00:00I do have a question.
00:01I'd like to spin this LeBron James discussion in a little bit of a new direction, if you will.
00:08Because until the guy makes a decision, we can do Mike Dunleavy's teeth and, you know, all the whatever.
00:17Dylan Brooks thinks he's coming to the Warriors.
00:18We can do all this stuff all we want.
00:20There's not a whole hell of a lot to say in this moment until he makes his decision.
00:26But we can continue to fantasize about what it will all look like.
00:30And I want to know this right now.
00:33If he comes to the team, what does it mean for Yaxel Lindeborg?
00:37How would you answer that question?
00:40I think it just means that he may not start.
00:44So you would imagine that if LeBron's not here, Yaxel probably is your starting three slash four, I would guess.
00:52But I think it means more for Guy Santos than it does Yaxel Lindeborg.
00:55And if LeBron does come here, he won't play 82 games.
01:00He probably won't play 72.
01:02He might play 62.
01:04So if he plays 62, that's 20 games where Yaxel and Guy are going to be your guys playing that
01:10spot.
01:10And LeBron won't.
01:11So I do think that it limits Yaxel a little bit temporarily.
01:15But I still don't think that it really keeps him completely off the floor.
01:19Oh, I don't think it keeps him off the floor at all.
01:21See, I wondered.
01:23I sat down and thought about this.
01:25And let me first say why.
01:26I don't know how many of you are watching Summer League.
01:29And I don't know.
01:30I mean, maybe Summer League matters as much as, I don't know, the FIFA third place match.
01:35Like, I agree with you.
01:37I'm not going to get overly excited about what happens in Summer League.
01:43However, if you haven't watched the kid play, then I do think you're missing a little something.
01:50The kid, I like that.
01:50Look, he is, on the Warriors especially.
01:53I mean, he's no, like, Pods or Kaminga.
01:57He's not that young.
01:58Yep.
01:59But he's the kid.
02:01He's brand new.
02:02And he looks really good.
02:04He really looks comfortable out there.
02:07And what's the stat?
02:10I know it's plus, minus.
02:11The box plus, minus.
02:12Box plus, minus.
02:14I mean, what does that mean in Summer League?
02:16I guess very little.
02:17However, he currently has not just the best box plus, minus in the entire Summer League this year.
02:26He has the best, wait for it, of all time.
02:31The best box plus, minus of all time.
02:36In Summer League.
02:36In the history of the Summer League.
02:39Does it mean anything?
02:41I don't know.
02:42Look, bottom line is, kid looks really good.
02:45His three-point shot looks comfortable.
02:48Yesterday, he's got a thing with Cam Boozer.
02:51And he muscled him around a little bit.
02:53He didn't just hold up.
02:55He kind of looked like the better player out there, to be honest with you.
02:59And so, there's some excitement, at least for me, about Yaxel Lundeborg.
03:06And so, I started thinking about that, because I've heard people go, gosh, don't get in his way with all
03:11of this LeBron stuff.
03:12Am I crazy for thinking this would maybe actually be the best thing for Yaxel Lundeborg?
03:20Because, partially of what you said, look, these are a bunch of old guys who are not going to get
03:26in the way of his minutes.
03:27He's going to get his opportunities, number one.
03:31But, number two, I think it takes pressure off of him.
03:35And, number three, would it be so bad for this guy to learn basketball as a rookie around, quite frankly,
03:44the best minds that this generation has ever had to offer in the entire NBA?
03:52So, to me, as a rookie coming in, if I get to be about LeBron, Steph, Draymond, pressure off, but
04:00still get minutes,
04:01I kind of like that for him.
04:03No doubt.
04:04No doubt.
04:05Especially when you look at LeBron James, and I'm not saying that Yaxel will have the same trajectory as LeBron
04:11James,
04:12because LeBron's either the GOAT or the second GOAT or wherever you put him on your list.
04:17He's one of the all-time best, and Yaxel probably won't be that good.
04:21And you can go ahead and cut that and put it on social media.
04:24However, Yaxel is about the same height, and he's almost the same weight as LeBron,
04:30and he can bulk up and be as physical, maybe not as gifted, as LeBron James.
04:36And I just was looking at LeBron's basketball reference,
04:39and he's listed as small forward, power forward, center, point guard, and shooting guard on his basketball reference.
04:46Touch them all, kid.
04:48That's true.
04:48So, can Yaxel be that?
04:50Probably not, but he can learn through LeBron on how he goes about doing what he does.
04:55And I love what you pointed out about Summer League,
04:57because he's been grown manning a lot of these guys in Summer League.
05:01And part of it is because he is already 6'8 or 9 and 230 or 240, and, you know,
05:08the boozer kid, he's 19.
05:10He's an unbelievable player.
05:12But when you're almost 24 going against a 19-year-old and you're already kind of a grown man, you
05:18have an advantage.
05:18Now, will that translate in the regular season?
05:21A little bit.
05:22Clearly not as much, because you'll be going up against 34- and 35-year-old actual grown men.
05:27I mean, it seems, I'm told by people who know more about this than me,
05:32it seems that his prefrontal cortex is just about fully cooked.
05:37Yeah.
05:38Isn't that 25?
05:39That's about right.
05:40You know what happens?
05:4024, 25.
05:41These other people he's playing, they don't know what the hell which way is up.
05:44Their brain isn't formed yet.
05:46They go to Vegas for Summer League, and they have to go to the arcade.
05:50They can't sit at the tables.
05:53Peterson, Acuff, DeBonsa, Boozer, like, the game is over, and you go back to the hotel casino,
05:59it's like, you got to go play pinball.
06:01I hadn't even thought of that.
06:03I hadn't even thought of that.
06:04They're all going to Circus Circus.
06:07Exactly.
06:07And Yaxel's going to Bellagio.
06:09Yeah.
06:10Yaxel's out there, you know, having like a scotch and soda and whatever, playing slots.
06:15LJ Cryer in a half hour.
06:17It takes some calls.
06:17I wonder how each of you would answer that question.
06:20If LeBron comes, it means what for Yaxel Lindeborg, the first-round draft pick of the Warriors?
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