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Andy Bunker and Randy McMichael react to the surprising news out of Los Angeles Tuesday revealing LeBron James is set to play elsewhere after having served his tenure with the Lakers -- only after the team signed Bronny James to a guaranteed $2.3 million contract. Plus, the guys discuss the developing situation with Malik Beasley and Ed Davis after the pair's indictment on gambling charges. Plus other rumors circulating on the day free agency begins.
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00:00If you missed the breaking news early in the noon hour, Shams is reporting that LeBron has told the Lakers
00:05that he will seek employment elsewhere.
00:09He is going to play in the NBA.
00:10I'm going to do the hard part for y'all.
00:12Yeah, exactly, which is great because they were ready to go in a different direction, build around Luka, probably go
00:17a little bit younger and think long term.
00:19And he's ready to go in a different direction as well, whatever that would be.
00:22I don't know if it's one year.
00:23I don't know if it's two years.
00:24I don't know if it's Golden State.
00:25I don't know what he's earned the right to do it every once, as far as I'm concerned.
00:30I know whatever he chooses to do will be criticized by some, but if he wants to go to Golden
00:34State and play with Steph and Draymond, that's fun.
00:36That's a weird thing because they're going to still get Anthony Davis because you're obviously going to have to move
00:41Jimmy to get him.
00:42You'd have to, yeah.
00:43You'd have to move Jimmy.
00:44And then you got AD, then Great Dre, Braun, Steph.
00:52Who else?
00:53Oh, Al Horford.
00:54Horford, yeah.
00:54They don't have the oldest team in the history of mankind.
00:57The Hawks let Al Horford walk 10 years ago.
01:00Yes.
01:00Because they thought he was too old to sign a four-year contract.
01:02Yes.
01:03And here he is 10 years later, still playing.
01:06And now, again, he's not the player that he was 10 years ago.
01:08He was that player for a few more years.
01:10They're going to sign Andre Goddauer.
01:12That'd be amazing.
01:13That'd be great.
01:14That'd be great.
01:14Is he still playing?
01:15No.
01:16No, okay.
01:16He's trying.
01:17Okay.
01:17But, I mean, look.
01:18Who knows?
01:18Russell Westbrook still playing?
01:19Yeah, man.
01:20There's a lot of guys that are up there in age that are still out there in the NBA.
01:23And that thing about it is, like, you know, I keep saying it would be really fun, be fun
01:27to watch.
01:27I don't view that group as a championship contender.
01:31No.
01:31But they'd be pretty good.
01:33I'm telling you, you get them with the right matchup.
01:37And they're healthy.
01:38Yeah.
01:39What?
01:39I don't know.
01:40Oh, yeah.
01:40I mean, again, there's no way that that group could make it through 16 wins in the playoffs.
01:44Can you imagine LeBron playing Draymond's role?
01:47Exactly.
01:48Exactly.
01:49I'm talking about all the offensive side.
01:50Sure.
01:51Sure.
01:51And then Draymond's out there for defense.
01:53Yes.
01:53And obviously, look.
01:54The thing about Steph is, when he's healthy, he's still pretty much as efficient as he's
01:59always been.
02:00Yes.
02:00He's just had some injury stuff, too.
02:02And, look.
02:02I mean, the idea that those guys could somehow have the stars align and go on, like, a long
02:09playoff run is almost impossible.
02:10We see how hard it is for young teams to do that.
02:12But, like, if they were a play-in team and got in at, like, the 7 or 8 seed, and
02:17you're
02:17the Thunder or the Spurs, and you have to play them in the first round, that sucks.
02:21Yes.
02:21Like, that's a nightmare.
02:23But, again, they're not going to be able to go on a long run.
02:25But who cares?
02:26Draymond already told us that's not what they're trying to do.
02:27No, they're trying to sell out the thing.
02:29Yeah.
02:29They've done the championship winning.
02:30Now they're trying to sell out games and be on national TV and have a good time.
02:33That's what Draymond told us.
02:35That would be a good time.
02:36But I don't know if that's what LeBron wants.
02:37LeBron could go somewhere and try to win a championship.
02:40Now, if he did that, I would not view that as, like, a ring chase detraction from how
02:48I view LeBron, whatever.
02:49But, like, I don't know.
02:51LeBron could go play for the Spurs if he wanted to.
02:53Yeah.
02:53LeBron could go play for the Thunder if he wanted to.
02:57Now, I live in those cities.
02:58I don't know about that.
02:59LeBron seems like a guy who probably wants to.
03:01San Antonio ain't that older than once.
03:04Okay.
03:05But, like, you know, he's been pretty, you know, when he's gotten to choose, he's gone
03:09to Miami and Los Angeles.
03:11Cleveland's different because he kind of grew up in Ohio.
03:13Right, right, right.
03:14I have a hard time believing he's going to actively choose to go live as a 41-year-old
03:18grown man in Oklahoma City.
03:19But maybe.
03:20Maybe.
03:20Who knows?
03:20Maybe.
03:21I'll say this.
03:21You know what?
03:21Life's slower there.
03:23Definitely slower.
03:23Yeah, life's slower.
03:24Definitely slower.
03:25I'll say this.
03:25We all got, like, dad of the year, best dad, all that kind of stuff, stuff last Sunday.
03:31He waited until Bronny's contract was fully guaranteed before he told the Lakers that
03:36he was leaving.
03:36So, I appreciate Jack for saying I was the best dad, but I think LeBron might be better.
03:42LeBron just got, how much did that contract guarantee for?
03:44Come real.
03:45Pretty good.
03:45Yeah, man.
03:46Because he could have told him yesterday.
03:47He could have.
03:50Because you told me the Bronny news, like, 15 minutes before LeBron told the Lakers.
03:54Yes.
03:54I don't know.
03:55Pretty good dad stuff.
03:56Hell yeah.
03:57Well done, pops.
03:58Way to go.
03:58Got him drafted.
03:59Got him to the team.
03:59Got him to the Lakers.
04:01Hey, good for him, man.
04:02They fully guaranteed the money today.
04:04Yep.
04:04And then LeBron's like, all right, I'm out of here.
04:06Yeah, I don't want to play for you.
04:06I don't want to play for you guys no more.
04:08I don't want to play for you.
04:10But, yeah, I mean, this other one, I know this seems like this Kawhi thing to Toronto's
04:15is pretty much a done deal.
04:17Sit around Brandon Ingram.
04:18They're trying to get the draft compensation together, Andy, which, I mean, all right.
04:22But more importantly, they're going to give Kawhi.
04:24This extension.
04:26I don't know what's going to happen with this whole other case.
04:28Are the Clippers going to be important?
04:30Yeah.
04:30Yeah.
04:30I don't know.
04:32Speaking of Jimmy Butler, you see his man was the middleman between all that gambling
04:36stuff?
04:36His best friend, Jimmy Butler.
04:38Yeah.
04:39His man.
04:39His homeboy.
04:40No, I know what you're saying.
04:41He's the middleman.
04:41Between Ed Davis?
04:43Yes.
04:43Yes.
04:44And Malik Beasley and all that?
04:45Yes.
04:46Yes.
04:46What I didn't really realize in reading it yesterday was basically Ed Davis was telling
04:50Malik, hey, get out there and get me my money.
04:52Yes.
04:52You owe me some money.
04:53The only way you're going to be able to do it is to throw these games.
04:56But my thing is, Ed Davis was the muscle?
04:59That's what I'm saying.
05:00Was he the muscle?
05:01Sounded like he owed Ed Davis some money.
05:02How much?
05:04Enough to do that.
05:04What the hell are y'all playing the damn card games?
05:08I'm playing card games.
05:10I've seen it.
05:11Ed's like, look, you're not good enough at Blackjack to make this back.
05:14You need to get out there and get some rebounds, buddy.
05:16Hey, man.
05:16He's like, he need to get back on the pole or something.
05:19You know what I'm saying?
05:20Like, you need to go make some extra income.
05:22Go shake the...
05:23No.
05:23Basically, Ed told him to get out there and get Daddy some money.
05:26Yes.
05:26And that's what I'm saying.
05:27So, was that from Ed?
05:28Was that from...
05:29I don't know.
05:30I don't know.
05:30I'm not trying to make too long.
05:31All I know is that.
05:33Them card games on planes.
05:34When it's alcohol and cards, it's always something.
05:38It is.
05:39I'm just telling you, dude.
05:40When that plane lands, you usually have 48 hours to get me my money.
05:46Yeah.
05:47Or it's going to be a problem.
05:48I guess he took too long.
05:48And I've seen it be a problem.
05:50You get out there and, all right, over under seven and a half tonight.
05:53Yeah, man.
05:54You better make that last second layup.
05:55Dude.
05:56What's crazy is I remember everybody making fun of the play.
05:59We were making fun of him.
06:00Yes.
06:00Remember that dunk that he did?
06:02Over under was seven and a half.
06:04Yeah.
06:04He dunked it with zero seconds left to make the game nine.
06:07Yes.
06:08Like, oh, all right.
06:08Yes.
06:09Cool.
06:09It went from seven to nine on that dunk?
06:11Yeah.
06:11Huh.
06:11Fishy.
06:12No, it wasn't fishy.
06:13They're paying attention to it.
06:14It actually was what he was doing.
06:15Yeah.
06:15Anyway.
06:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:17It does seem like Kawhi probably to Toronto.
06:20Look, man.
06:20Toronto was sneaky last year.
06:22They got a guy like him.
06:24If they replace.
06:25Scotty Barnes, he would be the second best player.
06:28Oh, yeah.
06:28Yeah.
06:29If they replace Brandon Ingram with Kawhi Leonard and Kawhi Leonard's anywhere what he was the
06:34last couple of years with Scotty Barnes, that team's a nightmare.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Like, how are you going to score on those guys?
06:40That's like the best perimeter defense in the NBA.
06:43Now, again, we understand Kawhi has a pretty long injury history.
06:47He does.
06:47But he was healthy last year.
06:48He's been all NBA last year.
06:50Yeah.
06:50I mean, look, if I'm the Raptors, and I always sort of like, I don't mean this disrespectfully,
06:55but like certain teams have to kind of have a different standard and approach.
07:00Trailblazers yesterday.
07:01You take the gamble.
07:03Like, Kawhi came there and won you a championship, so it's sort of like a thanks for that contract
07:07also, but it's an upgrade, and if he's healthy, then you're better.
07:10Yep.
07:10You're a better team.
07:11Especially what's going to happen in Boston.
07:13I mean, we don't know what's going to happen with that.
07:16The Knicks, I just, it was fun, but they'll never be that good again.
07:20No, but they got to run it back, though.
07:22No, no, no.
07:23I know the Knicks definitely have to run it back.
07:24You just keep that group together and see if you can do it again.
07:28John Morant getting traded to the Blazers for Jeremy Grant's expiring contract, and Chris
07:34Murray is crazy.
07:35Like, you couldn't have, I couldn't have invented a scenario in which that took place
07:40four years ago, but obviously a lot of crazy stuff happened with John Morant over the last
07:44couple of years.
07:45I love it because I want to see if he can get back to being that guy somewhere.
07:52I wouldn't have been the team to do it, but I'm glad Portland did.
07:55They got him, Dane, Drew Holiday, and Scoop.
08:00Obviously, somebody's going to be gone.
08:01And Denny Advia, who's called on it.
08:03Yes, the guy who was, like, balling last year for y'all with the ball in his hand.
08:07Yeah, all-star, ball dominant, guard kind of two, yeah.
08:11Yes, there's more trades.
08:12Yeah.
08:12There's more trades coming.
08:13Is he one of them?
08:14Who?
08:15I know Drew Holiday is probably one of them, but what's his name, Abia?
08:19Yeah.
08:19Is he one of them?
08:21If they want to get Jalen Brown, maybe.
08:24I've seen a bunch of different trade scenarios that involve that.
08:28Because they were in on Giannis at the deadline last year, and they've been rumored to be in
08:33on Jalen Brown the whole time.
08:34Now, they just haven't had the right package, but they were able to get John and not give
08:38up any of their young pieces.
08:40Like, I don't know how good Scoot Henderson's going to be, but he's interesting.
08:43He's interesting.
08:44Look, I think Shaden Sharp is really interesting.
08:47He's a young player that they have, too.
08:49They also have draft picks.
08:50I don't know.
08:51The hard part for Boston is, like, you already kind of missed on the best return, I assume.
08:56Yes.
08:57Like, Giannis would have been a really good return for Jalen Brown.
09:00Now, I mean, if you're making a trade with the Blazers, you're not getting anything like
09:04that.
09:05I mean, I don't know what the other trade partners are now.
09:10I know Denver was kind of fun.
09:11We were kicking that around.
09:12That would be kind of like for like.
09:14But other than that, I'm not really sure.
09:16Like, at this point, the best thing Boston could do is not trade him.
09:22The best trade they would make is not trade him.
09:24You don't reset when you have max players on your roster.
09:31You know what I mean?
09:32And just like you said, if you look at the landscape of where everything is, you're not going to
09:36find equal value player-wise to Jalen Brown.
09:38I don't think so.
09:39Unless there's some out there that I just can't see.
09:40You're not a better team without him.
09:42As great as Jason Tatum is.
09:43He is phenomenal.
09:45Derek White cut off the worst season he's ever had.
09:46Yeah, he did.
09:47He had a bad year.
09:48Yeah.
09:48So, do you go and can you bring Drew Holiday?
09:50Because he was kind of seeing like he was kind of that glue.
09:52Right.
09:53But now he's like four years older.
09:55So, I mean, Drew Holiday was fantastic.
09:58Oh, Jock Landell's coming back to the Hawks.
10:0014 what?
10:00Million dollars?
10:01Okay.
10:01So, how many years?
10:03One year.
10:03Wow.
10:04Okay.
10:04So, that was the one.
10:05Okay.
10:05So, they're actually done done.
10:08Could be.
10:09Yeah.
10:09I mean, that's okay.
10:12Okay.
10:12Well, you got your backup center.
10:15And you got a young player who, the more and more I hear about this young man, the bigger
10:19mistake that it's been that he left college.
10:22The kid from North Carolina.
10:23Oh, yeah.
10:23Yeah.
10:23Yeah.
10:24Henry.
10:24Yeah.
10:25Like, yeah.
10:25Like, everybody's like, why did he leave?
10:27He's going to be an All-American, All-North Carolina, probably a game plan built around him.
10:30And five nilly?
10:31Yeah.
10:31To come be a second round pick for the Hawks?
10:33Yeah, because he don't make that much being a second round draft pick.
10:36But, you know, he's in the NBA now.
10:37He's there.
10:37He's there.
10:38And he lives in Atlanta.
10:38All you got to do is get your foot in the door.
10:40Beautiful.
10:40All you got to get your foot in the door.
10:40You got to take advantage of the situation.
10:42Here's the thing.
10:42Is, in terms of being a second round draft pick, like, he comes into a situation where
10:47he's at least going to be able to play.
10:49Yeah.
10:49If he's healthy and can do some of the defensive stuff they need him to do.
10:53According to one of my sources here, Andy, Oren, says Malik, the rumor is, and I've heard
10:58this too, Malik, he's one of the worst BYU players ever.
11:01And he's ran up a big-ass tab.
11:03And that's what happens.
11:05That's what happens.
11:06That's why dudes be getting shanked in the pen.
11:11Because they be running up Honeyblum numbers.
11:13This guy's so bad at cards on the plane that he had to throw games.
11:17Throw games.
11:18That's pathetic.
11:19That's pathetic, man.
11:20That's pathetic.
11:20Stop playing cards.
11:21You make, he makes.
11:23He has a $6 million contract.
11:25Out of taxes, he takes home $3.5 million.
11:28You mean to tell him you gambled away that much money?
11:30I guess he must have, right?
11:31And he bought all them damn chains and cars and all that other crap.
11:34Like, you can't, you can't be making $3.5 million and be trying to live like the dude
11:39who makes $10 million.
11:40I know.
11:40That's the thing.
11:41That's how you get your ass whipped.
11:42Well, because the gap in the NBA is crazy.
11:44It's huge.
11:45Like, if you're on a $6 million contract, you're playing with guys that literally make 10 times
11:49more money than you.
11:49You're playing boo-ray with them dudes.
11:53I tell you.
11:54I would advise people to not do that.
11:57But what do I know?
11:58I mean, he told you to go out there just like you was a hooker.
12:02Because the text message is crazy.
12:03Like you were a hooker.
12:04There's no other way for you to do this.
12:06You're going to have to go out there and start manipulating your stats.
12:10Also, Ed Davis is crazy for sending him that text.
12:14Like, that's wild.
12:15Ed was just going to beat his ass.
12:17Take your chances fighting him.
12:19I would have to take my chances fighting him.
12:20You know what I mean?
12:21If I lose a fight, at least I don't lose my career and potentially go to jail.
12:26Oh, man.
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