanie Buss obviously don't like
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each other. The Buss family were not very
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high on LeBron James since why he's come here now.
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They brought him here because he was the biggest star in the NBA
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and the LA Lakers always bring those big stars at the tail end
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of their careers or in the somewhat prime of their careers.
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They got lucky with Luka Dodgek. Why it makes sense with the
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Cleveland Cavaliers. He would be going home this year
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and he played his final game possibly in Cleveland.
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They had banners and they had videos and and LeBron James was
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tearing and crying. And maybe this will drive him to
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go home and try to win his fifth title with the Cleveland
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Cavaliers and end this God forsaking drought that he's had
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with the Lakers for the last, I don't know, five years.
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This guy deserves a lot of the accolades he does.
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He is great. I've always said he was the
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second best basketball player in the NBA.
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I've always said it in history, there is nobody besides Michael
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Jordan by the time this guy retires that you can even argue
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is better than LeBron James. But Michael Jordan, because he's
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going to have 90% of the records.
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He's done everything he was supposed to do coming out of
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high school. He had the the name the King.
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Now Felix, Felix Hernandez, he got the name the King.
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It didn't work out for him. Henrik Lundquist, he was the
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King. He was.
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He was a good player. Never won, never won with the
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Rangers. You got to win.
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If you're the King, and LeBron James has won four titles, say
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whatever you want. He went to South Beach to band
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together with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
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Maybe he did. You want to say that?
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You want to cry about it. He did what he did.
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So did Kevin Durant. He went to Golden State.
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So if you want to attack the 2 greatest players of this era,
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well then attack them. They had to band together with
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superstar players to win. But he did go back home.
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He did win in Cleveland. He did band again with Kyrie
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Irving and Kevin Love. He did.
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And then he left again. So the Cleveland Cavaliers make
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a lot of sense. Donovan Mitchell, James Harden.
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I don't. I would love to see how James
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Harden would work with LeBron James.
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Remember, it's one ball being shared.
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They have the pieces. Jared Allen has looked really,
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really good. Honestly, Jared Allen's been one
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of the best big men in the league for the last three weeks
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and they have the pieces. If LeBron James goes there to
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compete to win a title, I don't know if LeBron is going to make
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a big difference, but don't make a difference even if he's coming
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off the bench. Who would have thought that
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LeBron James at the tail end of his career could be a guy coming
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off the bench a six man? But why not?
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There were a lot of great players at the tail end of their
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career that became six men and been really big parts of those
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teams. Mano Ginobili was always a six
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man. Really, he was the greatest six
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man. Look at Speedy Yawn.
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He's a little lost over here, but Mano Ginobili was one of the
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greatest six man of all time. Jamal Crawford was a great six
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man when he was a starting player when he came from the
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Chicago Bulls and went to the Knicks and he jumped around with
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different teams and one six man of the year.
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James Harden was a six man before he became a starter with
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the Houston Rockets. LeBron James would be a good
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piece to a championship team if he was coming off the bench.
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It would make a lot of sense with the Cleveland Cavaliers,
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the Golden State Warriors, not so much.
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Jimmy Bucket still has another year on his contract.
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He's coming back from a knee injury.
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He's going nowhere. He he's, there's nobody that's
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going to buy or even buy into a $52 million contract that he is
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owed. There's no way anybody's going
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to do that. He's making a lot of money and
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he's at the tail end. He's really at the tail end of
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his career. The guy can't stay healthy.
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He's got knee problems, he's got ankle problems.
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He's going nowhere. Draymond Green makes a lot of
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sense on why they can move him or they don't want to.
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They don't need him there anymore.
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They can move him to another team.
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Steph Curry wants to end his career with the the Golden State
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Warriors. And I know LeBron has always
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wanted to play with Steph. These guys have a love fest with
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with one another. So it would make sense that the
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Golden State Warriors would be in on LeBron James.
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But is that good for the organization?
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If this organization is trying to get younger, is it worth
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bringing a 42 year old X superstar player to a team
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that's probably going to use you as a bench player?
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He's turned into, he's a better version, a lot better version of
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Carmelo Anthony. That's what he is.
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When Carmelo Anthony left the Knicks, he was a bench player.
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He was coming off the bench when he went to the Lakers.
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He was like a six man 7th man. LeBron would be a better six or
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seven man coming off the bench for the the lake of for the
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Lakers if he if he they decided to to bring him back the
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Cavaliers or even the Golden State Warriors as a starter.
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I wouldn't do that. And how does this work when it
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comes to Golden State where the way they like moving the ball?
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I just it doesn't make sense and in the way the Golden State,
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right the the Golden State Warriors like to run their their
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offense through that the similar triangle offense that Phil
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Jackson like to run, it wouldn't make sense.
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The only thing that makes sense would be the Cavaliers.
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But Knick fans, don't be surprised if Giannis gets traded
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to the Knicks if LeBron James's name is going to be in the mix
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after that. Because if Giannis agrees to go
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to New York, which I believe he had a chance to go to Miami at
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the trade deadline, he did not want to go there because they
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don't have a team that can win. And he had a chance to go to the
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Timberwolves. And he realized I can't win with
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Anthony Edwards. Because look at the talent
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Anthony Edwards had in their primes, Jimmy Butler, Karl
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Anthony Towns. He, he couldn't get over up.
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And then he took a team all the way to the finals.
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He lost, got crushed. So I know you sit here and a lot
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of Knicks fans are like LeBron James.
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Could you imagine #23 wearing a Knicks jersey?
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No, I cannot. It will not help this team and
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the way this team wants to run their next year.
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If they run, if they run and done this year and they get
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knocked out in the playoffs, you know that it's a make or break
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year for Jalen Brunson, who's going to be expecting a long
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term deal from the New York Knicks.
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He he came out on a magazine and well, in a particular magazine
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and said that he wants the Knicks to take care of them.
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He wants to make a super Max contract.
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He took less money to come here and sign sign with the Knicks
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from Dallas. And he took less for his
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extension recently to try to win with the team that they have to
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bring in Mikhail Bridges and make the trade for Mikhail
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Bridges and then sign them and then OG on Anobi.
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He took less for these guys to get their contracts.
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But by the time Jaylen Bronson becomes a free agent, he's going
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to be about 33 years old. To sign him to a five year deal
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would be really detrimental to this organization moving
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forward. And Leon Rose is not going to
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put himself in that situation. It would be 3 years worth about
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$180 million. Now, if that, if that makes him
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happy that that deal could make it done, that could get that
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could get done in in three years.
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It just doesn't mean it's not feasible for the Knicks to, even
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though contracts would say that if LeBron James comes to the New
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York Knicks, if they can make it work as well as they could, it
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wouldn't fit the culture of this team.
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Even if Mike Brown is here. He knows Mike Brown's offense.
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He knows Mike Brown's defense. But Mike Brown has been
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transitioning as a coach. Remember when he left the
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Cavaliers? He went to San Antonio and then
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he went to Golden State. So he's learned a different
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style of pace and offense that he did not run with the
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Cleveland Cavaliers. As a matter of fact, if you
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watch the Cleveland Cavaliers games when Mike Brown was
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coaching a young LeBron James, they were complete, completely
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different. If you think as a Knick fan,
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LeBron could be a fit, then maybe you take a flyer.
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Well, the fact that LeBron James mentioned the Knicks scares me
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because he never mentioned the Knicks at any point when he was
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making a decision on where he was going from Miami, Chicago
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and all the teams he interviewed with.
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As much as he interviewed, he gave the Knicks an opportunity
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to pitch it. He was never going to the
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Knicks. That was never in the cards of
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LeBron James. So why?
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Why does LeBron James want to come to New York to try to make
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amends with the team that he never wanted to play for?
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And why would the fans appreciate LeBron James to come
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here and root hit root for him at the tail end of his career
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when the Knicks are ready? A good Eastern Conference team,
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a competitive, elite Eastern Conference team.
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What would make sense to Leon Rose?
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I don't care if he was his agent, he screwed Leon Rose.
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He left them to go to Paul and Clutch Sports.
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Why would Leon Rose want to bring this man in when this team
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and this roster has won enough and has been in a good
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situation? Now if they fell full short from
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an Eastern Conference finals this year, then I can see why
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they would be crazy to not go after Giannis in the offseason
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to make it. Maybe make these these
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ridiculous moves to bring in a LeBron James and another
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superstar to come and play with Jaylen Bronson and bring in some
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old players that have won in different places.
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It doesn't make sense. It never worked.
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Go ask the Lakers. Do we remember when they brought
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in Karl Malone and Gary Payton to play with Shaquille O'Neal,
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Wasn't Shaquille O'Neal was Shaquille O'Neal there?
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I'm sorry Shaquille was not there.
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It was Gary Payton, Karl Malone playing with I think Odom and
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and Kobe. It didn't work.
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It just say that it didn't work. It never worked.
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Carmelon was at the tail end of his career, The mailman, the
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Glove. Peyton was at the tail end of
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his career. It didn't work.
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So I I'm not saying LeBron James isn't better than those two guys
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cuz he is still at this time, LeBron James is averaging 2322
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points a game. He's still averaging a high clip
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of assists and a high clip of rebounds.
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This guy is still I would say a top 25 player in the league,
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maybe top 30. I would say 25 S as a as a Knick
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fan or as a Knick, I guess, enthusiast.
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How would this work? How does this make sense for the
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New York Knicks to bring this man in?
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And by the way, LeBron James coming out and saying this, this
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isn't somebody being a fool to believe why he wants to come
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here. He's got a brand.
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LeBron is building a brand after basketball.
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And why not come to the Mecca? You're in LA, you played in
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Miami, two very big cities, popular cities for brands and
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building brands. And now come to New York and be
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the ultimate brand because this New York is the ultimate brand
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place in the world. Wall Street, everything is here.
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Madison Square Garden is the the Mecca of basketball.
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Why not come to New York? Kobe didn't do it.
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Jordan didn't do it. So James would do it just to
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appease the fans that couldn't stand up for years coming here
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and beating down the New York Knicks.
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I do not want LeBron James here in New York.
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Not because I dislike him. I don't like him politically.
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I don't want to hear his political thoughts.
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I don't want to hear anything but basketball.
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I respect his game. I respect who he is as a player.
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I respect what he's done for basketball.
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I do not respect what he will do to this team.
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He does not help this team. As far as the future is
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concerned, the Knicks need to get younger.
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They have traded away youth to bring in, I guess, a
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championship competitive team. We don't know what they are.
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We have not seen them get to that finals where you can play
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the best in the West. We saw them at the Eastern
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Conference Finals and they failed.
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They look like a bunch of scrubs last year against Halliburton
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and the Indiana Pacers that they were better on paper.
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Then they can't beat Detroit in a regular season.
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Does that mean that they can't beat Detroit in the playoffs?
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No, but the fact that LeBron James made the Knicks a
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destination, Yeah. You want to patch yourself on
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the back, You want to give yourself a thought that LeBron
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James wants to come to New York, and maybe we've made this a
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destination for players to want to come and play now.
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No, this has nothing to do with the Knicks as an organization
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and as an organization that knows what they're doing.
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No, this has something to do with LeBron James and branding.
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Just branding. Yeah, it's one of those
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basketball moves that is outdated to think it's going to
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happen. You talk about the Lakers
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failing with that big three, big big three towards the end of
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Shaq's career there before he went to Miami.
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What about the one with Steve Nash, Kobe and Dwight Howard
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that epically failed to all the ones with the Nets, The two with
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the Nets that epically failed as well?
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It's not the way you build anymore.
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And teams are getting younger, championship players are getting
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younger. And sometimes you could see it.
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I'm not saying it's like right away where these curves are
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happening, but OK, See their best player young last year, the
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Celtics, their two best players young.
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It's two players and decent depth is the way you win now.
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And obviously defense, you need to eat a good defense, which the
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Knicks have had to most of the year.
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Getting LeBron is not going to make that pace of the game any
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faster, which is what the Knicks needed to do because the Knicks
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under Tom Thibodeau last year, very slow.
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And that was a big reason they got rid of Thibodeau because
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they couldn't handle the transition game when they played
26:24
the Indiana Pacers. Because you're right, the Knicks
26:26
had more talent on paper than the Pacers did.
26:28
But Rick Carlisle was able to play fast.
26:29
That younger Pacers team was ever to play, able to play fast
26:34
and catch the Knicks out of transition, hitting a lot of
26:36
threes. That was the problem the Knicks
26:38
had, not the fact that they needed, oh, LeBron James to step
26:41
up. The Knicks have the core to make
26:43
it work, regardless of Giannis right now, this year, Karl
26:46
Anthony Towns, will he perform in the playoffs?
26:47
That's another question. His defense was really bad last
26:49
year. They have to get that to help
26:51
out. That's why they got all those
26:52
bench pieces at the trade deadline.
26:54
They have all the support defense to help them inside with
26:58
Jaylen Bronson and but. That's that's not the story
27:01
here, speedy. You're going on what the what
27:03
the Knicks did at the trade deadline.
27:04
We're talking about next year. We're talking about where this
27:08
team will be next year, when we're going to have to figure
27:12
out if this team is built to win a championship this year or they
27:17
go another route. They go another way and LeBron
27:19
James will be in the mix next year if this team fails to do
27:23
what they're expected to do and that's go play in the Finals.
27:26
You could say here, you want to say Carl Anthony talents, McHale
27:29
Bridges, OG Ananobi. We all know that these guys show
27:32
up in the games when they want to and they disappear in games
27:35
when they have to, OK? That's the way the Knicks have
27:38
played week in and week out in certain aspects of the playoffs
27:42
last year. And you sit here and you're
27:44
you're you're telling us what everybody knows, Speedy.
27:46
We we don't want to hear what you thought or what these guys
27:48
are supposed to do. We don't want to hear what Leon
27:51
Rose thought that this team was going to be when he made those
27:54
trades, which with Jose Alvarado or bringing in free agents or
28:01
guys that we got waved from other organizations and other
28:04
teams. The fact here is they're built
28:06
to win now. If they fail to win now, they're
28:09
going to look elsewhere. They're going to look at other
28:11
positions and other places where they think that bringing in a
28:15
veteran player here and bringing in a veteran here and sugar
28:18
coating it and maybe putting some salt and pepper to it, it's
28:20
going to give them a chance to win.
28:22
It doesn't work that way. It's never worked that way.
28:25
Ask anybody that is built championship teams.
28:28
You look at the Chicago Bulls of the 90s, they brought in Dennis
28:32
Rodman in the prime of his career.
28:34
Yeah, the Spurs couldn't handle. We knew Detroit couldn't handle
28:38
him at the tail end, but and and he was practically done.
28:41
But Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen believe that they can get
28:44
this guy to play their way. And what did it do?
28:48
It brought in they brought in multiple championships because
28:51
that worked. It doesn't always work.
28:53
And it all, it had to take a very unique individual,
28:57
individual and coach like Phil Jackson and the way he was to
29:01
bring in a Dennis Rodman and control his antics on and off
29:04
the basketball court. Now, LeBron James is, I wouldn't
29:08
say as bad as Dennis Rodman, but his antics has hurt him on and
29:12
off the basketball court because it's not about basketball
29:15
anymore. It's about branding.
29:17
And that's the whole point, Speedy, you're losing the point
29:19
here. It's branding.
29:21
It's not comparing what these players are and what these
29:24
players are going to bring to the New York Knicks.
29:27
And here's the thing, I would rather LeBron James go to Golden
29:30
State and Cleveland because I don't want to deal with the
29:33
craziness with the media because it's not going to be about the
29:36
team. It's going to be about LeBron
29:37
James. Nobody cares.
29:38
Everybody's going to forget that Giannis is there because LeBron
29:41
James is going to take the media.
29:42
He's going to take the media on. He's going to be the face of the
29:45
media because it's the King. It's the great LeBron James.
29:48
When he speaks, everybody's got a bow.
29:50
I don't want it here in New York.
29:52
You forget that. And that's where your problem
29:54
is. Speedy.
29:55
You're a young kid. Wonder, hey, what is it going to
29:58
take to bring LeBron James here if LeBron going to be a missing
30:01
piece for this team to finally win a championship since 1973?
30:06
The answer is no. So you sit here and you tell us,
30:09
go to the girls. We know about this and we know
30:12
about, oh, Janet Obie, and we know about it Miguel Brizzy, and
30:16
it doesn't work. You can tell me whatever you
30:19
want until I'm blue in the face. You're garbage.
30:22
And that's the problem with analytics.
30:23
Analytics don't sell me if you're a Knicks fan.
30:26
It just tells me that the Knicks would do something like this to
30:29
ruin those one thing that they've built.
30:32
Leon Rose would not be stupid enough to bring this man in here
30:35
for the New York Knicks to just compile old dump and garbage
30:40
that we've seen over the years that other organizations have
30:43
done. No, it doesn't fit his style.
30:45
We talked about it last week with the Cavs.
30:46
Like the Cavs, only we're going to be willing to do it on a pay
30:48
cut as well. And Golden State, they're kind
30:50
of stuck on having to do another pay cut.
30:52
And no, LeBron is, I agree, not a missing piece by any means.
30:55
Yannis is the missing piece if the Knicks don't win the Finals
30:57
this year or don't win the East this year and regress.
31:00
LeBron is the opposite where of what the Knicks need right now
31:03
because they have enough of those types of players.
31:05
The Knicks neither either elite defenders inside or shooters.
31:09
LeBron at this point in his career is not going to be that
31:11
guy. And you're right, they can't be
31:12
enamored by the Flash. It is a James Dolan type thing
31:15
that he cannot be enamored by. And Leon Rose is smart enough
31:18
for, I think, to override. It And that's where you went.
31:20
That's where you have it wrong. It is not James Dolan's team
31:22
anymore. This is Leon Rose's team.
31:25
That's where you forget and Chris Drury is why the New York
31:31
Rangers are falling apart because you know who still has
31:34
the back end and and is a part of the decision making?
31:37
It is James Dolan. Do you see the problem right now
31:40
with the different teams in Madison Square Garden?
31:43
One team can't find or buy a win or is trying to lose to try to
31:46
get prospects and another team finally has it right.
31:50
Worldwide West and Leon Rose are controlling this team,
31:54
controlling the roster and put this team in a position where it
31:58
is today. So you sit here and you say, if
32:03
you're a Knick fan right now and you're trying to figure out what
32:06
this team is, well then you don't know the Knicks and you're
32:09
not following. Shout out to Quran, shout out to
32:11
the New York Knick podcast out there that are out there trying
32:14
to promote what the Knicks are trying to do and what the Knicks
32:17
are have been over the last couple of years.
32:18
But I'm going to tell you this right now, if the Knicks bring
32:22
in LeBron James, it is nothing but a stunt to bring publicity
32:27
here and media. I do not want him here.
32:30
It's not going to help. It's not going to benefit this
32:32
team. It's not going to benefit the
32:33
growth and and honestly draw anybody wanted to come to play
32:37
here because nobody wants to play with the LA Lakers because
32:39
they don't want to deal with LeBron James.
32:41
Fish before you go. Last ditch effort for the cat,
32:43
for the Warriors, I think is what you're especially looking
32:45
at. If he wants Draymond Green to
32:47
stay there, he's going to have to take a massive pay card
32:49
because they still have. Jimmy, it's not going to.
32:50
Happen Jimmy Butler under contract?
32:52
Good luck trying to figure that out.
32:53
Mike Dunleavy, Great GM, you are over there.
32:55
And then the Cavs. I agree with you.
32:57
I don't know how it would work with James Harden there, unless
32:58
James Harden comes off the bench.
33:00
That's the only thing that would make sense to me.
33:01
But James Harden is so egomaniac, he's not going to
33:03
want. To do LeBron will be coming off
33:05
the bench. Yeah, I I just don't see either
33:07
one of them having the like, throw their egos away to make
33:09
that kind of thing work. I can't see them unless they get
33:12
rid of James Harden doing that kind of thing and making it.
33:14
Work, I think, you know, you got to really think about Lebron's
33:17
ability to be a the same price as a mid level guy.
33:21
That's what they're saying. If he takes a mid level
33:23
contract, that's way he's so much better than anybody at that
33:27
price. So you have to think about it.
33:30
And if he wants to come to New York at that price, you'd be
33:34
kind of stupid to say no. And the basketball side of it.
33:38
Now the other part of it, Errol, that's a whole different story.
33:41
And I completely agree with you. The fact that headache, the
33:43
media circus, all that nonsense, taking away a little bit from
33:48
what Jaylen Brunson has done, you know, get bringing his
33:51
attention to it a little bit. I don't think it's the answer,
33:54
but to me, like if that guy could be a point forward at age
33:58
in his 24th NBA season and you know, give you playoff minutes,
34:04
finish games for you. He doesn't have to play more
34:07
than 28 minutes a game. He can rotate in when they need
34:10
to go offense. You know, they can put OG in his
34:14
position on defense and OG can move down a spot and have LeBron
34:17
out there finding him in the corner.
34:19
I like that idea, allowing Jaylen Bronson to playoff ball,
34:22
getting some kind of point forward.
34:24
The LeBron circus is problem. But the Knicks problem isn't
34:27
LeBron. It's the fact that Karl Anthony
34:29
Towns doesn't have a consistent shot, doesn't play defense, and
34:33
he plays the same position as Mitch Robinson.
34:35
That's the Knicks problem. The problem will be LeBron
34:38
James. If LeBron James comes here, that
34:40
will be their problem. There's no doubt in my mind the
34:43
media is going to swarm to him. They're not going to worry about
34:46
the Knicks losing or the Knicks going into the playoffs as a 5
34:49
or 4 seed because they just not playing good basketball.
34:52
They're going to worry about what LeBron James thinks.
34:54
And all LeBron needs to do is go out there and speak and throw
34:58
his teammates under the bus, just like he's done with the
35:00
Lakers over the last couple of weeks.
35:02
You saw that he did not show up to Luka Doncic when he signed
35:05
that extension in the offseason. Everybody else did but LeBron
35:08
James. Do you think that was a
35:10
coincidence? Come on, guys, there is no
35:12
coincidence on that. He did not want Luka Doncic.
35:15
That's what it seems. And the only people that wanted
35:17
Luka Doncic there was Jeanie Buss and the organization,
35:21
because they need another superstar they can build their
35:23
team around. And LeBron obviously thought
35:26
that he still had a little bit left in him that he can take it.
35:29
He can take another team to a championship, which he can't.
35:32
And I'm telling you right now, off the ball or nothing, you do
35:35
not want LeBron James on that basketball court because LeBron
35:38
James will be the leader. LeBron James will be the
35:41
captain. We go from the captain, yes,
35:44
Jalen Brunson, where everybody respects him and and looks up
35:47
to, to the guy that is the greatest basketball player of
35:50
this era. And when he walks into the
35:52
locker room, it's going to be LeBron, LeBron, LeBron, Not
35:55
Brunson, Not Towns if he's still there or OG if he's still there.
36:00
And McHale Bridges. You do not want that as a New
36:03
York Knicks fan. You do not want this publicity
36:06
and this crazy. And by the way, I am not the
36:10
biggest Stephen A Smith fan, but could you imagine LeBron James
36:16
going to New York? And Stephen A Smith is the
36:18
biggest New York Knicks fan. He stands by his Knicks even
36:21
though he didn't stand by him recently with the Detroit
36:23
Pistons whipping their ass and saying that the Knicks are done.
36:26
They're not going through Detroit, which that just shows
36:28
you how much Stephen A Smith knows.
36:30
But that's that's just a whole nother take.
36:32
The fact here is, could you imagine LeBron James going to
36:36
his basketball team, his Mecca, his place of where he loves to
36:42
go, Madison Square Garden to watch the guy he despises?
36:46
It won't work, Ladies and gentlemen.
36:49
This wouldn't work. Of course Fish would sit there
36:51
and say LeBron James. LeBron James in a Nick Jersey
36:54
23. I mean, I mean, that has a
36:57
little, little spice to it, Yeah.
36:59
If they only got to pay him 8 million though, Errol.
37:02
If it's only like 8 million. I don't want.
37:03
To LeBron, and that's what they're saying that everyone
37:06
else only has around like 7 in cap space and the Knicks can get
37:10
him at that mid level exception and give him more money than he
37:15
can get anywhere else and he doesn't have to start.
37:19
You've got to think about it, man.
37:21
You have to. He's the greatest, you know,
37:24
scorer, you know, all time point I scorer, but greatest all time
37:27
point leader, second greatest player we talk about all the
37:29
time behind Michael Jordan of all time.
37:32
If you put him lower than second or third, you're crazy.
37:35
That's how important he is to the game as well.
37:38
Everyone that's playing now grew up watching him play, you know,
37:42
even Kevin Durant, you know, it's wild what he's doing.
37:46
You got to think about it. It also is going to put butts in
37:49
seats. I do not I.
37:51
Buy more merch. Listen, the Knicks don't need
37:53
butts in a seat. They sell out every single game.
37:56
Merch. The Knicks sell one of the most
37:58
most popular jersey. I'm just saying.
38:00
Out there, I mean, their merch is, listen, I buy a lot of merch
38:03
for the New York Knicks. I buy a lot.
38:05
Of would you buy a LeBron James Knicks jersey?
38:07
Never never. You wouldn't buy a LeBron James
38:10
Knicks. Never if.
38:11
He was on the not a chance in hell.
38:12
You who has all these jerseys and they win a champion?
38:15
First of all. You wouldn't buy that first.
38:16
No. First, it's LJA.
38:18
First of all, first of all, everybody knows I, I named the
38:22
association, the LeBron James Association.
38:24
So no, I would never wear a LeBron James jersey with the
38:27
Knick colors. Never.
38:29
I've never I don't really buy jerseys with other players names
38:33
on the back of it. I put my name on the back of it.
38:35
So just so everybody knows, I, it's very rare that I do that.
38:39
But as far as merch is concerned and what this team's going to
38:42
bring in when it comes to filling out seats, they don't
38:44
need to fill out any seats. This team has sold out for the
38:48
next five years. It doesn't matter who's playing
38:51
on this roster. They sell out games.
38:53
It's a corporation place. Madison Square Garden is built
38:56
on corporations, not fans. Let's be honest here.
39:01
It's about millionaires and how many people are going to buy
39:04
those seats for hundreds of thousands of dollars?
39:07
That's the facts, Jack. I'm not going to sit here and
39:09
beat around the Bush and anybody that's going to sit here and
39:12
tell me that LeBron James will make or break this New York
39:15
Knick team and we could get it for $8 million and that makes
39:19
sense. Well, then you're trying to sell
39:21
me something that's a pipe dream because to me, that is not going
39:25
to bring a championship home to this New York Knick team.
39:28
New York is built on scrappy players.
39:31
You want to bring somebody back, bring Dante Diva, Chenzo back.
39:34
That's what you bring back. You bring back.
39:37
You want to bring Giannis here, then you move on and you have to
39:39
fill out and try to figure out how contracts work.
39:42
Then you trade away pieces and you bring your scrappy players
39:44
on that stand for what the New York Knicks have always been
39:47
scrappy team. The Pat Riley teams, which I
39:49
have a story up on the Worldwide Sports Radio Network, The
39:53
scrappiness and those defenses, the Jeff Van Gundy teams.
39:56
That's what I want to see. I want to see a scrappy team
39:59
that's going to bring a dominant force on the board on the
40:03
offensive and defensive side of the board.
40:05
And they're not going to show that they give up at the end of
40:07
the game, even if they look like they're going to lose, which
40:10
we've seen a couple of times this year against teams I don't
40:13
want to mention. All right, that's my, that's my
40:17
take on it. I am so done with people and
40:20
fans coming out here and telling me, wow, wouldn't LeBron James
40:25
look good with the the blue, white and orange.
40:28
No, I do not want to see LeBron James wearing my colors.
40:32
No, you didn't want to come here when you were on top of the
40:35
world. Why the hell do we want you when
40:37
you're on the bottom? I don't want you.
40:41
I don't want to sell that. And fans, if you think the New
40:45
York Knicks as an organization in Leon Rose would do something
40:48
like this just because he has a relationship with him on and off
40:51
the court, well, then you don't know Leon Rose.
40:54
Because the only, the only move that he made that made sense
40:58
because he got Karl Anthony Towns at the deal that he got
41:01
it. Now.
41:01
Karl Anthony Towns was his guy. He was the agent of Karl Anthony
41:06
Towns, but it worked because Carl Anthony Towns was traded
41:12
for Dante Divacenzo and and Julius Randall.
41:16
You got one of the top five centers in the league for two
41:21
good players, but not anywhere close to the the type of player
41:25
Carl Anthony Towns. Carl Anthony Towns has been an
41:27
All Star since he's come to the Knicks.
41:28
He's been an all NBA player since he's come to the Knicks.
41:31
The problem with Carl Anthony Towns is he doesn't show up in
41:34
the big game. He doesn't play any defense.
41:36
Yes, Quran, he doesn't play any defense.
41:38
Sorry, he don't. I don't.
41:41
I care what what you think and you're looking at it and I love
41:43
you, Karan. You know I love you, man.
41:45
You know, he tries Errol, he's just not very good at it, is the
41:49
problem. Like it's not an effort thing
41:50
with him. He just looks.
41:52
Look, his body language is not my favorite.
41:55
Everyone knows he has these weird poses after shots.
41:59
It always gets caught on camera and I put a lot of them up in
42:01
the graphics when we get a chance to.
42:03
It's a lot of fun. We circle jerk.
42:06
But again, the guy has a skill set that nobody else has in the
42:09
NBA. Who else is doing what he's
42:11
doing shooting three? I mean, his three-point numbers
42:13
are down a little bit this year. And I would say that's probably
42:15
why the Knicks aren't doing better than they are in the
42:18
record right now because he was lights out last year from three.
42:21
He's down about 5% Errol from like he was over 40s that are on
42:24
36 right now. He's streaky this year.
42:27
You know it is. And that's a problem if your
42:29
defense is mid at best, which is basically who he is.
42:33
And against better competition, he's not stopping nobody.
42:36
He never, he can never stop Giannis.
42:38
We've seen that every time they face.
42:39
Off dude, there are people on TikTok right now playing like
42:43
one-on-one with LeBron James. They have these like AI guys
42:46
that are LeBron James and they're doing it.
42:48
It's so funny because they're making fun of LeBron James's
42:52
defense that, you know, a street baller can go right past them.
42:55
No, I don't believe that. I I think he's a lot better than
42:58
a street baller, but it just shows you how many jokes are out
43:02
there about LeBron James's defense that he has holes in his
43:04
defense. Now I'm telling you right now,
43:07
if you bring him in this team is the the New York Knicks are good
43:11
team defensive. You know, their prowess as a
43:14
team defensive team. I I mean is good.
43:18
It it's only going to make him worse and and OG Ananobi if
43:21
you're training him for Giannis and you're going to have to
43:24
maybe move Mikhail because you think that this guy's going to
43:27
fit better with playing with Giannis and LeBron.
43:29
It's never going to work. You're losing the pieces that
43:31
you helped build to made that made this team a foundation in
43:35
the NBAII. Just it's a big no big no for
43:38
me. Stay the hell away.
43:39
From me. So there's a salary cap thing
43:41
that we got to talk about too, and the whole Rich Paul possibly
43:45
getting rid of LeBron as a client because he's not going to
43:48
take this player option. It's $55 million sitting on the
43:52
table that LeBron can just say I accept this player option,
43:56
There's nothing you could do about it, Lakers, and you got to
43:59
pay me 50 something million. In which case the Knicks have
44:03
cats crazy contract and if they want to get off a cat, they
44:05
could do that switch and LeBron retires the next year and then
44:08
they don't have to worry about that contract and they can get
44:11
some picks or something from the Lakers.
44:12
I don't think I would do that. I wouldn't do that.
44:14
They don't have to look. They don't have to.
44:16
The bigger thing is that's crazy.
44:18
Leon Rose would be the natural guy LeBron would go to if he
44:23
leaves Rich Paul as an agent and the fact that Leon Rose can
44:27
obviously market going forwards with LeBron, if they have a
44:31
falling out, why wouldn't he jump in?
44:34
Well, first of all, Leon Rose. Leon Rose cannot be his.
44:37
Agent, but you know what I mean. His agency will represent
44:41
LeBron. I first of all, Rich Paul is
44:45
never going to leave LeBron James.
44:46
LeBron James aside, because Rich Paul is the reason why the Rich
44:49
Paul is where he is today is because of LeBron James.
44:52
I don't care if LeBron James takes less Rich Paul and LeBron
44:55
James. Rich Paul's country, I mean
44:58
company that he works for the clutch Sports is run really by
45:02
LeBron James. So you sit here and you're
45:05
saying, well, he'll leave Rich Paul.
45:07
He's not leaving clutch sports because that's LeBron James's
45:11
brand. So I'm I'm sorry, that's not
45:14
going to happen. This story, this, this back and
45:17
forth that that LeBron James came out and it's a good story
45:20
for Nick fans to talk about. But there's no way in hell
45:24
you're going to sell me right now that just because LeBron
45:26
James put the Knicks name up there on the list, that the
45:30
Knicks are going to be the team that he's going to choose
45:32
because the Knicks don't want them.
45:34
The Knicks don't want him. So I'm telling you right now
45:38
that's a no for me and a no for everybody else.
45:41
And if you decide at any thought in the offseason, well, let me
45:45
see. I'll be like speedy, you know,
45:51
you know, Yeah. That's that's exactly what I
45:54
think about the Knicks. No, no, no, no.
45:58
I don't need to think about it. The answer is no.
46:01
Thank you to all the fans, all the people that listen to us and
46:04
download us on Spotify and Apple on the video and audio, all the
46:08
fans on TikTok and Instagram, which is pretty booming right
46:12
now. And TikTok, Instagram and X
46:17
hopefully, you know, the X starts moving.
46:19
We need to get that thing moving.
46:21
I mean, it's not easy. These these platforms are not
46:23
easy to go, especially when you're you're not you're not on
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a big major platform, but we're we're getting there.
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And when when it moves in the right direction, we'll kick
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everybody on the way out, including the people that we
46:35
can't stand. Yeah.
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And our YouTube channel, now our YouTube channel is, you know,
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moving and, but not moving fast enough.
46:42
And we're not a niche. And I know people are going to
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say, well, if you talked about NBA, if you're talking about the
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Knicks or you're talking about just the Yankees, your, your,
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your platform on YouTube would really be booming.
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But well, that's not who we are. And, and we're not going to
46:58
change that. Unfortunately, it might hurt our
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niche and, and where YouTube puts us as far as algorithm, but
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you know, we, we wish, you know, and we hope that the fans really
47:11
start to tune in more. That's why we, we go live on on
47:14
YouTube for you guys. We want you to come and watch us
47:17
live and instead of listening to our record.
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I know I'm not saying everybody's got families.
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They got lives and they, they, they want to drive or they want
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to watch us in a repeat. That's fine.
47:26
That's why podcasting is podcasting.
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But so we we hope that more fans would be tuned into what we're
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doing. We put a great show on for you
47:36
guys. We put a lot of work into it and
47:38
we want you guys to enjoy all the benefits of watching us live
47:41
because you don't know what's going to happen.
47:43
So just saying anyways, that's it for a show.
47:47
Who do we have on Mondays? Nothing yet.
47:48
Nothing yet. So Speedy's going to Boston to
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enjoy his, you know, Celtic pride.
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And I don't know what it is, but no, he's going to Boston to hang
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out with his family and hang out with mom, you know, our favorite
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woman, you know, King Intimate with any of you minwits.
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Oh, well, Yeah. Well, or one of these, you know
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this is a good one for you. No human is a beluga whale
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scientifically proven. Or this one.
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I like this one. I'm not yanking on a dead man's
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Dick. That is also never going to
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happen ever. Yeah, there we go.
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Anyways, that's Speedy, ladies and gentlemen.
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Anyways, Well, we'll, we'll talk to you.
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Listen to the Weekend Crunch on Saturday, 7:00 PM.
48:38
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48:42
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48:45
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48:48
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48:55
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48:57
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49:02
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49:04
So we're there. We're ready to roll and ready to
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scare the hell out of you, including Speedy, as he always
49:10
reminds us, as human waste. Human waste.
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All right, good night, Fair. It is the worldwide sports radio
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