WEBVTT - What's Wright - LeBron James Injury Reaction: Lakers star exits vs. Celtics, impact on Luka & LA 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.400 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright. Another emergency pod 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:08.400 following a really important Laker game. This one did not 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.240 go the Lakers way and the loss might be the 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.680 least of their worries. Celtics one eleven, Lakers won oh one. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.799 This might be the shortest pod we've ever done, but 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.360 I wanted to do something here because I'm about to 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.040 get on a plane to go to Vegas on this 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.040 very channel. If you're watching on YouTube Monday, you're gonna 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:31.320 be able to watch me play in a live cash 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.120 game at the Poker Ghost Studios and then I'll be 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.000 back in New York and back doing this show Tuesday morning. 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.880 Gonna do first things first from Vegas. So very busy 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.320 next thirty six hours for me. But Lebron James Tweaks 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.400 is growing. I'm gonna call it Tweaks is growing because 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.920 Sham's just reported one to two weeks is what they're 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:52.560 looking at. 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:54.400 So here's what we want to do on the Today's 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:55.120 Show very. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.200 Quickly, the game last night, the impact of Lebron's injury, 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:04.400 and then in we haven't talked to you since Lebron confronted. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.800 I think that's a fair word. Steven A. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.960 At the previous Laker game against the Knicks, and I 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.080 do think that that I guess we have talked to 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:14.760 you since then. We haven't talked to you since that 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.120 video came out. I do think that is worth a 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.400 few minutes because I might have some details on that 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.760 that have not been publicly shared that I think I'm 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.360 within my rights to share. So I will share those, 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.560 but first the game. We'll get to Lebron just a minute, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:33.640 because I want to give credit where it's due. Tatum 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.399 was phenomenal. Tatum. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.400 You look, even if you don't watch the game, you 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:38.240 look at the box. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.440 Score, forty twelve and eight, playing big minutes, forty five minutes, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.600 barely resting. He was outstanding and as good as Jalen 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.800 Brown was. And Jalen Brown hit a huge three late 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.760 when the game had been cut to four. He finished 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.440 with thirty one and six. I actually thought the most 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.360 impressive Celtic other than Tatum was Al Horford Horford who 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.240 kept getting put out on an island with Luke a Ancic, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.040 and Horford held his own as well as any guy 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.560 his age. Any thirty eight year old not named Lebron 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.320 James could have been asked to do. Horford did it, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.960 and Missoula after the game gave him a ton of 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.639 credit and he deserved a ton of credit. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.640 I mean Luca, So I'll get to Luca in a second. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.680 But the Tatum was great the Celtics. Here's the thing. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:35.240 If you're a Celtics fan, the Celtics were awesome. It's 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.799 the best version of the Celtics. You saw it last night. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.040 I think you'll see that again on Wednesday. Wednesday, the 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.960 Celtics play the Thunder. I think they will be amped 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.000 for that game. After that, you look at their schedule, 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:53.519 you might not see a fully locked in, fully motivated 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.239 Celtics team until Round two of the playoffs. You might 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.840 after Saturday night and then this coming Wednesday. That. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:04.720 Let me put it like this, If. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.640 The Celtics don't play well Wednesday, and I think they will, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.320 Saturday might be the last time you see them play 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.960 great for two months because they're not gonna have to 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:19.919 the after Oklahoma City. The schedule is Miami, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Utah, Portland, Sacramento, Phoenix, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:25.360 San Antonio, Memphis, Miami, Phoenix, Washington, New York, Orlando, Charlotte, Charlotte. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.400 Maybe that New York game late in the year. But 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.120 I also could see the Celtics, you know, kind of 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.760 holding some things back in that game because that's probably 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.840 gonna be the round two matchup. But the Celtics showed 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:42.600 you yesterday, particularly in that third quarter, is that championship gear. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.080 They still have it, And not that many of us 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.800 doubted they had it. But this is why a lot 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.680 of us, hand up, myself included, have considered the Celtics, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:57.080 not the Calves, the real favorites in the East all 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.200 year long. So the Celtics serve massive credit. They got that. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.640 They got the victory by dominating the Lakers in the 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.280 third quarter. There was a moment I thought the Lakers 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.560 might be able to steal it, a really soft I 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.840 thought foul on a three pointer on Derek White when 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.400 it was down to four is what allowed the Celtics 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.159 to kind of, you know, never have the Lakers have 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.479 the ball with a chance to cut to one possession 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.839 after that great third quarter, So Celtics win. They're seven 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.679 back of the one and seven up on the three, 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.720 so they are just locked into the three line. Now 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:37.440 to the Lakers side, Listen, Lebron got hurt and his 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.960 demeanor after the game tells me he doesn't think this 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:49.520 is a month long injury, and the Sham's report that 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.080 they're going to give it a couple of days to 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:56.599 calm down and then they're going to reevaluate in one 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:02.239 to two weeks tells me he hopefully would be back 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.279 by the end of the month. So they have a 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.640 road trae the Lakers have a tough schedule. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.120 Well, they have a tough schedule the rest of the way. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.000 I think it's the third toughest schedule the rest of 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.800 the way. Now, I am obviously, you know, maybe biased 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.279 on this because I am going to Memphis twenty days 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.120 from now to three weeks from today. I guess there's 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.000 another way to put it. To see grizzlyes Lakers. I 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.560 obviously would hope Lebron would be back by then. It 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.600 wouldn't shock me if they have him come back after 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.920 that for the homestand but one to two weeks means 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.000 maybe he's back way earlier than that. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:48.160 I don't think this is anything like a death. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.000 Now for the Lakers, and I even think there is 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.719 a slight bright side that I'll get to in a moment. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.440 What it does mean, however, is their ability to hold 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.000 on to the two seed, which they loss last night, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:06.320 is very tenuous, and their chances of falling from the 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.440 three line are certainly in play now. I don't think 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.360 they can fall further than the four five right now, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.120 so everyone knows the standings. Denver's forty one and twenty two, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.080 the Lakers are forty and twenty two, the Grizzlies are 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.080 thirty nine and twenty four, and the Rockets are thirty 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.800 nine and twenty five. You then get to the Warriors, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.760 who have twenty eight losses, so you don't have to 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.200 worry about them falling to the six, but not a 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.280 big margin of error. Even though Memphis has not been 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.800 playing well lately, so that neither of the Rockets really 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:39.800 so that helps them out. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.440 But the schedule's not easy. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.640 At Brooklyn should be able to handle that game, then 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:52.000 at Milwaukee at Denver, and then Phoenix San Antonio, Denver 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.640 at home, Milwaukee at home, and then it softens up 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.680 a bit. So these next couple weeks where they should 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:04.000 be without Lebron James gonna be in a tough spot. Now. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.880 Where they deserve credit is the first half last night 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:10.600 and then even when they were trying to make the 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:15.320 fourth quarter comeback. They're without their two tallest rotation players 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:19.800 in Ruy and Jackson Hayes, So you just had everyone 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.040 kind of playing out a position, and it felt to 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:28.880 me like despite that, they mostly held their own Defensively, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.640 it was the Celtics defense and the Lakers' offense not 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.520 being able to get it going. That was the difference 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.000 in the game. And that's where the Celtics deserve a 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.880 lot of credit. And listen, Lucas still got thirty four, 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.280 but Luca only had three assists and Luca, now, some 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.520 of that was this guy's missing shots, but they did 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.200 a good job of making sure Luca couldn't just be 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.880 the pre eminent creator for the Lakers, and it's why 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:02.800 the Lakers often struggled. There are some Laker fans who 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.240 I'm noticing are already like man, Luca seems to be laboring. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.200 Luca doesn't. Is he injured? 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.200 As someone who has watched you know, as much Luca 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.960 Nachi since he came to the league as anyone alive, really, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.000 let me tell you, Luca appearing to be banged up 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.280 is just Luca. He's always kind of limping, He's always 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.880 kind of laboring. He's always got that kind of sour 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.120 ah look on his face. It's just who he is 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:42.439 and it's not something anyone really should be too shocked by. Okay, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.600 So I wouldn't read too much into that. I would 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.600 just say that that is what it is, so to 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.959 speak that that is. Luca is very rarely one hundred 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.640 percent healthy. So here is the potent Joe brightside to 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.400 Lebron missing a little bit of time, You're still we 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:13.760 still haven't gotten the full Lukadncic experience. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.160 And I still think there. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.040 Is a level of even though Luke had the ball, 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.800 has had the ball in his hand a ton the 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.360 last few games, the twenty two shots against the Celtics, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:30.000 twenty three against the Knicks, twenty two against the Clippers 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:34.000 a week before, it still feels like there's a little 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.160 bit The only game it really felt to me like, oh, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.079 that's the Luke I'm used to was the New Orleans 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:45.840 game where he had thirty eight and fifteen And the 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.160 fifteen assists is the number I'm you know, really looking at. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:56.240 And maybe with Lebron out, you're going to get a 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.520 little taste of a little more of that. And then 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:03.640 when Lebron comes back that you're gonna get more Luca 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.760 as the clear cut number one, Lebron as the best 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.560 number two, imaginable one other thing on Luca, then I 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:18.960 want to get back to Lebron. Jokich had a thirty 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:24.520 twenty twenty game, and folks are wondering if that's gonna 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:30.160 win him the MVP award. That would really listen. I 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.959 felt this way about the NFL MVP this year, and 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.720 I'm glad the voters got it write and gave it 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:39.000 to Josh. Two years ago, Josh Allen had far better 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:43.960 stats than Lamar, but Lamar's team won, it fell and 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.000 Lamar's team had the better record. Lamar's team was the 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:52.800 one seed, and we said Lamar's the MVP. Okay, last year, 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.600 Luca had the best stats in basketball by a lot. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:04.040 He was thirty four, nine and ten for this season, 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.680 and as far as the oh my god wow moments, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.440 had a sixty to twenty ten game last win and 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.160 a seventy three to ten to seven game, and at 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:22.560 no point were was the argument that I heard was 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.800 the sixty to twenty ten game the year before last. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:25.280 I'm not sure. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.120 I'll have to look, but regardless, he had the seventy 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.320 three game point game was definitely last season. But the 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.079 argument was his team hasn't won enough there and it's 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:40.440 Jokers Award, which I was totally fine with that. The 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.160 MVP this year, based on the president that we have, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.120 probably needs to be shited. In fact, almost definitely needs 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.440 to be shit. I do want to talk the Lebron 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.439 stuff before we get to the confrontation on Friday night. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.319 I will be really bummed because he's gonna be healthy 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:06.160 by the playoffs. All be really bummed if he doesn't 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.320 get to play seven more games this year. So this 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:15.760 assuredly knocks Lebron out of He wasn't there, listen. He 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.520 I was just talking MVP. MVP is going to go 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.599 Shay one Joker to or maybe Joker one Shay to. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.280 That's how it should be. That's what it's going to be. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:29.160 But Lebron was making a case for some really fourth 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.840 or fifth place votes. He also has been making a 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:39.000 really interesting first Team All NBA case and first Team 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:44.960 All NBA four spots are just locked Shay Joker, Jannis Tatum, 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.199 and in that fifth spot I thought was going to 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:54.079 come down between Donovan and Lebron Lebron now being out 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.080 sitting at fifty eight games, the first team All NBA 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:05.120 stuffs probably done, and the real question is he going 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.840 to get to the sixty five game threshold. I given 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:15.559 the latest update on how long they expect him out, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.320 he should be back with plenty of time to get 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.520 to the sixty five games. But just as a basketball 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.760 historian and obviously a Lebron guy, it would be a 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.680 huge bummer if he finishes just shy of the sixty 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.560 five game threshold and is not eligible for what will 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.520 now be would be a second team All NBA, because 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:45.880 there is some real poetry to year two, age twenty 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.760 Lebron being second Team All NBA and then year twenty two, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:58.080 age forty Lebron being second Team All NBA. But he's 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.280 out now for I'm gonna go ahead and make a guess. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:10.400 I'm going to say Lebron James is going to return 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:17.079 to the lineup. Today is the ninth I'm gonna say 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:23.680 Lebron James is going to return to the lineup at 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:30.360 Chicago Thursday, March twenty seventh. Again, that's based on absolutely 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:35.400 nothing except the reading the tea leaves, So that would 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:46.240 have him missing Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Denver, Phoenix, San Antonio, Denver, Milwaukee, Chicago, Orlando, Indiana. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:52.400 And that would have have him returning missing ten games 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.320 and then returning with ten games left. That's what I so, 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.160 I think that if we set the over under the 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.120 I think that is a good. Anything longer than that, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.440 I would be a little concerned. Anything quicker than that, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.200 you take as a bonus, talk a little quick insight 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:19.720 into what the background of the Lebron and steven A 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.840 thing was, and then wrap up the show. 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So much of that just has to be 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.840 has to do with how he's been covered rather than 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:33.399 the reality. Because what happened on Thursday night was in 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.600 a game it looked like the Lakers were going to lose. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:44.120 In between the third and fourth quarter, Lebron James saw 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:52.240 the world's most famous sports media member who he thinks 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.600 has been unfair to him and his family. More on 0:19:55.640 --> 0:20:02.639 that in a second, walked over to him, checked him, 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:08.399 and then against that guy's favorite team ever, walked them down, 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.240 hit the three in the corner. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.280 To cut it from four to one, directly in. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.960 Front of that person, and then one in overtime, hitting 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:26.160 all the clutch free throws. If that were Michael or Kobe, 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.199 it would be part of their legend, it would be 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.720 in their documentaries. Oh and then this time walked over 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.160 to him in a game they were looked like they 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.400 were gonna lose against that guy's favorite team, and then 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:45.159 won the game. And so that's just I thought that 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:50.280 was I think most of us when we saw it, assumed. 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.000 That happened after the game. 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:54.480 And I was even a little confused because I was 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.000 watched that game and that game Lebron went right to 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.040 the locker room after the game. And also when you 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.440 saw it looked like something was going on on the court. 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.919 So I remember when the video first came out, being like, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:14.040 was that during a live action essentially, But I didn't 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.480 put it all together, and then we got the real details. 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.240 It was between third and fourth quarter. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.600 Now because I think. 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:27.119 A lot of people have been really dishonest and unfair 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:33.719 about acting like oh Lebron's sons in the league, and 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.720 now he doesn't want anyone, even though he's an NBA player, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:37.680 to criticize him. 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:44.040 That's not what this was. This was a number of 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:44.840 different things. 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:51.760 The first one is this, I do think as far 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:58.359 as criticism of Bronnie James, I do think it is. Listen, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:04.760 Bronnie James as a basketball player is totally fair, a 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:09.240 fair target. Where I think there might be some frustration 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:14.520 is have you heard and I'm going to mispronounce some 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:20.600 of these names, any of these names in any media whatsoever, 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:27.720 except for maybe the most in the Weeds dedicated local 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:36.000 team podcasts, Baylor Shireman, Jonathan Magbo, Kyle Philipowski, Tyler Smith, 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:43.960 Tyler Kohlak, Johnny Furfey, Juan Nunez, Bobby Bobi, Clintman, aj Mitchell, 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:52.440 Jalen Wells, Ohso Iguodaro, Adam Bona, kJ Simpson, Nikola Deresik 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:58.000 pel Larson, Jamal Sheed, Cam Christi, Antonio Reeves, Harrison, Ingram, 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:04.600 Tristan Newton, Enriki Free, Melvin Ajinka, Quinton Post. I've been 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.680 hearing some Quenton Post. He's been playing well for the Warriors, 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:13.040 Cam Spencer, Anton Watson, Kevin mccullor junior or Rick Comchi, 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:18.760 Ariel Huckporty the only guy I've heard mentioned all year. 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:19.200 Now. 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:22.080 The first couple of names I mentioned, Philipowski obviously was 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:24.400 a great college player, and Shireman was a really good 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:25.480 college player. 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:28.280 All year. 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:32.560 Maybe a little jimal sheet that those are all the 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:38.200 second round picks. So it's not as if on these 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:41.280 shows we talk a lot about second round picks. So 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:48.280 you might be like, wow, yeah, but Bronnie is getting 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:53.359 more opportunity, getting more run. You know, he's playing in 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:56.240 more NBA games than most second round picks. Well, let's 0:23:56.320 --> 0:24:01.720 check Bronnie James, the fifty fifth pick of the draft. 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:07.480 Here is where he ranks amongst rookies this year in 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:10.280 the following categories. Again, you'd I've did this once before, 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:13.119 I will do it again. The fifty fifth pick, you 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:19.040 would hope's round fifty fifth in everything in minutes played 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:23.199 in the NBA. Bronnie James the fifty fifth pick is 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:28.600 fifty sixth in games played. Bronnie James the fifty fifth 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:35.159 pick is fifty first in assists Bronnie James. The fifty 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:41.239 fifth pick is fifty third in steals Bronnie James. The 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:46.760 fifty fifth pick is forty eighth in points Bronnie James. 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:51.200 The fifty fifth pick is fifty sixth. So, in other words, 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:55.720 playing exactly to his draft status. Yeah, well, those are 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:57.920 garbage time minutes. What does that really mean? What's he 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:01.359 doing in the G League twenty one to five and 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:06.879 five in the G League regular season thirty four minutes 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:14.520 per game on forty five thirty nine splits. So I 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:20.760 think some of the frustration is the Lakers took in 0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:28.880 the first round last year Jalen hoods Chaffino, who is 0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:31.560 let me check his G League stats, who is no 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:35.200 longer on the Lakers. They didn't even. 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:38.040 Uh what draft? 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:42.639 Yeah, last year's draft, he got waived or moved I 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:43.760 don't even remember. 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:49.280 And he is this year. 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:54.520 I don't know, not the tip off tournament, regular season 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:57.960 in the G League. Sorry, this is taking me a moment. 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:03.280 Last year in the G League, the Lakers first round 0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:06.880 pick again Bronni this year in the G League twenty one, 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:10.240 five and five. Last year in the G League, their 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:14.080 first round pick. Their first round pick number was he overall? 0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:19.720 I think seventeen. It was pre twenty. I know because 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:22.639 there was a really good player taken right after him. 0:26:23.240 --> 0:26:27.520 Yeah he was seventeen. Yeah, Pods who everybody in the 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:30.640 Warriors loves, went nineteen. So Brianni this year twenty one 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:33.240 five and five is a fifty fifth pick for the 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:39.080 Lakers G League team. Jalenhood Chaffino twenty two five and 0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:44.240 five as the seventeenth pick. So it does feel like, well, 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:46.080 we don't really talk about these guys and then this, 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:50.000 But that's not what this was about. This actually wasn't 0:26:50.040 --> 0:26:53.640 about Bronni. And this is the part that I think 0:26:53.880 --> 0:27:00.680 just should be level set. It was about it kind 0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:08.120 well two things. One the commentary win and I said 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:10.280