Speaker 1: On this episode of a heat check. Tell yes, this
Speaker 1: is exactly what I wanted. Dan Hurley did it. He
Speaker 1: made his decision and he rebuffed the Lakers and is
Speaker 1: staying in Connecticut. So yes, we bring on Lakers insider
Speaker 1: and friend of show, producer of show actually Anthony Irwin
Speaker 1: to help us make sense of it. Anthony, let's get
Speaker 1: right into it. Let's drop that motherfucking beat that should
Speaker 1: be reON O leader. Shit. Wow, I know it's not
Speaker 1: breaking really anymore because it happened yesterday, but we've got
Speaker 1: breaking news and it has absolutely zero to do with
Speaker 1: the finals, and it's dominated the landscape of the news
Speaker 1: cycle even while the Finals were going on. No one
Speaker 1: even cares about this Boston Celtics Dallas Maverick series. I
Speaker 1: literally was walking with someone that were like, who's playing
Speaker 1: against the Celtics again, I'm like, bro, it's Luka Doncic
Speaker 1: in the Dallas bricks. Leave it to the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Lakers to steal the thunder from the actual games themselves.
Speaker 1: The backstory here is incredible. I won't get into it
Speaker 1: all download the last podcast because we go into it instead.
Speaker 1: I have been reached out too by multiple Laker insiders
Speaker 1: and people who are extremely close to this organization, and
Speaker 1: the picture that they are painting is just insane. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on inside this organization. That's the
Speaker 1: question of the hour. There's a few things we do know.
Speaker 1: For fact Number one, the Lakers were extremely public about
Speaker 1: wanting to hire Dan Hurley, and I think I think
Speaker 1: that was like real, but they were very public about
Speaker 1: wanting them and courting them. Two, the Hurley camp leaked
Speaker 1: the number that they were looking for was eight years
Speaker 1: and one hundred million. Three the Lakers offered six years
Speaker 1: and seventy million, which is thirty million dollars short of expectation.
Speaker 1: Monday morning, Hurley turns down the Lakers job and is
Speaker 1: now in line to become the highest paid coach in
Speaker 1: all of college basketball, which Connecticut governor came out and
Speaker 1: said today. Those are four facts, but the context of
Speaker 1: the facts are delicious. They are bonkers. I haven't done
Speaker 1: this before, but I kind of felt like it was
Speaker 1: warranted because I think that the opinions were good, and
Speaker 1: I think that they show like the kind of evolution
Speaker 1: of the opinion over time or immediate reaction to Oh,
Speaker 1: I've got some more information let's share it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play the audio of my immediate reaction that I did
Speaker 1: after the news dropped. Buckle up, life comes at you fast. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is delicious, great stuff on a Monday. Not because
Speaker 1: just Dan Hurley decides to go back to Yukon and
Speaker 1: fucks the Lakers over, but because the Lakers fumbled the bang,
Speaker 1: absolute disaster situation. Not only was it a terrible fit,
Speaker 1: because let's be honest, like Rob doesn't know what he's doing,
Speaker 1: Genie Bust doesn't know what she's doing. Linda Rambis is around.
Speaker 1: Why is she around? But we're not talking about a franchise.
Speaker 1: Is that got They got Steve Bomber money? Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a mom and pop organization and they promised him
Speaker 1: one hundred million. That was the reports. And guess what
Speaker 1: they went down to six year seventy and he was like,
Speaker 1: I think guy will go back to stores. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Smith said it perfectly. If this is remotely true,
Speaker 1: it's time to sell the team. One of the premier
Speaker 1: franchises in all of sports can't be losing out on
Speaker 1: players or coaches because of money. Remember, Genie Buss only
Speaker 1: makes money from the Lakers. That there's no other source
Speaker 1: of revenue, not like Steve Balmer, not like Matt Ishbia,
Speaker 1: not like James Dolan, not like the list of other billionaires.
Speaker 1: She's by far one of the poorest owners in all
Speaker 1: of the NBA. She was not about to give them
Speaker 1: one hundred million. Can't allow the Detroit Pistons to be
Speaker 1: able to pay a coach more than you, and a
Speaker 1: coach that doesn't even deserve the money. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I love this so much. Oh he's a Portland fan.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. Yeah, I love it. I do. I just say,
Speaker 1: Linda's got a weird case. Why is she around? Honestly,
Speaker 1: why is Linda Rambis always around? Anyway? So then I
Speaker 1: got some calls, like literally immediately, I got calls, Hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you this, Hey gotta tell you this, Hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you this. Inside the house. The call
Speaker 1: is coming from inside the house. And the tea was
Speaker 1: so hot I had to drop an ice cube just
Speaker 1: to sip it. And there's an honest to god conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: Not only did I get this directly, other NBA insiders
Speaker 1: were coming out of the woodworks to say basically the
Speaker 1: same thing. And you know, I love a good NBA
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. So let's play what I had to say
Speaker 1: in terms of the story that I was being told
Speaker 1: of the saga around Dan Hurley and his courting process
Speaker 1: by the LA Lakers. Well, the streets are talking about
Speaker 1: this whole Dan Hurley Lakers thing, and now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bring it to you. The rumor is that the media
Speaker 1: mobster aka Woch had a multi tier plan to one
Speaker 1: take out and discredit his foe and competitor in this sport,
Speaker 1: get one of his best friends the bag, and help
Speaker 1: shape a narrative for one of his great sources, the
Speaker 1: LA Lakers, to make it look like they know what
Speaker 1: they are doing when they definitely definitely do not. June fourth,
Speaker 1: Lakers are zeroing in on JJ Reddick as the front runner,
Speaker 1: even put out sourcing that he had already interviewed. We
Speaker 1: know there's a scoop board between Shams and Woj, and
Speaker 1: Sean's been racking up way too many ws lately. This
Speaker 1: sourcing then comes out from Woch one day later. Actually,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are zeroing in to give a massive contract
Speaker 1: to Dan Hurley, and they have been targeting him four weeks. Okay,
Speaker 1: Dan Hurley visits the Lakers and says he was compelled
Speaker 1: and intrigued and impressed. Hurley decides to stay at Yukon
Speaker 1: after a dogged pursuit of Hurley. See this is what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. It makes it look like the Lakers
Speaker 1: are putting on a very thorough search when we know
Speaker 1: that they have not. It been literally this idea like
Speaker 1: four days ago. Joe Pompiano said it best. It's almost
Speaker 1: like Dan Hurley leaked all this through his friend who
Speaker 1: literally wrote a book on his dad to secure himself
Speaker 1: a bigger contract than you can. Wod gets a scoop,
Speaker 1: the Lakers get to say, hey, we tried, and Hurley
Speaker 1: gets a huge race. So along the way, Sean's looks
Speaker 1: like he's a fucking idiot when he was the one
Speaker 1: that was right all along. Yeah, I mean, woj also,
Speaker 1: by the way, extremely desperate to cover his tracks and
Speaker 1: make it look like the whole thing was not a ruse,
Speaker 1: that it was extremely legit, and that danerally was totally
Speaker 1: enchanted by the conversations that he had when he totally
Speaker 1: definitely went to la for a real meeting, which I'm
Speaker 1: not really even sure that.
Speaker 2: He flew out the half right like we did. Anyone
Speaker 2: see it anyway? He tweets this out as swept away.
Speaker 2: As Hurley became by the Lakers courtship and vision for him,
Speaker 2: he ultimately couldn't walk away from a chance to make
Speaker 2: history and pursue a third straight nc DOUBLEA title. Even
Speaker 2: before Lakers.
Speaker 1: Talks, Hurley had already had a Yukon offer to become
Speaker 1: one of the highest paid NCUBLEA coaches. And those talks
Speaker 1: will continue, meaning you better give that man his money.
Speaker 1: Those talks will continue. Okay, all right, There's one thing
Speaker 1: that I want to address before we get into this
Speaker 1: interview with Anthony. This is now the third NCUBLEA championship
Speaker 1: coach that ditched the Lakers, Jerry Tarkanian in the seventies
Speaker 1: because they killed his manager, the mob, and he got spooked.
Speaker 1: That's what happened. Actually, Coach K got cold feet and
Speaker 1: Dan Early Danny Early, which like he's a scoundrel. Wait,
Speaker 1: what he did was a masterclass in negotiating tactics. But
Speaker 1: it's the Coach K analogy that I think want I
Speaker 1: want to help illuminate how badly the Lakers fucked this up.
Speaker 1: And now I'm not saying that he really wanted it.
Speaker 1: But sometimes there's just amount of money that you say,
Speaker 1: fuck my career, fuck my legacy, I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: biggest bag possible, and if I fail, I can go
Speaker 1: somewhere else. I found an article from the La Times
Speaker 1: from two thousand and four July two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: the Lakers were in the midst of their coaching search
Speaker 1: and they were courting coach K. They offered coach K
Speaker 1: the Lakers did five years, forty mili eight million dollars
Speaker 1: a year, which I think is less than they offered
Speaker 1: Tylou like two years ago, which is tremendous, almost exactly
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, and that eight million dollars today would
Speaker 1: still make you the seventh highest paid coach in the NBA.
Speaker 1: That's insane. But that's not even the real content of this.
Speaker 1: Because if you go through this economic history website that
Speaker 1: they have called how Much is that, it's a calculator.
Speaker 1: It allows you to translate the value of money at
Speaker 1: any time into American history and convert it into today's value.
Speaker 1: It's called the present value of money. You know, how
Speaker 1: much forty million dollars in two thousand and four is
Speaker 1: worth in twenty twenty four money. It has a real
Speaker 1: dollar amount of today of sixty seven million dollars, which
Speaker 1: could equal out to thirteen point four million dollars per year,
Speaker 1: which I think is money Williams money. Maybe that's how
Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons spenciled that out. So how the fuck
Speaker 1: did the Lakers low ball generally to the tune of
Speaker 1: eleven point sixty seven million a year when all of
Speaker 1: the rumors were that he wanted twelve point five million
Speaker 1: dollars per year. Well, because very simply, Jerry Buss still
Speaker 1: ran that thing in two thousand and four, and now
Speaker 1: we got the Genie bus Bus now controlling things. And
Speaker 1: I believe if the Lakers offered Dan Hurley thirteen point
Speaker 1: four million dollars a year or actually just like almost
Speaker 1: any time period but an automatic guarantee hundred million, you
Speaker 1: see one hundred million, you say, sorry, babe, can't turn
Speaker 1: that down. And I think Andreas says, sorry, babe, we
Speaker 1: can't turn that down. He's in purple and gold right now, baby,
Speaker 1: He's got lebron t shirts ready in the mail for him.
Speaker 1: As good friend of show. Keith Smith, the spow Track
Speaker 1: tweeted out today if they really did low Ballhurley after
Speaker 1: that public of according, Palinka should be fired and Genie
Speaker 1: Buss should sell the team. But instead the Lakers barely
Speaker 1: matched eleven million a year, which is, by the way,
Speaker 1: what Kentucky offered Dan. Really the Dan really immediately turned down.
Speaker 1: They offered him the same money that he had already
Speaker 1: said was not enough to get him away from stores.
Speaker 1: And that's not even factoring in the fact that eleven
Speaker 1: million dollars in LA is not even close to eleven
Speaker 1: million dollars in Kentucky. In Kentucky, Baby Lexington. So now
Speaker 1: Dan really is staying east to pursue history. The Lakers
Speaker 1: now have to go with whatever it is that they
Speaker 1: say Plan B is. James Brego get the fuck out
Speaker 1: of here, little finger Woge returns back to ESPN to
Speaker 1: thek his wounds. Let's be real, like, does he get
Speaker 1: a Dan Early kickback? I don't know. Will it be
Speaker 1: your book deal? Will he get paid? Who knows? All
Speaker 1: of the all of the stuff is just so delicious.
Speaker 1: Sham's has proven correct again. And then JJ Reddick when
Speaker 1: he gets off of the job after the Celtics sweep
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks. Uh and then they turn him down.
Speaker 1: Then he turns them down. The Lakers are gonna have
Speaker 1: to start a square one. They will remain a dumpster fire.
Speaker 1: It is currently three weeks before the NBA Draft, less
Speaker 1: than a month before free agency, and the Lakers have
Speaker 1: no coach, they have no plan. Bro Like, what are
Speaker 1: they doing? What's happening? Delp Us makes this. Let's turn
Speaker 1: to my man man, Anthony Irwin of the Lakers Lounge.
Speaker 1: He appeared on my show tonight at MGM Tonight, which
Speaker 1: airs from seven to eleven Eastern on the radio most
Speaker 1: major markets, as well as live on video on Twitch
Speaker 1: and YouTube. Anthony gave us so much tea. We asked
Speaker 1: them about Lynda Ramis. We had too, So let's get
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 3: It's been a very quiet day surrounding the Lakers. Obviously
Speaker 3: not much going on now. Dan Hurley turning down If
Speaker 3: you missed it, I don't know how you could have
Speaker 3: missed it at this point, turning down the Lakers offer.
Speaker 3: He's gonna stay at Yukon. He's gonna look to go
Speaker 3: to a threepeat. Anthony Irwin jumps on with US Lakers
Speaker 3: Insider for Lakers Daily, which I'm sure you've had a
Speaker 3: very quiet day yourself, Anthony, not alot go. The last
Speaker 3: time you were on here, the Lakers were looking for
Speaker 3: a head coach. Well, here we are the Lakers are
Speaker 3: looking for a head coach again. At this point, let's
Speaker 3: just look back on the situation with Dan Hurley, from
Speaker 3: JJ Reddick to Dan Hurley. How did we get to
Speaker 3: that point? And now how are we once again still
Speaker 3: with the Lakers trying to find who their next head
Speaker 3: coach is going to be.
Speaker 4: I think it all kind of starts and ends with
Speaker 4: the Lakers lowballing Hurley, you know, he so essentially John
Speaker 4: Fanta of Fox Sports had reported that Hurley was, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of the deal that was out there potentially was
Speaker 4: for upwards of one hundred million dollars. So I took
Speaker 4: that to some of the people who I know close
Speaker 4: to the Lakers and asked them if they thought that
Speaker 4: the Lakers would get to that level. That was pretty
Speaker 4: clearly Hurley leaking, or Hurley's camp leaking his expectation what
Speaker 4: it would take to get him away from Yukon and
Speaker 4: get him away from that opportunity to repeat. And I
Speaker 4: was told that, yeah, the Lakers you know, obviously that's
Speaker 4: pretty steep for a rookie head coach. But the Lakers
Speaker 4: knew what game that they were playing and thought that,
Speaker 4: you know, they would make that kind of a compelling offer.
Speaker 4: And then the reports today from Ahrian Mozarowski is that
Speaker 4: he only got an offer of six years over for
Speaker 4: seventy million bucks. And you know that's less than Monty
Speaker 4: Williams is making. You know that you got across the
Speaker 4: Monty bar. Even though Detroit screwed up by giving him
Speaker 4: that contract, you got across that Monty bar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a sad day when you can't even compete
Speaker 1: with the Detroit Pistons. I was listening to your Twitter live,
Speaker 1: your ex live yesterday and last night, deep into the night,
Speaker 1: and it's obviously been very confusing this whole saga, right,
Speaker 1: And I wonder how much of the Dan Hurley to
Speaker 1: the Lakers steam really was quote unquote weeks in the
Speaker 1: making versus a very convenient way for WOJ to dunk
Speaker 1: on Schams for leaking the report about JJ and also
Speaker 1: help get his friend paid the bag.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are definitely plenty of people out there who
Speaker 4: think that this was a bit of a ploy from
Speaker 4: from Hurley. One thing I'll say though, is that the
Speaker 4: Lakers were very serious. They thought that they had a
Speaker 4: shot at Hurley. How mutual that that interest was, and
Speaker 4: all of that stuff that remains to be seen. I
Speaker 4: think we're going to be learning a little bit more
Speaker 4: about that over the coming days and weeks or whatever.
Speaker 4: But there are certainly enough people out there to where
Speaker 4: I don't think we could ignore the noise that potentially
Speaker 4: Woge got his one of his you know, closer people
Speaker 4: in the coaching circles paid. You know, he wrote a
Speaker 4: book on the Hurley family. When Hurley signed his most
Speaker 4: recent contract extension with Yukon, it was actually Wog who
Speaker 4: broke that story as well. Those ties are very very
Speaker 4: clearly there, And you know, considering everything that we had
Speaker 4: heard was JJ Reddick, It was JJ Reddick. It was
Speaker 4: JJ Redick. It was JJ Redick. And then to all
Speaker 4: of a sudden have Hurley pop in for a hot
Speaker 4: minute and walk out with a nice little extension from
Speaker 4: Yukon too. Like it, those those circumstances and all of
Speaker 4: that noise, you can't ignore it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you brought up the contract like they maybe low
Speaker 5: balled them. Do you buy that he did like the
Speaker 5: vision and that he really enjoyed the meeting with and
Speaker 5: Genie Buss.
Speaker 4: You know, it reminds me of LaMarcus Aldridge a few
Speaker 4: years back where they completely bumbled their first meeting with
Speaker 4: LaMarcus Aldridge and it was so bad that they actually
Speaker 4: called Aldridge back to have a you know, to have
Speaker 4: a do over. And you know, like nobody's gonna outright
Speaker 4: crap on the Lakers through their sourcing. Nobody's gonna come
Speaker 4: like it. They are still that marquee franchise. They do
Speaker 4: have that amount of sway there or whatever. But like
Speaker 4: I do think that, you know, some of the compliments
Speaker 4: about it, like how how would exciting, honestly could a
Speaker 4: vision that involves two rambuses b I think that's with
Speaker 4: Frank Vogel, he was having his coaching meetings and he
Speaker 4: would randomly have Kurt Rambis storm into them when they
Speaker 4: were interviewing ty Lu. They were asking ty if it
Speaker 4: was okay if they hired Jason Kidd to basically kind
Speaker 4: of spy on him and rolay information back to Rob Polenka,
Speaker 4: Like it's not a serious organization right now, and they
Speaker 4: don't like there's no accountability for any of this. So
Speaker 4: there's no real nothing to prove that anybody is learning
Speaker 4: anything from either of these last two coaching Hire's debacles.
Speaker 4: The low one was really was really kind of tricky
Speaker 4: and unseerious, and this one looks to be as well.
Speaker 1: As soon as I saw that Dan Hurley said that
Speaker 1: he was impressed with the vision and impressed with Rob Polinka,
Speaker 1: I knew that was just absolutely not true and that
Speaker 1: he was not going to take the job. I do
Speaker 1: want to follow up, though, on the Rambus comment, because
Speaker 1: I don't think I've asked you this before, and we've
Speaker 1: had putting opportunities to talk about it. Why does Linda
Speaker 1: Rambis have so much effing power in this organization? Because today,
Speaker 1: just today I heard that she's actually like a top
Speaker 1: the pecking order in terms of like Sway Juice, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Former Laker girl. Linda Rambis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was actually portrayed in that Winning Time show. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that HBO did, and it really did kind of you know,
Speaker 4: it showed you gave you a little glimpse into that
Speaker 4: process and how that came to be where uh, doctor
Speaker 4: Bus basically assigned Genie Bus to Linda Rambis and the
Speaker 4: two kind of grew up through the organization together and
Speaker 4: they have known each other now for upwards of forty years.
Speaker 4: And and uh, Genie, you know, the one thing anybody
Speaker 4: who you talk to about Genie Bus, the one thing
Speaker 4: that they say is she is she is passionately loyal
Speaker 4: to the people who have been loyal to her. And
Speaker 4: there that you can't like, there are very few people
Speaker 4: who have been more loyal to Genie Bus over the
Speaker 4: years than Linda Rambus. And so when Genie took over,
Speaker 4: Linda got a big old promotion.
Speaker 1: She don't know anything about that.
Speaker 3: All I can think of is that winning time and
Speaker 3: that you know, uh, I know. Obviously a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff is thrown out. There's you know, stuff to manipulate
Speaker 3: the narrative or whatever the case is. We've talked about
Speaker 3: some of that. Jay Wright, anything with that is that
Speaker 3: complete bs, there's reports out there. He's like a dark horse.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I feel like I see that. And it's just like
Speaker 3: at this point, stuff just getting thrown at the wall
Speaker 3: to see if reports stick.
Speaker 4: That's essentially it. Everybody right now is just kind of
Speaker 4: because the thing is in all of these processes, those
Speaker 4: of us who try to relay information we get lied to.
Speaker 4: We understand what we're what we're doing. We understand that
Speaker 4: when we talk to people, we have to have our
Speaker 4: our our BS meter running and very sensitive to the
Speaker 4: possibility that maybe, just maybe somebody might not be fully
Speaker 4: honest with us, so they're trying to spin something to
Speaker 4: their benefit or to their clients benefit or whatever. But
Speaker 4: it's really rare that people feel outright lied to in
Speaker 4: the way that I have gotten the sense people feel
Speaker 4: outright lied to this this during this process, when you
Speaker 4: went from JJ and you got you arrived somehow at
Speaker 4: Dan Hurley and now the Lakers have basically hit the
Speaker 4: reset button. A lot of people feel like they just
Speaker 4: don't have a grasp, myself included, don't really have a
Speaker 4: grasp on where this thing heads. I think James Barrego
Speaker 4: has a possibility. His name has been there consistently from
Speaker 4: the get he has that time that he overlapped with
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis has basically I wouldn't go so
Speaker 4: far as to say he's stuck out his neck for Barrego,
Speaker 4: but he's kind of his preference or whatever. I just,
Speaker 4: you know, know, I think you're gonna get all kinds
Speaker 4: of names in the in the next week or two
Speaker 4: because the Lakers almost have to start from square one here.
Speaker 4: Their relationship with JJ Reddick isn't in a great place
Speaker 4: right now. He's the guy you would have thought would
Speaker 4: have just been the natural person you slide over to,
Speaker 4: but it doesn't seem that that's going to be the case.
Speaker 4: Everybody right now is just kind of searching for where
Speaker 4: do they go? The Lakers themselves are searching for where
Speaker 4: they Where do they go?
Speaker 1: Three weeks until the NBA Draft and we don't even
Speaker 1: have an idea who the head coach of this team
Speaker 1: is going to be? What an absolutely insane debacle? Are
Speaker 1: Is this like a poverty franchise? Now? Like where are
Speaker 1: we at in terms of like how close this is
Speaker 1: to an actual rebuild?
Speaker 4: I don't know that they're I mean, you still have
Speaker 4: Lebron in the organization.
Speaker 1: For the I mean, I guess, we don't know, We
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is Today's the first time all off season
Speaker 4: that I thoughts on myself, Man, he could really peace
Speaker 4: out like he you know, and nobody would hold it,
Speaker 4: like hold it against him. Not a single person would
Speaker 4: would look at this situation here and see how this
Speaker 4: has played out and say, gosh, Lebron didn't prioritize winning
Speaker 4: if he was to leave, you know, like nobody would
Speaker 4: say anything like that. And but so long as Lebron
Speaker 4: is in your organization, and so long as and the
Speaker 4: Lakers are operating as if he is going to be,
Speaker 4: you can't rebuild. You can't rebuild with a forty year
Speaker 4: old Lebron. And I don't even know what a team
Speaker 4: would give up for a forty year old Lebron given
Speaker 4: the weekend state that the Lakers are in from a
Speaker 4: negotiating standpoint. So I think their best path forward here
Speaker 4: is to try to scramble together and hire a head
Speaker 4: coach who gives them a decent chance at winning right now,
Speaker 4: and and and then you know, approach the post Lebron
Speaker 4: era when you get there.
Speaker 5: I know we kind of talked about this. What do
Speaker 5: you think the off season looks like now that they
Speaker 5: don't have a head coach though? Because I saw like
Speaker 5: some crazy rumors maybe about trying to get creative to
Speaker 5: land like Lowry Markinen.
Speaker 4: Probably not gonna be able to do that. But do
Speaker 4: you think that they're gonna be able.
Speaker 5: To make a flashy move without having a system or
Speaker 5: like anything to sell a free agent or even if
Speaker 5: you do bring over anybody in a trade, you don't
Speaker 5: know what this team's really gonna look like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I I think they'll have a they'll
Speaker 4: have a head coach before they get to like those
Speaker 4: those questions or whatever. But I actually think this whole
Speaker 4: debacle really increases the chance that they do go out
Speaker 4: in trade for a star. You know, try to get
Speaker 4: some attention away from how messy this is. Uh my
Speaker 4: like core principle in covering this team, and and you know,
Speaker 4: I've been doing so for about a decade now while
Speaker 4: Rob Polinka has been in charge there. You can always
Speaker 4: bank on the Lakers doing the thing that allows Rob
Speaker 4: Polinka to continue to remain employed. And uh that right
Speaker 4: now would seem to be going out and trading for
Speaker 4: a star, and you know, doing the doing the naked
Speaker 4: gun thing where it's like everybody, please just first, nothing
Speaker 4: going on here. It's that's essentially what what trading for
Speaker 4: a star would feel like right now, and it feels
Speaker 4: a little more likely than even when when the last
Speaker 4: time we all spoke.
Speaker 3: You know, at this point, the way we talk about
Speaker 3: the Lakers, it just feels like a team that has
Speaker 3: no direction but yet still will find a way to
Speaker 3: do something big this offseason. Like just the way you
Speaker 3: describe it there, like I feel like we can never
Speaker 3: count them out no matter what. But even that being said,
Speaker 3: when you look at the rest of the Western Conference,
Speaker 3: doesn't just feel like no matter what they were to do,
Speaker 3: given like realistically, they're kind of still looking up at
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of teams in the West that have
Speaker 3: cores that are put together, that are younger and kind
Speaker 3: of at this point like settled in on what they're
Speaker 3: going to look like. Yeah, I mean like they got
Speaker 3: the healthy season from Lebron and the healthy season from
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis, and both of those players were top ten
Speaker 3: to fifteen players in the NBA depending on your defection
Speaker 3: definitions thereof, and still they were in the plan, and
Speaker 3: still they were a first round exit and were not
Speaker 3: particularly competitive with the team that knocked them out again
Speaker 3: in the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 4: And now part of that, like I do think in
Speaker 4: this new NBA, with this new CBA that everybody is
Speaker 4: operating under parody is just you know, off the chains.
Speaker 4: It's basically Adam Silver's vision is for an NFL type
Speaker 4: league where everybody feels like they have a chance at
Speaker 4: the beginning of the year, and it all just kind
Speaker 4: of comes down to matchups. So maybe, just maybe the
Speaker 4: Lakers do swing big and they do go out and
Speaker 4: get whether it's a third Star, or they turn Rui
Speaker 4: and or Vanderbilt or some of these other guys who
Speaker 4: have impact on one side of the ball only into
Speaker 4: players who have impacts on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 4: and they run into the right matchups for enough series
Speaker 4: in a row that they give themselves a chance in
Speaker 4: the playoffs. But you're absolutely right. The West is going
Speaker 4: to be insane next year. Memphis is going to be
Speaker 4: healthier next season. Minnesota isn't going anywhere. Okay, see, okay,
Speaker 4: se could trade for anybody. They have one thousand first
Speaker 4: round picks to work with, and they were at the
Speaker 4: top of the conference anyway, So like it really might
Speaker 4: not matter what the Lakers do here. And then like
Speaker 4: the risk that you run is you do go all in,
Speaker 4: you trade for whoever that that third star is, you
Speaker 4: use all your picks, and you still wind up at
Speaker 4: the bottom of the conference.
Speaker 3: I know, it's crazy. To think we're at a heart out, Anthony.
Speaker 3: We love you, really appreciate it, Anthony Irwin, Lakers Insiders
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