July 2, 2024 • 48 mins
We hear from Dalton Knect and Bronny James, who were introduced to the media. Fred asks: Does anyone want the Lakers' money?
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Now there we go, Fred Roganand Rodney Pete se La Sports. Here's
the deal. The Lakers are goingto be introducing Dalton Connect and Ronnie James
in a matter of moments. Sowhat we thought we would do today,
Rodneys, we come on the airset the show talk commnuted or two.
Then let's go down to El Sagon. Don't listen in good sounds good to
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me, Freddie. Let's go allright. So when the Lakers selected Connect,
that might have been the best pickin the first round, or at
least the pick that provides the mostupside. He fell in the draft.
Most people projected him to be atop ten pick. What do you fall
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fn Some thought it was his ageand it puzzled a lot of people.
Why did he fall? But he'ssix' six, he can shoot.
He's probably of the kids that wereselected early the most NBA reading. He
certainly fulfills the need the Lakers haveplaying the perimeter. Needs a little work
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on his defense, but then whodoesn't. But there's a great deal of
upside to Connect. So the prognosticatorsfelt Rodney that the Lakers got an eighty
plus in the first round because theywere able to get him when they did.
Now the other draft pick, ofcourse, well he trumped all.
As far as media coverage, BronnieJames a report today that he is going
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to sign a guaranteed deal, Sowhen he signs, he's there. I
don't begrudge him that, not onebit. If that's what he can get,
he should. This is not reallyabout Bronnie James. This is about
the Lakers. And actually you couldargue, well, it's Lebron and his
son. I don't think it's aboutLebron, but I think it's about the
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Lakers. The Lakers operate the Lakers, They make the decisions. If they
chose to select Bronnie James and givehim that deal, good on Bronnie.
Good on him. He's in,he's got an opportunity and he's going to
get paid. But if you wantto point fingers about nepotism or well they're
just making Lebron happy. If that'swhat you choose to do, then point
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at the Lakers. Don't even pointat Lebron and I'd be the first one
to speak otherwise. But the bottomline is this, the Lakers don't have
to do what they don't want todo, so Rodney in this case,
they wanted to do it, andI think everybody should keep that in mind
now as they watched Bronni begin hisNBA journey. Yeah, and you know,
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we talked about this, you know, at nauseum last week, and
Adam gave some Adam Austlin gave somereally good insights as well and did some
digging out. You know, whenyou get to that fifty fifth pick,
and and people are saying that it'sit's such an impactful pick that you know,
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you're wasting it on Browny James oryou're you're you're just doing this for
lebron As you mentioned, it's ait's a you know, it's it's it's
not a good thing because you mightmiss out on a superstar because people sided.
Oh Joker was a second round pickand Jenobili was the second round pick.
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Well, those are anomalies. Hewent back and did research. There
was only one kid, one kidover the last ten years that got any
meaningful minutes with the fifty fifth pick. So it suggests, which which is
evidence that it's you don't know,you really don't know, you don't know
about anybody. First of all,remember Markel folks, Yeah, markl folks
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even the first pick in the draft, and Lonzo Ball was the second.
So anyway, I know, wegot to move. We got to go
because the press conference is happening.Let's go to El Segundo, JJ Reddick,
Rob Polinka on stage. Welcome everybody. This is a day to be
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incredibly grateful for and incredibly excited about, most importantly because we're launching the NBA
careers of two fine young men,Brownie James and Dalton connect. This is
day one. We're going to gofrom here to taking these chairs away,
taking the cameras away, and havinga practice and getting ready for Summer League.
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And that's what Dalton and Brownie areabout. These are two men of
high character and hard work ethic.Those are the qualities we look for at
the Lakers when we draft players.And it's a testament to how Brownie was
raised by Lebron and Savannah and howDalton was raised by carrying Corey, and
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that means a lot to us.So we're gonna take some questions and then
get ready to go kick some buttonsummer League. Dalton, if we could
start with you, we got tosee your reaction up on the stage and
kind of go through that moment.What have these last couple of days been
like for you in conversations with Robor your your new coach JJ, and
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just that kind of building excitement asyou start your NBA career. It's been
exciting, you know, me andthem in person, not only just through
the phone. And there's been afun journey because you know, like I
said earlier, my journey's been different. And coming here to a historic franchise,
it's gonna be fun. Can't waitto get to work and then to
follow up with Briannie, just thatthat moment right where you get the phone
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call and then you hear your name. Can you take us through the emotions
of all of that, of whatyou were feeling and then how you've been
feeling the last couple of days since. Yeah, everything's just been surreal,
trying to take it all in bythe days, extremely you know, grateful
for everything that JJ and Rob havegiven to me. Yeah, and I've
just been excited to get to work. Yeah, Bronnie, Jim Hill,
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KKL Knight. What have been someof the preliminary conversations you've had with your
father about what's expected in the NBAand and and what you can expect it
to hear and see once you startplaying. You know, we haven't gone
too deep into that stuff yet,especially because we haven't even started the summer
league yet, but you know,just stuff that he's been telling me my
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whole life, just having that thatwork ethic and and coming in and getting
her work in and listening to yourcoaches and being coachable. Stuff like that
is he's you know, driven intomy in my head, my whole life.
Guys. Dan Wicki from the LaTimes a couple of questions, JJ,
First, for you going through yourfirst draft, what did you like
about Dalton and Brownnie and what wasit like having them be the first two
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players that you were able to helpselect. Yeah, I mean I was,
first of all, was thrilled tobe in the draft room. It
was a very amazing experience for me. We didn't think Dalton would be available
at seventeen, but he provides somethingthat we just don't have. You know,
he's a movement shooter. He canobviously play off the bounce. We
viewed him very highly on our draftboard, and he can score it all
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three levels. He's got size.There was a lot of things to be
excited about with Dalton, and I'mexcited to coach him With Bronnie, I
just I want to clarify one thingyou just said, which is rob and
I did not give Bronnie anything.Bronnie has earned this right. Bronnie talks
about his hard work. Bronnie hasearned this through hard work. And for
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us prioritizing player development, we viewBronnie as like case study one because his
base level of feel, athleticism,point of attack, defender, shooting,
passing. There's a lot to likeabout his game, and as we sort
of build out our player development programholistically, he's gonna have a great opportunity
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to become an excellent NBA player.And then my second question for for both
of you guys, For Daltlond Browny, this organization has talked a lot about
player development here over the last monthor so. What are your expectations for
yourselves starting with Summer League in termsof playing both in Sacramento and in Vegas
and kind of what you're hoping togain between now and the start of the
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season. I think it's gonna bea lot of fun just get out on
the court with all the guys,and you know, the first couple of
days learning from JJ. When we'llbe there and h start start the season,
you know, go to the SummerLeague and hopefully go in that and
then just go on and uh getthe regular season started. Uh. For
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me, probably just you know,getting a feel for the game, especially
at at the next level. Ijust excited to go out there and compete
with some some you know, greatplayers and being able to you know,
take this time to get ready foryou know, lists to go. David
Bennett, ESPN, Welcome to Daltonand Brownie. I want to start with
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JJ just in terms of like logisticshere, who's going to be coaching the
California Classic, And are you tworookie is going to be playing up there
and also in Vegas. Yeah,so Dane Johnson will be coaching the California
Classic in Summer League. I willbe heavily involved in practices. I will
also be involved in some capacity duringthe games, during film all of that.
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You know, it's it's we talkabout development. It's an incredible opportunity
for Dane and his staff to developfurther. For me, I have to
sort of prioritize a bunch of differentthings right now, including building out a
staff. But you know, forboth these guys, we we expect them
to play in both the California ClassSick and in Las Vegas. And then
just a question both the rookies.To start with Dalton, has it been
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from the moment I guess Wednesday tillnow? Like? What what's the world
will whirlwind been like? For you? To be honest, I have no
clue. I just uh trying tojust take it all in as much as
I can and enjoy the moment,me the all the guys, Rob and
JJ and then obviously I'm at Brownieand just started reading some teammates like bron
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and Adie and get to know thoseguys and learn from the And Bronnie,
you played one year at USC andthen joined the team, you know after
the season already began. What aboutthe timing to come into this year's draft
compelled you to make that decision?And then how much of the consideration was
while my father is still an activeplayer. For me, you know,
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I always try to put that narrativeof me trying to get my name out
for myself, but just coming inand trying to get better. You know,
Robb has told me that there's agreat development system here, so I
just want to come in and getmy work in and get better every day.
But I never really had a thoughtof, you know, me going
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to play with my dad. Butthat's always you know, there to you
know, take part of, butthat wasn't a main focus of monitory.
Hey guys over here, Yovan Buhawith the Athletic One Question feature. You're
just entering the league as rookies.What area of your game are you looking
to work on most coming in thissummer? Uh? For me, probably
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just creating my own shot. Youknow, I feel like I know how
to play a game already and playthe right way, but just being more
aggressive on offense end and creating myshot because I know that's what I can
do. So yeah, just justbeing more aggressive. I'd say the same
thing. Just go in, beaggressive, be ready to make some shots,
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and then just show my all aroundgame is one thing. Just show
all around it, be a completeplayer. Kobee probably Southern California News Group
got one for both of you guys. Brownie first, kind of going off
with what you just said. Becauseof the time you had to take off
at USC, do you feel likethey were parts of your game you weren't
able to showcase as much because ofthat end, you feel like, you
know, once you're able to,I guess, get back on the court
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work sicily through summer league, youcan, I guess re establish their offense
rhythm you may not have had atUSC. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
The time that I had off Ifeel like I could have been perfecting
my game more. Yeah, Ijust feel like I've I've been given an
opportunity to, you know, showcasewhat I can really do because I wasn't
given that much of an opportunity Isee. So you know, I'm excited
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for whats to and for you Dalton. You kind of mentioned this. I
think in New York you studied Jjiwhile in college J Brob. You've mentioned
that JJ was drawn up plays forDalton right if you guys dropped him.
Is there an added excitement or elementof excitement just knowing that you know you'll
be able to pick the brain ofone of the best shooters at least has
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seen. Yeah, for sure.Uh Me and coach Barnes, we watched
a lot of J. J.Reddick and now he comes off screens,
gets openings, creating space even beforehe runs off the screen. So I'm
excited just to learn from him andsee how he sees the game. Bill
Plaisky, Los Angeles Times. Thisis for Brownie. How much more pressure
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is on you playing on a teamwith your father, and how you how
you're gonna handle that pressure? Forsure, the amplified amount of pressure.
I've already seen it stuff media andstuff on it in the Internet and stuff
talking about I might not deserve anopportunity, but you know, I've been
dealing with stuff like this for mywhole life. So it's it's it's nothing
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different, but it's it's it's moreamplified for sure, But I can get
through it. Hi JJ Mark mcdina. Good to see again. I understand
this part might be fluid, butat least initially, what do you envision
what that player development program will looklike? Specifically for Daldon Browne? Yeah,
I think just in general, theplayer development program we're trying to build
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is holistic. I think oftentimes whenpeople talk about player development, they talk
about ball handling and shooting and passing, and certainly the mechanics of playing basketball
are an important part of player playerdevelopment, but it's also tactical, it's
about reads, it's about incorporating film, incorporating analytics. You know, we
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will, hopefully in the next fewdays or a couple of weeks, hire
a director of player development program thatsees my vision. It's nutrition, It's
how you take care of your body, your work in the weight room.
There's also, I think a bigpart of player development, and it's for
someone who has lived in this leaguea long time. A big part of
this is is the mental development andall the ups and downs that come.
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You know. I had a chanceto spend a few minutes with Dalton uh
this morning and one of the thingswe talked about is just being open minded,
having an openness, and just lettinggo of outcomes. And the thing
that excites me about both these guysis that their basic basketball is as workers,
and that's a great starting point ifyou want to develop into a great
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NBA player. I'm not sure ifit's going out with my mind. This
is JJ Ruddick at Rodney James Cakers. You talked about writing your own story,
and I heard your father Lebron talkabout that as well, and we
see him back here almost allowing youto have your own moment to write your
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own score story? How would youdescribe your story right now? To be
honest, is living living by thedays, trying not to, you know,
care about whatever other people think aboutme, because there's a lot of
people that you know, have somethingto say. But yeah, I'm just
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taking it by the day and stayingsane while doing it. Over here Michael
with nbcla for Dalton and then onefor Bronnie quickly for Dalton. As JJ
said, they didn't think you'd bethere at seventeen. A lot of people
had you going top ten? Isthat going to allow you to play with
a chip on your shoulder? Haveyou already remembered the teams and the players
that got drafted ahead of you?And for Bronnie, now that you do
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know you're going to be teammates withyour dad, how does your experience growing
up pick up games? You know, all the videos we see you guys
playing in the driveway help you asyou guys learn to play together. I
would say, of course, Iknow all the players and teams, but
I'm just excited to be here inthe right place, and I'm excited just
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to get to work here and goout and compete Uh, yeah, for
me, just building that foundation ofplaying the right way, like I said,
just being that guy to be culturaland and you know, play my
role and you know, keep workingwhile I'm doing. All right, you're
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listening to Ronnie James and Dalton connect. They're meeting with the media and El
Segundo Laer rookies, JJ Reddick thereand Rob Polenka Rodney we got enough of
this? Yeah we have nothing.We get the gist of it. Yeah,
yeah, all right. So it'sFred Rogan and Rodney Pete on a
five seventy l a sports who wantedto let you listen in as the two
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talk about that when we come back. Yeah, thank you, Nina Chantelle.
Come on Tuesday, let's go.Pres conference just wrapped up with Dalton
Connect and Bronnie James for the Lakers, JJ Reddick and Rob Polinka roby Pete
Fred Rogan on a Tuesday Come on, let's go. I thought they both
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represented themselves well, both Dalton andBronni. What can you really glean from
any of it? Not much.I mean, there are two kids excited
to be in the NBA. They'llgo to Summer League and the journey begins.
The one thing that Bronni said,he said Rob told him we have
a great development system here in aconversation he had with Rob Polinka. Well
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prior to JJ Reddick announcing what thatdevelopment system was going to be and that
they're going to have to hire somebodyto oversee all of that. I don't
know what their player development system was. I have no idea, And honestly,
from what JJ Reddick said about thisposition they're going to fill and what
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it's going to mean, it wouldseem to me other teams already have that
position Rodney sort of a performance coach, nutrition, work in the weight room,
things like that. Hell, theyhad an Arizona State when Jack played
there. Do the Lakers not havethat position? Is this a new position
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for them? I don't know.I don't know, and maybe it's an
evaluation, right. JJ came inand said, what's your what does it
look like? And every team isdifferent, Every team is different in how
they spend money and what they spendmoney on. So development, scouting,
infrastructure. You know, we talkedabout this, you know before that you
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know, we we've noticed and it'spretty widespread known in the NBA that the
Lakers infrastructure is not what some ofthe other teams are, certainly not the
Clippers and what Steve Bomber came inand said, we're going to spend money
on development. We're going to spendmoney on infrastructure. I mean, that
was a big thing with the Guggenheimguys caming in with Andrew Friedman and the
Dodgers. We're going to spend moneyon infrastructure, minor league system. So
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I think JJ stating that every timehe speaks and talks about development, development,
this is a long haul, thisis where we want to rebuild the
culture here at the Lakers. Andso when when they speak about, you
know, development, I think it'sbecause of what the direction of what JJ
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wants and where he wants to go. Yeah, well, and that was
a big part of it, andthat's when they talked to Hurley Dan Hurley
about the future and how you buildsomething that is sustainable. It just struck
me. And we've talked right Rodney. We talked about, for example,
the Angels and a facade you're walkingdown you know, Main Street and the
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buildings looked great and open, thewhere you walk inside in the tall wood
and there's no furniture, it's justa facade. There's no infrastructure. And
we talked about, you know,what kind of infrastructure the Lakers may have
and what kind of investment they makein that, and maybe they're just going
to expand that now. And maybethey've decided they've got to bite the bullet.
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They're not afraid to spend on bigname talent, but maybe they have
to expand. But when you know, Rob told him, we have a
great development system here. I don'tthink they have one, but I think
they're going to get one. Yeah, yeah, you know, I think
that's where they want to go.And I would say this about Roblink.
I know, you know, hewas the butt of a lot of jokes
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and still is a butt of alot of jokes going going forward, and
you know, you know him beingyou know, you know, much like
JJ now the first time GM camefrom being an agent to stepping into that
role and is he ready? Doeshe know? All those questions came out
about him, just like they didabout JJ Reddick and are about JJ Reddick
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right now. But what we doknow about Rob Polinka is that he actually
played the game, and he playedit at a high level, and he
was on the Fab five team inMichigan. Didn't get a whole lot of
minutes because the Fab five was prettyphenomenal, but he was on that team
which was a big time quality basketballteam. So he does know basketball.
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So let's not get that twisted.It's not a guy that's off the streak
that started in the mailroom and andwas an accountant that worked his way through
and now is the general manager.He actually understands and knows the game.
And I think that that gets lostsometimes when people talk about Rob Polinka and
what he does and how he's notqualified or is qualified or whatever. The
guy does know the game. Sobut I think that is the direction that
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they want to go in, isyou know, we can't the way the
league is going. You better beable to develop, You better be able
to have players that you can keeparound and sustained and all those type of
things, or you're not gonna you'renot gonna be able to last just by
plugging in Superstar here and there anymore. Fit well, it's the model.
Adam Silver wanted to go to thismodel, and because it would create more
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parody, and it's kind of theActually the Dodger model sustained success. Build
a system that allows you sustained success. You just don't go out and start
plucking guys and signing them to theseenormous deals and you're good for two or
three years and it doesn't work anymore. It's sustained success. That's what they're
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trying to do here, and indoing so, curb costs. I mean,
Steve Baumer, look, Paul Georgewants ten years and five billion dollars.
You coulda paid them that. Youcan't do it due to the rules
anymore. But if it was justa question of I got the most money
and who wants it, because I'llgive it to you, the Clippers could
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buy everybody is not even a question. I mean, you want to really
get serious about it. The Dodgerscould do the exact same thing. If
it comes down to there are norules, everybody just lose your mind and
do whatever you want. Could buyeverybody. They know that it's not a
model for sustaining success. That doesn'twork. You just can't start paying people
all of this money. You haveto have a system in place. I
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think that's what the NBA is doingnow, and it makes sense, it
really does. It's better for thefranchises. Fans then can really grow with
players on their team and they don'tjust jet off at some point. But
it's interesting because you have, likeJason Tatum making all that money. Now,
you know, a couple of guysmake a ton of dough. That's
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it. You're not going to beable to keep doing what you used to
do. Yeah, Boston, theybetter win in these next two years,
right if they want to, youknow, any type of dynasty that they're
trying to recreate and have multiples,it better happened in these two years because
they're not. That team is notgoing to look like this team in two
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years because of the super Max thatthey got for Jason Tatum and Dalen Brown.
Two guys got the super Max onone team, and it's going to
be difficult to keep Drew Holiday andwar Zincas and White and all those guys
over there. So they better winit again next year otherwise it's gonna be
a drop. And by the way, did you see the Boston Celtics majority
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share for yap Hey cash out now, baby, cash out now? I
think they bought that team for likethree hundred and sixty million or something like
that back in two thousand and twoand now getting getting ready to sell it
for about five billion. Yep,it's the upside. Yeah, get it
when it's good, get it whenyou're on top, get it what it'll
never be worth more. Uh huhyeah. I mean as much as you've
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probably dreamed of owning a team,and that's your you know, you've made
all that money to do that.You know, it's still business, right,
still business. And they may say, Okay, I'll just be happy
with my season tickets. But whenyou get to make a profit like that
and twenty something years you make upgo from three sixty to five billion,
that's incredible. You gotta yeah,you gotta look at it and go it's
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time to check out, you know. And it's kind of like real estate.
So you've lived in your house youlove your area, you love your
neighborhood. But tell me in theback of your mind, is there not
a price? I will never moveRodney. I will never sell that to
local lake house. Okay, Iwill never sell it until it hits this
price. Uh huh. Isn't therealways a number? Always always a number.
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And it may be your dream house. You may put all your energy
and efforts into it over the yearsand created it and tailored it to your
liking and made it, made ityours, but there's always a price.
I had the same situation, samesituation, and we ended up moving because
you would have been a full nottwo. Yes. Yes, but he
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wanted it and wanted it bad.And you know, it's like reference in
the movie you know, Heaving canwait. You know that son of a
Bitch. I offer. I askedfor nineteen million, and he said okay,
trying to price him out. Hesaid, okay, whatever it takes.
And then you're sitting there going,well, okay, I gotta go,
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I gotta go. You know RobPolinka has said and obviously when they
selected BRONI you know, and hetalked about Lebron and you know they want
to take care of their players here. This is an historic moment for a
franchise like the Lakers, and theone thing since the Bus families owned it.
And I would say it was alittle different when Doctor Buss was alive
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with Genie overseeing it. Now nowthey make damn good and sure everybody knows
we take care of our own.They did it with Kobe. I think
Kobe is a very different story thanLebron. But they should have taken care
of Kobe. But Lebron is obviouslya superstar and arguably the greatest player in
the game. So they take careof Lebron. We do what we need
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to because we know that we'll comeback to us in spades. We are
aware of the fact that if thereis a perception that we take care of
everybody, we're going to have thebest people play for us. They're going
to want to be a part ofour organization. Yeah, and in doing
that, we will have sustained success. Okay, if that's the case.
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If that's the case. And inthis free agent period, obviously the name
Klay Thompson was mentioned, and that'swho Lebron recruited. Other people that were
really interested in and they got noneof them. They got none of them.
Now I heard, according to thereporting, that Clay Thompson was offered
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more money elsewhere than in Dallas.I think the Lakers might have offered more,
Yeah, definitely, or that hewas offered eighty million for four years
or something like that. Okay,but now it's coming out people are questioning
whether that was real and a realoffer or not. All right, well,
there was money on the table,let's just put it like that.
But he picked Dallas a better chanceto win. If you're telling people that
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what we do is take care ofours and others so they will come here
and we will continue to prosper andthrive, then why isn't anybody taking the
money? Why didn't anybody bite it? That? If according at what to
come and play for the Lakers,like what money? Well, an offer,
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but you just said, you know, by the way, I'm not
I'm not pointing this, I'm notputting this finger at anybody. But I
just think it's an interesting perception thatwe take care of it. We don't
know if that was the offer.Well, no, we don't know that.
But I know even back in theday, there was an offer.
Dwight Howard back in the day.Thank god that didn't happen. He didn't
want to sign here, Okay,l Marcus Aldridge, he didn't want to
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sign here. Yeah, during adysfunctional Laker time. Yeah, right when
the Dwight Howard and that dfunctional Lakertime. No. Yeah, after Lebron
got here, you know, peopleforget, people forget how where the Lakers
were for five six years before Lebrongot here. Rodney, I'm not even
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pointing a finger at Lebron. Wellyou are a little bit, but no,
no, I'm really not. Itis, but it is a level
of you know, it's not justpeople individuals, it's sometimes the culture and
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where the organization is at the particulartime, at that particular time for those
guys you're talking about, Lakers werereally dysfunctional. The whole last couple of
years of Kobe and leading up towhen Lebron got here was the people forget
how bad the Lakers were, howbad they were, and they were horrible.
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They were horrible then, and thenthey had to go through the changing
of the guard at top and lawsuitswith the buzz family. All of that
was this functional and I know alot of people want to put it on
on on Lebron now, but itwas bad before you got here. I
don't know. I'm not I'm notputting this one on Lebron. I'm saying
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I think there probably still is somedysfunction. I mean, Magic walked out
of there because of it, allegedlyreportedly, it seems. And so I'm
not I'm not suggesting, Well,they don't want to play with Lebron.
I don't think it has anything todo with Lebron now. I just think
it's the overall tenure of how thingsare operating. Yeah, that's what I
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think. They got to chat,you know, their attempts and what you
hear is changing the culture, isgoing back or getting a culture in place,
or re establishing a culture that peopledo want to want it, want
to come here. But I findit very you know, it's just very
interesting that that's what the narrative kindof turns out to be. Oh,
they don't want to play with Lebron. People don't want to play with Lebron.
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Okay, so what can we saythe same thing, Paul George don't
want to play with Kawhi, don'twant to play for Steve Bamber, don't
want to play for Tyleru or maybePaul George. You know all the reports
where he was going to Golden State, Right, you don't want to play
with Steph? How come that narrativedoesn't come out? Well, that that's
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not a narrative I had. Anarrative doesn't come out that that he doesn't
want to play for Steph, butbecause he because it's Lebron. It's like
nobody wants to play with Lebron.See again that I didn't say. I
don't think this is about Lebron.I think it's about the overall perception and
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when somebody says we take care ofour people because they want to be here.
People want to be here. Idon't think it has anything to do
with Lebron or a d or anythinglike that. I think it's like if
you're going to say, when yousay our people, do you what do
you when? What do you think? What do you think that you say
we take care of our people?What do you think that means? Okay,
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the players they have on the roster, right, which encourages others to
come here because they are so wellcared for, because they are so highly
considered, because their opinions are aretaken into account, which is fine.
It happens all over the league.All I'm saying is if the team is
saying this is what we stand forand this is who we are, and
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then you look at it and go, well, then why aren't these people
coming? And I don't think ithas anything that conversations. Isn't it taking
care of your own? Are thepeople that are in the building aren't isn't
that? And yeah, but theirpoint is, but their point is in
doing that, we are letting everybodyknow this is your safe haven, this
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is your spot to be at.That's all I'm saying. Okay, it
doesn't allows that different than any otherteam. Well, I don't know the
Laker. I think the Lakers standon that and rob polink than the other
team. I played for six differentteams in NFL. They all say that.
I mean, Al Davis wants araider, always a raider. We
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take care of our people, Cowboys, same thing, We take care of
our own. I don't know whatfranchise doesn't say that. Well, all
I can say is when it comesto that, the Lakers got that exclamation
point dot it. It's a bigbig deal for them, and they just
got me to thinking okay, well, yeah, it's you know what,
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it seems to me, quite frankly, it has nothing to do with the
players on the roster. It stillseems that maybe JJ Reddick will be the
guy, Maybe it'll change. It'sa culture thing. It's just a mindset.
It's like a reset. It's likeunderstanding the way things are now.
It seems to me like there's stilla couple of steps behind, not quite
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to where things are today. Yeah, and I think that's that's that that
is true. But I think itgoes in cycles and it could go yearly.
There's teams that are out there thatwere dysfunctional. How how desirable was
Golden State before the new ownership tookover and Bob Myers took over and Steve
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Kerr took over as head coach,not the hot desire was. I mean
the Clippers. You can look atthe Clippers as being Donald Sterling. That
was the least most least desirable placeto be until they changed over. So
you know, it happens. Guyslook up and go, you know,
ten years ago that might have beena place to be, but right now
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it's not. Or this is theteam I want to go to Denver.
Denver seems he's got it and gotit right now. Or Boston is the
right culture right now. Miami,Oh, that's the space, that's the
place we want to be right now, whereas maybe ten years ago Miami wasn't
or whatever. So it goes incycles and you can just lean on it
because it happens with every single teamthat think that they take care of their
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own And we're building the culture hereall right. Uh coming up next hour,
the Saultier Adam Auslan will jump onand he will have some insights into
all of this. Uh, sowe'll talk about that. Also, we'll
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get into some Dodgers back at theRavine tonight, So stay with us.
Oh yeah. Today's Afternoon Delight isnine one one by Roddy rich RCI.
After his Apparents did Kendrick Lamar's popup on Juneteenth, the Compton native dropped
his new track along with a musicvideo over the weekend. According to radio
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host DJ Head, the twenty fiveyear old has been working closely with some
of Kendrick Lamar's frequent collaborators that hegets set to release his next studio album
in the near future. Again,Today's Afternoon Delight is nine to one one
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by Roddy Rich. All right,and now from the court to the court
room with Jacob and Ronnie. Allright, now our weekly chat with our
good friend Jacob and Ronnie and Jacob, how are you today? Happy Tuesday,
gentlemen, how are you? Fantastic? Fantastic? I like that,
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Yeah, fantastic, Jacob. Allright, Jacob, So, uh,
well, the draft is in thebooks, Dalton connect Bronnie James as a
proud partner of the Lakers. Youhear those two names and you say,
what, you know, I'm veryexcited about Dalton Connects. I mean,
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I feel like the basketball gods wereworking in our favor when he ended up
falling. And you know, weneed a twenty three year old who's ready
to play where now to another youknow, it's a lot of other teams
he may be too old, butfor us, it's exactly what we need
it. We need a guy who'sgreat shooter, he's aggressive going to the
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basket. He can step in andhelp immediately, and it's a good part
of our you know, built forthe future. So I was excited about
about connect and you know, Bronnieis basically you know, they say,
over eighty five to ninety percent ofthe second round picks never even make it
in the NBA, So I feellike, you know, the Lakers wanted
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to do something in order to keepLebron happy. I presume that's why he's
also saying, hey, you tookcare of me. I'm willing to take
less, or at least he was. I don't know what's been going on
today, but he was willing totake less to allow the Lakers to improve
the team. So it looks likeit's a partnership and it looks like he
is trying to help the Lakers.So you know, I'm not mad at
the fifty five pick. Being Bronnieobviously great marketing tactic. It's wonderful for
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the league. First time you know, father and son are going to be
on the floor at the same time. And as Rob likes to say,
exciting things like that happened for theLakers. So in that sense, I'm
excited. But man, free agencyhas not been very exciting. Yeah,
guys, are you happy about theguys that have opted in Jacob? And
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now you know when you talk aboutfree agency and money and strapped for cash
and how they maneuver around this.It makes it even more difficult when you
got guys like you know, dLo and others that decided, hey,
Mark is not going to be greatfor me out there. I got to
opt in and take this money.So you know, you know, I
may be wrong, but my understandingis having de Lo opting in actually it
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was better for us than him optingout, because I think the dollars you
can't you have for him, Imean, he'll keep hearing that he's going
to be traded. I just hopethey hit him for something of value exactly.
But listen, there's always somebody thatis going to think that an eighteen
and a half million dollar expiring contracthas value. Those expiring contracts, you
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know, are not you know,are not worthless. Unfortunately, it wasn't
good enough in order to you know, get Clay Clay over here. I
was, I was really really optimisticabout that, you know, Michael here
pushing for it. I thought itwould be great for him to be able
to, you know, go upagainst Golden State four times a year and
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show that he really does have youknow, he really still does have things
that are left in the you know, in the back. But many people
didn't think that the Clay, evenif Clay would have came, it would
have made a big difference. Ultimately, at the end the day, we
got to get better and we've gotto make some changes. And I'm just
hoping that, you know, thelaw that we've seen for the past two
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or three days is going to changesoon and hopefully Rob will do his thing.
Yeah, Jacob and I brought thisup to Rodney earlier, and I
don't I don't understand it. Itdoesn't seem like people wanted to take the
Lakers' money. Now. I don'tknow if it was equal less more.
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But when you talk about, yeah, we've struggled free agency here a little
bit, it's not like anybody's jumpingto grab that money. No, And
I think the claim matter. Fromwhat we're hearing, they offered him,
you know, twenty they offered himmore than Dallas. But again, you
know that tax h you know,it's something that he went the other way.
I don't know whether he thinks thisis his last contract, so trying
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to get as much as possible.But it looks like, you know,
the Warriors were offering him two yearsat about twenty three and twenty four,
and he decided to go three yearsfor fifty so you really don't understand what's
going on. I mean, Ithink it's great that we heard, you
know, Lebron reached out. Idon't think it's great that it didn't make
a difference. And ultimately, youknow, I think you know, the
NBA is changing. You can seethat, you know, that free spending
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aspect are not there anymore. Imean, the guys who are there are
getting paid three hundred million dollars andsome guy like Kate Cunningham that hasn't done
anything, they're paying him two hundredand twenty six million dollars. That's just
mind boggling to me. But ultimately, obviously, we only you know,
care about the Lakers. We knowthat the Clippers are going the other direction.
Anyways, Paul George took the moneyand ran, So you know,
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I'm just hoping that Rob can youknow, pull off something, maybe a
Jeremy Grant or pick up somebody,because if not, we're so cast strapped
that it looks like this is ateam we're gonna be going back and playing
with again. Yeah, I mean, just as a Laker partner and a
Laker fan, where where do youwhere do you how do you feel like
going into Summer League and then goinginto the season next year as to where
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the Lakers are? I mean,is it is it a demralizing feeling when
you see, like you said,you see other teams going out there,
spending money, making moves, andthen the Lakers are kind of sitting here,
you know, kind of strapped,are handcuffed because they can't make the
moves that some of these other teamsare making. Listen, as a Laker
fan, every single year, Ilook forward to them getting better, look
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forward to a championship, especially nowthat the Celtics god number eighteen. Nothing
in the world more we want thanto be able to get our eighteen.
From the other side of it.You realize every day that you know,
when you when you invest in twoguys for a lot of money, yeah,
you're strapped for the other people.And that's just the business you get
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in. I mean, look,you know, I've been seeing memes sent
over to me. I'll never forget. I was on a plane coming back
when we got Lebron. I wason a plane coming back from Hawaii,
and I was so positive that wewere going to end up getting Paul George
as well. And when I wasin Hawaii, Russell Westbrook was there with
his family and he left early.And when we landed, I see,
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you know the video of all theClippers and you know in Summer League dance
in that they got this and theygot that. Look, the Clippers went
all in on Kauai and went allin on Paul George and they have nothing
to show for it, absolutely nothing, And he just walked away. And
now they're you know, they're bringingon a bunch of second and third rate
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people in order to fill up untilthey get a chance. So the NBA
has changed. And when you're goingin on two stars and you know,
you they may be getting old,you understand you got to fight for an
opportunity to you know, come backup again. It's not so easy to
retool, and I think we keepseeing that. Jacob Our listeners love when
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you offer advice if you're involved inan accident. Let's let's say an eighteen
wheeler. First that that doesn't soundvery good right off the top, you
get hit by an eighteen wheeler,But is it different now when you pursue
legal remedies? Well, yeah,you know, I mean anytime you're involved
in an accident, whether it's aneighteen wheeler or whether it's you know,
a minivan that has let's say,you know, CNB Meat Company written on
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it. Anytime you're involved in anaccident with somebody that's a business or a
commercial, they usually have a biggerinsurance policy. And bigger insurance policy means
they have a lot more money toprotect, so they're going to you know,
they're going to fight a lot harder, and that's why it's important that
you know, you set up yourcase correctly. You know, as much
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as they fight harder for people thatare genuinely injured at bigger policy means that
they have the opportunity to get maxtreatment based on however they've been injured.
So there's a positive and negative toboth sides of it. But when you're
dealing with a commercial policy or acommercial truck, they're going to come at
you. They're going to try toget your case settled before you even talk
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to an attorney, and then ifyou're able to escape that, you hire
you know, an attorney like ourfirm, We go at it from the
beginning knowing that all of our keyyou know, all of our teas have
to be crossed and I dot it. But we also come up with some
claims against the driver of a eighteenwheeler that maybe doesn't exist with a passenger
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just the regular passenger car. Youknow, they have to have a certain
number of hours of rest, theyhave to go through certain training, so
there's a lot of things that whenwe take their depositions, we have a
lot more questions to ask and ourgoal is to try to find out why
that accident occurred. I apologize forall this background noise, but you know
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the most important part of it isyou don't want to mess around when you're
involved in an accident with a bigtruck or commercial truck, because you know
they have investigators out there, youknow, getting seen pictures, talking to
witnesses. Don't they don't even wastea minute getting out there trying to find
every single reason to hold you,you know, at faults for an accident.
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And usually when we're able to getinvolved in those case is we have
success because we have our team that'sjump on it as well. And some
of our success with these insurance companieswe get a different level of respect than
we're happy about that for our clients. All right, well Jacob, thanks
for coming on. Be safe inthe traffic out there. We'll talk to
you next week and have a goodfourth. Appreciate you guys. Happy forward.
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Guess now that as we continue onthis afternoon up next to Saultier,
Adam Austland will join us his insightsinto what is going on in an NBA free agency
Now there we go, Fred Roganand Rodney Pete se La Sports. Here's
the deal. The Lakers are goingto be introducing Dalton Connect and Ronnie James
in a matter of moments. Sowhat we thought we would do today,
Rodneys, we come on the airset the show talk commnuted or two.
Then let's go down to El Sagon. Don't listen in good sounds good to
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me, Freddie. Let's go allright. So when the Lakers selected Connect,
that might have been the best pickin the first round, or at
least the pick that provides the mostupside. He fell in the draft.
Most people projected him to be atop ten pick. What do you fall
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fn Some thought it was his ageand it puzzled a lot of people.
Why did he fall? But he'ssix' six, he can shoot.
He's probably of the kids that wereselected early the most NBA reading. He
certainly fulfills the need the Lakers haveplaying the perimeter. Needs a little work
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on his defense, but then whodoesn't. But there's a great deal of
upside to Connect. So the prognosticatorsfelt Rodney that the Lakers got an eighty
plus in the first round because theywere able to get him when they did.
Now the other draft pick, ofcourse, well he trumped all.
As far as media coverage, BronnieJames a report today that he is going
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to sign a guaranteed deal, Sowhen he signs, he's there. I
don't begrudge him that, not onebit. If that's what he can get,
he should. This is not reallyabout Bronnie James. This is about
the Lakers. And actually you couldargue, well, it's Lebron and his
son. I don't think it's aboutLebron, but I think it's about the
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Lakers. The Lakers operate the Lakers, They make the decisions. If they
chose to select Bronnie James and givehim that deal, good on Bronnie.
Good on him. He's in,he's got an opportunity and he's going to
get paid. But if you wantto point fingers about nepotism or well they're
just making Lebron happy. If that'swhat you choose to do, then point
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at the Lakers. Don't even pointat Lebron and I'd be the first one
to speak otherwise. But the bottomline is this, the Lakers don't have
to do what they don't want todo, so Rodney in this case,
they wanted to do it, andI think everybody should keep that in mind
now as they watched Bronni begin hisNBA journey. Yeah, and you know,
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we talked about this, you know, at nauseum last week, and
Adam gave some Adam Austlin gave somereally good insights as well and did some
digging out. You know, whenyou get to that fifty fifth pick,
and and people are saying that it'sit's such an impactful pick that you know,
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you're wasting it on Browny James oryou're you're you're just doing this for
lebron As you mentioned, it's ait's a you know, it's it's it's
not a good thing because you mightmiss out on a superstar because people sided.
Oh Joker was a second round pickand Jenobili was the second round pick.
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Well, those are anomalies. Hewent back and did research. There
was only one kid, one kidover the last ten years that got any
meaningful minutes with the fifty fifth pick. So it suggests, which which is
evidence that it's you don't know,you really don't know, you don't know
about anybody. First of all,remember Markel folks, Yeah, markl folks
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even the first pick in the draft, and Lonzo Ball was the second.
So anyway, I know, wegot to move. We got to go
because the press conference is happening.Let's go to El Segundo, JJ Reddick,
Rob Polinka on stage. Welcome everybody. This is a day to be
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incredibly grateful for and incredibly excited about, most importantly because we're launching the NBA
careers of two fine young men,Brownie James and Dalton connect. This is
day one. We're going to gofrom here to taking these chairs away,
taking the cameras away, and havinga practice and getting ready for Summer League.
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And that's what Dalton and Brownie areabout. These are two men of
high character and hard work ethic.Those are the qualities we look for at
the Lakers when we draft players.And it's a testament to how Brownie was
raised by Lebron and Savannah and howDalton was raised by carrying Corey, and
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that means a lot to us.So we're gonna take some questions and then
get ready to go kick some buttonsummer League. Dalton, if we could
start with you, we got tosee your reaction up on the stage and
kind of go through that moment.What have these last couple of days been
like for you in conversations with Robor your your new coach JJ, and
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just that kind of building excitement asyou start your NBA career. It's been
exciting, you know, me andthem in person, not only just through
the phone. And there's been afun journey because you know, like I
said earlier, my journey's been different. And coming here to a historic franchise,
it's gonna be fun. Can't waitto get to work and then to
follow up with Briannie, just thatthat moment right where you get the phone
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call and then you hear your name. Can you take us through the emotions
of all of that, of whatyou were feeling and then how you've been
feeling the last couple of days since. Yeah, everything's just been surreal,
trying to take it all in bythe days, extremely you know, grateful
for everything that JJ and Rob havegiven to me. Yeah, and I've
just been excited to get to work. Yeah, Bronnie, Jim Hill,
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KKL Knight. What have been someof the preliminary conversations you've had with your
father about what's expected in the NBAand and and what you can expect it
to hear and see once you startplaying. You know, we haven't gone
too deep into that stuff yet,especially because we haven't even started the summer
league yet, but you know,just stuff that he's been telling me my
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whole life, just having that thatwork ethic and and coming in and getting
her work in and listening to yourcoaches and being coachable. Stuff like that
is he's you know, driven intomy in my head, my whole life.
Guys. Dan Wicki from the LaTimes a couple of questions, JJ,
First, for you going through yourfirst draft, what did you like
about Dalton and Brownnie and what wasit like having them be the first two
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players that you were able to helpselect. Yeah, I mean I was,
first of all, was thrilled tobe in the draft room. It
was a very amazing experience for me. We didn't think Dalton would be available
at seventeen, but he provides somethingthat we just don't have. You know,
he's a movement shooter. He canobviously play off the bounce. We
viewed him very highly on our draftboard, and he can score it all
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three levels. He's got size.There was a lot of things to be
excited about with Dalton, and I'mexcited to coach him With Bronnie, I
just I want to clarify one thingyou just said, which is rob and
I did not give Bronnie anything.Bronnie has earned this right. Bronnie talks
about his hard work. Bronnie hasearned this through hard work. And for
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us prioritizing player development, we viewBronnie as like case study one because his
base level of feel, athleticism,point of attack, defender, shooting,
passing. There's a lot to likeabout his game, and as we sort
of build out our player development programholistically, he's gonna have a great opportunity
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to become an excellent NBA player.And then my second question for for both
of you guys, For Daltlond Browny, this organization has talked a lot about
player development here over the last monthor so. What are your expectations for
yourselves starting with Summer League in termsof playing both in Sacramento and in Vegas
and kind of what you're hoping togain between now and the start of the
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season. I think it's gonna bea lot of fun just get out on
the court with all the guys,and you know, the first couple of
days learning from JJ. When we'llbe there and h start start the season,
you know, go to the SummerLeague and hopefully go in that and
then just go on and uh getthe regular season started. Uh. For
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me, probably just you know,getting a feel for the game, especially
at at the next level. Ijust excited to go out there and compete
with some some you know, greatplayers and being able to you know,
take this time to get ready foryou know, lists to go. David
Bennett, ESPN, Welcome to Daltonand Brownie. I want to start with
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JJ just in terms of like logisticshere, who's going to be coaching the
California Classic, And are you tworookie is going to be playing up there
and also in Vegas. Yeah,so Dane Johnson will be coaching the California
Classic in Summer League. I willbe heavily involved in practices. I will
also be involved in some capacity duringthe games, during film all of that.
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You know, it's it's we talkabout development. It's an incredible opportunity
for Dane and his staff to developfurther. For me, I have to
sort of prioritize a bunch of differentthings right now, including building out a
staff. But you know, forboth these guys, we we expect them
to play in both the California ClassSick and in Las Vegas. And then
just a question both the rookies.To start with Dalton, has it been
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from the moment I guess Wednesday tillnow? Like? What what's the world
will whirlwind been like? For you? To be honest, I have no
clue. I just uh trying tojust take it all in as much as
I can and enjoy the moment,me the all the guys, Rob and
JJ and then obviously I'm at Brownieand just started reading some teammates like bron
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and Adie and get to know thoseguys and learn from the And Bronnie,
you played one year at USC andthen joined the team, you know after
the season already began. What aboutthe timing to come into this year's draft
compelled you to make that decision?And then how much of the consideration was
while my father is still an activeplayer. For me, you know,
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I always try to put that narrativeof me trying to get my name out
for myself, but just coming inand trying to get better. You know,
Robb has told me that there's agreat development system here, so I
just want to come in and getmy work in and get better every day.
But I never really had a thoughtof, you know, me going
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to play with my dad. Butthat's always you know, there to you
know, take part of, butthat wasn't a main focus of monitory.
Hey guys over here, Yovan Buhawith the Athletic One Question feature. You're
just entering the league as rookies.What area of your game are you looking
to work on most coming in thissummer? Uh? For me, probably
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just creating my own shot. Youknow, I feel like I know how
to play a game already and playthe right way, but just being more
aggressive on offense end and creating myshot because I know that's what I can
do. So yeah, just justbeing more aggressive. I'd say the same
thing. Just go in, beaggressive, be ready to make some shots,
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and then just show my all aroundgame is one thing. Just show
all around it, be a completeplayer. Kobee probably Southern California News Group
got one for both of you guys. Brownie first, kind of going off
with what you just said. Becauseof the time you had to take off
at USC, do you feel likethey were parts of your game you weren't
able to showcase as much because ofthat end, you feel like, you
know, once you're able to,I guess, get back on the court
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work sicily through summer league, youcan, I guess re establish their offense
rhythm you may not have had atUSC. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
The time that I had off Ifeel like I could have been perfecting
my game more. Yeah, Ijust feel like I've I've been given an
opportunity to, you know, showcasewhat I can really do because I wasn't
given that much of an opportunity Isee. So you know, I'm excited
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for whats to and for you Dalton. You kind of mentioned this. I
think in New York you studied Jjiwhile in college J Brob. You've mentioned
that JJ was drawn up plays forDalton right if you guys dropped him.
Is there an added excitement or elementof excitement just knowing that you know you'll
be able to pick the brain ofone of the best shooters at least has
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seen. Yeah, for sure.Uh Me and coach Barnes, we watched
a lot of J. J.Reddick and now he comes off screens,
gets openings, creating space even beforehe runs off the screen. So I'm
excited just to learn from him andsee how he sees the game. Bill
Plaisky, Los Angeles Times. Thisis for Brownie. How much more pressure
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is on you playing on a teamwith your father, and how you how
you're gonna handle that pressure? Forsure, the amplified amount of pressure.
I've already seen it stuff media andstuff on it in the Internet and stuff
talking about I might not deserve anopportunity, but you know, I've been
dealing with stuff like this for mywhole life. So it's it's it's nothing
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different, but it's it's it's moreamplified for sure, But I can get
through it. Hi JJ Mark mcdina. Good to see again. I understand
this part might be fluid, butat least initially, what do you envision
what that player development program will looklike? Specifically for Daldon Browne? Yeah,
I think just in general, theplayer development program we're trying to build
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is holistic. I think oftentimes whenpeople talk about player development, they talk
about ball handling and shooting and passing, and certainly the mechanics of playing basketball
are an important part of player playerdevelopment, but it's also tactical, it's
about reads, it's about incorporating film, incorporating analytics. You know, we
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will, hopefully in the next fewdays or a couple of weeks, hire
a director of player development program thatsees my vision. It's nutrition, It's
how you take care of your body, your work in the weight room.
There's also, I think a bigpart of player development, and it's for
someone who has lived in this leaguea long time. A big part of
this is is the mental development andall the ups and downs that come.
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You know. I had a chanceto spend a few minutes with Dalton uh
this morning and one of the thingswe talked about is just being open minded,
having an openness, and just lettinggo of outcomes. And the thing
that excites me about both these guysis that their basic basketball is as workers,
and that's a great starting point ifyou want to develop into a great
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NBA player. I'm not sure ifit's going out with my mind. This
is JJ Ruddick at Rodney James Cakers. You talked about writing your own story,
and I heard your father Lebron talkabout that as well, and we
see him back here almost allowing youto have your own moment to write your
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own score story? How would youdescribe your story right now? To be
honest, is living living by thedays, trying not to, you know,
care about whatever other people think aboutme, because there's a lot of
people that you know, have somethingto say. But yeah, I'm just
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taking it by the day and stayingsane while doing it. Over here Michael
with nbcla for Dalton and then onefor Bronnie quickly for Dalton. As JJ
said, they didn't think you'd bethere at seventeen. A lot of people
had you going top ten? Isthat going to allow you to play with
a chip on your shoulder? Haveyou already remembered the teams and the players
that got drafted ahead of you?And for Bronnie, now that you do
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know you're going to be teammates withyour dad, how does your experience growing
up pick up games? You know, all the videos we see you guys
playing in the driveway help you asyou guys learn to play together. I
would say, of course, Iknow all the players and teams, but
I'm just excited to be here inthe right place, and I'm excited just
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to get to work here and goout and compete Uh, yeah, for
me, just building that foundation ofplaying the right way, like I said,
just being that guy to be culturaland and you know, play my
role and you know, keep workingwhile I'm doing. All right, you're
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listening to Ronnie James and Dalton connect. They're meeting with the media and El
Segundo Laer rookies, JJ Reddick thereand Rob Polenka Rodney we got enough of
this? Yeah we have nothing.We get the gist of it. Yeah,
yeah, all right. So it'sFred Rogan and Rodney Pete on a
five seventy l a sports who wantedto let you listen in as the two
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rookies were introduced. Uh, theshow was underway. We've got a lot
to get to and we'll talk aboutour thoughts on what they said when we
come back. But now we haveto have a word from our good friend
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said something. He said something andI kind of went really, So let's
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talk about that when we come back. Yeah, thank you, Nina Chantelle.
Come on Tuesday, let's go.Pres conference just wrapped up with Dalton
Connect and Bronnie James for the Lakers, JJ Reddick and Rob Polinka roby Pete
Fred Rogan on a Tuesday Come on, let's go. I thought they both
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represented themselves well, both Dalton andBronni. What can you really glean from
any of it? Not much.I mean, there are two kids excited
to be in the NBA. They'llgo to Summer League and the journey begins.
The one thing that Bronni said,he said Rob told him we have
a great development system here in aconversation he had with Rob Polinka. Well
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prior to JJ Reddick announcing what thatdevelopment system was going to be and that
they're going to have to hire somebodyto oversee all of that. I don't
know what their player development system was. I have no idea, And honestly,
from what JJ Reddick said about thisposition they're going to fill and what
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it's going to mean, it wouldseem to me other teams already have that
position Rodney sort of a performance coach, nutrition, work in the weight room,
things like that. Hell, theyhad an Arizona State when Jack played
there. Do the Lakers not havethat position? Is this a new position
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for them? I don't know.I don't know, and maybe it's an
evaluation, right. JJ came inand said, what's your what does it
look like? And every team isdifferent, Every team is different in how
they spend money and what they spendmoney on. So development, scouting,
infrastructure. You know, we talkedabout this, you know before that you
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know, we we've noticed and it'spretty widespread known in the NBA that the
Lakers infrastructure is not what some ofthe other teams are, certainly not the
Clippers and what Steve Bomber came inand said, we're going to spend money
on development. We're going to spendmoney on infrastructure. I mean, that
was a big thing with the Guggenheimguys caming in with Andrew Friedman and the
Dodgers. We're going to spend moneyon infrastructure, minor league system. So
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I think JJ stating that every timehe speaks and talks about development, development,
this is a long haul, thisis where we want to rebuild the
culture here at the Lakers. Andso when when they speak about, you
know, development, I think it'sbecause of what the direction of what JJ
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wants and where he wants to go. Yeah, well, and that was
a big part of it, andthat's when they talked to Hurley Dan Hurley
about the future and how you buildsomething that is sustainable. It just struck
me. And we've talked right Rodney. We talked about, for example,
the Angels and a facade you're walkingdown you know, Main Street and the
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buildings looked great and open, thewhere you walk inside in the tall wood
and there's no furniture, it's justa facade. There's no infrastructure. And
we talked about, you know,what kind of infrastructure the Lakers may have
and what kind of investment they makein that, and maybe they're just going
to expand that now. And maybethey've decided they've got to bite the bullet.
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They're not afraid to spend on bigname talent, but maybe they have
to expand. But when you know, Rob told him, we have a
great development system here. I don'tthink they have one, but I think
they're going to get one. Yeah, yeah, you know, I think
that's where they want to go.And I would say this about Roblink.
I know, you know, hewas the butt of a lot of jokes
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and still is a butt of alot of jokes going going forward, and
you know, you know him beingyou know, you know, much like
JJ now the first time GM camefrom being an agent to stepping into that
role and is he ready? Doeshe know? All those questions came out
about him, just like they didabout JJ Reddick and are about JJ Reddick
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right now. But what we doknow about Rob Polinka is that he actually
played the game, and he playedit at a high level, and he
was on the Fab five team inMichigan. Didn't get a whole lot of
minutes because the Fab five was prettyphenomenal, but he was on that team
which was a big time quality basketballteam. So he does know basketball.
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So let's not get that twisted.It's not a guy that's off the streak
that started in the mailroom and andwas an accountant that worked his way through
and now is the general manager.He actually understands and knows the game.
And I think that that gets lostsometimes when people talk about Rob Polinka and
what he does and how he's notqualified or is qualified or whatever. The
guy does know the game. Sobut I think that is the direction that
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they want to go in, isyou know, we can't the way the
league is going. You better beable to develop, You better be able
to have players that you can keeparound and sustained and all those type of
things, or you're not gonna you'renot gonna be able to last just by
plugging in Superstar here and there anymore. Fit well, it's the model.
Adam Silver wanted to go to thismodel, and because it would create more
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parody, and it's kind of theActually the Dodger model sustained success. Build
a system that allows you sustained success. You just don't go out and start
plucking guys and signing them to theseenormous deals and you're good for two or
three years and it doesn't work anymore. It's sustained success. That's what they're
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trying to do here, and indoing so, curb costs. I mean,
Steve Baumer, look, Paul Georgewants ten years and five billion dollars.
You coulda paid them that. Youcan't do it due to the rules
anymore. But if it was justa question of I got the most money
and who wants it, because I'llgive it to you, the Clippers could
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buy everybody is not even a question. I mean, you want to really
get serious about it. The Dodgerscould do the exact same thing. If
it comes down to there are norules, everybody just lose your mind and
do whatever you want. Could buyeverybody. They know that it's not a
model for sustaining success. That doesn'twork. You just can't start paying people
all of this money. You haveto have a system in place. I
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think that's what the NBA is doingnow, and it makes sense, it
really does. It's better for thefranchises. Fans then can really grow with
players on their team and they don'tjust jet off at some point. But
it's interesting because you have, likeJason Tatum making all that money. Now,
you know, a couple of guysmake a ton of dough. That's
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it. You're not going to beable to keep doing what you used to
do. Yeah, Boston, theybetter win in these next two years,
right if they want to, youknow, any type of dynasty that they're
trying to recreate and have multiples,it better happened in these two years because
they're not. That team is notgoing to look like this team in two
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years because of the super Max thatthey got for Jason Tatum and Dalen Brown.
Two guys got the super Max onone team, and it's going to
be difficult to keep Drew Holiday andwar Zincas and White and all those guys
over there. So they better winit again next year otherwise it's gonna be
a drop. And by the way, did you see the Boston Celtics majority
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share for yap Hey cash out now, baby, cash out now? I
think they bought that team for likethree hundred and sixty million or something like
that back in two thousand and twoand now getting getting ready to sell it
for about five billion. Yep,it's the upside. Yeah, get it
when it's good, get it whenyou're on top, get it what it'll
never be worth more. Uh huhyeah. I mean as much as you've
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probably dreamed of owning a team,and that's your you know, you've made
all that money to do that.You know, it's still business, right,
still business. And they may say, Okay, I'll just be happy
with my season tickets. But whenyou get to make a profit like that
and twenty something years you make upgo from three sixty to five billion,
that's incredible. You gotta yeah,you gotta look at it and go it's
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time to check out, you know. And it's kind of like real estate.
So you've lived in your house youlove your area, you love your
neighborhood. But tell me in theback of your mind, is there not
a price? I will never moveRodney. I will never sell that to
local lake house. Okay, Iwill never sell it until it hits this
price. Uh huh. Isn't therealways a number? Always always a number.
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And it may be your dream house. You may put all your energy
and efforts into it over the yearsand created it and tailored it to your
liking and made it, made ityours, but there's always a price.
I had the same situation, samesituation, and we ended up moving because
you would have been a full nottwo. Yes. Yes, but he
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wanted it and wanted it bad.And you know, it's like reference in
the movie you know, Heaving canwait. You know that son of a
Bitch. I offer. I askedfor nineteen million, and he said okay,
trying to price him out. Hesaid, okay, whatever it takes.
And then you're sitting there going,well, okay, I gotta go,
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I gotta go. You know RobPolinka has said and obviously when they
selected BRONI you know, and hetalked about Lebron and you know they want
to take care of their players here. This is an historic moment for a
franchise like the Lakers, and theone thing since the Bus families owned it.
And I would say it was alittle different when Doctor Buss was alive
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with Genie overseeing it. Now nowthey make damn good and sure everybody knows
we take care of our own.They did it with Kobe. I think
Kobe is a very different story thanLebron. But they should have taken care
of Kobe. But Lebron is obviouslya superstar and arguably the greatest player in
the game. So they take careof Lebron. We do what we need
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to because we know that we'll comeback to us in spades. We are
aware of the fact that if thereis a perception that we take care of
everybody, we're going to have thebest people play for us. They're going
to want to be a part ofour organization. Yeah, and in doing
that, we will have sustained success. Okay, if that's the case.
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If that's the case. And inthis free agent period, obviously the name
Klay Thompson was mentioned, and that'swho Lebron recruited. Other people that were
really interested in and they got noneof them. They got none of them.
Now I heard, according to thereporting, that Clay Thompson was offered
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more money elsewhere than in Dallas.I think the Lakers might have offered more,
Yeah, definitely, or that hewas offered eighty million for four years
or something like that. Okay,but now it's coming out people are questioning
whether that was real and a realoffer or not. All right, well,
there was money on the table,let's just put it like that.
But he picked Dallas a better chanceto win. If you're telling people that
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what we do is take care ofours and others so they will come here
and we will continue to prosper andthrive, then why isn't anybody taking the
money? Why didn't anybody bite it? That? If according at what to
come and play for the Lakers,like what money? Well, an offer,
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but you just said, you know, by the way, I'm not
I'm not pointing this, I'm notputting this finger at anybody. But I
just think it's an interesting perception thatwe take care of it. We don't
know if that was the offer.Well, no, we don't know that.
But I know even back in theday, there was an offer.
Dwight Howard back in the day.Thank god that didn't happen. He didn't
want to sign here, Okay,l Marcus Aldridge, he didn't want to
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sign here. Yeah, during adysfunctional Laker time. Yeah, right when
the Dwight Howard and that dfunctional Lakertime. No. Yeah, after Lebron
got here, you know, peopleforget, people forget how where the Lakers
were for five six years before Lebrongot here. Rodney, I'm not even
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pointing a finger at Lebron. Wellyou are a little bit, but no,
no, I'm really not. Itis, but it is a level
of you know, it's not justpeople individuals, it's sometimes the culture and
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where the organization is at the particulartime, at that particular time for those
guys you're talking about, Lakers werereally dysfunctional. The whole last couple of
years of Kobe and leading up towhen Lebron got here was the people forget
how bad the Lakers were, howbad they were, and they were horrible.
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They were horrible then, and thenthey had to go through the changing
of the guard at top and lawsuitswith the buzz family. All of that
was this functional and I know alot of people want to put it on
on on Lebron now, but itwas bad before you got here. I
don't know. I'm not I'm notputting this one on Lebron. I'm saying
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I think there probably still is somedysfunction. I mean, Magic walked out
of there because of it, allegedlyreportedly, it seems. And so I'm
not I'm not suggesting, Well,they don't want to play with Lebron.
I don't think it has anything todo with Lebron now. I just think
it's the overall tenure of how thingsare operating. Yeah, that's what I
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think. They got to chat,you know, their attempts and what you
hear is changing the culture, isgoing back or getting a culture in place,
or re establishing a culture that peopledo want to want it, want
to come here. But I findit very you know, it's just very
interesting that that's what the narrative kindof turns out to be. Oh,
they don't want to play with Lebron. People don't want to play with Lebron.
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Okay, so what can we saythe same thing, Paul George don't
want to play with Kawhi, don'twant to play for Steve Bamber, don't
want to play for Tyleru or maybePaul George. You know all the reports
where he was going to Golden State, Right, you don't want to play
with Steph? How come that narrativedoesn't come out? Well, that that's
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not a narrative I had. Anarrative doesn't come out that that he doesn't
want to play for Steph, butbecause he because it's Lebron. It's like
nobody wants to play with Lebron.See again that I didn't say. I
don't think this is about Lebron.I think it's about the overall perception and
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when somebody says we take care ofour people because they want to be here.
People want to be here. Idon't think it has anything to do
with Lebron or a d or anythinglike that. I think it's like if
you're going to say, when yousay our people, do you what do
you when? What do you think? What do you think that you say
we take care of our people?What do you think that means? Okay,
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the players they have on the roster, right, which encourages others to
come here because they are so wellcared for, because they are so highly
considered, because their opinions are aretaken into account, which is fine.
It happens all over the league.All I'm saying is if the team is
saying this is what we stand forand this is who we are, and
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then you look at it and go, well, then why aren't these people
coming? And I don't think ithas anything that conversations. Isn't it taking
care of your own? Are thepeople that are in the building aren't isn't
that? And yeah, but theirpoint is, but their point is in
doing that, we are letting everybodyknow this is your safe haven, this
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is your spot to be at.That's all I'm saying. Okay, it
doesn't allows that different than any otherteam. Well, I don't know the
Laker. I think the Lakers standon that and rob polink than the other
team. I played for six differentteams in NFL. They all say that.
I mean, Al Davis wants araider, always a raider. We
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take care of our people, Cowboys, same thing, We take care of
our own. I don't know whatfranchise doesn't say that. Well, all
I can say is when it comesto that, the Lakers got that exclamation
point dot it. It's a bigbig deal for them, and they just
got me to thinking okay, well, yeah, it's you know what,
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it seems to me, quite frankly, it has nothing to do with the
players on the roster. It stillseems that maybe JJ Reddick will be the
guy, Maybe it'll change. It'sa culture thing. It's just a mindset.
It's like a reset. It's likeunderstanding the way things are now.
It seems to me like there's stilla couple of steps behind, not quite
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to where things are today. Yeah, and I think that's that's that that
is true. But I think itgoes in cycles and it could go yearly.
There's teams that are out there thatwere dysfunctional. How how desirable was
Golden State before the new ownership tookover and Bob Myers took over and Steve
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Kerr took over as head coach,not the hot desire was. I mean
the Clippers. You can look atthe Clippers as being Donald Sterling. That
was the least most least desirable placeto be until they changed over. So
you know, it happens. Guyslook up and go, you know,
ten years ago that might have beena place to be, but right now
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it's not. Or this is theteam I want to go to Denver.
Denver seems he's got it and gotit right now. Or Boston is the
right culture right now. Miami,Oh, that's the space, that's the
place we want to be right now, whereas maybe ten years ago Miami wasn't
or whatever. So it goes incycles and you can just lean on it
because it happens with every single teamthat think that they take care of their
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own And we're building the culture hereall right. Uh coming up next hour,
the Saultier Adam Auslan will jump onand he will have some insights into
all of this. Uh, sowe'll talk about that. Also, we'll
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get into some Dodgers back at theRavine tonight, So stay with us.
Oh yeah. Today's Afternoon Delight isnine one one by Roddy rich RCI.
After his Apparents did Kendrick Lamar's popup on Juneteenth, the Compton native dropped
his new track along with a musicvideo over the weekend. According to radio
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host DJ Head, the twenty fiveyear old has been working closely with some
of Kendrick Lamar's frequent collaborators that hegets set to release his next studio album
in the near future. Again,Today's Afternoon Delight is nine to one one
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by Roddy Rich. All right,and now from the court to the court
room with Jacob and Ronnie. Allright, now our weekly chat with our
good friend Jacob and Ronnie and Jacob, how are you today? Happy Tuesday,
gentlemen, how are you? Fantastic? Fantastic? I like that,
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Yeah, fantastic, Jacob. Allright, Jacob, So, uh,
well, the draft is in thebooks, Dalton connect Bronnie James as a
proud partner of the Lakers. Youhear those two names and you say,
what, you know, I'm veryexcited about Dalton Connects. I mean,
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I feel like the basketball gods wereworking in our favor when he ended up
falling. And you know, weneed a twenty three year old who's ready
to play where now to another youknow, it's a lot of other teams
he may be too old, butfor us, it's exactly what we need
it. We need a guy who'sgreat shooter, he's aggressive going to the
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basket. He can step in andhelp immediately, and it's a good part
of our you know, built forthe future. So I was excited about
about connect and you know, Bronnieis basically you know, they say,
over eighty five to ninety percent ofthe second round picks never even make it
in the NBA, So I feellike, you know, the Lakers wanted
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to do something in order to keepLebron happy. I presume that's why he's
also saying, hey, you tookcare of me. I'm willing to take
less, or at least he was. I don't know what's been going on
today, but he was willing totake less to allow the Lakers to improve
the team. So it looks likeit's a partnership and it looks like he
is trying to help the Lakers.So you know, I'm not mad at
the fifty five pick. Being Bronnieobviously great marketing tactic. It's wonderful for
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the league. First time you know, father and son are going to be
on the floor at the same time. And as Rob likes to say,
exciting things like that happened for theLakers. So in that sense, I'm
excited. But man, free agencyhas not been very exciting. Yeah,
guys, are you happy about theguys that have opted in Jacob? And
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now you know when you talk aboutfree agency and money and strapped for cash
and how they maneuver around this.It makes it even more difficult when you
got guys like you know, dLo and others that decided, hey,
Mark is not going to be greatfor me out there. I got to
opt in and take this money.So you know, you know, I
may be wrong, but my understandingis having de Lo opting in actually it
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was better for us than him optingout, because I think the dollars you
can't you have for him, Imean, he'll keep hearing that he's going
to be traded. I just hopethey hit him for something of value exactly.
But listen, there's always somebody thatis going to think that an eighteen
and a half million dollar expiring contracthas value. Those expiring contracts, you
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know, are not you know,are not worthless. Unfortunately, it wasn't
good enough in order to you know, get Clay Clay over here. I
was, I was really really optimisticabout that, you know, Michael here
pushing for it. I thought itwould be great for him to be able
to, you know, go upagainst Golden State four times a year and
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show that he really does have youknow, he really still does have things
that are left in the you know, in the back. But many people
didn't think that the Clay, evenif Clay would have came, it would
have made a big difference. Ultimately, at the end the day, we
got to get better and we've gotto make some changes. And I'm just
hoping that, you know, thelaw that we've seen for the past two
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or three days is going to changesoon and hopefully Rob will do his thing.
Yeah, Jacob and I brought thisup to Rodney earlier, and I
don't I don't understand it. Itdoesn't seem like people wanted to take the
Lakers' money. Now. I don'tknow if it was equal less more.
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But when you talk about, yeah, we've struggled free agency here a little
bit, it's not like anybody's jumpingto grab that money. No, And
I think the claim matter. Fromwhat we're hearing, they offered him,
you know, twenty they offered himmore than Dallas. But again, you
know that tax h you know,it's something that he went the other way.
I don't know whether he thinks thisis his last contract, so trying
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to get as much as possible.But it looks like, you know,
the Warriors were offering him two yearsat about twenty three and twenty four,
and he decided to go three yearsfor fifty so you really don't understand what's
going on. I mean, Ithink it's great that we heard, you
know, Lebron reached out. Idon't think it's great that it didn't make
a difference. And ultimately, youknow, I think you know, the
NBA is changing. You can seethat, you know, that free spending
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aspect are not there anymore. Imean, the guys who are there are
getting paid three hundred million dollars andsome guy like Kate Cunningham that hasn't done
anything, they're paying him two hundredand twenty six million dollars. That's just
mind boggling to me. But ultimately, obviously, we only you know,
care about the Lakers. We knowthat the Clippers are going the other direction.
Anyways, Paul George took the moneyand ran, So you know,
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I'm just hoping that Rob can youknow, pull off something, maybe a
Jeremy Grant or pick up somebody,because if not, we're so cast strapped
that it looks like this is ateam we're gonna be going back and playing
with again. Yeah, I mean, just as a Laker partner and a
Laker fan, where where do youwhere do you how do you feel like
going into Summer League and then goinginto the season next year as to where
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the Lakers are? I mean,is it is it a demralizing feeling when
you see, like you said,you see other teams going out there,
spending money, making moves, andthen the Lakers are kind of sitting here,
you know, kind of strapped,are handcuffed because they can't make the
moves that some of these other teamsare making. Listen, as a Laker
fan, every single year, Ilook forward to them getting better, look
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forward to a championship, especially nowthat the Celtics god number eighteen. Nothing
in the world more we want thanto be able to get our eighteen.
From the other side of it.You realize every day that you know,
when you when you invest in twoguys for a lot of money, yeah,
you're strapped for the other people.And that's just the business you get
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in. I mean, look,you know, I've been seeing memes sent
over to me. I'll never forget. I was on a plane coming back
when we got Lebron. I wason a plane coming back from Hawaii,
and I was so positive that wewere going to end up getting Paul George
as well. And when I wasin Hawaii, Russell Westbrook was there with
his family and he left early.And when we landed, I see,
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you know the video of all theClippers and you know in Summer League dance
in that they got this and theygot that. Look, the Clippers went
all in on Kauai and went allin on Paul George and they have nothing
to show for it, absolutely nothing, And he just walked away. And
now they're you know, they're bringingon a bunch of second and third rate
(45:20):
people in order to fill up untilthey get a chance. So the NBA
has changed. And when you're goingin on two stars and you know,
you they may be getting old,you understand you got to fight for an
opportunity to you know, come backup again. It's not so easy to
retool, and I think we keepseeing that. Jacob Our listeners love when
(45:42):
you offer advice if you're involved inan accident. Let's let's say an eighteen
wheeler. First that that doesn't soundvery good right off the top, you
get hit by an eighteen wheeler,But is it different now when you pursue
legal remedies? Well, yeah,you know, I mean anytime you're involved
in an accident, whether it's aneighteen wheeler or whether it's you know,
a minivan that has let's say,you know, CNB Meat Company written on
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it. Anytime you're involved in anaccident with somebody that's a business or a
commercial, they usually have a biggerinsurance policy. And bigger insurance policy means
they have a lot more money toprotect, so they're going to you know,
they're going to fight a lot harder, and that's why it's important that
you know, you set up yourcase correctly. You know, as much
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as they fight harder for people thatare genuinely injured at bigger policy means that
they have the opportunity to get maxtreatment based on however they've been injured.
So there's a positive and negative toboth sides of it. But when you're
dealing with a commercial policy or acommercial truck, they're going to come at
you. They're going to try toget your case settled before you even talk
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to an attorney, and then ifyou're able to escape that, you hire
you know, an attorney like ourfirm, We go at it from the
beginning knowing that all of our keyyou know, all of our teas have
to be crossed and I dot it. But we also come up with some
claims against the driver of a eighteenwheeler that maybe doesn't exist with a passenger
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just the regular passenger car. Youknow, they have to have a certain
number of hours of rest, theyhave to go through certain training, so
there's a lot of things that whenwe take their depositions, we have a
lot more questions to ask and ourgoal is to try to find out why
that accident occurred. I apologize forall this background noise, but you know
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the most important part of it isyou don't want to mess around when you're
involved in an accident with a bigtruck or commercial truck, because you know
they have investigators out there, youknow, getting seen pictures, talking to
witnesses. Don't they don't even wastea minute getting out there trying to find
every single reason to hold you,you know, at faults for an accident.
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And usually when we're able to getinvolved in those case is we have
success because we have our team that'sjump on it as well. And some
of our success with these insurance companieswe get a different level of respect than
we're happy about that for our clients. All right, well Jacob, thanks
for coming on. Be safe inthe traffic out there. We'll talk to
you next week and have a goodfourth. Appreciate you guys. Happy forward.
(48:19):
Guess now that as we continue onthis afternoon up next to Saultier,
Adam Austland will join us his insightsinto what is going on in an NBA free agency
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