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00:00Live from the play show you're not overly ostentatious studios a 104.3 FM WQAM it's a big
00:08Tuesday edition of Hockman Crowder and Solana Zach Gelbin for Mark Hockman for the rest of the week
00:13and my oh my what a situation that we have here on hand boys because just when I thought I
00:20was out
00:20they pull me back in I was ready to start this show today saying LeBron James is definitely
00:26going to Golden State or it's either going to be Golden State or the Lakers and we get that
00:31breaking Sham Sharania news that LeBron James is done with the Lakers I think this was a situation
00:38where it was I want to break up with you you want to break up with me okay we're going
00:42to look at
00:43one another who's going to say it first and LeBron ultimately said I'm out and right away Sham Sharania
00:48is pulling the hearts of Heat Nation fans because he put three teams out there that LeBron James is
00:54interested in Golden State the Cleveland Cavaliers and your Miami Heat so who wants to tackle this
01:00one first right now I love it I don't think it's going to happen because I've said a number of
01:05times
01:05I just him and Pat you know I don't know if they buried the hatchet whatever they call it I
01:10don't
01:10think it's going to happen Gelbin Solana but if it does I would not be upset I would I would
01:17handicap it as Golden State number one but let's see what Pat can do I got to run my victory
01:23lap here
01:23for just a quick second and I don't want to make this about me but two weeks ago Gelby on
01:28this very
01:28radio show I presented an idea I floated it out to Hawk and Crowder I said why not Giannis and
01:35LeBron
01:36James there was a pathway to making it happen and Hawk and Crowder ridiculed me Gelby like you've never
01:44heard before and here we are all of a sudden two weeks later talking about LeBron James potentially
01:50joining Miami and to me this makes sense for both parties would it be great to see him alongside
01:57Steph Curry could that team maybe figure something out sure but are they going to win in the Western
02:03Conference at that age probably not Cleveland I understand sentimental value gets to hang it up
02:10where it all began but are they going to contend if they have to give up a big time player
02:15to create
02:16the cap space for LeBron likely not Miami best chance to win a title which is what I believe LeBron
02:25James still wants to do best chance to win a title and he gets the most money as it stands
02:32currently
02:32today this makes sense for both parties it makes the heat better they could use a player like LeBron
02:39James obviously and I think this is going to happen let me just ask this question I'm not disagreeing
02:46with you like if I tell you the Warriors have a better chance than winning a championship than
02:50the heat you could easily argue well OKC and San Antonio are in the way of the Warriors so it
02:55makes
02:55it tougher let me just go directly in the east the Cavs have been there knocking on the door the
03:01last
03:01few years why in your estimation would the heat give LeBron a better chance to win a championship than
03:07the Cleveland Cavaliers what team has the better player just overall what team has the better
03:13player between the Miami Heat and in the Cleveland Cavaliers yeah well Giannis Antetokounmpo remember
03:19when uh there was a guy just a week ago since Solana loves to do oh you know three weeks
03:24ago I told
03:24these knuckleheads everything it wasn't that long ago where Solana was singing the praises of Donovan
03:29Mitchell as a top 10 player hey stay on topic stay on topic what are you doing no you're right
03:35you're right you sound like Florio Chris stay on topic stay on topic stay on topic Cleveland's
03:42roster is not garbage now the two bigs was a Mobley Allen and Spider like they got they got a
03:47little
03:47squad too now right but I mean look Cleveland I'm sure they can figure something out to open up some
03:53cap space like this is all fluid and by the way I don't expect LeBron to make his decision because
03:58if we know one thing about LeBron he loves to be courted he loves to be courted he's gonna take
04:05this opportunity likely his last opportunity to dictate the NBA free agency he's gonna make it all
04:11about himself and he's going to take meetings with all these teams and see who can just just put it
04:18you
04:18know uh the best uh the best deal available for him but the Miami Heat Kelby are better than the
04:26Cleveland Cavaliers as it stands today with LeBron James on that roster I firmly believe that without
04:34knowing who the Miami Heat are gonna put around Giannis Antetokounmpo Obama to bio I think the best
04:41team with LeBron is the Heat over the Cleveland Cavaliers and let me just because we're talking
04:47about Cleveland and in Miami because you said go east the best player he can play with and those three
04:52is Steph Curry Steph Curry is better than Giannis at at this point in their careers he's a shooter
05:00he's a shooter shooter old shooters can go through Giannis is getting old old big men start them knees
05:06start knocking don't know what I would say to you don't start doing that to win an argument Giannis is
05:1131 years old what are we doing talking about Giannis on the last leg of his career I don't understand
05:15why people are doing that no but like you could you like I think Steph and Giannis you could pick
05:22whichever one you want that is better going into this season but I think the roadblock with him going
05:28to Golden State which LeBron loves to be buddy buddy with everybody so I still think he is going to
05:33Golden State but if we're talking about who gives him the best chance to win a championship
05:37I would still think with the Spurs and the Thunder being in the way it's easier to go win
05:42with the heat or or Cleveland than it would be to go to Golden State that's why I kind of
05:47took the
05:47Warriors just for the sake of this conversation out of it yeah yeah no 100% east is weaker what
05:52the
05:52Knicks and who Boston's Celtics depending on what their team's going to look like like here's my point
06:00I I can understand why Solana says the heat are better than the Cavs I don't think it's necessarily
06:05who is better though because I think you're close and you could say you could consistently expect more
06:10out of Cleveland right now with the unknown of Miami but there's more of a need for you know
06:16of LeBron to go to the heat than it would be to go to Cleveland and maybe when LeBron's getting
06:21courted he still wants to feel appreciated because he clearly wasn't being appreciated anymore by the
06:26Lakers in his mind so yeah no no no no I'm with you and on the other side of it
06:35guys we got LeBron
06:36here today he's on the verge of being a free agent I need you two locked in ready to go
06:42on the other
06:43side of it I think this is a great thing for the Lakers now they can move on to Luka
06:47territory now it's
06:48Luka's team we don't have to worry about who is who it's Luka I don't think this is a great
06:52thing
06:52I don't I don't think this is a great thing for the Lakers at all because I think it's phenomenal
06:57there yeah I mean I understand what you mean by move forward with Luka because down the line you
07:02want to build around Luka Doncic I totally understand that but I think it makes the Lakers a worse team
07:08this year which they can't they can't afford like they're in win now mode when you go just Luka Doncic
07:15falls in your lap and I saw some reports about Jalen Duren it seems like him and the Pistons are
07:20just
07:21he doesn't want to be there anymore at the very least that's what it seems like based on reports
07:25and he met with the Sacramento Kings and it looks like he's going to meet with the Lakers for a
07:29potential sign and trade I understand what the Lakers are doing here they can't get hung up on
07:34paying LeBron James because they've got to be able to put a a quality team around Luka Doncic
07:40but with that being said they got worse today with LeBron leaving their team yes and and Rob Palenka I
07:46don't know if Rob Palenka has a plan to to supplement losing a player like LeBron but sure
07:52they did get worse today but that's so tough when you're saying it's Luka's team but LeBron is still
08:00there it can't full even though last year right LeBron but Joko I became the three with Reeves is the
08:06two and LeBron and Luka is the one it can't fully become Luka's team and that Luka Doncic
08:12can't officially start in Los Angeles until LeBron James is off the team if they would have
08:17brought him back it just keeps on kicking another year in the can down the road where let's be real
08:22the Lakers weren't winning a championship either way with or without LeBron this year but I was
08:26watching Choms before we came on today and he said this decision for LeBron is driven by happiness
08:32and it will not be driven by money so like he could be happy going home to Cleveland he could
08:38be happy
08:38live it in Miami or he could be happy playing with another fellow top 10 player of all time and
08:44Steph Curry I kind of think this is like you have a friend that has already sold their childhood home
08:50and it's in the 55 up community and they're and that step and they're waiting to court their other
08:55friend to go live their retirement years where they're not as good as they once were but they're
09:00still really damn good and they'll play pickleball and and and they'll beat up on all the 70 year olds
09:04like Solana they'll go to the pool and they'll fight like whose beach towel was there first this
09:09seems to me like LeBron's joining Steph in the 55 up uh community you gotta get there early so you
09:16get
09:16the the chairs right on the edge of the pool you don't have to sit on that third row you
09:20gotta get
09:21up early you take extra bags down and you reserve your chairs go take a nap then you can get
09:25to the
09:25pool later on in those 55 communities but to your point Gail happiness he ran LA his his coach was
09:33his
09:33friend JJ was his friend he goes back to Cleveland he's the mayor he comes to Miami he has to
09:39do with
09:39a coach and a general manager basketball operations whatever his name is Pat Riley that are gonna do
09:44it their way I don't think happiness is in Miami happiness is living in Miami I don't think basketball
09:50happiness is in Miami let me just play in the LeBron James mind though oh now they want me back
09:57right Pat wouldn't give me my cookies on the plane Pat tried to muscle me out of town I told
10:03him go
10:03screw I won a championship away from him Pat hasn't won he's had success getting to two finals but he
10:10hasn't won a championship since I am now needed in Miami this is Pat bending the knee to me and
10:19in
10:19LeBron's twisted brain that could be a lot of happiness it could it could because you know Pat Riley
10:24showing up to the meeting with a dozen cookies here you go LeBron will bake them himself
10:30I will boy it's a lot of deliver them listen LeBron Bronny Bryce every they could stay at my house
10:37I got
10:37two extra bedrooms I just don't know when he's in that building and anywhere in the nation he's number
10:44one in the hierarchy when he is in the Kaseya Center he's not number one right but but but you're
10:51you're
10:51saying that like if he goes and look he goes to Cleveland it's not even a question it's LeBron's
10:56team again and everything that they do now becomes how can we acquiesce the king returning home but he
11:05goes to Golden State Crowder that's not his team by the way Gelb I like the idea of LeBron I'm
11:11taking my
11:12heat homer out of it I like the idea of LeBron teaming up with Steph Curry two legends that defined
11:18the last five years ago of the NBA no no I'm with you I don't think they're gonna win a
11:23title
11:23but two legends that defined the NBA the last 20 years who clearly play well off each other and love
11:30each other and and LeBron spoke about finally teaming up with Steph Curry in the Olympics I love the idea
11:36of them trying to win a title together at the last stands of their career but but I think it's
11:44a tough
11:44situation for LeBron to win which is why I don't think ultimately he owned up there so I would like
11:49to watch it in the regular season there would be something cool about seeing two of the top 10
11:53players of all time play a full season together like that's fun but also LeBron loves being buddy
11:59buddy with everybody and this is such a buddy buddy move like LeBron's never really had a great rival
12:04and Steph Curry isn't like they had their most memorable moments up against one another LeBron's
12:10greatest championship is coming on back and beating Steph Curry then Steph and KD they kicked his butt
12:16for those two years like him partnering up with someone that was technically a rival
12:22it's like the NBA these days so maybe I just have to stop yelling at you know yelling at my
12:26lawn
12:26I was just gonna say Gale man pull your pants down off your belly button and get off the porch
12:32because
12:32these new age athletes they're jersey swapping they're best friends they work out together they
12:38they have gyms and and camps every offseason together it is what it is now I would I can say
12:44it would be very cool it'd be the golden girls because Draymond's old as hell as well Jimmy's old as
12:50hell so it would yeah it would be it'd be for old dudes playing together but it would be cool
12:54to watch
12:55and rivalries like Jordan versus Bird and all you know we gotta let that go you gotta let that go
13:01it's non-existent in this day and age Clay Ferraro is gonna join us on the other side but first
13:06uh we gotta get to uh Solana we'll see if the chaos has been settled out in his home whatever
13:10was just happening there uh what was your dog barking yeah that little raggedy dog probably
13:15did something don't do that uh there's a lizard right like in the corner of my room bro my like
13:23a pet lizard or just like a lizard that got in from outside a pet lizard you would you would
13:27be
13:27bizarre enough to have a pet lizard okay like I can see you coming home from school mommy and daddy
13:33got the pet lizard he got a bearded dragon that are terrible I was never a pet guy this is
13:40my first
13:40dog ever I was never a pet guy I never had like I don't understand people had snakes Crowder had
13:47snakes yeah when he was a UF like people that have snakes in their house people that have like
13:53these pet lizards that's what Crowder got arrested for man I get uh um a cleaning lady had a heart
14:02attack like a baby stroke or something because she walked in the room and saw my Burmese python
14:07we just let it crawl around the room and I was driving my scooter back to the dorms and I
14:14saw the
14:15ambulance outside and I kept riding I said no Jack man gelb gelb is showing so much restraint right now
14:22I have so many jokes to avoid to avoid jasmine saw a python later that night as well
14:29first segment gelb was different python gelb was dying to let that one go I could tell
14:36it was some python showings at UF okay I know we have to get the headlines here
14:43can can I just send out a little PSA to heat nation I was once a proud member of team
14:52petty
14:52I thought LeBron James screwed over this organization not by leaving the heat but
14:57with the way he left the Miami heat I thought he disrespected the godfather on the way out
15:02I was a proud member of team petty I rooted against LeBron when he went to Cleveland I was devastated
15:08in 2016 when he won a title you have to be out of your mind to not want LeBron James
15:16in a Miami
15:17heat jersey this season he makes the team better he fills a need for the Miami heat in terms of
15:24another ball handler another veteran that can set up Giannis that could set up bam with the highest IQ
15:31arguably we've ever seen in the game his outside shooting has improved and he provides another
15:37three level scoring option for the heat when Giannis goes to the bench from a basketball perspective
15:44forget about the fact that it's LeBron James just look at his skill set from a basketball perspective
15:49he makes the team better and if you can get him at a discount which clearly seems probable or possible
15:55I should say considering this is a happiness decision and not a money decision according to
16:02Brian Windhorst and Sham Sharania from a basketball perspective this makes the Miami heat a better team
16:09so put aside your pettiness stop pretending like LeBron James is some washed old guy that can't help
16:16you win a title this would be fun this would make your team better and it's LeBron bleeping James that
16:24would potentially want to come back to your organization so from a heat fan perspective
16:28Gelb because I'm seeing this a lot on social media I don't want anything to do with LeBron I don't
16:32want
16:32any of that you are out of your mind if you don't want LeBron James here will he end up
16:37here I don't know
16:38but it's a great move for the Miami heat and as a fan if he does I have a surprise
16:45LeBron James team
16:46that has not been mentioned by Sham Sharani or Brian Windhorst that I will get to later on because if
16:52it's not about money and you actually want to win I think there's a team out there that we have
16:57not
16:57talked about yet it's the better if it's not the New York Knicks I was about to say you say
17:03the Knicks I am
17:04flying up tonight to jump on you we are the Kings we don't need the Kings all right so shut
17:09your
17:10mouths this is actually I have a lot unlike you two homers I have a logical take here and it's
17:16better
17:16than Miami it's better than the Cavs and it's better than Golden State we will get to that later on
17:22in
17:22the show we will get to an extremely truncated version of headlines because I want to talk to Clay
17:26if Solano will just stop uh doing uh social media promos there suck it up the heat nation I want
17:33a
17:33PSA to you guys so that will be on on the QAM Instagram in about 45 minutes for sure already
17:38it's already being cut up oh we love Solano oh we love him oh he's the greatest oh he's the
17:45best
17:45I think it's split 50 I think it's split 50 50 and I don't understand why like what why wouldn't
17:52you
17:52want LeBron James on this team with Giannis Hanson because they're emotionally hurt from when he left
17:57they're emotionally hurt I was too so long ago I I started the LeBron is tired chance at at the
18:03arena
18:04as a fan I I was but Solano what about the people that great that breaks up with a girl
18:11leaves them
18:11and now they hate them and hope they never do anything else in life successful it's the petty
18:15people get it on the head over it get over all right I'm not gonna say shut up and dribble
18:19but shut up
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