00:00You're going to have a tough day, Tyrone, because you're the guy that sat there yesterday saying,
00:04why can't you give a 41-year-old a break? He's got a bad ankle. He's got a tough time
00:08running.
00:10I actually didn't say that at all. I didn't say that at all.
00:13All you weak-ass LeBron stans coming at me on Twitter.
00:16I don't know if the balls say nothing to me when you see me, but on Twitter, everybody's a tough
00:21guy.
00:21Oh, look at LeBron James. Oh, this guy has a triple-double. Funny, funny, funny how his ankle
00:28wasn't good enough for him to play the night before against the San Antonio Spurs,
00:33but in a night when you have no Cooper flag, and the Mavericks are a bad basketball team
00:37with half their roster out, LeBron James not only plays, and obviously played very well
00:43last night against the Mavericks, I want you to walk me through this.
00:46LA Lakers up by 16 points, three minutes of change to go.
00:52Mavericks miss a shot, and Austin Reeves gets a rebound, and everybody starts yelling at him,
00:58because that should have been LeBron's rebound to get the triple-double.
01:02So what does J.J. Reddick do? In a game that they're blowing the Mavericks out,
01:06and LeBron is still on the court, one might say to themselves,
01:10hmm, why does a guy at 41 years old who couldn't play against the San Antonio Spurs,
01:16because allegedly he had a bad ankle and couldn't go, we know what he's really doing, folks.
01:22He's waiting to play against lesser opponents so he can stat pad, because that's what he does.
01:26Why would that guy be in the game, up by 16, with three minutes to go?
01:31But then it gets better.
01:33After Austin Reeves gets that rebound, J.J. Reddick actually calls a timeout.
01:38Now I'm thinking they're calling a timeout to get all the starters out of the game,
01:42because you're up by 16, three minutes to go, the game is a wrap.
01:47That's not why he called a timeout.
01:48He called a timeout so that they could tell Austin Reeves,
01:52no more rebounds. You stole a rebound from LeBron,
01:56and LeBron's not coming out of the game until he gets a triple-double.
02:00Because again, it's not about his well-being, it's not about protecting him for a playoff run,
02:06it's about stat padding.
02:08We've got to make sure LeBron gets one more rebound so that he gets a triple-double,
02:12and then we'll take him out of the game.
02:14These are facts.
02:16This is what happened last night.
02:17Not healthy enough to play against the Spurs, healthy enough to play against the Mavericks
02:22without Cooper Flagg, and wouldn't come out of the game up by 16,
02:27three minutes to change to go until he does what?
02:31Until he stat pads, gets the extra rebound, which he stole from Hayes on his own team
02:37so that he could get the triple-double.
02:39Now let's call another timeout.
02:41Let's get him out of the game so everybody can celebrate that at 41 years old,
02:46he's good enough to get a triple-double.
02:49It is a clown maneuver by a guy that is only interested in his own stats
02:55so that he can celebrate himself.
02:57There is no plausible reason why LeBron James, who allegedly has a bad ankle,
03:03is in a basketball game against a bad team up by 16 with three minutes to go.
03:10Your turn, sir.
03:11Yes.
03:12I win.
03:12That's right.
03:13Thank you very much.
03:13So what I'm going to do is I'm going to speak some facts.
03:16Yeah, speak some facts about LeBron and the Lakers last night.
03:19No, no, no, no, no.
03:20I don't want to hear any of the team.
03:20You brought up stuff from before.
03:22I don't want to hear any of the team.
03:23No, no, no, no.
03:23You have to bring up other teams.
03:25See, that's what you do.
03:27You said that he was afraid of playing the Spurs.
03:30That's what you said, right?
03:31Key was.
03:32Here's the problem.
03:33Yeah.
03:33At 41 years old, he wasn't playing both ends of a back-to-back or playing three and four nights.
03:38So he chose to play against the Mavericks and not the Spurs?
03:40No, no.
03:41He played against the Thunder the night before.
03:43No, he played against the Thunder, who have a better record than the Spurs.
03:47He had 22, 10, and six against the Spurs.
03:50Didn't play against the Spurs on a back-to-back.
03:53Sat out one day and then came back.
03:55That's the actual truth of what happened.
03:58So he didn't play both ends of a back-to-back.
04:00Now, if you want to be mad at a 41-year-old person for not playing both games of a
04:04back-to-back,
04:05you clearly are.
04:06I'm just pointing out facts.
04:07What you said about LeBron.
04:08Why did he come out of the game?
04:09Up by 16, three minutes to go.
04:11Why was LeBron James on the bench?
04:13Listen, that game's not.
04:14With the three-point shot, that game is far from decided.
04:17Up 16, three minutes to go.
04:18Up 16, three minutes to go with the three-point shot.
04:20Against the Mavericks with nobody playing.
04:21So this is what Goat James did.
04:23Yeah.
04:23Stayed in the game.
04:24They did something that Jordan couldn't do, Kareem couldn't do, or anyone else could do.
04:28Be the oldest gentleman to get a triple-double.
04:31You know why it's special?
04:32Because they are in playoff contention.
04:34And again, if you want to make sense of it, and Craig tried and failed,
04:39why would LeBron, who's ducking Smoke, play against the better Thunder and not the worst Spurs?
04:45If you were trying to duck Smoke, wouldn't it make sense to sit out the Thunder game
04:49and then play against the lesser Spurs?
04:51No.
04:52Because at the end of the day...
04:53The Spurs aren't lesser than the Thunder.
04:55They are.
04:55They have a worse record.
04:56The Spurs have owned the Thunder this year.
04:57They factually have a worse record.
04:59Okay, when they play head-to-head, who's got a better record?
05:00No, no.
05:01When they go head-to-head this year...
05:02No, no, you can't do that.
05:03You have to do by standings.
05:04No, not by standings.
05:05The Lakers in their standings are closer to the Spurs than the Thunder, factually.
05:13When they've played against each other this year, Spurs and Thunder head-to-head, who has a better record?
05:18When they play head-to-head, it doesn't have anything to do with the Lakers.
05:21The Lakers have lost to both of them.
05:23I'm asking a question.
05:23The Lakers have lost to both of them.
05:25I'm just asking a question.
05:25No, no.
05:26You can't answer.
05:26You won't answer mine.
05:27Who has a better record this year?
05:29No, no.
05:29You can't then...
05:31The Spurs are better than the Thunder head-to-head.
05:33You can't jettison facts and then insert other facts.
05:37No, no.
05:37Who has a better record?
05:39No, no, no.
05:39No, no.
05:40You haven't answered mine, so I'm not answering yours.
05:42All right.
05:42Well, the good thing is that people know that the Thunder have a better record.
05:46The Spurs dominated the Thunder this year.
05:47The Thunder are the one seed.
05:48Okay.
05:48That being said, why is he in the game with three minutes to go up by 16?
05:52To make sure they win the game.
05:53No.
05:54Especially without Luka.
05:55No.
05:55Without Luka, he's got to secure the W.
05:57No.
05:57Because they're nothing without Luka.
05:58To make sure he got a triple-double.
06:01That's all it was about.
06:02I don't know.
06:02And why did he come out after he got the triple-double?
06:04Because there was more time off the clock.
06:06There was like 20 seconds more off the clock.
06:08So you took off some possessions.
06:10You've got to count possessions.
06:11I appreciate the fact that you're a stand for him.
06:14I'm not a stand.
06:14You're like all these other losers online.
06:15I'm not a stand.
06:16We see nothing wrong with LeBron James.
06:18Of course.
06:19With excellence.
06:19Let me say this.
06:20With excellence.
06:21Congratulations to LeBron James.
06:22I'm sure it made you happy.
06:23Maybe you went on to celebrate, ate some Wagyu, and smoked a cigar, and had your special audition
06:28Hennessy.
06:28I don't know.
06:29But the reality is this.
06:30It was on display last night.
06:32You can choose not to see it.
06:34You can choose to change the narrative of it.
06:36That was another abuse of stat padding by your self-appointed GOAT.
06:41All good.
06:42Lakers win like you knew they would.
06:44Hopefully you guys made some money on it.
06:45I don't wait to see the next great team that he decides to duck.
06:48We want to see the next 21 show.
06:48Let's check out the 90s.
06:48Let me judge each other.
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