Speaker 1: Welcome inn. We'll drive in the Great episode four eighty six.
Speaker 1: I am back, rejuvenated, excited to be here and listen,
Speaker 1: I'm very, very lucky. I have a great life. I've
Speaker 1: been very blessed in a million different ways. Occasionally even
Speaker 1: those of us in those circumstances get a little unlucky.
Speaker 1: Lebron James choosing to go to the Philadelphia seventy six Ers,
Speaker 1: while in its totality, is absolutely phenomenal for me personally,
Speaker 1: and I think for the NBA, and we'll get into
Speaker 1: all of that. Him deciding make it, you're announcing it
Speaker 1: literally maybe four or five minutes after my flight to
Speaker 1: see my have my whole extended family and our extended
Speaker 1: family meet Demand's baby down in Aruba. Just left the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi zone. If you fly in nationally, you know
Speaker 1: sometimes on certain flights, once you kind of leave the
Speaker 1: continental US, you're and you're over the seed no Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: So I literally was one of the last people to
Speaker 1: find out Lebron was going to the Sixers, And I
Speaker 1: had made a promise to my family that I was
Speaker 1: going to do no content, no Twitter, no little videos
Speaker 1: while we were on this family vacation. So that part
Speaker 1: was not ideal. But because of that I have You know,
Speaker 1: I am the last person. I'm eleven days late to this,
Speaker 1: but I also have eleven days worth of takes for
Speaker 1: this demands still on the final week of his paternity
Speaker 1: leave that he wanted to be here. I told him, man,
Speaker 1: you get this time, take this time. He'll be back
Speaker 1: next week. But we are back, and again, scheduling wise,
Speaker 1: we're back for a couple of weeks, then one more
Speaker 1: little vacation before football, and then we are all football. However,
Speaker 1: Lebron James the Philadelphia seventy six ers. This is episode
Speaker 1: forty six, What Tray and the Great, presented to you
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Speaker 1: be Jean Robinson signed a record breaking extension three years
Speaker 1: worth up to seventy five million, fifty one million guaranteed
Speaker 1: the Dodger's trade for Tarik's schoobl We actually might talk
Speaker 1: more about that on Thursday. The US men's national team
Speaker 1: extends Poachattino. We will do a moment or two on that.
Speaker 1: On Thursday. Also, Aaron Rodgers went back on Pat McAfee
Speaker 1: and we'll do something on that on Thursday. A lot
Speaker 1: of people like, oh who who owes apologies to who
Speaker 1: will We'll get into that, But none of that is
Speaker 1: what I want to do here. What I want to
Speaker 1: do here is every single angle of a move that
Speaker 1: in many ways has been for me eight years in
Speaker 1: the making, not as some of you were with me
Speaker 1: in the early, early first things, first days, when it
Speaker 1: was me and Chris Carter and Genna Wolf, when Lebron
Speaker 1: fresh off arguably the greatest individual playoff run of any
Speaker 1: player in league history, eight forty point games, two game winners,
Speaker 1: the greatest single game ever played by a player in
Speaker 1: the history of the league, the fifty one to eight
Speaker 1: to eight in Game one of the Finals, playing all
Speaker 1: forty eight minutes in a Game seven road victory over Boston.
Speaker 1: Fresh off that, when Lebron was making his decision and
Speaker 1: everyone thought he was probably going to Los Angeles, I
Speaker 1: advocated go to Philly. This was before the shine had
Speaker 1: worn off. Been Simmons Been Simmons was the young Philly
Speaker 1: clutch client with all NBA upside. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: he maybe already had made an All NBA team or
Speaker 1: was about to Embiid was obviously, you know, at that
Speaker 1: point in time, less of the injury concern, but still
Speaker 1: a superstar, and he could have stayed in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: The Eastern Conference seemed at the time far more winnable
Speaker 1: than the Western Conference, and there were a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons I thought Philly made a lot of sense. He
Speaker 1: then went to Los Angeles, and again the narrative when
Speaker 1: that happened was he is going there for movies and
Speaker 1: business and lifestyle. The championship portion of Lebron James's career
Speaker 1: is over. He's going to LA It's the Lakers were
Speaker 1: supposed to be Lebron's Jordan Wizard's years. And then he
Speaker 1: did what he has done every time he has changed teams,
Speaker 1: which is, by the second year with the team, delivered
Speaker 1: them a championship. Helped deliver them Anthony Davis became the
Speaker 1: NBA's all time leading score, had another Conference finals run,
Speaker 1: single handedly led them to a massive first round upset
Speaker 1: in his final year there with the team, while becoming
Speaker 1: the first player in league history to play twenty three seasons.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna have to fact check this, but I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure the first player in league history to in
Speaker 1: a playoff game throw an alley oop to his son.
Speaker 1: And now he is still one of the most influential
Speaker 1: and still one of the best players in the entire league.
Speaker 1: And now he ends up in Philadelphia. So how did
Speaker 1: we get here? Well, if you guys have listened to
Speaker 1: me along the last couple months, I have been all
Speaker 1: over the place on this. There was a period of
Speaker 1: time that I said I thought Philly was where he
Speaker 1: was going to end up, shortly after they traded for
Speaker 1: j Brown. I then moved off that to right before
Speaker 1: I left town, I thought the tea leaves were pointing
Speaker 1: towards Miami, not Philly. But I still think even in
Speaker 1: that Miami episode, I power ranked it as Miami won,
Speaker 1: Philly two, Cleveland three, and Golden State a distant four.
Speaker 1: And it seemed like Denver and Minnesota were never as
Speaker 1: viable option. I never thought Minnesota was a viable option.
Speaker 1: Some other folks never thought Denver was a viable option.
Speaker 1: It seems like both of those parties were correct. But
Speaker 1: there was one thing Rich Paul said that should have
Speaker 1: made anyone that was outright dismissing the Sixers as a
Speaker 1: possibility have a moment of pause, and that was when
Speaker 1: Rich said, flatly, if if the Knicks didn't win the championship,
Speaker 1: Lebron was going to go to New York. He didn't
Speaker 1: say maybe was going to he didn't say it was
Speaker 1: a possibility. He said, if the Knicks didn't win the title,
Speaker 1: Lebron was going to go to New York. And so
Speaker 1: what that meant was we knew Lebron was okay moving
Speaker 1: all the way to the East Coast. We also knew
Speaker 1: Lebron was okay going to a team he had never
Speaker 1: played for. And it also gave us a little bit
Speaker 1: of an idea of what Lebron was trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1: From a happiness standpoint, which is what they said at
Speaker 1: the beginning, happiness was the most important thing. And from
Speaker 1: a legacy standpoint, there are three teams in the league
Speaker 1: that at prior to the Knicks winning this championship have
Speaker 1: a history, meaning they have won a championship in the town.
Speaker 1: They are current and have a championship drought that predates
Speaker 1: Lebron being born, a forty plus year championship drought. Those
Speaker 1: teams are the New York Knicks. They got taken off
Speaker 1: the ward by ending their drought. The Portland Trailblazers, if
Speaker 1: they were ever going to be on the board, they
Speaker 1: got taken off the board by this lunatic owner, but
Speaker 1: they were never really on the board. And the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers, whose championship drought now sits at forty
Speaker 1: three years, who has a rich history of Wilt Chamberlain
Speaker 1: and Doctor Jay and Moses Malone and Alan iverson a
Speaker 1: Sixers team where if Lebron was thinking he might want
Speaker 1: to live in New York City and play for the Knicks,
Speaker 1: he can still at least some of the time, live
Speaker 1: in New York City and play for the Sixers. I
Speaker 1: think Lebron's former coach Reddick once upon a time lived
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn and played for the Sixers. It's not unprecedented.
Speaker 1: So the Sixers should have maybe been more on folks
Speaker 1: radar than they were. And then you look at the
Speaker 1: actual basketball fit basketball reasons and Rich Paul from the
Speaker 1: Game Over podcast with Max Kellerman that all important whiteboard.
Speaker 1: No team was given more attention on the whiteboard than
Speaker 1: the Sixers. You had the full lineup written out, you
Speaker 1: had a star next to Maxie. You also think about
Speaker 1: those other teams that were or were not on the whiteboard,
Speaker 1: and you think about the different things they could have done.
Speaker 1: The Cavs on the whiteboard it said no Garland with
Speaker 1: a negative. Garland a clutch client who they had, but
Speaker 1: they traded him because they thought to get over the
Speaker 1: playoff hump. They that adding James Harden would help them.
Speaker 1: Is there a universe that exists where if they simply
Speaker 1: don't trade Darius Garland for James Harden, Lebron James is
Speaker 1: playing on the minimum for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there is. Jalen Brown was listed obviously on the
Speaker 1: Sixers list of guys. Is there a world that exists
Speaker 1: where if the Boston Celtics had simply not looked at
Speaker 1: Hugo Gonzales as the next Bob Pettitt that maybe not
Speaker 1: only do they have Giannis, but Lebron James is not
Speaker 1: in their same conference, let alone their same division. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: is there a world that exists where if the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors had found a way where they are the
Speaker 1: team that makes the Jaalen Brown trade when we know
Speaker 1: what you had to beat was Paul George In a
Speaker 1: couple of first A lot of teams could have made
Speaker 1: that trade. Would that have entices Lebron to the Bay Maybe,
Speaker 1: But all these different dominoes fell, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Lebron James finds himself in Philadelphia for a team that
Speaker 1: I think a lot of you like, Let's say Lebron
Speaker 1: ended up choosing the Warriors and was staying out West. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of you were gonna pick the
Speaker 1: Sixers to win the East with a starting five of
Speaker 1: Maxi Edgecombe, Jalen Brown, Dean Wade Joel Embiid. Now it's
Speaker 1: that same starting five, but in place of Dean Wade
Speaker 1: is Lebron James. And so we'll talk about the fit
Speaker 1: in Philly. You know how much this does or does
Speaker 1: not come down to Embiid in a bit. But the
Speaker 1: snap take is is this a viable championship contender? Obviously? Yes?
Speaker 1: Does Lebron have an opportunity to do in Philadelphia what
Speaker 1: he has done as I just mentioned every other place
Speaker 1: he's gone when he changed teams, which is deliver a
Speaker 1: championship in or in this case maybe by his second season. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And that's the second biggest takeaway. Was a part of
Speaker 1: Lebron's decision? Pie and I think a big part of
Speaker 1: it was can I thread the needle of going somewhere
Speaker 1: where I can win, but also where no one with
Speaker 1: any credibility at all be able to call this a
Speaker 1: ring chase? Can I go somewhere where I can win?
Speaker 1: And while it would not be guaranteed, is at least
Speaker 1: possible that in any given series, maybe including the final series,
Speaker 1: I'm the best player on my team. So there are
Speaker 1: plenty of teams where he could have walked into and
Speaker 1: been the best player. And there are plenty of teams
Speaker 1: he could have walked into, or at least a handful
Speaker 1: of teams he could have walked into and snap Ben,
Speaker 1: they would be the overwhelming favorites. But what were the
Speaker 1: teams that he could go to where on any given
Speaker 1: night he can be the best player and they have
Speaker 1: viable championship opportunity. That list was probably just Philly in Cleveland, Like,
Speaker 1: let's go through the other ones. And I never took
Speaker 1: Minnesota seriously. I'm not gonna take Minnesota very seriously. Here.
Speaker 1: Lebron James was not finishing his career in Minnesota alongside
Speaker 1: LaMelo and and I like aunt a lot, he wasn't.
Speaker 1: He wasn't going there, goes to Golden State. I believe
Speaker 1: he'd be the best player on Golden State. I don't
Speaker 1: think that team's got enough to win the title, so
Speaker 1: that that's they've got. He can be the best guy,
Speaker 1: But there's a ceiling on that team, So take them
Speaker 1: off the list, Denver. That team would still be a
Speaker 1: weird third one because he is. They still feel like
Speaker 1: they are a few defenders or athleticism short. But you
Speaker 1: would have two of the five best basketball IQs of
Speaker 1: the last fifty years and Bron and Joker, two of
Speaker 1: the five best passers of the last thirty years, and
Speaker 1: Bron and Joker. It certainly could work. But his chance
Speaker 1: of being the best player on that team, even for
Speaker 1: one single series close to zero with Joker at his
Speaker 1: apex right now. So again, I'm not saying that eliminated
Speaker 1: them for him, but if that was a part of
Speaker 1: the mat they're off the list. San Antonio. Could san
Speaker 1: Antonio have won the title if stepping into the starting
Speaker 1: five for Julian Champagne is Lebron on a minimum, of course,
Speaker 1: and would it be ring chasing They've never won a ring.
Speaker 1: It would be considered that because that's Wimby's why would
Speaker 1: the thunder have been the overwhelming favorites if stepping in
Speaker 1: for the departed lou Dort was Lebron James on a minimum. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: but that team just eliminated them in the playoffs. That
Speaker 1: team won the title two years ago, was in Game
Speaker 1: seven of the Western Conference Finals last year. Shay is
Speaker 1: a multi time MVP. That would have been and we'll
Speaker 1: talk more about Durant's comments later. A poor man's, very
Speaker 1: poor man's maybe homeless man's version of Durant joining the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Take that one off the list. Miami, I think they
Speaker 1: could have won, not this year, but next year, won
Speaker 1: a couple more transaction cycles. I trust Riley and Spulstra.
Speaker 1: But for that to happen, Giannis has to be back MVP.
Speaker 1: He of the league level guy. And again not a
Speaker 1: ring chase really because Miami has been off in the wilderness.
Speaker 1: But Lebron is a clear robin. There's Cleveland and Philly. Cleveland,
Speaker 1: which if you have if you say Donovan's better than Lebron,
Speaker 1: that's totally fine. It's a legitimate opinion. In any given series,
Speaker 1: Lebron can be better. But that it's similar to what's
Speaker 1: going on in Philly, the roster would make sense. However,
Speaker 1: I don't think Lebron loved the Swiss the ultimate Swiss
Speaker 1: army knife role in LA of guys super high usage
Speaker 1: dribbling the ball, they are out of the ball. Guys
Speaker 1: in Luke in Ar and Donovan and James Harden, you're
Speaker 1: in that same world. So then you have Philadelphia where
Speaker 1: everyone has a defined role. Now is are there enough
Speaker 1: basketballs to go around? We'll discuss that as well in
Speaker 1: a bit. But Philadelphia has not been to a conference
Speaker 1: finals in twenty five years. Philadelphia has not won a
Speaker 1: championship in forty three years. Vj Edgecomb's never been I
Speaker 1: mean he's in year two. He's never been out of
Speaker 1: round two, Tyrese Maxie's never been out of round two.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid's never been out of round two. Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: is new like Lebron is. Jalen Brown was sixth in
Speaker 1: MVP voting this year, Lebron six in MVP voting the
Speaker 1: previous year, and in any given series on any given night, Maxie, Bron,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, Embiid, if healthy, any of those guys can
Speaker 1: be the best guy. So the ability to win the
Speaker 1: championship and if they do, get deserved legitimate big piece
Speaker 1: of the pie credit. Philly checks that box. And the
Speaker 1: last reason that Lebron chose Philly is not really about
Speaker 1: choosing Philly, but it's about choosing the NBA over golf
Speaker 1: and boats and potential ownership and other endeavors and movies
Speaker 1: and Hollywood and friends and family. And it is because
Speaker 1: no one in the history of the world has loved
Speaker 1: the game of basketball more than Lebron. Now, I butchered
Speaker 1: this a bit on TV yesterday. I thought it was
Speaker 1: why old quote. It's actually my buddy Laslow's old quote,
Speaker 1: which was Laslow used to say. Maybe he still does.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I love my kids more than you
Speaker 1: love your kids. What I'm saying is it is impossible
Speaker 1: for anyone to love their kids more than I love mine.
Speaker 1: Maybe we're in a million person tied for first, but
Speaker 1: I'm tied for first. That's what I'm saying about Lebron
Speaker 1: and basketball. I'm not saying he loves it more than
Speaker 1: anyone else ever has. I'm saying no one has ever
Speaker 1: loved it more than him. Maybe it's a long tie.
Speaker 1: I saw an amazing quote from Jamal Crawford this week
Speaker 1: talking about how much he loves the game. I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys who have just this peak
Speaker 1: maximum love for the game, which brings me to one
Speaker 1: of the only things during this entire Lebron James decision
Speaker 1: part whatever, that I think I got wrong because I
Speaker 1: know I was right that he was truly battling with
Speaker 1: this decision. I know I was right that anyone that
Speaker 1: was reporting it was down to two teams was wrong.
Speaker 1: I know I was right that there was real back
Speaker 1: and forth in the final weeks, maybe even the final days.
Speaker 1: I may have gotten this wrong. I have been saying
Speaker 1: for more than this process, but for the better part
Speaker 1: of a couple years, that Lebron James's plan is to
Speaker 1: play twenty five five years, that wherever he was signing
Speaker 1: with it was not going to just be about this season,
Speaker 1: that his plan is to play two more years and
Speaker 1: put in a cool quarter century in the NBA. I
Speaker 1: think I was a little too strident on that, but
Speaker 1: not in the direction everyone else was. I would like
Speaker 1: to amend my take to Lebron James's plan is to
Speaker 1: play twenty five years minimum. His plan is to play
Speaker 1: these two years in Philly at least. And what I
Speaker 1: have said about Lebron being almost a hostage of his
Speaker 1: own ability, we are going to see how long that
Speaker 1: hostage negotiation takes. Because and listen, catastrophic injury happens, you
Speaker 1: knock on wood, You hope it doesn't. You see, that
Speaker 1: can change things. But barring that, he'll not only never
Speaker 1: be bad, he'll always be some level of good. His
Speaker 1: size and strength are never gonna go away, and the
Speaker 1: IQ is only going to get sharper. That by itself
Speaker 1: makes him a valuable NBA player. The fact that it
Speaker 1: a age forty one, twenty three years completed in the league,
Speaker 1: he still has the athleticism to lead the NBA in
Speaker 1: fast breakpoints means it will be a long time till
Speaker 1: he's at an athletic disadvantage. And so this is where
Speaker 1: we are, with the greatest pure athlete in recorded history,
Speaker 1: and with the man who is shifting the parameters of
Speaker 1: anyone who wants to have a goat debate to a
Speaker 1: very narrow, never previously agreed upon terms of Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about best career, and I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: who could play in any era, and I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about who did the most, and I'm not no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I only want to have the debate on these very
Speaker 1: specific terms, under these very specific rules, because that's the
Speaker 1: only way that I can possibly have a leg to
Speaker 1: stand on. So a lot more to get to, and
Speaker 1: including how this fits what I think is the biggest
Speaker 1: misnomer right now about what will or won't happen with
Speaker 1: these sixers, Durant's unreal stuff this week. All of that
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Speaker 1: some here about already about why he chose Philly, and
Speaker 1: the question is with the way Philly fans are, you know,
Speaker 1: will they accept Lebron or will they turn on him
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out. I can almost guarantee you
Speaker 1: Philly fans are going to have a better overall relationship
Speaker 1: with Lebron than Laker fans did because the Laker fan
Speaker 1: relationship was always complicated because of the fan rivalry amongst
Speaker 1: Kobe fans and Lebron fans. And I listen, I'm not
Speaker 1: judging Kobe fans in this regard. They're fortunate in that
Speaker 1: Kobe played his whole career with one team, so they
Speaker 1: never had to come to the realization, so to speak.
Speaker 1: You know, that's so many hand up Lebron folks did,
Speaker 1: which was and for me, it was never even a realization.
Speaker 1: I'm a kid from Kansas City who is the same
Speaker 1: high school class as Lebron. I've talked about this a
Speaker 1: lot in the past. Me and my high school teammates
Speaker 1: would watch Saint Menstin Saint Mary's games. I was kind
Speaker 1: of an NBA team orphan growing up. I was briefly,
Speaker 1: as a little kid, a Knicks fan because my mom
Speaker 1: grew up in New York City. In the first game
Speaker 1: I ever went to was a Knicks Bulls game in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three. But by the time I was a teenager,
Speaker 1: I really didn't have a team, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll be a fan of whatever team this
Speaker 1: guy goes to. I was eighteen years old. I'm forty one.
Speaker 1: I just went on a trip with my granddaughter. He's
Speaker 1: still changing teams, I'm still changing who I root for.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of Lebron folks has been like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a Cavs fan, and I was a Heath fan,
Speaker 1: and I was a Cavs fan again, and it was
Speaker 1: a Laker fan briefly, and I'm a Heath fan or
Speaker 1: then a Sixer fan. Pardon me. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of folks who call themselves Laker fans, but are Laker
Speaker 1: fans here. If you're listening on the podcast, put my
Speaker 1: hand low, and remember subscribe, rate and review the podcast Spotify, iTunes, YouTube,
Speaker 1: all of it. And Kobe fans here, put my hand higher.
Speaker 1: For those folks, they were just never going to full
Speaker 1: on embrace Lebron. That does not exist with Philly fans.
Speaker 1: And unlike Celtic fans. Sorry, AirPod was making my ear
Speaker 1: atch a bit. Apologies. Unlike Celtic fans, Lebron does not
Speaker 1: have like playoff series wars with the Sixers. I'm struggling.
Speaker 1: I think he's played the Sixers in one series ever,
Speaker 1: I which seems impossible given how much he played in
Speaker 1: the in the Eastern Conference. But I'm checking right now
Speaker 1: on Basketball Reference to see if I'm right. So let
Speaker 1: me just the I'm fairly certain. Let's see, Yeah, I'm right.
Speaker 1: One series ever against the Sixers his first year with
Speaker 1: the heat round one against a Sixers team that who
Speaker 1: was the starting five of that Sixers team? Elton Brand,
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday, Andre Iguodala, Thad Young, Lou Williams where their
Speaker 1: best five guys. I don't know if that was their
Speaker 1: starting five. So they don't have wars against each other.
Speaker 1: I listen, there's there are some Sixers media that has
Speaker 1: always hated Lebron, because there's some media in every city
Speaker 1: that's always hated Lebron. But what anybody that has rooted
Speaker 1: for a team that Lebron James is on has come
Speaker 1: to realize is, my god, this is fucking fun. Can
Speaker 1: some of it be at times a little exhausting? As
Speaker 1: far as they're always discussed, they're always dissected Lebron historically,
Speaker 1: maybe he can get a little passive aggressive shore all
Speaker 1: of them. But the guy is such a tireless worker
Speaker 1: and plays the game in such a pure way that
Speaker 1: it's impossible not to enjoy watching. So it is. I
Speaker 1: think Philly fans are gonna be absolutely thrilled. And here's
Speaker 1: the other thing. If you are thirty or under Sixer fan,
Speaker 1: thirty or under, you have no real memory of this
Speaker 1: team making a conference finals, let alone an NBA finals,
Speaker 1: And if you're fifty or younger, you have no memory,
Speaker 1: real memory of them winning the championship. And I'm not
Speaker 1: where I'm not guaranteeing obviously they're gonna win the championship,
Speaker 1: and you can't even guarantee they'll make the conference finals.
Speaker 1: But I'd be pretty damn surprised if they don't at
Speaker 1: least make the conference finals. And there will be a
Speaker 1: level of excitement, buzz, and relevance around the team that
Speaker 1: has not existed in a quarter century. And I think
Speaker 1: Philly fans will like that, which brings the produisers are
Speaker 1: asking how many games am I going to go to?
Speaker 1: So I I have inquired a about season tickets, so
Speaker 1: I've never if you just go through it. Bron entered
Speaker 1: the league in three I went to college in O
Speaker 1: three in Syracuse, so he's in Cleveland. I'm in Syracuse
Speaker 1: four years. I then get out of college, go to
Speaker 1: Kansas City. I'm there from seven to twelve. Bron is
Speaker 1: in Cleveland from seven to ten, Yeah, and then in Miami.
Speaker 1: While I'm still in Kansas City, I then go in
Speaker 1: twenty twelve to Houston. Bron's in Miami and then Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I'm there from twelve to sixteen. I then go to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles in twenty sixteen, I leave and the summer
Speaker 1: of seventeen. Bron goes to la in the summer of eighteen,
Speaker 1: Which is to say, I there's only been brief peer
Speaker 1: periods of time where I've lived in the same time zone,
Speaker 1: let alone anywhere close to driving distance from where Lebron's
Speaker 1: playing his home games. And so will I take advantage
Speaker 1: of the fact that from my where I am doing
Speaker 1: this show right now? You know what, Let's just see,
Speaker 1: I know from where I work, from the door of
Speaker 1: my job to the front door of the Sixers Arena
Speaker 1: with no traffic is an hour and forty two minutes
Speaker 1: from my house. It's an hour and fifty three minutes drive. Again,
Speaker 1: no traffic. They're gonna be traffic. My show ends. TV
Speaker 1: show ends at five o'clock. Overtime goes from five to six.
Speaker 1: We do the first segment of a over time. We
Speaker 1: get out around five twenty two, which would mean seven
Speaker 1: o'clock tips very tough, seven thirty tips doable barring a
Speaker 1: catastrophe in the Holland Tunnel. Eight o'clock tips easy as
Speaker 1: can be so I will believe it or not. Since
Speaker 1: Lebron made the decision, Season tickets hard to come by,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, somehow, for some reason, I'm may
Speaker 1: be the only guy in sports media I get no
Speaker 1: tickets for Freeever, I might actually, though, hit up my
Speaker 1: agents about that for this specific instance. To be fair
Speaker 1: to the agents, I never ask him for any so
Speaker 1: maybe they'd give me some. But I might hit them
Speaker 1: up about this. But I don't know. I'll probably go
Speaker 1: to I might buy season tickets, and if I buy
Speaker 1: season tickets, I'll probably you know, maybe split some with
Speaker 1: you know, a few friends for the games I can't
Speaker 1: go to. But I you know, I plan to go
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty five games. I probably can have great seats,
Speaker 1: great seats at more sixer games than you're gonna have
Speaker 1: great seats if he had signed with the Knicks at
Speaker 1: Nick games, just from a pure financial perspective, which does
Speaker 1: bring me to the other tricky part, which is, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys know this, I'm not the
Speaker 1: most beloved guy in Philadelphia. So you know how some
Speaker 1: people say separate the art from the artist. I'm going
Speaker 1: to do my own twist on that which is separate
Speaker 1: the sports tape guys, football takes from basketball takes. Philly fans,
Speaker 1: this is my metaphorical olive branch. I understand, you know
Speaker 1: you haven't loved some of my Jalen Hurts Nick Sirianni commentary.
Speaker 1: With that said, my dear friend Daryl Morey, who I do.
Speaker 1: He's the only person in this that I really feel
Speaker 1: sick for. If they like, he absolutely would have done
Speaker 1: the Jalen Brown trade. And Lebron I think it's fair
Speaker 1: to say, is his favorite player of all time. He's
Speaker 1: from I think Cleveland. I I hate that Daryl's not
Speaker 1: there for this. I understand that. I you know, I
Speaker 1: understand they felt it to run its course and the
Speaker 1: series against the Knicks was bad. I get all that,
Speaker 1: But man, I wish Daryl was there for this. With
Speaker 1: that said, Philly fans, if you think about it, I've
Speaker 1: always been very kind about your basketball team. I believed
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Speaker 1: that is my very long way of saying. If you
Speaker 1: guys see me at the games with my wife, don't
Speaker 1: like throw shit at me. That would be unfortunate. We
Speaker 1: can all be in this together, all right, so we
Speaker 1: have not yet talked about fit and we have not
Speaker 1: yet talked about injury. So let's talk about all that.
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Speaker 1: So I want to talk about fit here, But first
Speaker 1: I want to I am getting really frustrated hearing when
Speaker 1: this team is discussed embiid in Lebron being lumped into
Speaker 1: the same injury concern. I understand that Lebron is forty
Speaker 1: one years old. I understand that Lebron just played year
Speaker 1: twenty three. No other player in the history of the
Speaker 1: league has done that, and he's entering year twenty four.
Speaker 1: I also understand that Lebron. Let me put it like this,
Speaker 1: I feel like I am one of the only people
Speaker 1: that understands at this point, Lebron's track record as far
Speaker 1: as how injured is he really, how available is he
Speaker 1: really should speak for itself. So forget the fact that
Speaker 1: in Lebron James's career, including all the old guy years,
Speaker 1: his teams have played in three hundred and two playoff games,
Speaker 1: and of those three hundred and two playoff games, he
Speaker 1: has played in three hundred and two of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if we're talking about will they be healthy for
Speaker 1: the playoffs, I don't know. We've got twenty he's made
Speaker 1: the playoffs twenty years. We've got twenty years or he
Speaker 1: just made it in nineteen years, twenty some years of
Speaker 1: data saying if Lebron team is in the playoffs, he's
Speaker 1: going to be in all those games. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Nick, what about his old guy years? In the
Speaker 1: regular season? Okay, let's talk about him. Age thirty nine season,
Speaker 1: Lebron played seventy one of seven of eighty two games.
Speaker 1: Age forty season, Lebron played seventy of eighty two games.
Speaker 1: Last year, Lebron played sixty of eighty two games. But
Speaker 1: keep in mind he missed the first fourteen so of
Speaker 1: the of the Lakers final sixty eight games, Lebron played
Speaker 1: sixty of them. In the last three years, I wrote
Speaker 1: this down. In the last three years, Lebron James has
Speaker 1: played the same number of minutes in the regular season
Speaker 1: as Jalen Brown, who's considered an iron man, the same
Speaker 1: number of minutes. He has played more minutes in the
Speaker 1: last three years than the following people Scottie Barnes, Paolo
Speaker 1: bon Caro, Karl Anthony Towns, Cade Cunningham, Jamal Murray, Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Joannie Wimby Chat Playoff in regular season minutes combined. He
Speaker 1: is the last three years, he's barely behind Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: and Tyrese Maxi. Of all the players in the league
Speaker 1: over the last three years, Lebron is twenty second in minutes,
Speaker 1: twenty second in minutes. So this idea that like, okay,
Speaker 1: pencil Lebron in for forty games. Sure it's possible, but
Speaker 1: that would be the outliner. Now, Embiid's the biggest injury
Speaker 1: risk in the league. And when we know that Lebron
Speaker 1: and Embiid can work together because we saw it in
Speaker 1: the Olympics, I think that the Lebron Embiid pick and
Speaker 1: roll is going to be devastating when it's there. But
Speaker 1: I do think they almost have to treat Embiid like
Speaker 1: a bonus. So here is how And this is the
Speaker 1: biggest rub. Okay, the biggest rub is aside from the
Speaker 1: big sort of dominocles, which is Embiide's health. What does
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown want now? Jalen Brown, to his credit, is
Speaker 1: saying all of the right things, and it does seem
Speaker 1: with you know, more and more reporting up to and
Speaker 1: including that the Celtics were considering trading Jalen Brown during
Speaker 1: last season, that the Jalen Brown leaving Boston that I
Speaker 1: and many folks framed as well, Listen, he wants his
Speaker 1: own team. That while that may have been true, it
Speaker 1: was also true that the Celtics were fine getting out
Speaker 1: of the Jaalen Brown business altogether. And so the question is,
Speaker 1: and I don't know the answer to this. After an
Speaker 1: off season of Jalen Brown hearing a lot of the
Speaker 1: discourse being yeah, he was sixth in MVP voting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his numbers were unbelievable, but actually he's not that good.
Speaker 1: Actually he doesn't impact winning. Actually he you know, he's
Speaker 1: a net negative when he's on the course court like
Speaker 1: that was a big part of the discussion. Does Jalen
Speaker 1: take that and say I'm going to show these guys
Speaker 1: how great I am and feel like he needs to
Speaker 1: go out and average thirty or does he take it
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, you guys can say I do on
Speaker 1: impact winning, But since I came into the league, no
Speaker 1: players won, literally no players won more games than me.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna take that with me to Philadelphia because
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown's got the toughest ask in Philly. Jalen, this
Speaker 1: is a league full of super dynamic athletic wings. We
Speaker 1: need you to guard one of them every single night,
Speaker 1: and Jalen, of everyone on the team, you're I mean,
Speaker 1: on the starting five, I should say you're pretty clearly
Speaker 1: the worst passer. It's the biggest weakness of your game,
Speaker 1: the playmaking portion, and you're a high turnover guy. That
Speaker 1: is the big like, that's part of the reason the
Speaker 1: analytics community doesn't love you. So you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: the ball in your hands. It's done. You're gonna score,
Speaker 1: You're gonna you know you're gonna get twenty. But I
Speaker 1: only think you're getting twenty six, and I don't think
Speaker 1: you're getting twenty eight. And I know you're not getting thirty,
Speaker 1: and you're We're really gonna ask a lot of you
Speaker 1: on defense because Lebron's the best passer on the team
Speaker 1: and the guy that where the age has shown up
Speaker 1: with Lebron is the ability to give it. You're all
Speaker 1: on both ends of the court consistently. Now, maybe because
Speaker 1: of the other offense they have, Lebron can rest more
Speaker 1: on offense and help more on defense like he was
Speaker 1: with the Lakers late in the year, But still Lebron's
Speaker 1: the best point person on that team. What Lebron gives
Speaker 1: them in addition to being one of the fifteen best
Speaker 1: players in the league and he's playing for the minimum,
Speaker 1: and in addition to stepping into the starting lineup for
Speaker 1: Dean Wade, who is actually useful and important for the
Speaker 1: Sixers team because he's a true role player. What Lebron
Speaker 1: gives them the versatility of I could see situations where
Speaker 1: in games Embiid misses, Lebron is the sinner. And I
Speaker 1: could also see a lot of time when it beds
Speaker 1: out there when Lebron is the point guard. And so
Speaker 1: I I think Maxi's gonna be fine. MAXI loves Lebron
Speaker 1: that you know. Maxi's throw about this. I actually think
Speaker 1: Embid's gonna be fine. Embiid's made all the money, he's
Speaker 1: won an MVP. The only he just has this big,
Speaker 1: you know, Scarlett letter on his of MVPs to never
Speaker 1: be in the finals. Nash Rose, Embiid Rose's career got
Speaker 1: derailed by injury. Nash was on a bunch of teams
Speaker 1: that were so close enough. What ifs MVPs to never
Speaker 1: be in a conference finals, it's just Embiid. Embiid just
Speaker 1: needs a great playoff run. And I do think he
Speaker 1: and Bron have a relationship from the Olympics. I think
Speaker 1: it's very good for the Lakers that Edgecombe is going
Speaker 1: into year I'm sorry for the Sixers is going into
Speaker 1: year two instead of year three because you can't get
Speaker 1: paid after year two. Even you get average forty a game,
Speaker 1: they can't pay you after year two. So he's not
Speaker 1: really it's not like, you know, he's a year away
Speaker 1: from really being a year away from the contract year.
Speaker 1: So I think it will work. And I think the
Speaker 1: upgrade from Paul George to Jalen Brown, and the upgrade
Speaker 1: from Dean Wade with respect to Lebron James, and the
Speaker 1: natural upgrade of Edgecombe from year one to year two
Speaker 1: and Maxie, who's already a superstar or superstar adjacent and
Speaker 1: you know, slightly improves every year, combined with the seeming
Speaker 1: impossibility to defend a championship in the modern NBA and
Speaker 1: the loss of Mitchell Robinson, tilts the East to where
Speaker 1: the Sixers are the favorite. I know right now, you
Speaker 1: know they are on hard rock, tied with the Knicks
Speaker 1: both at plus three point fifty. I think they will
Speaker 1: end up being a slightly better than the better odds
Speaker 1: than the Knicks or worse Utsminnario. Looking at it, I
Speaker 1: think they will be the favorite. I think this is
Speaker 1: going to work, and I think that this is a
Speaker 1: team that can win a playoff series without Embeid playing. Now,
Speaker 1: the East versus West part of it will get to
Speaker 1: in a moment, because it's very the East is better
Speaker 1: than the West, but the two most two of the
Speaker 1: three most dominant teams play in the West, so it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of tricky and how you look at it.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a moment. But hard Rock
Speaker 1: Bet has a bunch of you know, Lebron specials up
Speaker 1: will Lebron score. Let's just talk about the Sixers ones first.
Speaker 1: Their win total is set at fifty and a half.
Speaker 1: I like the over. I think this will be more
Speaker 1: a fifty I don't know, fifty four win team fifty
Speaker 1: five wins is plus two to twenty five. So if
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win fifty four, if I'm getting
Speaker 1: plus two to twenty five, I guess that's a bet
Speaker 1: for me. If I'm setting it at fifty four and
Speaker 1: you get two point twenty five to one at fifty five, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. Sixty wins plus seven hundred. No, Will
Speaker 1: Lebron score thirty five in any game is minus seven hundred. No,
Speaker 1: that's not a bet. Will Lebron score forty in any game?
Speaker 1: That's plus one fifty, Now that's a more fun one.
Speaker 1: Lebron last year score or thirty six once and other
Speaker 1: than that never scored above thirty one. However, the year
Speaker 1: before last, if you remember, like Ad went down, they
Speaker 1: traded for Luca. Luca was still hurt. Lebron had one, two, three,
Speaker 1: six thirty five plus point games, five games of thirty
Speaker 1: eight plus and two forty point games. I think plus
Speaker 1: one fifty is probably about the right odds. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. Lebron to average eighteen points per game
Speaker 1: minus one fifty, yeah, I would take that bet. I
Speaker 1: Lebron to averaged twenty points is plus two hundred. That's
Speaker 1: an interesting one. He's averaged at least twenty six six
Speaker 1: every year of his career. Did he do it as
Speaker 1: a rookie? No, so he averaged twenty one as a rookie,
Speaker 1: but not the six and six. He's averaged twenty six
Speaker 1: and six minimum for twenty two straight years. And you
Speaker 1: know he had averaged at least he averaged twenty five
Speaker 1: plus for twenty straight years. Uh, maybe nineteen points per
Speaker 1: game at plus one ten. I kicked those around, But
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about East West, and then
Speaker 1: I want to talk about We've done it somewhat, but
Speaker 1: we haven't touched on the single biggest loser in this
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Speaker 1: top eleven teams goring to the finals, odds are in
Speaker 1: the East, and so the question is if you want
Speaker 1: to win a ring, was moving to the East a
Speaker 1: good or a bad idea? So the argument in favor
Speaker 1: of going east would be dating back to two thoy ten,
Speaker 1: Lebron has played twenty five series against Eastern Conference teams
Speaker 1: and he is carry the one twenty five and up,
Speaker 1: so that's good. The other argument for going east is
Speaker 1: unless you think you can be the number one seed
Speaker 1: in the West, and whether he'd gone to the Warriors
Speaker 1: or the Nuggets, and again, I never thought of Minnesota's
Speaker 1: real possibility. Those teams were not built and would not
Speaker 1: even be trying to be the number one seed. You
Speaker 1: have to be OKC and San Antonio just to get
Speaker 1: to the finals. And so while the East has I
Speaker 1: think a higher number of legit quality teams, I think
Speaker 1: the chance of getting to the finals is higher for
Speaker 1: Lebron at this point in his career. So listen, the
Speaker 1: Knicks are going to be awesome, awesome again. The Celtics
Speaker 1: are going to be better than people expect, even though
Speaker 1: they lost Jelen Brown. Detroit won't be as good as
Speaker 1: they were last year, but they're gonna be good. The Calves.
Speaker 1: I'll never believe in the Calves in the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna be solid. Atlanta's really going for it, and
Speaker 1: you know they are better with the moves. Shout out
Speaker 1: Sam Presty. The Spurs have future Hawks picks, and so Presty,
Speaker 1: when he had to unload quality players for salary reasons,
Speaker 1: shuffled them to the Hawks to make the Hawks better.
Speaker 1: Hurt the Spurs pick. I love it, but the Hawks
Speaker 1: are gonna be good. The Raptors pending Kawhi Leonard could
Speaker 1: be good. The Heat now have Yans. We have not
Speaker 1: even mentioned the Pacers or the Magic. So like, yes,
Speaker 1: there's nine quality teams in the Eastern Conference. I still
Speaker 1: think going to the East gives Lebron a better chance
Speaker 1: of making the finals. And then you make the finals,
Speaker 1: see what the hell happens because even though I don't listen,
Speaker 1: but aside from the Spurs and the Thunder, you might
Speaker 1: list I mean, well, the odds are of the teams
Speaker 1: with the eleven best final odds, seven of them are
Speaker 1: or championship outs, seven of them are in the East. Some
Speaker 1: of that is polluted by how good the Thunder and
Speaker 1: the Spurs are so that depresses the rest of the
Speaker 1: conference's finals odds. But I think thunder Spurs, Nuggets are
Speaker 1: the only teams I would have in the top eight,
Speaker 1: So I would have five of the top eight teams
Speaker 1: in the East. So I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: biggest loser on this. Some people think it's the Warriors.
Speaker 1: It is not the Warriors. I did a long piece
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago about how I think the
Speaker 1: Warriors did step a disservice by not doing more post
Speaker 1: that last championship to just keep going for it, and
Speaker 1: how frustrating it is if you're a fan of a
Speaker 1: team and you have legitimately one of I'll Bee, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the fifteen greatest players ever and he's still
Speaker 1: awesome and you're not always going for So we've spent
Speaker 1: time talking about that. They are not the biggest loser
Speaker 1: of this for two reasons. One is they didn't do
Speaker 1: anything to like try to get Lebron other than they
Speaker 1: just hoped you would pick them. And the other one
Speaker 1: is even with Bron, I don't think that team's winning
Speaker 1: the championship. The Cavs just made a conference finals. They
Speaker 1: were fine running it back the moment they traded for
Speaker 1: James Harden, they and you know, made some type of
Speaker 1: agreement about what type of deal he would get in
Speaker 1: the offseason. They were fine running it back the Heat.
Speaker 1: People are calling the Heat huge losers. The Heat got
Speaker 1: Giannis this offseason. They're not huge losers. They're huge winners.
Speaker 1: They're just a couple transaction cycles away from being able
Speaker 1: to win a championship. I do think the Celtics the
Speaker 1: sliding doors moment of we could have turned Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: into Giannis in instead, we turned him into Paul Georgian
Speaker 1: picks and that was a big domino in Lebron being
Speaker 1: in the back in the conference is a bummer for them,
Speaker 1: but they're not the biggest loser either. The biggest loser
Speaker 1: of this entire process, beyond a shadow of a doubt,
Speaker 1: is the Los Angeles Lakers, and that is because their
Speaker 1: inability to, whether you think this is right or wrong,
Speaker 1: properly publicly and privately, respect that Lebron James saved the
Speaker 1: damn franchise led to a scenario where Lebron James was
Speaker 1: willing to play for the league minimum, but not for them.
Speaker 1: Every single move that the Lakers made this offseason, re
Speaker 1: signing Austin, trading for Walker Kessler, adding some athleticism, bringing
Speaker 1: in Quinton Grimes. So you guys know how much I
Speaker 1: like you. None of those would have been any harder
Speaker 1: or impossible or not tenable. You could have done all
Speaker 1: of that and still brought Lebron back for what the
Speaker 1: Sixers just got him for, and instead the Lakers And
Speaker 1: it all started with that article in February that Lebron
Speaker 1: was asked about in front of his locker, where sources
Speaker 1: close to Janie Buss and the Lakers are excited for
Speaker 1: the lebroni or to be over, you know, not even
Speaker 1: subtweeting him, just you know, anonymous sourcing about basically how
Speaker 1: they thought he should have been more grateful and about
Speaker 1: how exhausting it had been and how they need to
Speaker 1: turn the team over to Luca. And by the way,
Speaker 1: turning the team over to Luca is totally understandable. So
Speaker 1: the way to do that and keep an all NBA
Speaker 1: caliber guy on the minimum, and instead they couldn't wait
Speaker 1: for the lebroni or to be over. Couldn't wait. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're seventeen to one to win the conference. You're thirty
Speaker 1: five to one to win the title. And my money
Speaker 1: is on with respect to Walker Kessler and with respect
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. So you guys know how much I like that.
Speaker 1: In three years, three years from today, if we were
Speaker 1: to say, hey, stack the best individual seasons by teammates
Speaker 1: of Luca on the Lakers, the single best individual season
Speaker 1: any teammate Luca has had or will have had over
Speaker 1: the next three years will have been his first one
Speaker 1: with Lebron. The Lebron's first season with Luca will be
Speaker 1: the best teammate season. And his son is still on
Speaker 1: the team and they're gonna need him. This year. He
Speaker 1: did a podcast with the coach. They just won a
Speaker 1: playoff series on his back and for some reason or another,
Speaker 1: and I have my own personal thoughts as to why,
Speaker 1: and it is not about a jealousy of Luca. Luca
Speaker 1: a guy that go Check Lebron's appearance years ago on
Speaker 1: Ali Clifton and Richard Jefferson and Channing Fry's road Trip
Speaker 1: and Pod when Lebron revealed that the only player he
Speaker 1: ever tried to sign to as a Lebron shoe athlete
Speaker 1: was Luca. How much he loves like Luca's favorite player
Speaker 1: ever was Lebron, model of his game after Lebron, So
Speaker 1: it's not about a jealousy about Luca, but a team
Speaker 1: that in the five years before Lebron got there, of
Speaker 1: the thirty teams in the league, was thirtieth in wins,
Speaker 1: thirtieth in winning percentage, was in the Stone Wilderness that
Speaker 1: Lebron chose, then helped get Anthony Davis delivered him a championship.
Speaker 1: Then Anthony Davis helped get them. Luka Ancic that that
Speaker 1: team was telling everyone who would listen what a pain
Speaker 1: in the ass Lebron is. They now saw him that
Speaker 1: he's willing to move across the country to a team
Speaker 1: he's never played with to play for the league minimum,
Speaker 1: and he wouldn't do that for you. So far and away,
Speaker 1: the biggest loser of this whole thing is the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and I hate it because you guys know how much
Speaker 1: I love Luca. Also, sidebar, little bonus thing that nobody
Speaker 1: has been thinking about or discussing or whatever, so that
Speaker 1: just abomination should have never happened. The sign of everything
Speaker 1: that's that's wrong with the NBA. The Lakers spending the
Speaker 1: fifty fifth overall pick on a former top fifteen prospect
Speaker 1: who had a cardiac arrest in college, kind of throw
Speaker 1: off his freshman year, who's twenty one years old, Bronnie James.
Speaker 1: Now his dad's not there. They're just cutting him since
Speaker 1: it was such a joke. Or is Bronnie James on
Speaker 1: a second round contract league minimum for a team that
Speaker 1: needs defense and athleticism actually useful. I don't know. Lebron's
Speaker 1: not there making you do something anymore. Do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: because go ahead and put me down as someone that
Speaker 1: believes this year on the Lakers when you have and
Speaker 1: I'm pulling it up because I don't want to leavenybody.
Speaker 1: They made a bunch of moves Luca Austin Kessler, Grimes,
Speaker 1: mam ou as you know your five biggest salaries, but
Speaker 1: those won't be your five starters. Mom, who's your backup center?
Speaker 1: And then you're too you know, Oh, Grimes is gonna
Speaker 1: be really good for them. Tible will play. They hope
Speaker 1: La Ravia was a disaster last year. We'll see they
Speaker 1: brought Sexton will definitely play a lot. Bronnie James will
Speaker 1: play for them this year, making a couple million bucks
Speaker 1: and all the folks who were arguing, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's only happening and maybe he was drafted because of Lebron,
Speaker 1: but oh, the only reason he's stilling the rosters because Lebron, Well,
Speaker 1: Bron's on the roster anymore. So I guess we'll see
Speaker 1: Lebron's on the sixers. I am in about nine hours
Speaker 1: going to a card game that hopefully will pay for,
Speaker 1: you know, the first deposit on the season tickets I'm
Speaker 1: gonna end up getting. It's really unbelievable, and I think
Speaker 1: before it's all said and done, he's gonna win a championship. There.
Speaker 1: Talk to you guys on Thursday. Seeon with Colin in
Speaker 1: about an hour. What's right, man,