00:04okay he's officially on the market breaking news at this hour that lebron james lebron james is
00:10opting for free agency he will not be back with the los angeles lakers the talk circulated last
00:18week as we know because of brian windhorst speculating that perhaps detroit was war
00:24for a run at lebron or kawaii well kawaii is off the board as apparently the clippers have reached
00:31terms on an agreement to trade him to toronto free agency starts tonight is trajan langdon on
00:38lebron's doorstep tonight at 6 p.m i'm sorry did you say is trajan langdon on lebron's doorstep
00:47tonight at 6 p.m no i don't think so okay no i don't think so vegas odds as promised
00:54lebron's
00:55next team the belief is that the opt-out and uh with draymond's contract yesterday was golden
01:00state trying to create cap space to make a run at lebron golden state is the favorite one to two
01:04odds
01:07do you think the pistons are the second favorite no i don't kang did you see you saw these odds
01:14right
01:14i do not see them okay do you think the pistons are the second favorite i do not it is
01:19the cleveland
01:19cavaliers at three to one do you think the pistons are the third favorite i i do not
01:26i agree with gator i do not the boston celtics are five to one do you think the pistons are
01:33the fourth
01:33favorite oh i do not talk i will pass as well san antonio is seven to one next up at
01:42nine to one is it
01:43the pistons oh i don't think so it is not the pistons doug the miami heat are nine to one
01:5110 to one do you think it's the pistons i have a hard time believing that doug i will pass
01:57as well
01:57the denver nuggets 10 to one at 12 to one is it the pistons doug i'm gonna say no okay
02:08it is the minnesota timberwolves at 14 to one is it the detroit pistons that's a no for me doug
02:16i don't see it happening doug it is the detroit pistons wow 14 14 to one 14 to one i
02:23waited the
02:23randy jackson one to that point and i got wrong and i was wrong so king what was the john
02:30morant
02:30odds to go to portland 20 to one before it happened
02:36so lebron's gonna be a piston
02:40no look do you want for the 20 to one team yeah right uh the 20 to one team is
02:45the philadelphia
02:4676ers um so there are one two three four five six seven seven eight teams ahead of detroit
02:54eight eight or seven eight seven sorry seven teams ahead of detroit look um
03:01i would want lebron james on the pistons and i would want lebron james with jayland duran on the
03:07pistons lebron james could be your number two you'll probably get diminishing returns out of him
03:14every year but that doesn't mean he still can't be a better scoring option than jayland duran when it
03:21comes to what he can bring to the table at the age of 41 he'll turn 42 during the season
03:27next year
03:28no he might might not be as good of a scorer as he used to be that doesn't mean he
03:32can't help this
03:32team and i also have a hard time believing if the pistons thought they could get duran and austin
03:37reeves under the cap that they wouldn't be able to get duran and lebron james under the cap then
03:43you're coming back with a starting lineup that includes duran lebron who gets a bunch of tobias money
03:49is my guess duran lebron asar cade and do you do you take the ball out of cade's hands and
03:58and and start isaiah joe do you try and add another power forward like how do you want to how
04:04do you
04:05want to do this i'm um i'm not against this move at all it's just a question can the pistons
04:11get on
04:11his radar and would they be interested yeah i mean when you look at it in terms of okay would
04:15you replace
04:18um on your roster uh and i'm drawing a blank um unk tobias good grief it's okay dude i did
04:27with
04:27luca last if you replace if you're gonna tell me you can replace tobias harris with lebron james
04:32would you do it yeah it would cost more right i guess there's a cost involved fair but i'm just
04:38talking about the player 100 like it's it's not even a question even at 42 he's still a dynamic
04:45scorer now has his scoring production gone down each and every one of the last five years yes it
04:52has you know five years ago he's averaging 30 points and it dropped to 29 points then to 26 then
04:57still averaging 35 years ago at the age of 36 yeah that's incredible yeah um which was the highest he
05:04had it's actually it's this that is the second highest points per game he's had in his career
05:10was five years ago uh but it's gone down each and every year and in fact a big drop from
05:1524.4
05:16uh a season ago down to 21 points this last year it's gone down um what i was concerned when
05:24i was
05:24looking at stats i was concerned okay is is he just going to settle into being this guy's just going
05:29to settle for jump shots and actually last season was his fewest attempts from three point land on
05:36average per game that he's had in the last 10 years he was only averaging four three point shots
05:41attempted he didn't shoot well he's only 32 from three um last year but the previous two years he was
05:47actually pretty good at it but that tells me he's he's he's recognizing what he can and can't do at
05:54this
05:55point in his career he's still a productive player and he's definitely chasing a championship
06:02and i think there was probably a point last year when luca got hurt that he's like yeah we're not
06:06going to win this championship no matter how hard we're going to try it's just not going to work
06:10but on the right team i think he could be a really really good piece and i think the pistons
06:16could be
06:17that right team but it has to be coupled with re-signing jalen duran which i think the pistons are
06:22going to do
06:22so keg cunningham has often spoke about lebron being the goat and how he watches film of lebron
06:31on both ends of the floor and models this game after lebron and just is a huge lebron guy and
06:38i gotta
06:39tell you i'm i don't think they're much better than 14 to 1 but i think i think the pistons
06:48got a shot
06:48here and especially if they bring duran back i think this is a team that could really make some
06:54noise because you're talking about they've already added shooting you you mix in a guy that can can
07:03still create and score and oh by the way do it in the playoffs i'm pretty sure he was their
07:09leading
07:09score in the playoffs this year you're talking about a a guy that has plenty of seasoning veteran that
07:17comes into this locker room i don't know man i i think they can fit him under the cap
07:24it's just a matter of what keeps it from happening does he want to play here
07:30does lebron want to play here well i think he wants to win a championship i don't think there's
07:35any question about so where do you go to do that you can go to sacrament to a golden state
07:40and and try
07:41to hook up with a healthy steph curry and and the guys they have there and there's rumors about
07:45anthony davis going there too and put the band back together that's an old band but sometimes the
07:51old ones are good ones does he want to go to miami and play with yannis does he want to
07:57go to cleveland
07:58and and you know return where things started but they have also got a pretty good basketball team
08:02there uh the san antonio thing obviously san antonio was missing some something when they went in the
08:09nba finals so in in minnesota you'd be playing with a superstar there lots to look at if you're
08:16lebron james and yeah the pistons are an up-and-coming team too but i i think there's a reason
08:20that the
08:20pistons are this far down the pecking order when it comes to the odds on favorites some of those
08:25other teams have other things that are you know maybe they're closer to getting to that championship
08:30particularly if they add lebron james to the roster kang what do you think is the biggest obstacle
08:35to this actually happening the biggest obstacle yep other than him not wanting to come here well
08:42that might be it that's what i suggested yeah i don't think that he wants to come here but
08:46i wouldn't completely close the door i wouldn't say zero percent chance because i think lebron we all
08:50know he's all about his legacy at this point and to add another championship with another team
08:57that'd be four more than anyone else in nba history right four teams yeah championship because
09:02he's done it with three different teams and the being the fourth team being detroit i mean
09:07i know detroit is cleveland's rival but he actually has a lot of appreciation for the going to work
09:12pistons and in detroit in general i i you know he's he's said it before publicly but i just think
09:17there's too many other teams and options for him that he can go to and try to win championship
09:20ahead of detroit that's why i don't think it would happen would i want him here would i take him
09:25i
09:25would i think he would help this team he would be not just a veteran leadership or voice but he'd
09:30be a guy
09:30can still contribute and help this team especially in clutch moments and situations where this team
09:36obviously a young team had trouble with during the playoffs last year you know it took a lot to get
09:40through that first round series then the second round they had to go seven games because they
09:44didn't you know close out cleveland when they had a chance and so i think lebron brings veteran
09:50leadership but he also brings play on the court knowing what to do where guys should be you still
09:54have to add a couple things with lebron he's just not the you know the final piece of the puzzle
09:58or
09:58anything like that but i would definitely take lebron he would help this team it's really
10:01interesting because brian windhorse link detroit is a possible place for lebron last week question
10:07was was that we i remember we even said we got to pause this to find out what lebron's going
10:11to do
10:11and now today the breaking news at this hour he has opted out and will be a free agent and
10:18will not
10:19be back with the lakers which uh boy kind of a diss to poor brawny yeah the funniest thing the
10:26lakers could do right now is just cut brawny just put out a release like we've we've parted ways with
10:31the other lebron james yeah but this screams he's going to golden state right they're gonna have
10:36like the oldest team in the league it seems it seems like it yeah if they want them i mean
10:41what if they
10:41don't even want i think there's all this talk and all this smoke and they're like yeah no one of
10:45the
10:45biggest bronze sexuals out there is dream on green it's true it's this i'm not saying i'm not breaking
10:51news like shams here and he opted out for a reason to give golden state flexibility he has
10:56already stated on his podcast he's at a point in his career where he wants to do what's best to
11:01help the team he wants lebron on his team that's why they're the odds-on favorite i think it's lebron
11:07steph curry draymond they re-signed al horford who's like a hundred years old jimmy butler's still on the
11:13roster right now they're gonna have like the oldest if you're an old guy root for the warriors that's
11:18that's a senior squad that's a senior squad playing in the rec league with the young boys
11:21yeah and you anthony davis possibly if he's choosing based on chance to win a championship
11:31is he choosing the one seed in the east or the last play-in team in the west that's a
11:39fact
11:41two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven how much or not at all would you like to
11:48see
11:48the pistons pursue brand new just breaking free agent lebron james it's karshen anderson 97.1
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