Speaker 1: I apologize if I said anything.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean.
Speaker 3: Genie Bus my girl back into the headlines again.
Speaker 2: These Lakers go.
Speaker 1: They must put Lakers through some sort of media camp
Speaker 1: where they teach them how to hijack the news.
Speaker 3: I wish I knew how to do it like them.
Speaker 1: I wish anybody cared about my random opinions as much
Speaker 1: as they care about Genie Bus and some one off
Speaker 1: interview from Genie Bus to Lebron to back to Lebron
Speaker 1: to back the Genie Bus. It's almost like they all
Speaker 1: coordinate together on a zoom call. It's like, all right,
Speaker 1: you take August thirtieth, All take September first.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I've got an interview with SI coming out on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: October August thirtieth. You're gonna have to have to Monday,
Speaker 1: August twenty ninth. All right, all right, all right, but
Speaker 1: you gotta make sure this SI article doesn't dominate anymore
Speaker 1: than local blogs cannot get on ESPN. My interview with
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Los Angeles, that's gotta be the front. It's
Speaker 1: like insane, what's going on here. I'm just gonna like
Speaker 1: Genie Bust is probably just.
Speaker 3: Like, Oh, I'm just gonna fuck it up.
Speaker 1: I'll just casually drop something insane, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'll just say something crazy. What would be the craziest
Speaker 1: thing that I could say about last season? What would
Speaker 1: get like people really up and up in arms? What
Speaker 1: would really drive the conversation we had that one kid,
Speaker 1: Mike James say Steph Curry was one dimensional? What was
Speaker 1: it about that that got people so up in arms?
Speaker 1: I know, I know what I'll say. I've got it now.
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook was the best Laker on the team last year.
Speaker 1: That's what I'll say. Yep, that's it. Russell Westbrook was
Speaker 1: the best player on the Lakers last year.
Speaker 3: Full stop. That's what happened, folks.
Speaker 1: She seriously decided to plant her flag in the Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook camp. She must be feeling herself right now. She
Speaker 1: must be trying to get us in rage because this
Speaker 1: is what she said to the athletic.
Speaker 3: All I can say.
Speaker 1: Is that, from my point of view, Westbrook was our
Speaker 1: best player last year. He played pretty much every single game.
Speaker 3: He showed up, he worked hard.
Speaker 1: Pause Is this is this the new era that the
Speaker 1: conservatives are talking about where everyone gets a Trophy.
Speaker 3: Is this what they're.
Speaker 1: Talking about, because that's how this feels right now, everyone
Speaker 1: gets a gold Star just for showing up and working hard,
Speaker 1: and we're just going to crown him the best because
Speaker 1: he did that the most consistently. Back to her quote,
Speaker 1: you know, I would have loved to see what this
Speaker 1: team would have looked like if they stayed healthy. It's
Speaker 1: really tough to win when Anthony Davis isn't on the
Speaker 1: cour pause. Someone should have told Genie that this is like,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is MO from New Orleans. So yeah, you
Speaker 1: should have known that you got lucky when you won
Speaker 1: the title with Anthony Davis. Back to the quote, Lebron
Speaker 1: was also hurt a lot of the season, but Rush
Speaker 1: showed up every game and played hard every night. And
Speaker 1: you know, I just really appreciate him for who he
Speaker 1: is and what he brings to the team.
Speaker 3: There's a lot there. Let's break it down. I've got questions.
Speaker 1: I don't think by any metric, if you're an unbiased human,
Speaker 1: you could ever say that Russell Westbrook not only was
Speaker 1: the best Laker, but I don't even think you could
Speaker 1: say he had a particularly good year.
Speaker 3: His slash line of eighteen and a half.
Speaker 1: Seven and seven is the worst stat line he has
Speaker 1: put up in the last twelve years. He shot forty
Speaker 1: four percent from the field overall. Overall, he shot less
Speaker 1: than thirty percent from three. He shot sixty seven percent
Speaker 1: from the free throw line.
Speaker 2: It's free throws free.
Speaker 1: No one is guarding you sixty seven percent from the
Speaker 1: free throw line when he shot eighty five percent once
Speaker 1: from the charity stripe.
Speaker 3: At one point, he had a fifteen player efficiency rating.
Speaker 1: And a defensive rating of one hundred and thirteen point
Speaker 1: six Real Quick one hundred and thirteen point six defensive efficiency.
Speaker 1: Defensive rating is terrible, just gross.
Speaker 3: Yet Genie's point is that.
Speaker 1: The best ability is availability. Her countents were so crazy,
Speaker 1: so outlandish, so puzzling that many news outlets were like, Hey,
Speaker 1: just want some more clarification because we're about to write
Speaker 1: some things.
Speaker 3: Did you really mean that.
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook was the best Laker last year?
Speaker 2: And then she had to.
Speaker 1: Backpedal and say, maybe the word I should have used
Speaker 1: was consistent.
Speaker 3: He played seventy eight games last year. You're right, Jeanie, he.
Speaker 1: Was the most consistent star player that you had, making
Speaker 1: over thirty million dollars and that, my dear, is your
Speaker 1: biggest problem.
Speaker 3: I get it, I get it. Russ was available.
Speaker 2: He was. He definitely.
Speaker 3: Should have been more available coming off the bench. Let's
Speaker 3: be honest in.
Speaker 2: The fourth quarter, he should have probably.
Speaker 1: Been available to sit on that bench, except for he
Speaker 1: decided that was something he.
Speaker 3: Was not available to do.
Speaker 1: But when you dig into it, when I heard when
Speaker 1: I heard the last part of her comments, I just.
Speaker 3: Really appreciate him for who he is and what he
Speaker 3: brought to the team. What's that sound like to you?
Speaker 1: That sounds like the end, That sounds like when you're
Speaker 1: in a relationship and your boyfriend or girlfriend. He's like,
Speaker 1: I just send a little text. I just want you
Speaker 1: to know I really appreciate you and I really value
Speaker 1: you as a boyfriend. Can we meet for dinner tonight
Speaker 1: at Chateau Vanilla at seven thirty pm in the middle
Speaker 1: table of the restaurant.
Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, okay, sit down, Hey, what's what's up?
Speaker 1: Solid thought first and foremost, I just want to say
Speaker 1: I really value you.
Speaker 3: I think you're awesome. I think you're a great boyfriend
Speaker 3: or girlfriend.
Speaker 1: You do everything you're probably if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: if I had to make a ranking, I would probably
Speaker 1: consider you to be, I don't know, the best boyfriend
Speaker 1: I've ever had. Unfortunately though, for me right now, at
Speaker 1: this point in my life, I just can't have a
Speaker 1: significant other. I have to do me, and it's probably
Speaker 1: best that I give you back your sweatshirt. It's in
Speaker 1: my trunk and the promise ring you gave me, and
Speaker 1: uh maybe maybe we'll.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe make it a go another time.
Speaker 1: It just didn't work at the moment. Has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with you.
Speaker 2: That seems like what Jeanie.
Speaker 1: Buss is doing to Russell Westbrook. Like I love you, Russ.
Speaker 1: You are our best Laker last year. Unfortunately, though, we
Speaker 1: gotta have you step away from the team for a
Speaker 1: while because we've traded for Patrick Beverly and you guys
Speaker 1: hate each other. So as much as we love you,
Speaker 1: we kind of got to see and explore this thing
Speaker 1: with Pat BEV two and your history just makes it
Speaker 1: really tough for that to be good for the team. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, I forgot to mention on the podcast,
Speaker 1: since the last time we've been here, they've traded for
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverlely, right, so that shit's not gonna work. Also,
Speaker 1: Speaking of Lebron, he made news again this week, one
Speaker 1: week after he and Bronni James decided to hijack the
Speaker 1: schedule release. It's like clockwork. He has assistants. It's like ping, ping,
Speaker 1: good morning, sir. Lebron James just want to let you
Speaker 1: know today is the day you fuck up the airwaves
Speaker 1: again and hijack the NBA calendar. He has an assistant
Speaker 1: who must like scour the web and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's been four days.
Speaker 3: Since you were trending. We need you to trend again.
Speaker 1: Got new things, We've got new things to promote new shows.
Speaker 1: We need a quote, we need something buzzy. Who can
Speaker 1: we get Have we done.
Speaker 2: Anything recently with SI? You think they would do something
Speaker 2: with s I.
Speaker 3: What will we do?
Speaker 1: Oh, well, we did the Brony thing last week, so
Speaker 1: it's not really top of mind. He already signed the extension,
Speaker 1: so that's that's done. Oh oh, what about I have
Speaker 1: an idea? Bronny, Lebron and the Youngest One all on
Speaker 1: the cover of Sports Illustrated. No, who cares that they
Speaker 1: don't have like any outfits playing, Like, just just get
Speaker 1: him into a court, we'll take photos, we'll write some things. Lebron,
Speaker 1: he could be the next Tom Brady. Maybe Lebron will
Speaker 1: play till he's fifty. Let's let's go forward.
Speaker 2: What did he do?
Speaker 3: All right? So this is what Lebron says. This is
Speaker 3: the right time.
Speaker 1: Lebron says he wants to play almost until he's fifty
Speaker 1: years old. I'm sure you know the reason why he
Speaker 1: says this quote. I like to throw things out into
Speaker 1: the airwaves. I'm not one to say what's going to
Speaker 1: happen for sure in the next two years. I am
Speaker 1: a visionary, but I'm also a guy. I love that
Speaker 1: about him, just like a low key, humble brag. I
Speaker 1: am a visionary, but I'm also a guy that lives
Speaker 1: in the moment. I'd definitely though, be looking at who
Speaker 1: has first round picks in twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: things of that nature, twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 1: hold up twenty twenty seven, like the.
Speaker 3: Bronny's like seventeen.
Speaker 1: That's the math, isn't mathing that type of stuff? He says,
Speaker 1: bron the visionary with the eyes on the prize and
Speaker 1: the prize, well, we know it's not just Bronnie James anymore. Folks,
Speaker 1: we've known that for some time, so that wouldn't hijack shit.
Speaker 1: But also now the kid with the goggles and the
Speaker 1: better footwork, Bryce James, the youngest boy who at this
Speaker 1: point is.
Speaker 2: Fifteen years old. Oh yes.
Speaker 1: Asking Lebron whether he'd like to see himself playing with Bryce,
Speaker 1: he expanded, Yeah, I feel like I could play for
Speaker 1: quite a while. So it's all up to the body,
Speaker 1: but more importantly my mind.
Speaker 2: If my mind can stay sharp.
Speaker 1: And I'm fresh and motivated, then the sky's not even
Speaker 1: the limit for me. I can go beyond that, Lebron James.
Speaker 1: I can just see it in the lower thirds. Lebron
Speaker 1: James thinks he can go above the sky with Bryce
Speaker 1: and Bronnie James.
Speaker 3: No one takes care of their body better than Lebron James.
Speaker 2: But fifty years old, oh my god.
Speaker 3: Also another tidbit Lebron dropped.
Speaker 1: Turns out Bronnie James wants to play college ball too.
Speaker 1: So the sweepstakes for who gets Lebron James by being
Speaker 1: completely extorted by Lebron James to draft and sign his
Speaker 1: son Wait no, sons.
Speaker 3: Is now going deep into the timeline.
Speaker 1: If Bronnie does want to go to college. Have one word,
Speaker 1: two words, quick, quack, just go to Oregon. I might
Speaker 1: become the Oregon Ducks beat reporter.
Speaker 3: If that happens.
Speaker 1: He then finally was asked by s I whether he
Speaker 1: thought this is where he gets very interesting about lebron
Speaker 1: James get a little insight into his mind. He was
Speaker 1: asked by Sports Illustrated whether he thought all of this
Speaker 1: chatter that he's been putting out it's a fair question
Speaker 1: about him playing with Bronnie might create unfair expectations for Bronni,
Speaker 1: and he was having none of that shit. He said,
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit what nobody says. Our quest
Speaker 1: and our journey is not predicated on what everybody has said.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have five people that love you out of ten,
Speaker 1: There's gonna be five people that hate you out of ten.
Speaker 3: That's just the way the land. No matter what you do.
Speaker 1: You can be a guy who literally goes to work
Speaker 1: at Starbucks. There's gonna be four or five customers that
Speaker 1: come in and hate the way that you made that
Speaker 1: chi te latte.
Speaker 3: It's just how it works.
Speaker 1: And the faster you can realize that happens, the much
Speaker 1: better off you will be because you're not going to
Speaker 1: respond or give it too much energy.
Speaker 3: I have a lot there is there.
Speaker 1: He you can tell has been trying to figure out
Speaker 1: an analogy that works, and he's still works shopping because
Speaker 1: the Starbucks barista chi te latte furious customer argument, I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure that's working for me. Also, why the
Speaker 1: chai tea lat Why not vanilla laatee? Why not just
Speaker 1: chai tea late? Is that what Savannah gets? Is he
Speaker 1: fucking up Savannah's order when he goes and picks her
Speaker 1: up Starbucks?
Speaker 3: And also, you make how much money?
Speaker 2: Your forty million?
Speaker 1: What are you even doing thinking about Starbucks right now?
Speaker 1: You are too elevated for the Starbucks Chai te late
Speaker 1: analogy for me. Secondarily, on top of that analogy that
Speaker 1: is not landing but deserves attention, the fifty.
Speaker 3: To fifty split between human beings who meet you.
Speaker 1: And either absolutely love you or absolutely hate you is terrifying.
Speaker 3: Because to me, that's like, if I don't say I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna get canceled by Lebron James. Now because
Speaker 2: I've been making.
Speaker 1: Fun of him, I am now firmly in the camp
Speaker 1: that hates Lebron because I'm making fun of him because
Speaker 1: I'm not just filating every move and I'm just not
Speaker 1: in love with everything he does on and off the court.
Speaker 3: Sir, that's just false.
Speaker 1: If you meet one hundred people, there's probably gonna be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know one that's like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: absolutely love this person.
Speaker 3: They are awesome.
Speaker 1: We are gonna be best friends for life. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be probably thirty that like, oh yeah, I fuck with
Speaker 1: this kid. Good kid like them, We could be friends.
Speaker 1: Maybe fifty are like huh, I mean just a person.
Speaker 1: Fifty are indifferent to you. Fifteen are like hmm, not
Speaker 1: really fuck with them, but I'm going about my day.
Speaker 1: And maybe three maximum four or like I hate this
Speaker 1: person's guts. Like maybe the fact that you go fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty love hate tells me so much about the
Speaker 1: psyche of Lebron James and also probably why he tried
Speaker 1: to get Michelle Beadle fired because she said one bad
Speaker 1: thing and he was like, oh, this bitch hates me.
Speaker 3: Let's get her. Let's say she hates me, I hate her,
Speaker 3: Let's get her gone. That is absolutely wild.
Speaker 1: Say what you want about Lebron but he is increasingly
Speaker 1: interesting the older that he gets, and the more honest
Speaker 1: and wildly expressive he gets deeper into his career as
Speaker 1: he gets emboldened to say whatever is on his mind.