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Speaker 1: a weird sequence here over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: I was venting about it the other day. You know,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers have played just twice in the last fifteen days,

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Speaker 1: and in the middle of that has been a boatload

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Speaker 1: of drama. We did have a little bit more drama today,

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Speaker 1: definitely less drama than we've been having. We only had

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Speaker 1: a renowned Lakers writer in Los Angeles advocate for trading

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Speaker 1: Lebron and then a couple of ESPN personalities do the same.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty low key compared to the way it's been

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. We are going to

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Speaker 1: touch on that, but I'm gonna save that for the

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Speaker 1: end because I am desperate to talk some actual basketball.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Nets. I just want to

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Speaker 1: break down the differences between their situation and where the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are at right now in terms of their hopes

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Speaker 1: of getting out of the play in and and making

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Speaker 1: a run at things. We're also going to talk about

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Speaker 1: Cade versus Mobili. We're gonna get into the differences between

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Speaker 1: is two guys, which guy I think has a better ceiling,

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Speaker 1: which guy I think has the best chance to win

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Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year as well. And then at the end,

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Speaker 1: like I said, we'll touch on the Lebron trade idea,

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Speaker 1: which I think is ridiculous, but well, we'll save that

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Speaker 1: for the end. You know, there's a couple of similarities

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Speaker 1: between where the Nets are right now and where the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are right now in the sense that they're heading

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Speaker 1: into a tough part of their schedule. Like the Nets

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Speaker 1: are playing the Bucks next, then they play Toronto twice,

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Speaker 1: then they play the Heat, and they play the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: and they play the Hornets and they play Sixers. That's tough.

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Speaker 1: Like there, it's gonna be hard, even with Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: in that case. The Lakers are also heading into an

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Speaker 1: extremely tough stretch of their schedule. I believe the vast

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Speaker 1: majority of their games are against over five teams on

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Speaker 1: the road for the rest of the season. That's tough, right.

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Speaker 1: There's some similarities there. Both teams have had some self

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Speaker 1: inflicted damage, right, Like, the Lakers played some of their

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Speaker 1: worst players to start the season instead of prioritizing better players.

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Speaker 1: They were misaligned in a lot of ways, playing away

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Speaker 1: from their strengths. And then the Nets have done a

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Speaker 1: lot of the same. And then straight up personnel Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving not getting the vaccine, that's self sabotage. James Harden

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Speaker 1: getting a wandering eye for yet another season and looking

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Speaker 1: in other directions and kind of not taking but not

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Speaker 1: playing his best basketball. That's also self sabotage. But there's

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Speaker 1: a very key difference between the situation the Nets are

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Speaker 1: facing in the situation the Lakers are facing. The Nets

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Speaker 1: actually have enough talent from the top to the bottom

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Speaker 1: I have Ben Simmons, who's way better than the third

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Speaker 1: fit with that team. It's not like Russ. It's not

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Speaker 1: But meanwhile, Lebron needs to have the ball in his hands.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's the third best player in the team,

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Speaker 1: so he needs to do role player stuff, but he's

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Speaker 1: he's a more natural fit. Now. I understand that there's

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be alongside a ton of shooting where his

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Speaker 1: spacing concerns aren't going to be that much of an issue.

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Speaker 1: You know, last year, the Lakers predicament was significantly worse

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Speaker 1: It was a small handful of games that Lebron played,

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Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns, and the Lakers looked like the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe they didn't shoot as well as they

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Speaker 1: but they looked like the Lakers. They were defending like crazy.

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Speaker 1: They were physically imposing. They were going through Phoenix to

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Speaker 1: good role player. They're gonna have Patty Mills that's a

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it. And they still are very,

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Speaker 1: Russ and Malik Monk and Avery Bradley on the floor.

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Speaker 1: The aggregate size of the lineup is too small. Then

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Speaker 1: While he's capable of being that like defensive focal point

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Speaker 1: like Patty Mills in favor of a either a wing

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Speaker 1: He started having to load manage, He started losing that explosiveness.

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Speaker 1: He was very inconsistent on a night and night out

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Speaker 1: basis in terms of how his body felt. And that

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Speaker 1: was just year two. It just got significantly worse and

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Speaker 1: worse as the years went on, and by two thousand fourteen,

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Speaker 1: he was more or less a bench player. He might

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Speaker 1: have been, like the best player in the league at

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Speaker 1: that point, not a bench player, but he was a

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Speaker 1: a traditional role player, not a not a super superstar

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Speaker 1: at that point in his career. Then you move on

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Speaker 1: to Cleveland and they were incredibly dominant in the two

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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen postseason, just beat the crap out of everybody

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Speaker 1: they played until they got to that juggernaut Warriors team.

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Speaker 1: And after games five, after they lose in the finals,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie goes into a press conference and says all these

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Speaker 1: nice things about how he loves being under Lebron and

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Speaker 1: learning from him, and and then like a month later,

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Speaker 1: he demands a trade. That's Kyrie's flakiness, which is well documented.

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Speaker 1: Kyrie's flaky nous is what destroyed the has wasn't Lebron

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Speaker 1: cashing in assets. It wasn't Lebron's drama. It was Kyrie

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Speaker 1: irving Lebron didn't mess up the Miami Heat. One of

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Speaker 1: their core foundational pieces got hurt, and then literally they

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Speaker 1: resigned Chris Bosh after Lebron left for like a hundred

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Speaker 1: something million dollars and he got a blood clot and

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Speaker 1: he couldn't play. That's why those situations went south. They

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Lebron in this idea of like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you lose assets, you lose assets every team. Look, the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are as strapped for assets as as any team

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Speaker 1: in the league, and they still have two first and

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Speaker 1: a good young player to trade this summer. Every team

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Speaker 1: is capable of retooling as long as they don't completely

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Speaker 1: nuke themselves with stupid signings, right, and the Lakers have

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Speaker 1: open cap looking forward, they just have you know, Lebron

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis obvious. I think they'll get off of us

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Speaker 1: this summer, but all these veteran minimums are off. They

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Speaker 1: can completely redo that next year, you know. I Kendrick

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Speaker 1: Nunn is an interesting situation there because if he opts in,

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Speaker 1: that complicates things with the mid level like option. But

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Speaker 1: the point is is like the Lakers do have flexibility,

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Speaker 1: and the only reason this window feels like it's ending,

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Speaker 1: the only reason this feels like the next Calves are

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Speaker 1: heat is because Anthony Davis can't stay on the court.

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Speaker 1: I put I pointed this out last week after he's

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Speaker 1: sprained his ankle. If Anthony Davis does not play another

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Speaker 1: game this season, Lebron and a d will have only

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Speaker 1: played together in fifty three of a hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: opportunities since the bubble. Is that because Lebron cashed in assets?

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Speaker 1: Is that because you know Lebron's high drama? Or is

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Speaker 1: that because guys got hurt. It's obviously because guys got

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Speaker 1: hurt the Lebron process. I understand that it's stressful, but

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Speaker 1: it comes with a reward. It comes with the championship.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a relationship. You're not going home to a

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Speaker 1: dramatic wife every night. Okay, This is a job. At

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Speaker 1: the job, you put up with anything as long as

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Speaker 1: the reward is commensurate. The layers are willing to put

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Speaker 1: up with Lebron as long as they get a shot

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Speaker 1: at a championship, which is what they're getting. That is

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Speaker 1: the trade off there. It's like a really high paying

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Speaker 1: job where you're really stressed out and need to go

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Speaker 1: home and have a drink after. Like that's the kind

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Speaker 1: of thing we're talking about here. This is a normal

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Speaker 1: dynamic that comes with the pressure and expectation of winning,

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Speaker 1: and Lebron is the best winner of this era, so

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Speaker 1: obviously he's gonna have more pressure and expectation than the

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Speaker 1: next guy in the list. But no matter what, trading

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Speaker 1: Lebron solves nothing. All that does is put you in

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Speaker 1: a situation where you're hoping that your mystery box in

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Speaker 1: two thousand seven gives you another Lebron Lebron is not

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Speaker 1: the problem. Guys got hurt, and when guys get hurt,

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Speaker 1: it's really difficult to win. Now, you made some mistakes

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Speaker 1: outside of that, but they're fixable mistakes. Just fix them

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Speaker 1: this summer and then go back with it with your

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Speaker 1: two top ten players and try to win a championship

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Speaker 1: next year. This is a solvable situation, alright, guys. That

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Speaker 1: is all I had for tonight. I am so so

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Speaker 1: excited to cover a Lakers game tomorrow. I believe they

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Speaker 1: play the Clippers. Will be going live immediately after the

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Speaker 1: final buzzer in that one. Thank you as always for

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Speaker 1: your guys to support, and I will see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: The volume