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Speaker 1: I hope all of you guys are having a good

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Speaker 1: week so far. I wanted to take some time here

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Speaker 1: that involved Lebron James and the Lakers. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: a lot of Lakers here at the beginning, as well

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Speaker 1: to get into a little bit. But we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: with Chris Haynes and his article Forgot Who's Sports, which

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Speaker 1: touched on a meeting between Lebron James, Clutch Sports, and

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Speaker 1: two cents on those quotes. So first, Haynes said, quote

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Speaker 1: James sources said drilled home the importance of consistent competitiveness

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Speaker 1: and cohesion, noting that last season's team didn't give themselves

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Speaker 1: a chance on many nights. Thought this was very interesting

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Speaker 1: Lakers had a boatload of issues. We've gone into detail

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Speaker 1: on this before. But you don't get to miss the

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Speaker 1: playoffs in a league that allows twenty of the thirty

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Speaker 1: of things go wrong. Now, I've said that the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing is the Russ's trade, not Russ, but the Russ's

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Speaker 1: trade in all of the ramifications that followed that, But

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Speaker 1: having the offense run through Anthony Davis and James concurred.

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Speaker 1: Sources set the team has been encouraged with Davis's offseason

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Speaker 1: And the reality is this is all just posturing. Everything

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Speaker 1: Sources set in a collaborative effort, all parties. All parties

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Speaker 1: End quote. Now this is I really hope that's just posturing,

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