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Speaker 1: All right, Well, it's sort of a lull before the

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Speaker 1: and it's interesting. One of the questions I get asked

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Speaker 1: it Fox as a broadcaster. And I've always had this

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Speaker 1: James and I don't think this is going to happen,

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of reasons here. So Lebron's good

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Speaker 1: for business. The Lakers haven't. They won the bubble year,

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Speaker 1: but you know, they've been a really inconsistent and at

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Speaker 1: times dysfunctional team over the last four to five years

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Speaker 1: and for the last I mean the last five years

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Speaker 1: before Lebron became a Laker, they were a mess. They

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Speaker 1: were like record wise worst or second worst in the

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Speaker 1: but they've mostly been a really inconsistent franchise. And Lebron

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Speaker 1: sells out games and he's one of the great Lakers

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Speaker 1: of all time, even though the Laker fans got him

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Speaker 1: post prime, right. But I think you have to consider

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Speaker 1: if you trade Lebron James, and he doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: be traded because he has such a dynamic business portfolio

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, you're going to piss off Lebron, and

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Speaker 1: that means you're going to piss off Clutch Sports. And

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Speaker 1: Clutch Sports got a d to LA And in the

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Speaker 1: NBA there's a handful of very influential agents that you

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Speaker 1: don't want to be on the wrong side of. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't work that way in football, but it does in basketball.

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Speaker 1: It can be very provincial. I mean, I can remember

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Speaker 1: years and years ago, Michael Jordan's agent was highly powerful,

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Speaker 1: very connected to David Stern, and that was the reality.

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Speaker 1: Michael was just really really important for the league. So

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Speaker 1: I don't think there'll be a trade because I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I think Lebron committed to you as a franchise and

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Speaker 1: has sold so much merchandise and so many tickets, and

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Speaker 1: he won you a championship that I do feel the

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Speaker 1: Bus family and they historically have been very loyal to

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Speaker 1: people that have rewarded them. I think Lebron's really kept

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Speaker 1: you afloat for the last five years. He's kept you viable.

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Speaker 1: He's made you tens and hundreds of millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: and added to your value, and I just don't think

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Speaker 1: you'd trade a player like that. That doesn't mean I'm

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Speaker 1: going to rebuild my roster solely based on what Lebron wants.

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Speaker 1: But the Lakers are a small ownership group. The Bus

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Speaker 1: family is not nearly as financially secure or dynamic as

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Speaker 1: the Clippers owner Steve Balmer. He's the richest owner in

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Speaker 1: the NBA by far. So I just think when Lebron

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Speaker 1: came here, he to a large degree, kind of saved

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Speaker 1: the franchise. You know, they weren't good in Kobe's last years.

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Speaker 1: They weren't competitive. The Warriors were running the league. They

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Speaker 1: were an afterthought. They had run through coaches, and I

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Speaker 1: think Lebron did them a solid by coming here. Now

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles has also helped his business career. His net

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Speaker 1: worth is robust, probably over a billion dollars now. But

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Speaker 1: it's it's been a relationship where Lebron has helped the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: The Lakers have helped Lebron. And it's not that the

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Speaker 1: Lakers couldn't get other players if they traded Lebron. I

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Speaker 1: never buy into that nonsense. The bottom line is players

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Speaker 1: take care of themselves. But I think just on a

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Speaker 1: personal level, Lebron doesn't call out coaches publicly. Lebron is

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Speaker 1: good for business. Lebron does interviews after every game. Lebron's

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Speaker 1: been an upstanding citizen in the community. I don't think

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Speaker 1: you treat him that way. And I you know me,

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Speaker 1: I'm not super loyal guy. When it comes to, you know,

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Speaker 1: sports history. Move a guy and you could say, well, Colin,

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Speaker 1: you trade Klay Thompson. One of the talks has been

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Speaker 1: trading Lebron to the Warriors and getting some pieces back.

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Speaker 1: Klay Thompson is different. He didn't save the Warriors. Steph

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Speaker 1: Curry's been the face dramon the two, Clay the three,

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Speaker 1: and he's been a great part of that franchise. But

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Speaker 1: Klay Thompson's not selling to tickets. Steph is and Klay

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Speaker 1: Thompson also as a point in his career that you'd

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Speaker 1: only be able to overpay him to keep him. And

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Speaker 1: he's not as good a player as Lebron is. Lebron

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Speaker 1: is still on any given night, the best player on

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Speaker 1: the floor in an NBA game. He's not as good

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Speaker 1: as Jokic over the course of a season, or Jannie

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Speaker 1: or mb but on any given night, Lebron's the best

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Speaker 1: player on the floor in the biggest games of the year.

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Speaker 1: So I just think there are certain times Lebron's been

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Speaker 1: good for the Lakers. The Lakers have been good and

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles for Lebron. I don't think you trade him.

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Speaker 1: I think you sit down with him and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: this thing's getting to a close, let's make it as

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Speaker 1: elegant as we can, as thoughtful, conscientious as we can,

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Speaker 1: and then you go from there. But I just Lebron's

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Speaker 1: been very valuable the Lakers. He's on on a lot

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Speaker 1: of nights. He's the only reason you go. On most nights,

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Speaker 1: he's the only reason you go. He's made a lot

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Speaker 1: of people in that organization a lot of money and

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Speaker 1: there's value in that right, they're there. Yeah, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: trade Lebron the volume. Thanks so much for listening. If

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