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Speaker 2: Not hearing the consequence, that's where we're at, Folks with
Speaker 2: my man Russell Westbrook. He's just strung out on who
Speaker 2: he used to be and is like, get me out.
Speaker 2: I want to go out on my own terms. And
Speaker 2: here's a bit of news that I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people wouldn't even actually think was news. But it's
Speaker 2: when you're inside the matrix of it all you start
Speaker 2: to see how these pieces influence other movies around the NBA.
Speaker 2: Lakers guard Russell Westbrook and his longtime agent Thad Fouchet,
Speaker 2: who he has hired since his time at UCLA. He's
Speaker 2: been with him his entire career as a basketball player.
Speaker 2: They are very close, like Thicke as thieves. They have
Speaker 2: parted ways. This happens all the time, right you fire agents,
Speaker 2: you go somewhere else. That happens. But what doesn't happen,
Speaker 2: almost never happens, is when that goes on, a splitting
Speaker 2: of the ways goes on, and an agent decides to
Speaker 2: put out a statement right after describing and laying out
Speaker 2: your dirty laundry about how the reason that you guys
Speaker 2: have parted ways is because you lack all self awareness.
Speaker 2: That's basically what that statement was, folks, and it mostly
Speaker 2: confirmed what we all know to be true. Russell Westbrook
Speaker 2: wants to leave yet another team one year after being
Speaker 2: at said team. This will be Russell Westbrook's fourth trade
Speaker 2: request in four years. Let me say that again. This
Speaker 2: is Russell Westbrook's fourth trade request in four years. Could
Speaker 2: have had a statue in Oklahoma City, decided he wanted
Speaker 2: to go to Houston, decided then he wanted to go
Speaker 2: somewhere else, didn't matter where, then Washington, then back home
Speaker 2: to La Okay see Houston, DC, and now LA And
Speaker 2: if he goes to another team, he will be a
Speaker 2: buyout candidate. If he goes to Indiana or San Antonio,
Speaker 2: which is looking like where that is targeted, he will
Speaker 2: need assets to go along with him, i e. First
Speaker 2: round draft picks to absorb that massive contract and then
Speaker 2: spit him out and let the free like let him
Speaker 2: be a free agent on the open market, and probably
Speaker 2: will take a minimum deal. Fad Fouchet knows all these
Speaker 2: things and set all these things out in the open
Speaker 2: Here's what he said. Now, with the possibility of a
Speaker 2: fourth trade and four year, the marketplace is telling the
Speaker 2: Lakers that they must add additional value with Russell. In
Speaker 2: any trade scenario, you're a negative asset, and even then
Speaker 2: such a trade may require Russell to immediately move on
Speaker 2: from the new team via buyout. My belief is that
Speaker 2: this type of transaction only serves to diminish Russell's value,
Speaker 2: and his best option is to stay with the Lakers,
Speaker 2: embrace the starting role and support that Darvinham publicly offered him.
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook is a first ballot Natesmith basketball player, basketball
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame player and will prove that again before
Speaker 2: he is retired. FAD's like, listen, fam, you're driving down
Speaker 2: the price of yourself just by going to a new place.
Speaker 2: That Fouchet basically tired of Russell Westbrook doing this time
Speaker 2: and time and time again. And of course this is
Speaker 2: highly unusual. You don't say that, I say that. That
Speaker 2: Fourget does not say that to WOJ. We can surmise
Speaker 2: what it means, but for someone to lay it out
Speaker 2: and say this is it, this is what it's happening,
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook is taking a dive value wise kind of
Speaker 2: wild especially considered that bad Bouchet. If you don't know,
Speaker 2: he's not a household name, even for the most rabbit
Speaker 2: of NBA fans, one of the more behind the scenes
Speaker 2: agents in the NBA. Do you know nobody knows him,
Speaker 2: Nobody knows what he looks like. I had to google him.
Speaker 2: You know who? You know who someone like Rich Paul is.
Speaker 2: You know who Bill Duffy most likely is. You know
Speaker 2: how who's Kevin Durant's agent, Rich Climban is. Because they're
Speaker 2: front and center, and of course everyone says they've come
Speaker 2: out and say, well, you're supposed to be an advocate
Speaker 2: of your client, no matter what, You're supposed to have
Speaker 2: his back. You're not supposed to air as dirty laundry.
Speaker 2: He fired him. You're no longer, You're no longer in
Speaker 2: a business relationship, and you also have new clients that
Speaker 2: may be looking like, why did Russ fire this agent
Speaker 2: fifteen years in his career. Well, because the man's bringing
Speaker 2: his own price down. I can't can't see him do
Speaker 2: himself like this. He's not under no obligation to keep quiet.
Speaker 2: But what's getting lost in the Russ drama, and this
Speaker 2: is actually the main point, is that our man Rob
Speaker 2: Polinka still has no idea what he's doing. None. They
Speaker 2: made some on the surface bubbling, some nice moves, Lonnie Walker,
Speaker 2: Scottie Pippen Junior, et cetera, et cetera. But there are
Speaker 2: still the Troy Brown, there are still Tomas Bryant. There
Speaker 2: are still zero shooters, none, no shooters. Lebron James is
Speaker 2: the best three point shooter on this team right now.
Speaker 2: Scottie Pippen, Sharif O'Neil, Austin Reeves, fun kids, real fun guys,
Speaker 2: young pieces. None of them are going to help this
Speaker 2: team with spacing or scoring from the perimeter. None. Zero.
Speaker 2: The number one thing we know. We've said this million times.
Speaker 2: I say it until I'm blue in a face. There's
Speaker 2: only one formula to surround Lebron to win a championship
Speaker 2: or even to compete. Surround him with shooters. He has
Speaker 2: the ball in his hand. He is the primary ball
Speaker 2: handler on a team. That's what he does. He also
Speaker 2: likes to drive and kick. He commands a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: All you need to do is just stand there and
Speaker 2: wait for him to get you the ball, and you
Speaker 2: have to put it in the hoop with the regularity.
Speaker 2: So let's look at some of these doesn't Why doesn't
Speaker 2: if a twelve year old player, a twelve year old
Speaker 2: kid on TikTok knows this, Why doesn't Rob Polinka know this?
Speaker 2: It's the number one thing in my comment section on
Speaker 2: TikTok seven eight nine year olds. Lebron has no help.
Speaker 2: He has no shooters. Get him some shooters, Rob Plinka, Alert, Alert,
Speaker 2: you're grown ass man and you're making millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: This is the number one thing you need to do.
Speaker 2: So let's look at the three point percentages of these
Speaker 2: guys that he picked up. Let's look at the team.
Speaker 2: Troy b thirty three point seven percent from three, Lonnie
Speaker 2: Walker thirty four percent from three, that's like the most serviceable.
Speaker 2: Thht twenty seven percent from three, Kendrick Nunn thirty six
Speaker 2: percent from three, Toscano Anderson, toscott O Anderson thirty six
Speaker 2: percent from three, Damian Jones thirty, Thomas Bryant thirty five,
Speaker 2: Stanley Johnson thirty, Austin Reeves thirty one, Skottie Pitpin Jr.
Speaker 2: Thirty four percent in college, Max Christy thirty eight percent
Speaker 2: in college. So you're telling me Max Christi is the
Speaker 2: future of the Lakers. Second round pick Dennis Shrewder is
Speaker 2: now hinting he wants to come back to the Lakers
Speaker 2: thirty three percent from three. Tell me how this helps you? Please?
Speaker 2: What is happening if they don't get Kyrie Irving? There
Speaker 2: are so fucked, They are so incredibly fucked for so
Speaker 2: incredibly long. Why isn't Buddy heeled there? He's the per
Speaker 2: fixed statue to just stand in a corner. Listen, just
Speaker 2: go over there, stand there, don't move, We'll get you
Speaker 2: the ball. He shoots almost forty from three. The latest news,
Speaker 2: per Chris Haynes, friend of show, I think is that
Speaker 2: the Big Three Anthony Davis, Russell, Westbrook, Lebron James got
Speaker 2: on a group chat, a group call and said they
Speaker 2: have a commitment to one another and a commitment to
Speaker 2: what What is that? What commitment do they have to
Speaker 2: failing to have a commitment to the play in tournament
Speaker 2: like a seven, eight nine seed. What if I was
Speaker 2: Lebron James, I'd be like, no, fuck no, get out
Speaker 2: of here. I don't have a commitment to you. And
Speaker 2: what we do know about Lebron James is that he's
Speaker 2: a liar, so he probably and a very good one
Speaker 2: for very we'll call it philanthropic reasons. You don't want
Speaker 2: to make people sad for the sake of making him sad.
Speaker 2: Love you, Russ, Yes, Let's run it back. Trade him,
Speaker 2: trade him, get him the fuck out of here. I
Speaker 2: need Kyrie. If you don't give me Kyrie, I'm not
Speaker 2: running it back. I'm not signing again if you don't
Speaker 2: figure out how to get Kyrie. Fuck them picks, Fuck
Speaker 2: them picks. The Lakers are still trash, and I don't
Speaker 2: know why no one's saying it. People are like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: Lonnie Walker, good good signing. Yeah, yeah, this is trouble.
Speaker 2: Who are they beating? Can they beat Phoenix?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Can they beat the Clippers? No? Can they beat Golden State? Hell? No?
Speaker 2: Can they beat Memphis? No? Can they beat Denver? No?
Speaker 2: Can they beat Minnesota? No? Can they beat New Orleans No?
Speaker 2: Their ceiling is probably the eight seed, the ceiling, folks,
Speaker 2: And another thing no one's talking about. There are an
Speaker 2: unusual amount of clutch clients on this roster. Eight. There
Speaker 2: are eight folks, eight clutch clients on the Los Angeles Lakers,
Speaker 2: including all of their recent signings Lonnie Walker, Juan Toscano, Anderson,
Speaker 2: Troy Brown, Scottie Pippen Junior. What is this? What is happening?
Speaker 2: Are they using this to their playground? Is clutch sports?
Speaker 2: Like I don't care if you win? And don't you
Speaker 2: think Lebron James would suss this out? Like, Yo, you're
Speaker 2: signing a lot of clutch clients and we're not any
Speaker 2: closer to winning. What is happening with Russ? Without Russ,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure this team can compete with anyone in
Speaker 2: the West besides maybe the Thunder and the Rockets. The
Speaker 2: Lakers are a playing team at best. This team, outside
Speaker 2: of that one championship inside the bubble that they didn't
Speaker 2: even get to celebrate with their Fans has been a
Speaker 2: sinking ship ever since Clutch put their little fangs in
Speaker 2: and their little claws in this organization and would not
Speaker 2: let go The amount of picks that they gave up
Speaker 2: for ad, the amount of pieces they had to send
Speaker 2: off for Russell Westbrook, the rotating cast of characters and
Speaker 2: non shooters around him, the dusty AARP card carrying guys
Speaker 2: like Carmelo Anthony and Trevor Ariza and Avery Bradley and
Speaker 2: Ken Basmore who's not old but he's just not very good.
Speaker 2: And the Lakers have no one to blame but themselves.
Speaker 2: Can someone cue that Game of Thrones where it's Circe
Speaker 2: and they shave her head and she's walking through naked,
Speaker 2: like someone needs to do that to Jeanie Buss and
Speaker 2: to Rob Polinka. Shame, shame, shame. This is the fucking
Speaker 2: Lakers we're talking about. This is not okay. See can
Speaker 2: they get their shit together? I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on. All I have to
Speaker 2: say they're gonna be bad and no better