WEBVTT - NBA Reaction: LeBron x Lakers drama, Suns & Thunder MEGA deals + Nick Wright's MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.720 Welcome in What Driving the Gred Episode three forty seven. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:06.800 This episode of What Driving the Grid is brought to 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.800 you by Boost Mobile. A ton to do today. We 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.159 are not on TV today and tomorrow because of the 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.599 Euro Soccer tournament, so we will be This will be 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.919 the only place that I'll be on the air today 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:27.000 and then a little schedule adjustment next week. Instead of 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.840 Tuesday Pod, we will do a Monday Pod. The reason 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.080 for that well, I will explain in just a moment. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.880 Demand's a great to see you, you know, the approaching 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:47.320 weekend birthday major plans anything, just probably just locate with 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:47.880 the friends. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.800 Yeah, nothing, nothing too crazy. Yeah, maybe okay Saturday or something. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.440 Yeah. It's also the late twenties birthdays are they all 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.920 kind of run together? Twenty five is something and third 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:04.000 is something. But twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.240 nine maybe a little something because you feel like that's 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.240 my last year in their twenties. Yeah. But yeah, so 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.480 this is if we were to power rank birthdays, twenty 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.319 seven is pretty bad, like not bad, but it's just 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.520 it's you know, it doesn't make very very low on 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.280 the totem pole. And for your birthdays up to this point, 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.440 it like as far as excitement level going into it, 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.040 it might be dead last. Like I'm not trying to 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.039 rain on your like, just there's not a lot of buzz, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.240 not a lot of you know, not a lot of 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:41.760 you know, discussion of this coming birthday reminder like the 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.839 pod or subscribe to the pod, like the YouTube page, 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.240 subscribe to the YouTube page. Rate review all that. I 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:54.640 did promise a major personal announcement professional announcement that's coming momentarily. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.520 But before we get to that, straight the voicemail brought 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.280 to you by our friends at let me turn this 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.760 so you guys can see it, our friends at boost Mobile. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:07.560 Nikola jokicch not signing his extension yet. This is to me, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.320 I'll just do it very quickly. Actually, a non story 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.960 that is pure. It is not about don't worry Daniel, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.960 lack of faith in the franchise or anything like that. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.120 It is simply he can make more money waiting one year, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.680 so it makes sense for him to wait one year. Also, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.600 Shaye and Angel Reese named the NBA two K cover athletes. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.679 I've got to say I'm a little confused about the 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.360 Angel Rey's piece of this, and it has nothing to 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:43.600 do with Angel Rees versus the FISA, Collier versus Caitlin 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.520 Clark versus Asia Wilson, has to do with the the 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:54.120 legitimate question of like the physical video game is going 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.520 to have Shae on the cover. So when they're like 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.040 Angel Reese is on the it is she. There is 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.680 not a w NBA two K game, it is it 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:10.280 is layered inside, so like there's you people are going 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.520 to be able to buy a physical video game with 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:14.960 that cop with that cover. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.639 I'm pretty sure that's how I worked in previous there's 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.680 because I feel like there was a year that, like Kobe, 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.640 they had like a Kobe version, like a Lebron version 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:23.800 of this. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.880 It's just like different covers, I'm pretty sure. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:30.720 Okay, So I thought it was just like a digital 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.600 like the news, like the Sports Illustrated cover athlete, when 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.800 you can't go physically buy a Sports Illustrated anymore like that. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.200 It was just an internet image. I didn't know you 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:46.800 could get pardon me, the physical media and one of 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.160 them would have Angel on the cover. Okay, all right, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.840 well that's that is more interesting to me and cooler 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.040 for her. And she actually has been playing really well 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.160 as of late, and by the way, smart of two 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.040 k to be like, you know what, let's just stir 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.560 the pod a little bit. Let's just do that, and 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.560 then you know what I mean, be like, hey, why 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.600 are you mad at us? And also Joe Burrow said 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.080 after his house got robbed, he is no longer buying 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:17.680 the Batmobile, which is a sick headline. Thank you as 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.560 always to our friends at boost Mobile for straight to 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.360 voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. All right, demonse, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.960 Before we get to the actual show, I promised on 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.200 Tuesday that I was going to have an announcement off 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.159 the top of the show today And for some of you, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.320 I think you will find this to be incredibly cool. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.520 For some of you you will not care at all. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.920 And for some folks probably less so. Folks that are 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.520 listening or watching this right now live on YouTube. But 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:55.360 who are going to see this announcement on social media 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:00.320 or if it gets reported in other outlets. I think 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.040 some people will probably be mad, and I will address 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:08.080 that on the back end of this. But next week 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:15.239 I am going back to Vegas because for the World 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:21.640 Series of Poker Main Event, Final Table, I will be 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:27.039 a part of the broadcast on Poker go and so 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.920 let me talk about what this means for me for 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:34.760 a moment. Then let me talk about the responsibility that 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.640 this is, and then we will get into the sports. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:46.919 For me, this is this will be one of the 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:53.120 five coolest moments of my professional career, full stop. This 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:59.240 is a true dream. This is something that I have 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:11.520 been trying to set the table for for the better 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.360 part of ten years. If I'm being totally honest and 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:22.159 really put real effort into a strategy to make this 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:27.680 a possibility over the last five years. Some people know, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:32.840 some people don't that I about four years ago, played 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.880 Phil Helm youth heads up in a poker tournament for 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.240 fifty thousand dollars. It was It was an unbelievable experience. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.880 I almost won. It was great. I actually thought I 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.440 handled myself quite well. It created a few hilarious, you know, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.520 viral clips even if you're not super into poker. But 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.520 when you remove all that from it, it still was 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:01.440 me putting down fifty thousand dollars when I'm a huge underdog, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.920 and I think some people thought that that was maybe 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.240 fool either foolish of me or man Nick must have 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.520 way more money than I thought. And the answer was neither. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.560 It wasn't that I had more money than you thought, 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.800 and it wasn't that I thought I was a favorite. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:27.160 It was that that to me was an investment and 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:36.760 getting more involved on a real level with the poker world. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.880 And I thought, if I handled myself well, if I 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:45.200 continued to develop my relationships with people like Phil and 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.840 Daniel and the legendary Nick Shulman, and not that those 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.960 guys aren't legendary, but Nick's just having an unbelievable summer, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:59.240 and Brent Hanks at Poker Go and Jeff Platten, those guys, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:06.440 Ali and Jeanne, that maybe one day I could add 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:11.600 not just some types of poker broadcasting to what I do, 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.400 but maybe be able to call the poker version of 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.280 the Super Bowl. Well, I guess I could say the 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.720 poker version of the World Series, because it is called 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:25.280 the World Series of Poker main event, and the fact 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.320 that I'm going to be able to so last year 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.040 I went out there and called the final table of 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.880 the two hundred and fifty K, which was probably not 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.199 probably it was the biggest buy in and you know, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.920 maybe the hardest tournament of the summer. But the main 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.440 event is the main event, and it is a poker 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.520 tournament unlike any other poker tournament that exists in the world. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.880 It is still the most prestigious. It is still the 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.120 white Whale for every poker player who's ever lived, And 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.080 it is a lifelong dream of mine to be a 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.319 part of that broadcast. And the fact that I will, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.320 and I don't you know, Brent Hanks is going to 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.439 obviously be a part of it. Jeff Platt will be 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.240 a part of it, I would imagine, and I hope 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.920 desperately that Nick Shulman, who, in addition to being my 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.080 buddy and in my opinion right now, the single greatest 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.040 poker player alive, he is going to be a part 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:30.480 of it. The voice of poker worldwide, Al Najad is 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.600 going to be a part of it. And I'm sure others. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.000 If you've been watching the World Series of Poker, I'm 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.800 sure you are wondering, as Jared Blesnik, who has been 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:46.240 absolutely unbelievable on comms for the World Series so far 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:47.600 this year, is he going to be a part of it? 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.680 My answer is I hope so. And now if you're 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.280 if you are seeing this and you're not seeing it 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.200 because you're watching What's Right with Nick right on YouTube, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.600 or you're not listening to us on iTunes or Spotify. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.320 You're see this because it is embedded in a pokernews 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.920 dot com article or somebody shared it on Twitter, and 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.240 your reaction is, You've got to be kidding me. It's 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:18.560 the main event, final table, and they're gonna put some 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:24.839 hot take sports guy on there, and it's not going 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:30.560 to be given the gravity, or this person is not 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.480 going to take this as seriously as we in the 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.680 poker community would like. All I can say to you is, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:44.600 I give you my word. Nobody will take this more 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:54.320 seriously than me, and I will as far as treating 0:10:54.360 --> 0:11:00.559 this event with the gravity and the professionalism that it 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:06.400 clearly deserves. I I can promise you I will not 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:11.800 let the poker world down. Now will that mean you 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.080 like the commentary, or that, if I'm being totally honest, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.240 I'm good at it, or any of those other things. 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.520 I guess we'll see. So I cannot promise you that 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.560 I'll do great. I know that if I don't, all 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.319 be heartbroken, because but you know, such as life, sometimes 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.560 sometimes you know something's not your thing, and so and 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:40.560 I I've done a fair amount of poker commentary before, 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:47.760 but nothing like this, and it will just for me. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:49.720 This is. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:58.960 The There are a few things professionally that are on 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.960 the list. I've been incredibly lucky and I've been able 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.160 to do a lot of the list that I would 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:10.640 have had twenty years ago. As far as Pie in 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:18.400 the Sky, everything works out perfectly. Goals if I were 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.040 to if you were to ask me ten years ago 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:29.360 five that I was like, I had not done and 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:34.080 was not tracking to do, but I still, you know, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:39.000 wanted like to keep available to me. They would have 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:43.520 been in no particular order, to be a part of 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:50.560 an Olympics, to at least one time be the third 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:55.000 man in a booth for an NFL and an NBA game, 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:02.520 to at least one time do red Zone that Sunday 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.760 follow me do the games, which might sound silly to people, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:11.440 but I just think I am with respect to the 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.000 great Andrews Siliano and the great Scott Hansen, I actually 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.240 think I'd be the best in the world at that 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.280 that one. I would not be worried people would be like, oh, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.160 he's not good. I actually think there's no one in 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.560 the world that'd be better at that than me, but 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:29.400 set out aside. And then the fifth and again in 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:34.400 no order, would be to broadcast the World Series of 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:42.280 Poker Main Event, Final Table. And so it is close 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.840 to as cool as it gets for me, and I 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:53.600 am overwhelmingly excited to do it. So that's the announcement. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.320 It will They are long days. That is a lot 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.880 of the streams are you know, ten, twelve, fourteen hours 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.280 at times, which is why a lot of people will 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.840 be involved. And let me just say one other thing. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:13.240 I mentioned this person already, but I cannot thank Maries 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:21.560 Candani and Brent Hanks and Carrie Kats and Jeff Platt 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.840 and all the people at Poker Go, and I mentioned 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:32.040 Ali and Nick obviously enough for trusting me with this 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.720 and letting me do this. And hopefully this isn't like 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:41.320 a fantasy camp type thing. This is something where people 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.200 are watching the broadcast and they're like, Nick added something 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:50.840 that was good, we enjoyed that, Like there that is again, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:55.040 I'll be I will feel I'll be crestfallen if the 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.800 poker world watches this and it's like, man, Nick kind 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.480 of screwed that up. It could happen. I don't think 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.200 it will, but that's the major announcement. Sorry for the 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:11.120 self you know, focus there. But that's why the show 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.120 next week will be Monday instead of Tuesday, because Tuesday 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.760 I'll be in Vegas. And while they did tell me 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.560 I could do the show from Vegas like I did before, 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.520 I want to be zeroed locked in on the task 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.320 at hand. All right, demons, good to see you. And 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:32.280 by the way, for the second straight Vegas trip, your 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.200 mom and I are both going to Vegas and night, 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.240 and we are going to be there like she is 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:43.080 going to Vegas Saturday and leaving Tuesday night and I 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:47.040 am going to Vegas Monday night and leaving Wednesday night. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.720 And so we might we might not even cross paths. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.680 You might ask, well, you know what, I don't know. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.400 That's just how it happens. I guess. One argument is 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.640 because you know, Deanna and one of us being here. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.640 The other argument is like, I don't know, like maybe 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.080 she likes Vegas more without me. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:07.680 Who knows. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.200 All right, let's get all right, let's get to the 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:11.240 sports at hand here. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.680 Uh so Aiden is getting settled in in La getting 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.960 all comfy and all that. Luca sent him a welcome message, 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.520 you know, welcome to La DeAndre Aiden decided to play 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.240 with you next year. Lebron James not said anything to 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.560 him though. Is there something to read into here? 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:39.000 It's not nothing? Yeah, uh so this DeAndre did this 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:46.960 interview two days ago, I think one whatever it was 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.200 the interview that he did, we played a piece of 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.640 on the TV show yesterday, and we did not play 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.920 this piece because it was a radio interview in l 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.719 and I, you know, I hadn't. I didn't know that 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:09.679 this was said. So credit to whomever clipped this and 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:14.080 act you know, posted it, because I didn't. I hadn't 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.280 listened to the full fifteen minute or whatever radio interview 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.000 it was, and so I had only seen kind of 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:26.200 what had made mainstream, so to speak. But I saw 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:33.879 this and I was like, oh, well that's something. So 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:40.080 and the reason it's something is because it is either 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:49.560 how do I phrase this properly, Lebron's going to be there, Well, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:56.359 it's not that is so that is by no means like, oh, 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.840 lock it in because of that this, but it certainly 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:08.639 added a little more fuel to the idea that Lebron 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.040 James might not be a Laker next year, that it's 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.720 that So if famously or I shouldn't. I don't know 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.399 if it's famous, but at least to me, it is. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:23.600 Lebron when he announced he was going back to Cleveland 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.320 and he did it with Lee Jenkins. In an SI article, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.600 he listed all the guys he was excited to be 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:38.680 playing with with the Caps, and he had not listed 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:45.639 number one overall pick from a week prior, Andrew Wiggins. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.680 And one way to read that was the article was 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.800 written before the draft, or that he was you know, 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.280 he was only thinking about or including the active veterans. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:04.360 And another way to it was Lebron expected that they 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.320 would be trading Wiggins as part of getting a veteran 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.439 win now guy, and that is exactly and so he 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.920 did not want to include Andrew Wiggins when he did 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:15.639 not think he was ever going to be playing with 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:21.960 Andrew Wiggins, which is exactly what they did. So here 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.359 are before I give my opinion on what I think 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:31.480 this actually is, let's lay out all of the available 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.119 options for this, and we can, you know, put a 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.000 percentage on each of them at the end. Option one 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:46.359 busy guy forgot. Let's like again, like these are not 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.920 power ranked in order. I'm just saying, if we want 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.280 to lay out all of the possibilities. Right, Option one, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:59.159 busy guy forgot. I guess Option two is not that 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.760 Busy didn't, but has some feud with DeAndre eight and 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.400 we didn't know about and he's furious about this trade. 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.680 I would say, of all these, that's probably the least likely. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.040 I think if there was a DeAndre eight and Lebron beef, 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:14.040 we would have known about it. Right Option three, he 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:19.480 did and DeAndre didn't see the text. Deandre's wrong. He 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:23.000 because he said Luca texted him and Lebron didn't so 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.199 at night and he didn't say anyone talked to him 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.680 on the phone. They missed the text. Got so many 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.080 texts that you know, when the news broke that he 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.240 got a text from a number that he didn't have, 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.439 it was like, yo, congrats man, let's get it and 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.560 he was like, okay, whatever, and it turns out that's 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.520 Lebron James. Again, these are not power ranked in order. 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.119 I'm just trying to lay out all of the available possibilities. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:53.040 Those first three, by the way, slim to very very slim, 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.040 but they're on the possibilities all right. Now. The more 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:08.040 salacious ones, uh that Lebron does not want to tell 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.240 DeAndre Ayton excited to play with you when he does 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:18.280 not know if he will be playing with him. And 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:26.639 then the last option is Lebron wants to expect to 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:33.000 be playing with DeAndre Ayton, but wants to keep maximum 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:37.639 pressure on the Lakers to make every move possible to 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.400 make their team better going into this year, and the 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:46.600 only leverage he has over them right now is the 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.800 specter of, well, maybe I don't think I'm going to 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:55.680 be on this team. That to me, those are the 0:21:55.760 --> 0:22:03.640 those five possibilities cover you know, ninety nine percent of 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:08.720 the call it one hundred percent of what the reason 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:13.399 could be. Here's how I would apply the likelihood of 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:20.240 each my first draft pick of that would be Lebron 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:23.639 thinks he's going to be on the Lakers, did not 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:27.480 reach out to DeAndre because he had a feeling it 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:31.200 would be become public that he had not yet reached 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.119 out to DeAndre, and wants to keep the pressure on 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:41.160 Rob Polenka to continue to improve the roster, which, if 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:47.439 we're being honest, they have had a underwhelming off season. 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.080 On that note, if I may, then I'll get back 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:53.399 to the percentage's parts because Brew and I got into 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:57.919 this yesterday. Going into this off season, we felt like 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:04.640 the Lakers it was an absolute lock and mandatory that 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.640 they upgrade the center position. They did do that, and 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:11.119 they did that in an interesting way where they didn't 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.040 have to give up assets, where it didn't cost them 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:17.200 a lot of money, and the talent upside is quite high. 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.199 But it's also a guy who's six years into his 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:24.399 career has been unreliable and not that mature and really 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.280 alienated teammates and coaches. 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:30.040 So I really think Lebron James is like, man, y'all 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:31.960 got DeAndre and that's not the center I wanted. 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:36.120 I'm not texting him. I'm not welcome the team. 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.440 Oh so you oh so you think, oh I should 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:42.600 have included that one. I guess it's good that Lebron is. 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:46.600 Lebron is pissed that it was a yeah, oh so 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:50.320 I didn't. Actually, so the reason I didn't even think 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:53.119 of that, but that's obvious. I definitely should have. I 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:59.080 guess that's kind of that, you know in the Oh, yeah, 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:06.600 for sure. So here's the reason that I'm I don't 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:09.399 put a pin in that real quick, and let me 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:10.879 finish this other thought. Then we'll get to that one, 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:16.520 because that's good. I'm glad you mentioned that one. So 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:19.879 they did get a center, and we can argue about 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:21.959 if it was their best option, if it was the 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.720 best of bad options, whatever it is. But the rest 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:29.240 of the roster not only remained basically unchanged, but got 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:33.399 to touch worse because switching out Dorian Finney Smith for 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:37.280 Jake Lauravia is at the very least in the short 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:42.359 term of downgrade and so there would be real frustration there. 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:48.640 So I would put Lebron expects to be a Laker 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:53.359 but wants to keep the screws on the Lakers to 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:56.800 continue to make moves as the reason for him not 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:01.120 reaching out. I would put that at s sixty five percent. 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:07.800 I think that is the biggest percentage here. I would 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:12.240 put Lebron didn't reach out because he does not think 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:17.840 he's going to be a Laker next year at twenty percent. 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:23.000 I think there is a one in five shot right 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:28.199 now that Lebron thinks, yeah, I'm not going to be 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:33.840 on the team. Now, that's not that's that's not huge, 0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:39.760 but it's not nothing. It's you know, more likely than 0:25:40.560 --> 0:25:44.000 rolling a single die and rolling a six or any 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:46.800 number on the die, any particular number on the die, 0:25:47.200 --> 0:25:50.000 So sixty five percent he's trying to keep the pressure 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:58.720 on him. Twenty percent he he doesn't think he's going 0:25:58.800 --> 0:26:04.359 to be there. I will give Demonse's he you know 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:09.000 this is not the player he wanted and therefore he 0:26:09.080 --> 0:26:14.560 didn't reach out at five percent. I will certainly massively 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:19.840 upgrade Demonse's theory if we found out he did reach 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:23.280 out to Jake Laavia, if like he was like, yo, man, 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:29.479 let's get it, then then your likelihood is way way higher. 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:34.520 I will put it at busy guy just didn't do 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:39.320 it at five percent, and that leaves what oh, that 0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:42.280 leaves five more percent left, and I will put it 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:47.359 at he did reach out DeAndre Ayton didn't have the 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:50.320 number saved and did not know it was Lebron who 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:52.159 was like, why is this person texting me with a 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:57.119 crown at four percent, and I will put there is 0:26:57.160 --> 0:27:01.560 a long standing maybe base maybe out of loyalty to 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:07.919 his buddy Chris Paul DeAndre Ayton beef at one. So 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:11.920 that's that's how I handicap this whole thing. It's not 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:21.520 nothing though, that's my takeaway. It's not nothing, and I 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:25.720 I am interested in the next time, could you know, 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:29.920 because you know what's also not nothing? Demonse if we're 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:36.680 doing the not nothing meter. The Lakers who sent out 0:27:36.680 --> 0:27:40.399 a bunch of press releases about a bunch of offseason moves. 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:45.600 The Lakers not sending out a press release about Lebron 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:52.280 opting into his player option. That's also not nothing. Now 0:27:52.280 --> 0:27:57.040 does that mean it's everything? Of course? No, no, no no. 0:27:57.080 --> 0:28:01.640 This press releases come from the team, like your official 0:28:01.760 --> 0:28:05.080 press release is released by the team and sent to 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:07.639 all NBA media. The most you want to know, the 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:11.560 most famous NBA press release ever. Hold on, I gotta, 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:13.320 I gotta. I want to quote it to you exactly. 0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:16.439 This is an all time one. So uh, pat Riley, 0:28:17.000 --> 0:28:20.720 who's never my My light just fell? Do I still look? Okay? 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:27.600 I hope? So the so pat Riley un official in 0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:33.760 Miami Heat letterhead sent out to the league, league comes 0:28:34.080 --> 0:28:44.080 and everyone covering the league after Danny Ainge took a 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:50.120 shot at pat Riley. So this is so here. Let 0:28:50.200 --> 0:28:53.120 me give you the background. Danny Ainge till Boston is 0:28:53.120 --> 0:28:57.280 twenty thirteen, Danny Ange to Boston radio station WI that 0:28:57.400 --> 0:29:02.160