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Could the Lakers TRADE LeBron James? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Do you believe in that? You're going to give him a
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significant, You'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 LeBron doing that a game.
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Where? You got to go for. 4.
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I told you, giant feet save more Barkley.
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At this point, Let's do it.
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. ESPN reports at the Pistons,
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guard Malik Beasley is being investigated by the US District
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Attorney's Office for gambling allegations during a 2023 NBA
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season with the box. Evidence from well known sports
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noticed some unusual activity starting in January of 2024,
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especially with prop bets. Beasley's agent, Steve Haney
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told ESPN that an investigation is not a charge and gets the
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same rights of innocence as anybody else.
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The investigation also revealed that Beasley didn't pay a
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650,000 payment on time based on a lawsuit from his former
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marketing agency. He is also liable to pay 2.25
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million for violating violating a breach of a contract with Azan
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Sports Management Group. Back in April, Beasley was in
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negotiations on a three-year deal to return with Detroit, but
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those negotiations were put on hold amidst this absolute
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scandal. Last year's.
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Last year, Jonte Porter was suspended indefinitely by the
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NBA after pleading guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy with
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gambling. Let me tell you guys something.
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Jonte Porter is no longer going to be an NBA player.
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That's the facts here. Adam Silver, if it was LeBron
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James, if, if it was LeBron James, the LJA himself betting
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on sports, he would have had a slap on the wrist.
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Slap on the wrist. That's a fact.
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OK. But because it's John Day
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Porter, it's like it's not Michael Porter Junior, and John
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Day Porter is Michael Porter Junior's brother.
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OK? John Day Porter will never step
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on a basketball court ever again in the G League or the NBA ever,
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because of this betting scandal. Now, Mike Malik Beasley is a
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good player. Is he a superstar player?
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No. The fact that obviously the
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District Attorney is investigating this situation,
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obviously there's some kind of story to it that he is not
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saying. There is some evidence that
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states that Beasley had some kind of involvement on this
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betting scandal with the box, with the buck game.
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I don't know the truth and I don't know the inside source.
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The fact is, I don't understand. If you're not betting against
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your team, I don't think there should be a problem with betting
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on sports. I don't think you should be
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allowed to bet on any of the games that you're playing in.
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That's what I think. But any other game outside of
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the lines of the game that you're playing, where you're
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going to affect the game, you can affect the game.
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It does. It shouldn't matter that these
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players are putting their own money in the game.
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Now, obviously there's some inside sources.
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They know referees, We all know that, but they're not the only
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ones. You're telling me right now
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Vegas doesn't have connections with the referees, with the
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league. Of course they do.
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How would they get it? Why are why is Vegas?
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I wouldn't say 90%, sixty, 8% of the time, right?
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They're 68% of the time, right? Because they have an inside
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source, duh. So why couldn't the players do
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it if the NBA could do it? And the NBA is making money on
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betting. They're 100% making money on
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betting millions, hundreds of millions of dollars every single
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year. Now.
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Meanwhile, the players, when they, they have their hands
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dipped or they want to make some money out of betting on certain
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sports games or even not their own games, but other games going
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on in the league, why can't they bet on sports?
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It makes no sense. Now with the District Attorney.
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I, I don't know what the, the United States or how the United
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States work when it comes to betting.
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Was it in an illegal state where you can't bet?
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I, I don't know why the District Attorney is involved with this,
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because this is an NBA thing, not a world thing.
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This is not a United States thing.
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So I don't understand why the District Attorney is involved
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with it unless he was doing something illegally where he is
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stealing money. That's, that's the only thing,
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stealing from taxes, tax evasion.
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I don't know why the District Attorney is involved with this.
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I got to read more about it, but obviously there's evidence that
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he was working with a sports bookie and and there are a lot
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of players doing it. And obviously Shay Otani was
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doing it, but he got away with it because the MLB knows that
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Shay Otani is one of the faces of their internationally
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international baseball. And they know that if Shay Otani
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was caught with that, his career is over.
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When it comes to baseball, Malik Beasley is not important.
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LeBron James, different guy. He's the face of he's still the
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face of the NBA. If Giannis did it, you think you
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don't think the NBA would get involved and try to hide it or
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push it under the rug or any of you?
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And Joel Embiid, the big mouth that he is.
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If Joel Embiid was doing it, obviously the NBA would have
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brushed it on the rug or done something to protect their
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superstar player. It is a big problem.
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And if you're going to go after the, the, the, what do they call
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them? The, the smaller puppy?
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Is that what they call him the lower door market teams?
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No, no, no, I'm talking about the player.
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You're going. You're going after the puppy
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instead. Of you're not going after the
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whale, you're going after the. Minnow, there you go, you're
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going out, you're going after the minnow instead of the well.
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And the truth is if LeBron James is betting, which he probably is
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and I, I'm not, I'm not going to try to beat around a Bush.
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You're going to tell me that LeBron James when he goes to
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these MMA fights and he's going to these boxing fights, he's not
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betting on those sports. Come on guys, what kind of what
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kind of person do you think we are if we wouldn't believe that
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LeBron James is betting on sports?
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He's a multi millionaire and throwing away two $3,000,000.
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Look what Drake did. I mean, Drake week in and week
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out, a fight is out out there. He's throwing $3,000,000 here,
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$4 million there, two and a half million here.
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He doesn't care because it's it's the money that these guys
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are making. It's endless.
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But a guy like me, if I'm throwing two and a half million
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dollars, you best be known that I'm going to know who I'm
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betting on and I am I'm almost 100% sure that he's going to
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pull out a win. Malik Beasley doesn't know
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what's going on. He might have an inside source
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where it's telling him that it's going to be around these points
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or it's going to be around the over under.
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I don't know. But the problem right now lies
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with Vegas, not with the players and not with the referees.
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It lies with Vegas. Because if Vegas knows what's
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going on and they have the answers to everything that's
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going on, why shouldn't the players get the information and
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bet on it too? And that's what's tough with
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this kind of situation too, because you're right, there
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probably is another source now. It's interesting.
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I know they were saying it was prop bets.
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It doesn't seem like it was on his game specifically because he
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actually still played really well that year.
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Like Jonte Porter, the situation with him was he actually, he
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actually was actively tanking a lot of his games to get prop
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bets on the under I there's no evidence that suggests that
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would. Let me ask you a question on the
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Pistons. Malik Beasley is playing on a
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Piston team, a young team. You think Malik Beasley is the
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only player on that roster that was betting on whatever he was
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betting on? Come on.
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Probably not not. He's a first of all, He's a
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young guy. He's a young guy, by the way,
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Killed the Knicks, killed the Knicks in the first round.
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He absolutely dominated the boards against the Knicks.
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He he put a lot, he made a lot of problems for OG and Anobi
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when he was defending OG and Anobi.
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I, I, I think Malik Beasley is actually a pretty good player.
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He's still young, he's still developing.
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But to put it on like you were saying as a Jabba, he is not a
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whale and the NBA don't care about him.
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They if if these stories to be true and they come out to be
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true, if the NBA suspended for life, it wouldn't matter.
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But if it was anybody else, it would be Anthony Edwards.
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Could you imagine if Anthony Edwards is involved in the
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scandal, how big this would be? Nobody cares about Malik
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Beasley. Nobody even knows who he is.
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Unless you're a Detroit fan or you're a basketball fan.
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Nobody knows who Malik Beasley is.
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Nobody. Anthony Edwards loses $1 million
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at a bet he'll find 5 other people to blame before himself.
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That's what I'm saying. But if it's anybody else, Jalen,
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you're. Going to do it, be smart about
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it. And it goes back to the story we
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had last year too, with Kevin Durant, too.
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Kevin Durant was something in as a as a FanDuel analyst during
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the NFL season, I think before the basketball season started,
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he was helping out making bats too.
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But meanwhile, John T Porter obviously gets to spend for
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pretty much for life barring some miracle.
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And then Malik Beasley where he's being investigated too.
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But no, Kevin Durant could be a FanDuel analyst no problem and
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get football bets out. And Jake, like you're saying in
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the in the private chat there, you could bet on the NFLI guess.
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But again, why is he doing it publicly and him getting away
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with it? Because LeBron James association
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has no problem with Kevin Durant has been the other face of their
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league for quite a while. They'll get no problem.
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But Malik Beasley, a young kid who won a won a championship
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with a Nuggets, a good bench player, like you said, a pretty
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good player with the Pistons this year to help their young
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team and he's going to get, he's not going to get away with it to
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the same level. How old is Malik?
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Malik, I believe is 27. I want to.
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Say, still young, he's still a kid and he's going to make
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mistakes. But again, he is not the only
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NBA player that is doing he's not right.
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And I like you said Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant had how
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many Twitter feeds he had like 7 or 8 when that came out, nobody
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cared when Kyrie Irving sent out anti-Semitic views, nobody
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cared. As a matter of fact, Adam
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Silver, who is a Jew, he's a Jewish man.
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He didn't really do anything. He sat down with Kyrie Irving
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and pretty much said, listen, Kyrie, we're going to we're
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going to find you. We're going to suspend you for a
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couple of games and we're going to bring you back.
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I want you to apologize to the net fans.
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He apologized to the net fans. He gets traded a couple weeks
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later, he goes to Dallas at his press conference right in front
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of Adam Silver and said, I take back what I said.
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I take back my apology. I have a right to say and reach
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to my opinion. And I said what I said because I
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feel that it was right. So and and and Adam Silver
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allowed him to say those things and not punish him.
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But if it was Malik Beasley or Porter or any of these small
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known unknown guys, he would have dropped a hammer on them
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for doing something like. That was like 3 or 4 guys on the
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next that were doing it too. And then they didn't and then
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they got back covered up so badly.
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And again, it's just a matter of like, like you said, class
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record and again, other sports too, comparing him like the NFL,
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we Calvin Ridley got a whole year.
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Jameson Williams got 10 games this year for the same kind of
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thing. Like you're trying to set an
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example with that where the NFL doesn't have that kind of power
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with the players. Now they have player power when
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it comes to like going where they want to go and stuff, but
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not to the same level of like they're running the league.
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Like the NBA is like the NBA, the LJA, LeBron James
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Association, They've been driven by these stars trying to drive
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it up. The Players League.
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Yeah. And and that's going to be more
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encouraged if these other. How many owners lost their teams
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because of the players? And now I'm not saying the
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owners were right for what they did because they were racist.
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They were disgusting people and what they've done in their past,
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but the NBA took those teams. The players took those teams
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away from the owners. They had to sell those teams
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because of what they did in the past.
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Again, they were not right for what they did and they
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apologized for what they did, but they did it.
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And the NBA players said, listen, we're not playing for
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any owner that's racist like that.
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So you know what, either you either you sell your team or
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we're not going to be stepping on your basketball court.
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And what happened, Remember Chris Paul, remember with the LA
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Clippers, Chris Paul had like this like picket fence staying
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that he did in front of LA where he said he will not play for
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this owner again. And what happened after that?
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And what was it, I forget the owners name again, Donald
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Sterling, Donald Sterling. Within weeks, Donald Sterling.
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Sterling had to sell to the biggest bidder and he got rid of
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his team just as quick. Because the NBA is run by the
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players now. You don't see that in the MLB.
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If there's something like that happening in the MLB, no, the
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owners would have been fine. They would have sat down with
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the other owners and they would have figured something out.
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Or even the NFL. You wouldn't see an NFL team do
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that or or players can't do that.
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We have seen so many things over the years in all different
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professional sports, but the NBA seems to be run by who?
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It's been run by 1 and the one and only players.
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That's all. ESPN reports that LeBron James
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has opted into a 52 point, $2.6 million player option with the
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Lakers for this season. LeBron says he knows the Lakers
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will be very active this offseason, especially with new
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ownership buying the team for $10 billion.
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Rich Paul says that LeBron wants to compete for a championship
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and understands that the Lakers will still want to build for the
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future. Paul added that there's no
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guarantees LeBron will stay with the Lakers after the season,
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thinking the new ownership might want to build around Luka
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Doncic. He mentioned that the Warriors
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reached out about trading for him in February of 2024, and the
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Heat were open to reuniting with him if they were unable to trade
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Jimmy Butler. Kevin Love, when he saw LeBron
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recently, said that Lebron's wife badly wants him to retire
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after the season. LeBron averaged 24.4 points per
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game, 8.2 assists per game, and 7.8 rebounds per game in this
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past season. All right, and, and we all know
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that LeBron James runs the league.
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I call it the LJ. There's no argument to that.
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LeBron James came back because he's making $52.6 million.
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I know his wife wants him to retire.
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He's been on how many SP awards claiming that he might not come
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back. And then he is coming back over
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the last two years during the playoffs after being eliminated,
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he's come out and said he doesn't know if he's going to
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come back. And then he automatically comes
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in and he opts into with a contract.
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LeBron James is probably going to retire after this year.
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Now, unless the the the Golden State Warriors are one of these
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big time NBA teams, maybe even the Houston Rockets, because the
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Houston Rockets are a team that's rebuilding and have a
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chance with a young coach and a Duca.
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Maybe the Rockets would combine him with Kevin Durant over there
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in Houston and try to make a run for an NBA title.
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But LeBron James is probably playing his final season as an
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NBA player. He's, he's building his podcast.
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He has all these different production companies, he's got
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all these different assets that he's invested in over the last
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really last 10 years. And he's one of the most, he's
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one of the more richer athletes we've seen come out of
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professional sports in history. The fact is, Luka Dodgek is the
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young superstar. He's going to be 26 years old
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going into the season. He lost a lot of weight.
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So far what we've heard, he's lost 20 lbs.
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He was at one of the NBA playoff games.
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It looked like he he lost at least 20 lbs, maybe even £15.
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He looks like he's in a really good shape.
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And with new ownership, $10 billion that they obviously
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invested into buying the Lakers, I expect the Lakers and new
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ownership to build around Luka Dodgek.
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Now LeBron James is still going to make his $52.6 million if the
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Lakers fall out this going this coming season and and Luka
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Doncic isn't enough with LeBron James.
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I could see LeBron James getting traded at the trade deadline.
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Reason why is there going to be a ton of teams lining up for a
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play of this magnitude. LeBron James is still averaging
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24 points, 8 rebounds. I mean 8 assists in seven
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rebounds. If you look at his career
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statistics, LeBron James is a career 2728 point scorer, 8
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assists, 8 1/2 assists a game, and 7:00 to 8:00 rebounds a game
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in his career. So LeBron James is still at the
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top of his game. Now, LeBron James is not the
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defender he once was, and LeBron James cannot keep up with some
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of the younger players that we've seen over the last couple
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of years in the NBA. But he's still a sensational
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player. He's still one of the elite
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players in the NBA. If you were to look at LeBron
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right now and, and, and put him in the top 15, top 20, I don't
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think you can argue LeBron James is a top 15, top 17 player right
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now in the NBA. But the Lakers are going to look
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to go young. Austin Reeves turned down a $96
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million contract this offseason. I think he wants to go to free
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agency next year and see what free agency is going to offer
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him. And with new ownership now it's
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going to be a little bit different for the Lakers and
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where the Lakers organization is going to go in the future.
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The only reason why LeBron James came to the Lakers, it was
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because of the bus family. The bus family don't own the
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organization anymore. Now you're going to look at
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LeBron James and and think that LeBron James is looking to win
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that 5th title to tie Kobe Bryant to be considered arguably
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the greatest, greatest basketball player of all time.
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Now, we all know he's not Michael Jordan, but if he gets
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his fifth championship, if he goes to Golden State or he goes
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to Houston, or maybe if he goes to OK C and wins another title,
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then you could start to consider or people will start even
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considering the argument that he is as good or even better than
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Michael Jordan. LeBron James practically has
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every single playoff statistic, regular season statistic.
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He is broken record after record after record.
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There's nothing LeBron James needs to do to prove that he's
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the second greatest basketball player of all time.
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I believe that's what LeBron James is.
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A lot of people would argue me, argue with me.
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They'll say Kareemethal Jabbar, they'll say Kobe Bryant, they'll
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say Tim Duncan, they'll say Hakeem Olajuwen, Larry Bird,
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Magic Johnson. You could put all these guys
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amongst the best players right behind Michael Jordan.
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But the fact is LeBron James is coming back because he's making
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$52.6 million and I, if I'm not mistaken, this is the most money
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he will make as a professional basketball player.
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Nobody's going to walk away from 52 and a half million dollars.
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Nobody. I don't believe LeBron James
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will be a Laker for the rest of the season.
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I think at the trade deadline if the Lakers fall out, and I don't
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think the Lakers are going to be aggressive because trade, I
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mean, obviously the offseason has started.
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Free agency has opened up. Unless they get Giannis, who
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they going to get you're and you're only getting Giannis if
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you trade something. Who you trading for Giannis,
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Austin Reeves, nobody. You're going to have to trade a
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hell of a lot more than Austin Reeves to get Giannis.
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You're going to have to trade maybe LeBron James, Austin
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Reeves and and probably your future to bring in Giannis And,
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and that means LeBron James is no longer with them.
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So that's not going to happen. I just think there's nothing out
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there right now. This free agency market is not
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as good as it's going to be next year.
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I, I don't know where anybody believes that LeBron James will
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stay with the Lakers by the trade deadline.
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There are a numerous amount of teams that are looking to win a
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championship or on the cusp of being one of the elite teams.
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Any of it. Maybe it goes back to the
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Cleveland Cavaliers. Maybe it goes back to Cleveland
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and tries to win a championship with Spider and, and, and the
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coaching staff over there with Kenny Atkinson.
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This is if they add LeBron James to that roster.
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I mean, is anybody going to beat him in the East?
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That automatically makes them the favorites at the trade
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deadline to win the East. How about the Celtics?
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The Celtics, obviously, you have Brown, you have White there.
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You don't have, you don't have, you don't have Tatum.
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He's he might be back at the end of the season.
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They're saying Jason Tatum will miss the whole season with an
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Achilles tear if he's training already.
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He had his surgery the next day within 24 hours of the Knicks
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game. The Knicks series.
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I, I, I expect Tatum to possibly be back sometime before the
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playoffs. If Tatum comes back and you have
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LeBron James and you have Jalen Brown and you have, you have a
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guy like White. I mean, aren't you a contender?
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Aren't you a Eastern Conference contender with LeBron James
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there going to play for the Celtics?
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Do you remember the last Laker to jump ship and go from Miami
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to Cleveland to the Celtics? Do you remember that?
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It was Shaquille O'Neal? Shaquille O'Neal retired as a as
22:20
a Celtic. Now, he didn't do anything with
22:22
the Celtics, but he retired. Well, he actually retired with,
22:26
if I'm not mistaken, it was Orlando he retired with.
22:29
But he that's what usually happens after your career.
22:34
You usually usually sign with your old team and you retire
22:37
with your old team. That's what usually happens.
22:39
I'm not sure if he retired with Orlando or the Lakers, but he
22:43
retired with one of those teams. But his final year as an NBA
22:47
player, if I'm not mistaken, it was with the Celtics.
22:50
And if LeBron James wants to do that and and and try to fight
22:55
and try to win a championship over there with the Celtics, the
22:58
Celtics are automatically the favorites are coming out of the
23:00
East because LeBron James automatic.
23:03
Could you put if Jason Tatum comes back and if Jason Tatum,
23:06
Jaylen Brown, you're automatically a championship
23:10
contending team? Right.
23:11
And especially you're seeing now with the way that the salary cap
23:14
could go up to, obviously that doesn't matter.
23:16
I mean, yeah, LeBron, we know we can manipulate a lot of.
23:19
Different because here's the reason why.
23:20
Jason Tatum, if he comes back, it'll be at the end of the
23:23
season. Insurance already is paying for
23:25
him. So even if he comes back, you're
23:27
not paying him for a full season.
23:28
So you could bring LeBron James contract in with the Boston
23:32
Celtics at the trade deadline because even if Jason Tatum
23:35
comes back, he's not going to be paid.
23:37
That is paid by insurance. It doesn't affect their salary
23:40
gap. Yeah, it doesn't affect their
23:42
cap. So they could actually trade for
23:44
LeBron James and not worry about Jason Tatum coming back because
23:47
it won't affect them. Right.
23:48
And that that's the luxury that you have when you have these
23:51
these salary cap situations, these aprons.
23:54
Obviously they traded Drew Holiday in Porzingis just to get
23:56
under it. But like you were saying last
23:57
week, like there's no guarantee that the Celtics don't have
23:59
another big thing in mind too. And they know what's going on
24:02
with the Lakers. They know what's going on with
24:03
the boxing. And it seems like that too.
24:05
And again, with the situation with the Lakers with with
24:07
LeBron, like he would seem like it was kind of set in stone the
24:09
way he was manipulating it. But again, being he's already
24:12
won a championship there, there's always going to be that
24:14
extra threshold of what am I going to do one more time.
24:17
And obviously these companies out there production wise, all
24:19
this pizza stuff and all that stuff is out there, but.
24:22
Albums are dipped into every single business.
24:24
I know that. And again, at the same time, you
24:27
now bring in new ownership. You have a ownership group that
24:29
comes from the Dodgers that obviously they like to spend a
24:31
lot of money too, but they're also very they try to be more
24:34
young and progressive. And that's why I think they were
24:35
mentioning, OK, we're going to try to build around Luka Doncic.
24:37
I'm surprised Magic Johnson didn't buy into the Lakers.
24:40
Yeah, it's interesting because I think he has a little bit of a
24:42
stake, but it's not to the same level of those with the Dodgers.
24:45
And now Andrew Walter the new owner, or Mark Walter the new
24:48
owner, that he's there. You would think there would be
24:51
some kind of influence there to get magic involved, especially
24:54
with magic now being involved with Washington.
24:55
Magic Johnson will be involved with the Lakers, especially with
24:59
Luka Doncic being there. One way or another, Magic
25:02
Johnson will have his hand dipped in with with the Lakers
25:04
after LeBron James decides to part ways with the Lakers
25:08
organization. I so will LeBron at some.
25:10
Point. That's what I'm saying LeBron
25:11
James is going to be. I don't know if LeBron James
25:14
will be a part of the Lakers. I think when LeBron James.
25:17
It'll be part of something. Yeah, when I think when LeBron
25:20
James retires, when a team becomes available, maybe The
25:24
Mavericks, because if ownership can't find a way to bring a
25:27
casino over there in Dallas, you know, he loves Cooper flag and
25:32
LeBron James has billions of dollars.
25:33
He by the time LeBron James is ready to buy a team, he probably
25:38
is worth a couple of billion dollars with the assets that he
25:41
has. LeBron James is going to buy
25:42
into an NBA team. Why not the Dallas Mavericks?
25:45
Think about it that way. Think about it this way.
25:47
The Dallas Mavericks have Kyrie Irving, there has Anthony Davis.
25:51
Both players played with LeBron James.
25:53
Both players won championships with LeBron James.
25:57
And then you have Cooper Flag. They're one of the best young
25:59
stars right now the NBA has to provide.
26:01
And he has come out and said during the Olympic practices
26:05
that this guy is the best American player he's seen come
26:08
out of United States basketball in the last five years.
26:11
That says a lot about what he thinks about Cooper Flag.
26:14
As a matter of fact, one of the things that were brought up
26:17
after Cooper Flag was drafted, when he was obviously
26:19
interviewed, he said, what did LeBron James talk to you about?
26:23
And he told Cooper Flagg, you know, cherish the moments of
26:27
this, this opportunity because you're never going to be at the
26:30
in this situation again. And that says a lot about LeBron
26:33
James, who, by the way, never even played college ball.
26:35
This guy went right to the NBA as a high school player and it
26:39
was already inaugurated as the King.
26:41
So I'm not saying Cooper Flag is LeBron James and I'm I think
26:45
he's the next Kevin Durant. That's just my opinion.
26:47
But LeBron James has an opportunity have to trade
26:50
deadline if need be and again, the bus family is not running
26:54
the organization anymore and he has no reason to stay there.
26:57
Expect LeBron James if the Lakers are not a contending team
27:01
and they don't have any assets where they can make a trade at
27:05
the trade deadline to bring in another superstar to play with
27:07
Himaluca where LeBron James is going to ask to be traded.
27:10
I I'm willing if you're a betting man, Jabba, if they're
27:14
obviously we're not NBA player so we can bet if you're a
27:17
betting man, ladies and gentlemen, I would I bet LeBron
27:20
James at the trade downline will be traded to a an experiencedly
27:25
gifted NBA title team. And I say experience because I
27:29
think one of the teams that he's going to get traded to as a team
27:31
that's won a championship in the last couple of years or is ready
27:35
to win a championship and. Again, there's always going to
27:37
be the veteran ties because we talked about, OK, can LeBron
27:40
handle the young players too? Which if the Lakers are going to
27:42
progress in that direction, are they going to want to trade a
27:44
lot of those younger players as well?
27:46
Like, yeah, you're talking about like they don't have this high
27:48
end younger player that you'll be like, OK, this is guys a
27:50
can't miss type prospect. I like to connect.
27:52
Last year he was kind of up and down his rookie year.
27:54
Rui Hatchimura is not bad. Like you said, Austin Reed is
27:57
probably their best trade option and he's kind of frustrated with
27:59
the team anyway. So it seems like he's inevitably
28:01
going to be out. That's going to shoot down your
28:02
trade value. So, so like thought like, what
28:04
do you have if you're the Lakers to be able to do that kind of
28:06
thing? If you don't go to that next
28:08
level with this new philosophy that you're saying you look at
28:11
the way the league is now outside of the Warriors, you're
28:13
looking at a format where it's two stars and you build a pretty
28:17
good core around it, balance players.
28:20
It doesn't really matter of having like the star point guard
28:22
or the star center anymore. I know, OK, you see just one
28:24
with Shay, Jill Alexander and Jed Holmgren.
28:26
But besides that, you're seeing a lot more of these wing type
28:28
teams and it's really two stars and getting everyone else
28:31
affordable at that point. And maybe that's the Lakers
28:34
mindset. And if it takes trading LeBron
28:37
in order to do that, if the Lakers don't contend right away,
28:39
because we know LeBron doesn't like to play a lot at the
28:41
beginning of the regular season either.
28:43
And if he can't? He's averaged about 62 to 65
28:46
games this season for the last five years.
28:48
Yeah. And again, it's interesting to
28:49
think like if they can fill that void, if LeBron doesn't have to
28:52
quote UN quote low man and stuff like that, and if he does stay
28:54
healthy. And that's the other question
28:56
that somebody like JJ Reddick keeps.
28:59
Favorite coach, if you know. LeBron, If LeBron James knows
29:02
this could be his final season, you would think, think that
29:05
LeBron James is going to play at least 80 games, wouldn't you?
29:08
Thank you. You want you want the fans to
29:10
come and see you for the last time.
29:11
Michael Jordan, We all know the Michael Jordan story.
29:14
He came out many, many times, said teams.
29:17
I mean, fans come to watch me play.
29:19
I wanted to make sure that everybody got a chance to see me
29:21
play at least once when I was playing basketball.
29:24
And that's why he played almost every single game.
29:27
You never see Michael Jordan miss a game.
29:29
He was always out on the basketball court hurt with the
29:31
flu as we saw him in the playoffs.
29:33
That man went out there and played his heart out.
29:36
LeBron James has not been that type of player really over the
29:39
last five years. Now, LeBron James is still an
29:41
elite player. There's no question that he is.
29:43
He's still at the top of his game, Maybe not the same
29:46
defensive player Freelance was, even though he's tried to play
29:48
that contagious defense over the last couple of months of the
29:53
season. He's not that a type of player
29:55
anymore. But LeBron James still has the
29:57
ability. If he goes to an organization in
29:59
the right team, he is absolutely that boost that that
30:03
organization's going to need to win a title.
30:05
Yeah, always going to be thought of as a missing piece when
30:06
you're that good in the playoffs.
30:07
And even the durability aspect compared to some other NBA
30:11
players have still been better for LeBron even at age 41 than a
30:14
lot of look at Kawhi Leonard and look at Paul George and all
30:16
these other guys that these veterans that are always getting
30:18
hurt too. So there's still an optimism
30:20
that you would believe if you were the Lakers to be able to
30:22
make that kind of thing work. And that's what the new
30:24
ownership will bank on at the. Moment and also new ownership
30:26
thinks that they can get something for him.
30:28
I I mean LeBron James is a guy that can help A-Team give him a
30:32
boost to possibly win a title. What would you get for LeBron
30:35
James if he's averaging about 25 points per game, 8 assists and
30:38
seven rebounds and can change your roster for the better?
30:41
Even if LeBron James comes off the bench, which that will never
30:44
happen Now, even if LeBron James comes off the bench, you got a
30:47
player of this magnitude coming off the bench.
30:49
What are you willing to give up for?
30:51
Somebody like this will almost guarantee you an Eastern or
30:53
Western Conference chance to win a championship, finals to win a
30:57
championship. What will you?
30:59
What will you be willing to give up you're talking about?
31:01
Me, I think, I think it'll be decent though, but you got to
31:04
remember it it at this point you got you got to look at it as a
31:07
rental, not as a long term. So then I think you got to look
31:10
at it like, OK, are we are we just this rental and what are we
31:14
willing to give up or what do we want to give up?
31:17
Or is it worth giving this up to to figure out like, OK, we got a
31:21
shot if we get this guy. That's kind of like, it's just
31:24
hard when you get into that rental frame of mind because
31:27
it's like, what do I really want to get rid of knowing this isn't
31:30
going to be long term. 100% and that's what a lot of other NBA
31:34
teams have kind of fallen into the trap of too.
31:36
We talked about it last week with the Kevin Durant trade with
31:38
the Suns too. They kind of felt like they were
31:40
desperate at that point. Now at the time when they did
31:42
it, I thought it was fine. I like 2023.
31:45
They had the season before where they lost to The Mavericks in
31:48
the in the Western Conference finals, the 67 win team.
31:50
So it seemed like a big swing and then they go get Bradley
31:52
Beal and everything goes downhill after that.
31:54
And the Nets have done it. The Clippers have done it with
31:57
Paul George and Kawei Leonard. Obviously, we talked about how
31:59
that trade really helped OKC get over the top the way they did
32:03
and that there's going to be some teams, Jabba, that don't
32:05
think that way. They're going to fall into that
32:07
desperate. All right, last plea, tight
32:08
move. If they can get something else
32:10
around it. We mentioned Miami before, like
32:12
Miami reuniting with Pat Riley. They get Jimmy Butler off the
32:15
books who was disgruntled over there.
32:16
Would they consider a big move? Does Pat Riley have something up
32:19
his sleeve for somebody like LeBron?
32:21
You said the South. No, he's not going.
32:23
LeBron James is not going back to Miami.
32:25
He's not. They don't have a chance to win.
32:27
Even if they had LeBron James there with Bam out of bio and
32:30
Tyler Hero, do you think they're going to get over the even
32:33
against the Knicks with the roster the Knicks have?
32:35
They don't beat the Knicks. They don't beat the Cavaliers if
32:38
the Cavaliers are healthy. So I I don't see LeBron, LeBron
32:42
James, if he knows this is his final year, which could very
32:44
much happen if if he believes this is his final year, he's
32:48
either going to go to the Western Conference where he can
32:50
win with Houston, with Kevin Durant.
32:52
Could you imagine him and Kevin Durant on a roster they've
32:54
always wanted to play together? Why not go, you know, play your
32:58
final season at the trade deadline with one of your
33:01
favorite players to play with, with Team USA Basketball and go
33:03
and make a run with Kevin Durant.
33:05
See if you can get over the hump.
33:06
That would be amazing. LeBron James right off to the
33:09
sunset like Peyton Manning did, win a championship with one of
33:12
your best friends. I mean, that would be, that
33:16
would be a storybook ending in LeBron James's.
33:18
Story with the power of the LeBron James association help
33:21
everything out with it as well. He's going to definitely try to
33:23
manipulate as much as possible with wherever he ends up going.
33:26
Again, I don't I don't know how frustrated the would be with the
33:28
Lakers, but it's always different with newer ownership.
33:31
When LeBron obviously decided to go to the Lakers, it was
33:33
different with the bus family there.
33:35
And obviously there's other players that have come and gone
33:37
with the bus family that have had their power.
33:39
But at the same time, the Lakers haven't had the holding power of
33:42
these players either. Look at somebody like Anthony
33:44
Davis. Now, obviously you can't pass up
33:46
a trade with Luka Doncic, but look at all the other stars that
33:48
have come and gone or even just almost went there and get that
33:51
kind of result. And now you're seeing it with
33:52
LeBron. It seems like a surefire.
33:53
You know who would have? Who would have thought that
33:56
after trading Luka Doncic and and Nico Harrison look like the
34:01
the dumbest GM in NBA history and he's really dumb.
34:05
I mean we all know what the Nets have done over the years.
34:07
They've done a lot of stupid things.
34:09
But Nico Harrison trading one of the best young players the NBA
34:13
has ever had, foreign international players the NBA
34:15
has ever had, and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, out of
34:19
nowhere, win the lottery. Win the lottery with a 3.8%
34:24
chance of winning it. That it was like 2 point
34:27
something. Whatever it was, it doesn't.
34:29
Matter. It was a.
34:31
Percentage, no chance in hell for him to win Cooper flag and
34:35
then he wins the best young American player we've seen come
34:38
out of the draft like LeBron James have said in five years.
34:41
That says a lot about where the NBA is and how I believe LeBron
34:45
James has run the organization. And that's that's just the
34:48
facts. And if LeBron James wants to go
34:50
and play with the Rockets and play with Kevin Durant, he'll go
34:53
there. If LeBron James wants to go and
34:55
play with Miami, he'll go there there.
34:56
If LeBron James wants to go to the Cleveland Cavaliers and and
34:59
win his his final championship, I have his chance to win and
35:02
right off into the sunset in his hometown, his home, his home
35:06
area in Cleveland, he will go there.
35:08
So it it's up to LeBron James where he wants to go and I think
35:11
the Lakers will oblige him. I don't know what the Lakers are
35:14
going to get much knowing that he is going to walk away from
35:17
the game. He is going to leave.
35:18
But guess what, you land LeBron James.
35:21
If you're the Cleveland Cavaliers or you're the Houston
35:24
Rockets, you're almost guaranteed to go to the Western
35:27
Conference Finals and maybe even make a run to the NBA Finals.
35:31
That's how good LeBron James still is and what LeBron James
35:34
could give you as a player on a basketball court.
35:38
So there's, again, going back to this whole situation with LeBron
35:42
James and taking the 52 and a half million dollars.
35:45
I only believe he took the money because he's making the most
35:48
money he's ever made. And #2 I really do believe he
35:51
has no interest of staying with the Lakers.
35:54
By the trade deadline. I expect LeBron James to ask to
35:57
be off. By the way, another team that
35:59
would be looking at LeBron James is the Golden State Warriors.
36:02
I, I could see the Golden State Warriors if they're playing good
36:04
basketball and Steph Curry is healthy.
36:06
That's another guy that LeBron James and, and Steph has said
36:10
over the years he would love to play with.
36:11
So I wouldn't be surprised if he gets traded to the Golden State
36:14
Warriors with Steve Kerr there. So, and, and they'll have a
36:17
chance to win a champion. Could you imagine him, Jimmy
36:20
Buckets and Steph Curry on a roster?
36:23
Scary. Oh God, they're going to steal
36:25
all the headlines too. They've already done already.
36:27
LeBron steals headlines as it is.
36:29
We talk about the Warriors, all the.
36:30
Time scary. The LJA is back, ladies and
36:33
gentlemen. Mr. Mr. Draymond, Greed is still
36:36
there. He'll steal some other
36:37
headlines. Too It would piss me the apple
36:38
off. Oh I know if if I watch LeBron
36:41
James go to Golden State and win a championship with Steph Curry
36:44
and Jimmy Buckets I will be pissed.
36:46
The FL. That would be probably just.
36:47
I will not be happy. I am not.
36:50
Listen, everybody thinks that I'm a LeBron, a LeBron James fan
36:52
because I think he's the second greatest basketball player of
36:55
all time. And I do because he's going to
36:57
have almost every single record when he walks away from the game
37:00
and he the longevity to do what he is doing on a basketball
37:03
court is untouchable. I don't think we'll ever see an
37:06
NBA player play as long as LeBron James and be as dominant
37:10
as LeBron James has been over the last 20 years.
37:13
OK, that's a fact. I don't care what anybody says.
37:16
You could cut this up and roll it up and throw it wherever we
37:20
want to throw it. I, I am not a LeBron James fan.
37:23
I, as a matter of fact, I don't like him as a personality off at
37:26
the basketball court. His politics, his, his political
37:28
views are absolutely horrendous. But what he is as a basketball
37:32
player, you can't take away his greatness.
37:35
You can't. He is the greatest basketball
37:38
player, right behind Michael Jordan, and that includes over
37:42
Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kareem Dole, Jabbar or Magic Johnson,
37:47
Larry Bird. This guy is going to go down as
37:49
the second greatest basketball player of all time.
37:51
And you could take back whatever you say about me on social media
37:54
saying I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to
37:56
basketball. If you guys actually don't
37:59
believe this guy is the second greatest basketball player of
38:01
all time, then you guys don't know basketball.
38:03
Yeah, you do not. Yeah, and I think he there was
38:05
another step that too like he already has.
38:08
I think he's 40 games away from already having the most regular
38:11
season games played record amidst all his load, load
38:14
management and stuff like that too amidst all the other stuff.
38:17
Oh, they get all the dramas and stuff going throughout the
38:20
league. So his longevity, like we said,
38:22
as as crazy as he's. Incredible.
38:24
Yeah, he's incredible. How could you be 40?
38:28
What, he's going to be 4142 years old?
38:30
He's 41 right now. He'll be 42 years old.
38:33
Last year, he's 41 years old. He turned 41.
38:36
He was averaging 24/8 and 7/24, 8:00 and 7:00.
38:39
His career numbers are at 28 or 29, eight and seven.
38:44
This guy's longevity at the top of his game will be unmatched
38:48
forever. Nobody's going to touch this,
38:52
and as much as you think I have a love fest for him, I can't
38:55
stand the man. I don't walk away from
38:58
greatness. When you walk, when you look at
38:59
Alex Rodriguez, there are a lot of Yankee fans that can't stand
39:02
Alex Rodriguez. Oh, he cheated.
39:03
He did this, he did that. Guess what?
39:05
Alex Rodriguez is a top five player of all time.
39:08
And if you guys want to argue that, we can come on this show
39:11
right now and I can go through statistics, new statistics, old
39:15
statistics, and argue my points why Alex Rodriguez is still a
39:18
top five player of all time. You can't take away greatness.
39:22
No matter what he did, he's special.
39:25
And that's what LeBron James is. He's a special player and he'll
39:29
always be remembered as the second greatest basketball
39:32
player that ever played in NBA history.
39:34
And. Then we got Jabba, who could
39:35
defend Alex Rodriguez from knowing him personally.
39:38
I'm sure Jabba would agree with me on that one too.
39:41
In more ways than one. I mean, obviously I get it.
39:45
But yeah, it's, I guess if you want to go off a matrix and they
39:49
put it, I mean, you can put all their numbers into whatever, but
39:52
it's like we can talk about Barry Bonds.
39:53
Bonds was a Hall of Famer before supposedly he did this.
39:56
I mean, your head doesn't grow in your 30s.
39:59
So I'm going to put two and two together.
40:00
Yes. He never tested positive, but
40:02
I'm going to go ahead and throw two and two together.
40:04
But tell Jason Kidd that. Yeah, same time you still got to
40:08
put bat on ball. Just because you take it doesn't
40:11
necessarily make you a better baseball player.
40:13
So yeah, there's there's a lot of things we could argue with
40:15
with a lot of athletes before, you know, things, things I guess
40:19
came to a head and, and, and what have you.
40:21
But yeah, there's there's a lot of guys that didn't need it.
40:24
They they did it for other reasons, and who knows what
40:27
those reasons really, really are.
40:28
Jabba, we have had guys on the show that told us straight out
40:32
they did steroids and we're never Major League players long
40:35
in a week, longer than a week and And they did steroids.
40:39
But but because Alex Rodriguez did steroids.
40:41
Oh, he's the worst person in the world.
40:43
Yeah. Did he do bad things?
40:44
Did he throw people under the bus that he tried to threaten
40:47
people? Yeah.
40:48
Alex Rodriguez is not a good person, but as an athlete, as a
40:51
player, you can't argue he's a top five player of all time.
40:54
The numbers would tell you that he is and the.
40:56
Same. Yeah, you don't, you don't have
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to like, you don't have to like the person, but you got to
41:01
respect whatever it's I don't care like Floyd Mayweather, not
41:06
a fan, but to never lose in a boxing ring.
41:09
That's that's tough to say. And I, you know, you don't have
41:12
to like him. You don't have to agree with
41:14
what he does. I I get it because I don't with
41:16
with a lot of athletes. But the end of the day, I
41:18
respect of what they did and how they did it.
41:21
To be that successful for that long and to do something that
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less than .01% get the opportunity to do it and do it
41:28
for a long time. You got to respect what they do.
41:31
You don't have to like them. You don't have to take them to
41:33
dinner, you don't have to invite them to your kids birthday
41:35
party, but you respect the craft that they do in, in, in any way,
41:39
shape or form. And that's in, that's not in
41:41
sports, that's in anything. You got to give credit where
41:43
credit's due, even if you don't like them.
41:44
Oh, and and again, a lot of people on social media would
41:47
think that I'm a big LeBron James lover.
41:50
Like I have some kind of love fest for LeBron James.
41:52
I can't stand the man, but I don't walk away and I don't
41:55
trend to the the opposite side saying that LeBron James isn't
41:59
worth every bit to get a chance to watch him play, you know,
42:03
every week or every game or every other game because LeBron
42:06
James plays one game a week. Nevertheless, LeBron James is
42:09
special to watch. LeBron James, if he cares about
42:13
the fans and he knows this is his final year as an NBA player,
42:17
he should play all 82 games. If he's healthy enough to do it,
42:20
he should give every young kid that wants to get a chance to
42:23
watch one of the greatest basketball players of all time
42:26
get to watch him one more time, one last time.
42:29
That's what Mariano Rivera did. Remember Mariano Rivera, they,
42:32
the Yankees made sure that when he did that whole trend around
42:36
for his final season, his Grand Tour, they made sure he was out
42:40
there, He was pitching not every single game, but the majority of
42:43
the games. So Derek Jeter, Derek Jeter, you
42:46
know, nobody knew that it was Derek Jeter's last season until
42:50
Derek Jeter pretty much came out, you know, mid.
42:53
What was it, quarter, quarter into the season that he said
42:56
this was his final year? OK.
42:58
And what did Derek Jeter do for the fans?
43:00
He made sure he was out there every single game so the fans
43:04
could get a chance to watch him play.
43:06
That's greatness. That's what you want to see.
43:08
I want to say, hey, you know what, for all the people 20-30
43:12
years from now, I could say I watched Alex Rodriguez play
43:15
baseball. I watched Derek Jeter play
43:18
baseball. I watched Michael Jordan play
43:21
basketball. I watched Wayne Gretzky play
43:24
hockey or Marc Messier or Mario Lemieux, OK?
43:28
Or, you know, if you're a cream of dual jabbar, I saw Kareem of
43:31
dual Jabbar play live. That's what you want to say.
43:34
That's what you always want to remember.
43:35
That's what you want to tell your grandchildren, your kids or
43:38
your great grandchildren. And that's what LeBron James
43:40
stands for. As much as you can't stand him
43:43
and as much as I can't stand him because I believe the NBA is the
43:45
LJA, I don't take away for what he has done for the game of
43:49
basketball and what he has delivered as a young man.
43:53
Remember, he came from high school and everybody considered
43:57
him the King. Could you imagine the pressure
44:00
LeBron James had when he stepped on an NBA court?
44:04
Now, do I think LeBron James should have won Rookie of the
44:07
year? No, Carmelo Anthony was rookie
44:08
of the year when when him and Carmelo came out from the draft.
44:12
Carmelo had better numbers than LeBron James.
44:14
My honest opinion is Carmelo and Carmelo.
44:17
Carmelo Anthony was robbed, was robbed for the rookie of the
44:21
year. Nevertheless, LeBron James has
44:24
won every single thing he's he's won rookie of the year, he's won
44:29
MVPS, he's won Defensive player of the year, he's won
44:32
everything. And that's why LeBron James is
44:35
considered the second greatest basketball player of all time.
44:38
And there are statistics. There are records that will
44:41
never be broken, never be broken, because you're not going
44:45
to see an NBA player play as long as LeBron James has played
44:49
all. Right quickly before our guest
44:51
is in and we have Golf Club, a New York Yankee mania.
44:53
Shout out to him again the Lakers challenge next year.
44:55
Yeah, they definitely could, but they need a lot this offseason.
44:58
By the way, I want to say something for all you Laker fans
45:02
and I'm just being honest. Luka Doncic was traded to be
45:07
brought in to the Lakers for the reason that LeBron James was
45:10
probably his final one or two years going to be moved at 11
45:15
point or another. I expect LeBron James to be
45:19
traded. Do I think the Lakers are making
45:20
the playoffs next year? They had their chance this year
45:23
to make a run. They fell short.
45:25
LeBron James will not be a Laker at the trade deadline.
45:28
I guarantee you by the trade deadline he will be traded
45:32
somewhere. He is playing this final year.
45:35
He will not be back the year, year after.
45:37
I expect LeBron James to be an owner, maybe even AGM of a team
45:43
really early in his career before he he eventually buys a
45:46
team in the open market. And I do believe it's going to
45:49
be Dallas. I really have this feeling it's
45:51
going to be the Dallas Mavericks because it's very typical
45:54
ownership over there in Dallas do not know what they're doing.
45:57
And they only bought the team because they thought they were
45:59
going to build a casino over there.
46:01
And it doesn't seem like Dallas is going to allow a casino.
46:04
And if they don't in the next five years, I expect Cooper Flag
46:08
to leave unless LeBron James comes in and takes over or a big
46:12
name comes in there and takes over and tells Cooper Flag to
46:15
stay there. Because he's going to build.
46:17
He's going to build an organization around him.
46:19
Because I, I just don't think Cooper Flag's going to want to
46:22
be there. I, I think he, his goal or his
46:25
presence on what we've heard over the last couple of months
46:28
is his future could be in Boston.
46:31
So I, that's, that's my opinion. I think Boston is going to do
46:34
everything they can to free up salary to maybe make a move to
46:38
bring in a guy like Cooper flag in the future.
46:41
And that's what, 5-6 years down the road.
46:43
So I expect Cooper flag if if Dallas doesn't get it together,
46:48
ownership doesn't get it together with this casino Cooper
46:50
flag to say, you know what, I don't want to be here anymore.
46:52
I want to go to my hometown. I want to play for my home team
46:55
and I want to be at Boston Celtic.
46:57
And that's something the Celtics absolutely believe could happen.
47:00
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47:02
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A special guest on July 16th. Wednesday at 9:00 PM.
47:51
Who is it? Matthew Dennis.
47:54
He was at the Fanatics games this year.
47:56
He was the one of the the fans that competed.
47:58
He was in 3rd place. He got 250250K from Tom Brady.
48:04
Yeah. Where's my where's my 250K?
48:08
Tell him, can I? Hey, Tommy, first of all, you
48:10
were supposed to get me that thing over there in the Hamptons
48:13
with Tom Brady. You never got that for me, you
48:15
little pieces. They never answered back.
48:18
Bend over. Show everybody that ass, that
48:20
Indian ass. Show them that Indian ass, No?
48:23
As long as she's using dude watch and taking care of my 2
48:26
hole I'm good. This makes my pecker.
48:28
Harder anyways, that's it for our show, ladies and gentlemen,
48:30
we'll be back tomorrow. We'll have fish back.
48:33
We'll have Zach here. We'll have the whole show and
48:36
maybe we'll add king of the hill because we never get a chance.
48:38
We got to do that that whole UFC mixed martial arts thing.
48:42
That wouldn't be fair because it would probably just be me and
48:44
Jake. That wouldn't have been fair.
48:46
What is fish thinking? I I don't get it.
48:48
John, you're not going to give me any credit on the UF?
48:51
CI didn't say that. I didn't say that.
48:52
But I, I, I listen to Jake and I listen to his take, I just, it's
48:57
going to be hard to attack this guy when it comes to his takes.
49:01
When it comes to mixed martial arts, you probably, you probably
49:03
have the third most knowledge on the show about mixed martial
49:06
arts. So it would have.
49:07
Been I'm the only one that's ever had a deal with the UFC, so
49:09
right there. There you show.
49:11
There you show, right? You want to show your ass?
49:13
Show everybody your ass, I mean. I got birthmark on my right
49:17
cheek. Oh, there you go, me too.
49:18
Is that what your future wife is looking at right now after?
49:24
The show sitting down you stupid ass.
49:26
How do we know you're sitting? Maybe you're sitting on her.
49:31
That would be silent. I'm losing my mind tonight, I'm
49:35
losing my voice. I'm losing everything.
49:37
Anyways, that's it for a show. We'll be back tomorrow.
49:39
Goodnight. It it.
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