00:00I don't think that's an easy sell to LeBron to stay in L.A.
00:03If they say, we want you, but we want you for less money.
00:06It might piss him off.
00:07It might piss him off, and he will instead want to walk out the door.
00:12Say, I'm not doing this.
00:14I'm not taking a pay cut for you.
00:16I want the same money I just made.
00:18Or something very close to it.
00:21I'm not taking some deep discount for the Lakers.
00:24Because the Lakers, right now, as it stands,
00:27do not represent a great opportunity to win a title.
00:31They're not terrible.
00:32They're okay.
00:34But what if Giannis ends up in Boston, they get Giannis, not the Lakers,
00:39and LeBron's free to go wherever he wants, and he says, F you, Lakers.
00:43I'll go play in Boston with Tatum and Giannis, both Nike guys, by the way.
00:48Follow the shoe deals.
00:52And I'm going to go win a title there, and it's going to be really weird.
00:54And that's why I'm intrigued by it, and I'm interested in doing it.
00:57Because how wild would it be to go from being a villain in that place
01:02to winning a title there?
01:03I don't think he's that deep.
01:05I think he is.
01:06He just goes where the money is.
01:08It's all about him.
01:09Well, in this scenario, he would not be going for the money.
01:11Correct.
01:12So he'd be going for the story.
01:13Very unusual.
01:14And he'd be going for the win.
01:20How memorable and strange would the legacy be for LeBron James
01:23if he won a title here?
01:24And that's how he went out?
01:25Went out on top with the champions, walked, sailed into the sunset
01:29with a championship in Boston?
01:30For a team that has been a rival of his his entire career,
01:34whether it was in Cleveland, Miami, back to Cleveland,
01:37and now the ultimate rivalry in the NBA, which is Lakers-Celtics,
01:41to go to that team in a city that he doesn't particularly like, by the way.
01:46If you've ever heard LeBron talk about Boston, I don't think he loves it.
01:50I don't think he's a fan.
01:53But I think he's a fan of those two players.
01:55I don't think he's a fan of those two players.
01:55Here we go.
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