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Speaker 4: Lakers look great, they love each other.
Speaker 2: It's an abject failure.
Speaker 4: Oh, come on, man.
Speaker 2: Abject failure.
Speaker 4: Well that's you know what though, That's that's what I
Speaker 4: would expect from a bit boy. Do you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, Matt, A bit boy, A bit boy. That's
Speaker 4: not a nuanced conversation.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got you too, simple.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you didn't watch the clip where he called him
Speaker 4: a bit boy, Matt.
Speaker 2: I haven't watched any of the clips unless you've showed
Speaker 2: him to me.
Speaker 4: I tweeted one out.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't, don't.
Speaker 4: I got him a lot of views. I shouldn't have
Speaker 4: done it. Well, I said it. You should have looked
Speaker 4: at it. Very impactful, Matt. When the guy calls the
Speaker 4: other guy a.
Speaker 2: Bit boy, bit boy, like I want to create bits?
Speaker 4: You're out there? No? Yeah, like you're not good enough
Speaker 4: to be a real sports tacos. That's why you're a
Speaker 4: bit boy.
Speaker 2: He's just he contributes bits to the show that.
Speaker 4: Has almost tempted to play it and stick it in
Speaker 4: the mic and make you listen to it right now
Speaker 4: like you would do. But I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 4: Why not because I constantly based you for doing it.
Speaker 4: But that would make me a terrible hypocrite. Uh, but yeah,
Speaker 4: you you missed by the bit boy retweet. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 4: you know, quoted it on Twitter and wrote, you're promoting
Speaker 4: this this guy called the other guy a bit boy
Speaker 4: and getting all mad and uh it got a bunch
Speaker 4: of views. It got them a lot more.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was the thing. Was that what tim
Speaker 2: uh sent to us via text and it and it
Speaker 2: had two comments after being up for nine hours.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, then I and then I lit that.
Speaker 2: And you lit it and then yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 4: Tell me what to do.
Speaker 2: Don't give him any eyes. Man, I'll do what I want.
Speaker 2: Don't be a bit boy.
Speaker 4: Hey, if I'm a big boy, then fine, Matt a
Speaker 4: bit boy for four hours a day. Uh, this is interesting.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw some of this, Matt,
Speaker 4: but people are very much having a good time with
Speaker 4: and poking fun at the uh at the USC receiver,
Speaker 4: not the one Jacoby Lane who said he got robbed.
Speaker 4: And now the Brawley Totupu kid has has struck back.
Speaker 2: Oh really and.
Speaker 4: Said that was all given to him. And that's bs,
Speaker 4: That's what I was figuring, right, his host. I didn't
Speaker 4: steal from you. I didn't even go into your Locker,
Speaker 4: you're a liar, Jacoby Lane. But the other USC receiver
Speaker 4: and this will be the word of the day, Matt
Speaker 4: with his.
Speaker 3: Words, the word of the day.
Speaker 4: The other USC receiver at the combine, Mackay Lemon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a big time dude.
Speaker 4: At a low Salameda. I mean, it's hard to say
Speaker 4: who's been the most impressive USC receiver and this that's
Speaker 4: really the only thing that they churn out consistently now
Speaker 4: is good wide receivers. Because of the way the offenses
Speaker 4: have been under Clay Helton and Lincoln Riley, it hasn't
Speaker 4: translated into football dominance. But Amon Ross, Saint Brown and
Speaker 4: Michael Pittman comes to mind. Drake London is the guy
Speaker 4: who's probab in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: He's really good.
Speaker 4: He's great. I mean, there's just top to bottom a
Speaker 4: lot of us arrested. If he's not getting arrested, he's
Speaker 4: making plays. I mean, I wouldn't call him a USC
Speaker 4: receiver even though Carson Palmer gave Addison his number so
Speaker 4: the guy could play for like eight games at USC.
Speaker 4: But Mackay Lemon is, I mean, he's up there with
Speaker 4: these guys as far as potential goes I mean, he
Speaker 4: is a great wide receiver and we all saw it
Speaker 4: in high school at Lo Sal. I wish we could
Speaker 4: say the same.
Speaker 2: He had a great quarterback throwing to him, Well.
Speaker 4: He did, and he won a very decorated Malachi Nelson,
Speaker 4: a very decorated college football quarterback, traveled high school football.
Speaker 2: Quarterback, well traveled college quarterback.
Speaker 4: Well traveled and well paid. Matt, Yes, well traveled and
Speaker 4: well paid.
Speaker 2: Hot his mom. That bag not much a literal.
Speaker 4: Bag, Yeah, not much to speak of on the field,
Speaker 4: but everything else was there. But anyway, the guy that
Speaker 4: really did rise up of that duo at a Lo
Speaker 4: Sal was Lemon. But people are making fun of Lemon
Speaker 4: because today at the combine when he addressed the media,
Speaker 4: I guess it was kind of cringey. He was like
Speaker 4: moving around like the snake in the Jungle Book.
Speaker 2: They said, Yeah, he had like a real swag to him.
Speaker 2: It was very odd.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like a real swaggy, waggy kind of deal. So
Speaker 4: let's let's listen in. I mean, we can't see him
Speaker 4: move like a serpent on the radio, but we can
Speaker 4: listen in and see.
Speaker 5: The guy who's one NFL player you model your game after.
Speaker 6: Look up to play the same round.
Speaker 7: No type of grit he plays with, no type of
Speaker 7: the way he can have a positive air peg, you
Speaker 7: know on the team with Doug the ball in his hands.
Speaker 2: You know, it just doesn't translate to no but you,
Speaker 2: but at least you alert people to go seek it
Speaker 2: out because it is worth watching.
Speaker 4: Like it's weird, like his body moves but his head
Speaker 4: stays right in front of the microo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was another I almost wonder if there was
Speaker 2: like some sort of pack made between because there was
Speaker 2: another dude that was doing it. I was like, these
Speaker 2: guys make some sort of deal.
Speaker 4: Like let's talk like snakes. Yeah, hey, who could be
Speaker 4: more snaky?
Speaker 2: I'll out snake you.
Speaker 4: That's what the NFL loves. Yeah, I love it the snaky.
Speaker 2: It was very odd.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what to say, Like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: Like I watching it is like what is okay? Mad?
Speaker 4: It is time for the number of the.
Speaker 3: Days top number of the day.
Speaker 2: It is twenty one, twenty one dollars. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you saw this. It was making the rounds on
Speaker 2: social media today. We are your public transportation show of record.
Speaker 2: It's not even close. I mean, Dwayne McDonald has taking
Speaker 2: the Metro to multiple trains to get from Burbank to Irvine.
Speaker 4: I mean, remember Chris Little though, we couldn't take that
Speaker 4: title from him if he was still here, but he's not. No,
Speaker 4: you're right, but remember like.
Speaker 2: He would take the train from Riverside. It was train
Speaker 2: content daily all day. Every day. I took the train,
Speaker 2: I took a bus, I rode a bike. I load
Speaker 2: my bike on the front of the bus, and then
Speaker 2: I take the bus to the train, and then I
Speaker 2: take the train to the Metro, and then I take
Speaker 2: the Metro to the surf Liner and the surf Liner
Speaker 2: to the subway. Well, I'm sure you saw this. The
Speaker 2: D line is going to open.
Speaker 4: I only saw mackay lemon look at us.
Speaker 2: Well May The Metro's D Line will extend through the
Speaker 2: historic mid Wiltshire Corridor. I lived in the Fairfax district
Speaker 2: for a while. It is a nightmare to navigate via car.
Speaker 2: So to extend the train through Handcock Park, through Windsor Square,
Speaker 2: through the Fairfax District all the way into Beverly Hills
Speaker 2: will be a big deal. Stops at Wilshire, Librea, Wilshire, Fairfax, Wilshire,
Speaker 2: lo Sienega are all coming. But they decided to announce
Speaker 2: it with not just a news release but a T
Speaker 2: shirt pe and they knew.
Speaker 6: Like like.
Speaker 4: Trying to go like like what do they call that? Yeah,
Speaker 4: well no, they wouldn't go that's the internet word. What
Speaker 4: was like before viral gorilla marketing?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like gorilla marketing exactly. They decided to make
Speaker 2: a shirt.
Speaker 4: Like everybody has the same Faris shirt, you know in
Speaker 4: that town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Metro has an online store turns out shop
Speaker 2: dot Metro dot net where you can buy all of
Speaker 2: your Metro needs. And I don't know if like the
Speaker 2: hipsters are wearing it. You know, it's the M inside
Speaker 2: of it's a white M inside of a black circle
Speaker 2: is their logo.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, I mean you wear that hat, somebody's
Speaker 4: liable to poke a hole in it, so they release
Speaker 4: you as somebody who's just pokable.
Speaker 2: They used the opportunity of the announcement of the extension
Speaker 2: of the D line to launch Ride the D.
Speaker 4: Well. I mean you had me at extension of the
Speaker 4: D Yeah, you know, I mean once you once you
Speaker 4: extend the D sometime a ride is in order.
Speaker 2: And I uh, I would imagine that you would imagine
Speaker 2: and everybody listening would imagine people wanted to buy the
Speaker 2: ride the d T show. It crashed the site earlier.
Speaker 2: It is back up now. Uh. They have sizes from
Speaker 2: small to apparently if you are unhoused and need a
Speaker 2: place to live for XL so uh, hey, hey you know.
Speaker 4: What, man, all shapes and sizes in this town. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So if you want to ride the d and the
Speaker 2: D is I live under my ride the D They
Speaker 2: are now available. They did sell out, but they are
Speaker 2: available now. They crashed the site, but they are available now.
Speaker 2: I would love to ride the d Well for a
Speaker 2: couple of pull smokers like us.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, that's right. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: I am always reluctant about the metro man. I get
Speaker 4: worried about the stabbing.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get stabbed. I don't want a
Speaker 2: gentleman to pleasure himself.
Speaker 4: You know. I do think that we are probably I
Speaker 4: think we we are. We we exaggerate when it comes
Speaker 4: to the stabbings. I think we've exaggerated the stabbings. I
Speaker 4: don't know if we exaggerated.
Speaker 2: Is there still an ass at the end of stabbing?
Speaker 2: Would that still be authentic, because if there is, then
Speaker 2: I don't think we can exaggerate by saying stabbings.
Speaker 4: I just you know, I mean, I think there's you.
Speaker 2: Know, unless there was just one or none.
Speaker 4: I think there's less stabbings than we put on. But
Speaker 4: I have to say, ain't nobody on that train we're
Speaker 4: in El Segundo. When I'm there with you with the chargers,
Speaker 4: you're there a lot more than I am. Of course,
Speaker 4: I've never seen anybody on that train. That's why we
Speaker 4: call it the ghost.
Speaker 2: A ghost train running.
Speaker 4: Well, we're on top of this stuff. That's why you
Speaker 4: don't need John coblt.
Speaker 2: He ain't talking ride the d we hope.
Speaker 4: He might be. Ronnie's got the song.
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Speaker 4: The Lakers are in shambles, Matt. We will discuss it
Speaker 4: more than once today. Times are not good. People look dejected,
Speaker 4: bbl abounds, bad body language. Here to discussing a man
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Speaker 4: of course he's joining us right now. Alan Sleewah Laker
Speaker 4: insider on the Pettersen Money Show on AMPHI seventy LA
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Speaker 3: As Matches said, what's cracking slee Wah?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 6: I'm doing good.
Speaker 8: I still don't understand the negative vibe you're referring to.
Speaker 8: I think things are going, oh swimmingly, just as planned.
Speaker 4: Just okay, that's fine, you know if if you want
Speaker 4: to be that way all as well. Like Kevin Bacon
Speaker 4: at the end of Animal House, which is a reference
Speaker 4: our young younger listeners don't don't understand.
Speaker 2: Which is bull as that they don't understand it is.
Speaker 4: It is a shame, but nobody has the attention span
Speaker 4: for movies anymore. Uh, we just where our lives move
Speaker 4: too fast. We'll just do it too many very important
Speaker 4: things like picking up Asai bowls. But let's talk about it. Sleewa.
Speaker 4: Are you surprised that things have taken let's just say,
Speaker 4: a dark turn.
Speaker 6: I am.
Speaker 8: I think you know, when the Lakers went into the
Speaker 8: All Star Break, we knew that. Look, we we know
Speaker 8: what the team is. It's it's not like it's a
Speaker 8: complete shock. You kind of have an idea of right there.
Speaker 8: They don't play well defensively, they have teams that they
Speaker 8: play above five hundred.
Speaker 6: They've clearly struggled, you.
Speaker 8: Know, the combination of the Luca ar Lebron. I think
Speaker 8: it's safe to say, yeah, it isn't think it doesn't
Speaker 8: feel like it's let's call it. It's definitely not a
Speaker 8: smooth operation. But I think I think what you've seen
Speaker 8: these last three games or so, you're kind of starting
Speaker 8: to see a new low every game. The Boston Celtics
Speaker 8: are a good team. They're very well coached. Their players
Speaker 8: play really really hard, but they're not necessarily more talented
Speaker 8: than the Lakers personnel wise. Lakers got their ass kicked
Speaker 8: there wasn't even a close. There wasn't even a game
Speaker 8: at Crypto. Go to the Orlando Magic game where two
Speaker 8: key pieces, I mean, Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs are
Speaker 8: really kind of critical pieces for the Orlando Magic. The
Speaker 8: Lakers after losing the way they lost to the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 8: you think maybe a little bit more pride, come out
Speaker 8: and try to get a w. They lose to the Magic,
Speaker 8: and then yesterday was just I don't even know how.
Speaker 6: To describe it.
Speaker 8: Grayson Allen and Colin Gillespie dominated the Lakers, a lot
Speaker 8: of guys that you know, people around the league don't
Speaker 8: even know who some of these players are outside of
Speaker 8: those guys, and the Lakers they lose again. So yeah,
Speaker 8: you could walk in and say, hey, I don't think
Speaker 8: the Lakers are going to compete for a championship. That's fine,
Speaker 8: Obviously nobody's gonna argue that. But to see the trajectory
Speaker 8: of where the Lakers are going and to see kind
Speaker 8: of their span here now I think eleven and thirteen
Speaker 8: over their last twenty four games certainly not heading in
Speaker 8: the right direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the I guess you know what Petros was leading
Speaker 2: into there with the BBL the bad body language. Like
Speaker 2: you said, this is a team that was fighting for
Speaker 2: the free seed. It felt like two weeks ago and
Speaker 2: now as we are, you know, being sarcastic about how
Speaker 2: swimmingly it's going, they're flirting with the playing again. Like
Speaker 2: what has happened in the last two weeks? Is it chemistry?
Speaker 2: You got eighting, you know, getting lippy about his role
Speaker 2: and what's the correction? Is it JJ? Is it Lebron Like,
Speaker 2: who has got to grab the reins and steer this
Speaker 2: thing in the right direction? It has clearly come off
Speaker 2: the tracks.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think money to hit on what you said
Speaker 8: about why did it come off the track? I think,
Speaker 8: you know, you could point to a couple of things.
Speaker 8: But the Lakers were I think at one point thirteen
Speaker 8: to zero in clutch games. Okay, well, obviously that's not
Speaker 8: going to continue to hold its own weight. They got healthy,
Speaker 8: which in a weird way, I almost think is hurting
Speaker 8: the team because I think their rotations are completely off.
Speaker 8: And what I mean by that is I don't think
Speaker 8: anybody really knows their role. I don't think guys, and
Speaker 8: some of this has to do with the stars as well,
Speaker 8: Austin Reeves doesn't look anywhere near the player that he
Speaker 8: was towards the beginning of the season. The combination of
Speaker 8: the three stars don't look good. I think JJ Raddick
Speaker 8: is getting out coach in each one of these games.
Speaker 8: I mean, you got guy, And it might even just
Speaker 8: be you could look at one side and say, hey,
Speaker 8: those guys are playing harder than the Lakers. Hey, those
Speaker 8: guys understand their role, specifically movement. So much isolball for
Speaker 8: the Lakers sometimes watching them, it's so predictable. There's just
Speaker 8: nothing creative that the Lakers are doing. I think the
Speaker 8: thing you said of okay, well, what gets it back
Speaker 8: on track? I would say this, you know you got
Speaker 8: twenty four games left. You're obviously you know you're looking
Speaker 8: behind you, and the Phoenix Suns are only a game behind.
Speaker 8: And I think for Phoenix, I don't think the Lakers
Speaker 8: are going to actually be in the playing tournament. And
Speaker 8: that's not because they're playing good basketball. I just think
Speaker 8: other teams are injured. But with twenty four games left,
Speaker 8: what I would say is just throw away the script.
Speaker 8: You don't stop playing the politics stop well, I have
Speaker 8: to start Austin Reeves because of this or that or
Speaker 8: that player.
Speaker 6: I gotta give eight X amount of minutes. You don't
Speaker 6: have to do anything.
Speaker 8: You got twenty four games left to try to figure
Speaker 8: out what's the best that I could do with this
Speaker 8: roster the rest of the way. Don't worry about emotions, feelings,
Speaker 8: any of that stuff. Do just what's in the best
Speaker 8: interest of the team. And you got to figure out
Speaker 8: a way to find what's a winning solution. And they
Speaker 8: could clearly don't have that right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you know. And we're going to get
Speaker 2: into this a little bit later. I guess a bit
Speaker 2: of a preview is here's what I can't figure out.
Speaker 2: And I know what you mean. Like, it's Don Chic,
Speaker 2: who's played at forty plus last night. Austin Reeves I
Speaker 2: think is playing his ass off and playing pretty damn well. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to point the finger exclusively at Lebron,
Speaker 2: but there is something wrong with that chemistry. There is
Speaker 2: something about those three that just does not look right.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned that final play. I mean you mentioned
Speaker 2: Gillespie and Grayson. I mean, those are the two guys
Speaker 2: that connect on that final play. Lebron is trying to
Speaker 2: share to oust rings, do not slack off O'Neill, stay
Speaker 2: with him, and he's the guy that slacks off Gillespie
Speaker 2: and has no chance of helping on Grayson Allen anyway,
Speaker 2: And that whole thing falls apart, Like I don't even
Speaker 2: know if there's a question in there, Alan, but it
Speaker 2: just feels like these three guys on the court together,
Speaker 2: it's there's something that's not right with it.
Speaker 8: Well, if I think if I told you this, if
Speaker 8: we just kind of separated and he said, hey, what's
Speaker 8: the perfect type of player with Luka Doncic, No one's
Speaker 8: gonna say Lebron's skill set at forty one. No one's
Speaker 8: going to say Austin Reeves in the back court and
Speaker 8: a player that is going to struggle on the defensive side.
Speaker 8: If I said, hey, what's the perfect combination with Lebron
Speaker 8: at this age? I don't think you're going to look
Speaker 8: at lu Uca or look at Austin Reeves. Hey, when
Speaker 8: Austin Reeves is in the game, what would be I
Speaker 8: think this is the ingredients don't mix. And that's why
Speaker 8: I said, and whether we want to point the finger
Speaker 8: at Lebron because you mentioned the Royce O'Neil. Remember the
Speaker 8: game against Orlando Magic. He played off at Desmond Baye
Speaker 8: Bain hits that three that gave Orlando the lee I
Speaker 8: think gave him a one point lead. I think the
Speaker 8: main piece here in.
Speaker 6: All of this is the pieces.
Speaker 8: Clearly, when they're all in there together, it's not good basketball.
Speaker 6: It's just not so.
Speaker 8: Is then the idea of all right, I know Reeves
Speaker 8: is going to give all the effort in the world,
Speaker 8: but is Reeves good with that mix? Does he better off?
Speaker 8: Is he better off coming off the bench? Which will
Speaker 8: help some of these other bench players that are in
Speaker 8: there that all of a sudden, none of these guys
Speaker 8: are productive off the bench. I know really didn't play yesterday,
Speaker 8: but he's been struggling. Jake Laavia not the same player.
Speaker 8: There's a little bit of a trickle effect here. And
Speaker 8: you know, I know you said there wasn't a question there,
Speaker 8: but I think the observation is fair and I think
Speaker 8: the foundation of it is those three players do not
Speaker 8: play well together, and it's not going to change. I
Speaker 8: don't think something's going to change in twenty four games
Speaker 8: in regards to those three players specifically, we.
Speaker 4: Are solving the world's problems by discussing the Lakers' shortcomings.
Speaker 4: Alan Sliewah from Hoops Talk joining us right now on
Speaker 4: the Petros and Money Show. We talked to him periodically
Speaker 4: and it is always enlightening. So how much of this
Speaker 4: has to do with just they get caught with Luka
Speaker 4: Doncic and Lebron is still getting paid a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of money and they're going to build a team around
Speaker 4: Luca at some point? How much of it is the
Speaker 4: ownership transition that is constantly kind of moving and people
Speaker 4: are moving in and moving out. We saw Lon Rosen
Speaker 4: do a press conference this week. The awkward position they're
Speaker 4: kind of in. Is this why.
Speaker 8: I think you know the this is a gap year.
Speaker 8: And as much as you were hoping that.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to take a gap year Allan, They
Speaker 4: did not offer gap years for short yardage running backs
Speaker 4: in the nineties at USC, unfortunately, But I think it
Speaker 4: really would have shaped me as a person. I could
Speaker 4: have gone to go to Barcelona or someplace like that
Speaker 4: and really found myself.
Speaker 6: I'm anyway, I think we should all get a gap here.
Speaker 6: We should all get a gap here. Please continue, even
Speaker 6: at this stage of our careers. Let's get a gap here.
Speaker 8: I think what I mean by that is I think
Speaker 8: that they just kind of are what they are and
Speaker 8: there is all right, let's do the best of what
Speaker 8: we can with what we have. Let's not give up
Speaker 8: any assets like they you know, obviously they didn't give
Speaker 8: up a first rounder at the at the trade deadline,
Speaker 8: which says something. They didn't give Lebron an extension or
Speaker 8: an additional extension, I think, which I think says something.
Speaker 8: They got a ton of cap space. They have three
Speaker 8: first rounders in the summer.
Speaker 6: I think the only.
Speaker 8: Players that they have actually physical on the books for
Speaker 8: next year, I know there's player options and everything else
Speaker 8: is Luca, Jared Vanderbilt, and Jake Laravia. So yes, I look,
Speaker 8: the ownership piece is going to be a big part
Speaker 8: of it, which is why I think a lot of
Speaker 8: people do have some optimism of what it could look
Speaker 8: like past this season. But you still got to get
Speaker 8: to the summer, and you still obviously got to get to.
Speaker 6: The off season.
Speaker 8: But I think a bigger thing, more than anything else,
Speaker 8: is they understand internally, yeah, this isn't the year to
Speaker 8: try to, you know, go all in or use every
Speaker 8: asset that you have, and I think kind of their
Speaker 8: actions have spoke louder than their words. They've proven that since,
Speaker 8: whether it was in the summer when they made moves
Speaker 8: to just make sure that they had cap space this
Speaker 8: upcoming summer, or at the trade deadline when they held
Speaker 8: on the assets. And then we'll see obviously what they
Speaker 8: do after the season. But I do think this is
Speaker 8: kind of that in between year and hopefully they clean
Speaker 8: it up after this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, as we wrap it here, Alan,
Speaker 2: the last question is just to your point, gap year.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's hard to imagine taking a gap
Speaker 2: year when you have one of the league's five best
Speaker 2: players on your team. It's just crazy to think that.
Speaker 2: But when they acquired Luca, they still have Lebron under
Speaker 2: contract for fifty million bucks. They still have all of
Speaker 2: these other players that were essentially signed to build around
Speaker 2: Lebron James as the centerpiece. Is it as easy as
Speaker 2: look when the season comes to a close, They've got
Speaker 2: all this money, they've got Austin Reeves, the two of
Speaker 2: them seem to play together. They're kind of build a
Speaker 2: roster around Luca and then everything's gonna fit and they're
Speaker 2: gonna have one of the five best players in the league,
Speaker 2: and the guys around him are going to be legitimate
Speaker 2: supporting pieces for that particular superstar.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it could change quickly.
Speaker 8: And you know, as much as people want to say, well,
Speaker 8: you know, I want it to change right now, the
Speaker 8: reality is I think once they traded for Luca, they understood, like,
Speaker 8: all right, that chapter is going to eventually end and
Speaker 8: a new chapter is going to begin. And frankly, it
Speaker 8: can really start until Lebron's off the books. Like that's
Speaker 8: just the reality of it. I don't think it can start.
Speaker 8: But if we're spinning this and I'm this is just
Speaker 8: my genuine feeling, they're gonna have a lot of opportunity
Speaker 8: come the summer. If you're a big time player out
Speaker 8: there or you're a know, a potential free agent, you
Speaker 8: get a chance to play with one of the more
Speaker 8: historic franchises, a superstar in Luka Doncic. You've got this
Speaker 8: new ownership that everybody's kind of churning their head and
Speaker 8: saying to themselves, look what they've done. Yes, I understand
Speaker 8: it's baseball, and baseball is not the same as the NBA,
Speaker 8: but you don't think they're gonna put together the infrastructure.
Speaker 8: You don't think they're gonna put together the proper front
Speaker 8: office and make sure that the areas where there is
Speaker 8: no there is no salary cap, they'll spend as much
Speaker 8: as they possibly can. I do think the future is bright,
Speaker 8: but we'll take a second to get there. And I
Speaker 8: think the first time you could really start feeling the
Speaker 8: impact of new ownership will probably be in the summer.
Speaker 4: All right, Always a nuanced conversation that lack stupidity. The
Speaker 4: great Alan Sleewah Hoops Talk on YouTube and on the
Speaker 4: iHeartRadio app, and daily reports right here on AM five
Speaker 4: to seventy LA Sports. Thank you Allan, we appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thanks Bell, I appreciate it as well.
Speaker 4: Good weekend YouTube, brother, and we'll be right back with
Speaker 4: some reaction in the world of great sports talk on
Speaker 4: a frog Man Friday. Still to come, the top story
Speaker 4: of the day, David Vasse, Who's got Dave Roberts and
Speaker 4: JD Martinez tonight, plenty of stuff. Stay with us. We're
Speaker 4: on till seven.
Speaker 2: Big thank you to Alan Sliwa for joining us Hoops
Speaker 2: Talk on YouTube. Does a lot of work here at
Speaker 2: iHeart we appreciate it. Rough one for the Lakers last night,
Speaker 2: use it lose at the Buzzer. They dig out of
Speaker 2: a twelve point hole in the fourth quarter, but then
Speaker 2: lose to a Royce O'Neil three, and everybody, well not everybody.
Speaker 2: People that like the Lakers are very upset. People that
Speaker 2: don't like the Lakers are very upset or something like that.
Speaker 4: It's all very upsetting because Jabron Lames is still getting
Speaker 4: one over. We're still getting nailed by the King. That's
Speaker 4: why it's upsetting. Matt.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, That's why I'm emotional. It's exactly right.
Speaker 4: Anyway, thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: Did you, by the way, did you see the emotional
Speaker 2: that Jeff Kent clip from a few days ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was calling somebody.
Speaker 2: Out, Alex Rodriguez a rod and John Miller didn't know
Speaker 2: what to do with it. He was like, yeah, and
Speaker 2: then that fat ass comes rolling in and knocks me down.
Speaker 2: He's a middle infielder, you're supposed to know. Miller was
Speaker 2: like two and one.
Speaker 4: That's a hard ass. All right. Well, you know what,
Speaker 4: we'll call this the flip top story of the day.
Speaker 3: I'll clip you out, i will look you out. This
Speaker 3: is the flip top story of the day.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it again, Matt, because I spent one
Speaker 4: half at the Into It Dome last night, not the
Speaker 4: Inuit Dome. I was surprised that there were no eskimos,
Speaker 4: or there was no Saint Bernard. I wanted a whiskey
Speaker 4: and I thought they were going to serve it with
Speaker 4: a Saint Bernard and a little barrel under his neck.
Speaker 4: But that never happened. But I went with the social
Speaker 4: media Ethiopian Prince Matt. Then Becky great guy Ronnie declined
Speaker 4: my invitation, and so did Colin. We did have a.
Speaker 6: Bunch of friends.
Speaker 2: No, Matt had to go to film it.
Speaker 4: You're right, You're correct. We had a bunch of social
Speaker 4: media stuff to do. It was like a holiday for me, though, Matt.
Speaker 4: Even though it was a work thing. We had to
Speaker 4: do a bunch of stuff for Toyota, which we did,
Speaker 4: and you could check it out at Toyota Socow on
Speaker 4: Instagram or at Petrosoon Money on Instagram. And I've got
Speaker 4: to say, Matt, one year later, because I did this
Speaker 4: exact same thing last year, and I'll probably do it
Speaker 4: again next year. But I'm not going to ask for
Speaker 4: two extra tickets this time. You got to learn my lessons.
Speaker 4: The Into It Dome remains the greatest sports experience.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like federal appropriations for roadwork, Like if
Speaker 2: you don't do the roadwork, they won't give you the
Speaker 2: money the next year. Like the Clippers gave you the
Speaker 2: tickets and when they weren't used, they're not going to
Speaker 2: give it to you next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah you're right. Well, I mean, yeah, you're right, because
Speaker 4: they did come over and check out that I didn't
Speaker 4: have two people with me. The Into It Dome remains
Speaker 4: the greatest sports experience interactively that I've ever been or seen.
Speaker 4: And I know we clown the clips rightfully so a
Speaker 4: little bit. And I know that it's fun to get
Speaker 4: after fully functional employee Adam and Tukah the cat. But
Speaker 4: the truth is, however, Steve Balmer has been swindled by
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard and Paul Joel George and Kawhi Leonards Bengali
Speaker 4: uncle Uncle Kawhi. Steve Baumer really did build the future
Speaker 4: of sports arenas in America, and it is sitting right
Speaker 4: there in Inglewood. It is, one year later, the most
Speaker 4: impressive place I've ever watched a sporting event. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's old places and there's places with character, but if
Speaker 4: you're looking for a modern experience, my god. There are
Speaker 4: people everywhere, Matt, but it doesn't feel crowded. The ingress
Speaker 4: and egress that's ridiculous are beautifully managed. There is sound,
Speaker 4: but you can talk to the person next to you
Speaker 4: without having to scream. Somebody is always there to tell
Speaker 4: you what's popping if you have a question. I've never
Speaker 4: been anywhere like it before since, and it's hard to explain.
Speaker 4: Although I did enjoy Nippert Stadium, which is the football
Speaker 4: venue in Cincinnati. Very different though, but kudos to Bomber
Speaker 4: because it really is a marvel. It really really is
Speaker 4: a marvel. And it wasn't just the free drinks that
Speaker 4: I enjoyed with social media, Matt that would make me
Speaker 4: say such a thing. I know that the Clippers are
Speaker 4: the Clippers, and I did see Kawhi in his balure outfit.
Speaker 4: He was not playing. He was a load managing.
Speaker 2: Happens.
Speaker 4: But we had a nice holiday social media, Matt. Now,
Speaker 4: even though, like Matt says, I have no friends that
Speaker 4: would go with me, which is true, Well, clip friends
Speaker 4: you know, nobody wanted it, even Blackmore. Oh wow, Blackmore
Speaker 4: turning out and he goes. John McClean said to me,
Speaker 4: you could get you could be paid to one thousand
Speaker 4: dollars for that. Split it with me, and I wouldn't go.
Speaker 4: I'm doubling down on the endto it Dome. It is
Speaker 4: the the best venue and l and the parking works,
Speaker 4: the bridge into the plaza, probably the best venue on earth.
Speaker 4: And thanks to our socout Toyota Dealers for always having
Speaker 4: cool setups all over the town at Toyota SoCal or
Speaker 4: at Petrosen. Money to check out the video. All right,
Speaker 4: second story in the flip top. I know you're going
Speaker 4: to talk about it, Matt in a detailed way. And
Speaker 4: we just had a very serious conversation. It's always very
Speaker 4: serious when it comes to Alan Sleewak.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're serious people.
Speaker 4: But in regards to the Lakers versus the Suns last night, yeah,
Speaker 4: the whole deal. I don't have any real comment on
Speaker 4: the game other than the fact that I know that
Speaker 4: the Suns were shorthanded and the Lakers had all their guys,
Speaker 4: and there's all kinds of clips of how miserable Luca
Speaker 4: looks and how Lebron has broken Luca. But I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what paradise the two white guys. Let's
Speaker 4: listen there.
Speaker 3: You guys remember the eighties.
Speaker 9: I don't, but I was hoping you would hop Okay, Oh.
Speaker 2: This lady.
Speaker 9: We bumped into each other on the road and on
Speaker 9: the charts every now and then. Her voice is one
Speaker 9: of the most powerful instruments in music, and somehow, for
Speaker 9: some reason, we never worked together except an occasional show.
Speaker 2: I never got to sing. I'm watching the video.
Speaker 9: That she's allowing me to sing with her on this
Speaker 9: next song. It's another big hit from Footloose. Please welcome
Speaker 9: a woman with real heart and Wilson.
Speaker 2: And Wilson and log didn't you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Get a back? I couldn't help but think last night
Speaker 4: when the Lakers were getting the lights shot out by
Speaker 4: Colin Gillespie and Grayson Allen, the two white guys on
Speaker 4: the Suns who beat the Lakers last night. I was
Speaker 4: looking at those guys and I was like, both, this
Speaker 4: cannot be a coincidence, both of those whities. And I've
Speaker 4: seen those guys watch. I know Gillespie when he played
Speaker 4: in Villanova. We all remember Grayson Allen having a temper
Speaker 4: tantrum or trying to trip somebody. Uh. I mean, those
Speaker 4: guys are white guys. They look like white guys. But
Speaker 4: last night, wherever they came back from after the All
Speaker 4: Star break, those guys had the two most incredible tans
Speaker 4: I have ever seen. I don't know if they're getting
Speaker 4: Arizona golfed in during the day they're out there, or
Speaker 4: if they went to Saint Kitts during the All Star break,
Speaker 4: or they escaped Mexico before the Kimchi hit the fan.
Speaker 4: But I will tell you Matt beyond Lebron making the
Speaker 4: Lakers miserable, beyond Polenka hanging by a string, beyond Luca
Speaker 4: Lebron and Austin Reeves not being able to play together,
Speaker 4: but beyond eight and disparaging Clint Capella. Those guys look
Speaker 4: like Tom Penders or George Hamilton a tam. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know where those guys went. You know how
Speaker 4: your friend comes back from Hawaii or something and you're
Speaker 4: like god, you know, like wow, that's what those two
Speaker 4: whities look like. Wow, And you couldn't help but think
Speaker 4: they'd probably used the power of the sun to shoot
Speaker 4: the lights out on.
Speaker 2: The Lakers, right there on their chest.
Speaker 4: I mean, even beach boy Matt, who generally has a
Speaker 4: glowing wave cresting hue like Hermes, has nothing on these
Speaker 4: guys last night. They are They were broad and I'm
Speaker 4: surprised no one else noticed that. I didn't look on
Speaker 4: Twitter or anything, but I'm surprised no one else noticed
Speaker 4: what an amazing tan both Gillespie and Grays and Allen
Speaker 4: were displaying last night.
Speaker 2: Maybe charted a private catamaran in the Gulf.
Speaker 4: Those whites looked dark. You know what I'm saying, Matt.
Speaker 4: If I ordered white beat and they brought me that,
Speaker 4: I'd be like, that's not what I ordered.
Speaker 2: This is a thigh.
Speaker 4: There's nothing left on his plate but fat and grissoon.
Speaker 4: So very impressive from those guys last night. I wonder
Speaker 4: what paradise they came from, maybe walking on the beach
Speaker 4: singing together like Annie Wilson and Kenny Loggins. Do you
Speaker 4: guys remember the eighties? I don't. All right, thank you everybody,
Speaker 4: and we'll be back with Mark great sports talk. What's
Speaker 4: you gonna do? Matt?
Speaker 2: I forgot that was from Footloose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was when they were dancing. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was right at the end.
Speaker 4: When no one was dancing, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: the people that were too awkward to ask somebody to
Speaker 4: dance became the most exuberant professional dancers you could ever imagine.
Speaker 2: Who could have seen that coming? Nobody.
Speaker 4: I didn't see it coming. Now then, and you know what,
Speaker 4: and as I always say, if I was in like
Speaker 4: a major fistfight, like real fisticuffs, like we're happening in
Speaker 4: a footloose there right before the dance, you know, they
Speaker 4: got a big fight. Yeah, he did a flying kick,
Speaker 4: there were weapons used, one guy holding the other. There
Speaker 4: was like two on five. And then like right after
Speaker 4: that fight, like he just runs in there and just
Speaker 4: starts dancing his balls off, and it's like, Wow, that's
Speaker 4: a real emotional swing that I don't think I could
Speaker 4: deal with. Knowing your limitations is a big part of
Speaker 4: growing up. Matt's got his story next.