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Check responssees set upp required compatibility and availability varies eighteen plus Our roll battery is the same That's like asking if all soccer players are the same. Take Messi, the most decorated player ever. Is there any other player who has achieved that? No, just him. Now take Duracl. Is there any other battery with power boost ingredients inside? No, just Duracl. Remember, goats only trust goats because they're built different And Messi only trusts do yourself. Need some help from the group here on how to start the show because we've got in play Serena at Wimbled Mehico Los are said Are you chewing bacon You're gonna start chewing b. you're gonna to start eating your bacon. I't real what started. It's the closest to the Mikey's ever been. Yeah. How many pieces of bacon are you holding there? Well, this is this is the best bacon I've ever had and it's a rare double wide. When you get two pieces of bacon naturally, organically stuck together. it's just a beautiful thing. And this is a I happen to be reading The Pride of a Lion And these two slices of bacon were right in the book Great on page five. We're not on video right now. That would have been a great visual joke for people to see the bookmark as Bacon in your book. He's in front of the mic. He's playing to the camera All during a time where it's not at all necessary.fect I mean I'm bragging about the bacon they have here I will say it's a beautiful pie of bacon. Greg, the color on that bacon is like a leather couch. It's sublime taste thickness. Oh It's all right on the mark I didn't mean to interrupt the show. What what were you saying? We have LeBron possibly coming to Miami. We have the Marls are the best team in baseball in June, mathematically, empirically. I have a blue leather couch. But you know what I mean? R leather couch You know what I'm talking about, Greg, right? Nice burgundy color on the bacon. Oh my God A per crunch A. littleittle combination of crunch and chew. Oh my God. Put it on the poll, please at Lvatar S showow. Do you know anyone who do you know any adults out of college who have a blue leather couch? I want to know whether or not anyone in our audience knows someone else who has decided that a married couple who are adults and have a child have decided on the blue leather couch because I only know one person like that. That is He finished in second place in the the recent contest for Dad of Honor Mike Ran's the only person I know who's got a blue leather couch adult Not in college It's a good looking couch. I'm not say what's going on over here? I'm not saying it's not a good looking couch. I'm saying blue it's an aggressive choice. I'm not saying it's not a nice couch. I'm not criticizing the couch Ss like criticizing. I'm talking about its rarity. I'm not criticizing the couch. Well, what shade of blue is it? That's the key because blue among all the colors, blue can vary From like a light powder sky blue to an almost deep blue, like a sea blue of burgundy. This is a true blue Wow Like a Chelsea blue Put it on the poll, please at LeBotard show. Of all the colors, does the blue have the most range of colors? because I think Cody might have this correct. Yeah. You got light blue, electric blue, like there's a there there's a whole spectrum a whole spectrum of most colors Yes, but blue more than most. Thank you Chris. Great intellect. You've been smarter ever since you were on Pablo Torory finds out. It's been amazing to watch. Yes, there is a whole spectrum for colors, but I believe Greg is right when he says more by name in the Cayola box once they go to sixty four I Why don't you can look this up actually. How many blues are in the Crayola box? because that will that will at least help us start into depends Is it the Extendo boxes the regular boxes the blue box? I made it the sixty four. It can't be the blue box. There's a whole blue box. got a blue box. There's they it. Doid they have another box for another color There are eleven shades of blue in the Cayle of sixty four. I feel like Greg is like, he's got a burst of energy this it's it's like the bacon is like a super powerful for. It is. Yeah, it is. You know why? Because I don't eat it every day Okay, so when I see bacon, it's like a grand prize to me. It feels like I've just hit the lottery You know, and then I can't stop Those are my seventh and eighth pieces of bacon this morning. Although when it's a double wide like that, you get to count it as one piece of bacon. D just one. You are listening to the Dan Leatar Sh in partnership with the Draftin Sports A, now live in all fifty states. The LeBron thing to Miami is real And I'm going to tell you why, even as I tell you that some of my information recently out of the heat organization can be spotty because They're always very private, but also they're not terribly happy with me for a number of different reasons, but in the people that I have contacted and I realized this last night All of them are saying I'll tell you how happy I am on july sixth. and I thought that was because that's when the Jonis thing can go through. It's because they've got a plan around Yonis that's about this year. It's not about twow years from now And when LebBron breaks up kind of quietly with his team. A lot of respect there for the Lakers and for Don Chish. That's the first time LeBron has left a situation. This is the first time recently with these partnerships that they don't end kind of messy. And then the framing is LeBron tells the Lakers he's going to go elsewhere when they broke up with him. Okaykay. They're allowing him to frame it, but they weren't going to pay him And when you consider some of the moves and how they're making them, where the Wiggins deal can be traded the way that it's done. you're signing hard away You've got money For LeBron, they're going to have more money than the warriors to give LeBron and the biggest thing, the most important thing. It's in the east. That's where all of his success is. like I know he won with the Lakers, but what he did for many years in that unprecedented run through the conference, it was always an easy conference and it's still the easier conference. If you can't get past OKC in the sppurs with Donchit. You're not going to do it with Golden State and a team that's old when you consider than the playoffs last year when all the players are broken. The oldest guys who got minutes among the top twenty five were Tobias Harrison and James Harden. Everyone else was under thirty two. You're not going to win with an old team in today's NBA that cannot withstand the rigor of this. And I I just really think the LeBron to Miami thing is real. It's not It's not just something to talk about. It's not just because LeBron wants the attention. It's one of his options. You're not going to win with an old team in today's NBA, but wouldn't Miami become an old team? They They'd be old, but their centerpiece is thirty one, not Steph Curry's age. Yes, Miami. Miami is an old team. like Miami is already an old team with all of the things they're doing. They've gone from a young team an old team But what I'm telling you about that as the blueprint, it's for right now. notot two years from now, not three years from now. It's an old team to win the whole thing right now I I spent a lot of time on this yesterday and I was a little bit disappointed in myself that I was I was essentially fooled or I fooled myself a couple of days ago when the Andrew Wiggins extension came out and you know, three years, sixty four million. I'll actually let me back up for a second. you know, if you're trying to look at teams who think that they have a shot at LeBron James, well it's easy to point at the warriors, right? becausecause Draammon Green out and that's going to give them a chance to spread a little bit of money out. They're the betting favorite. They're the overwhelming betting favorite to LeBron. So hey, they must know something, right? They are they are positioning themselves to have a chance at signing LeBron. It's not going to be for a lot of money all right, but Draymond gave them some flexibility And when the heat signed Andrew Wiggins to the extension. I was like, oh, three years, sixty four million. nice. He saved them about nine million dollars a year. They're going to be able to bring back Norman Powell. Noone, no no, that's not actually what happened. Andrew Wiggins opted in to the last year of the deal for thirty million dollars saving the heat money this year and it's an extension of two years after that for seventeen million do per. Why did he do that? Well If we're talking about a trade A sign in trade A player like Wiggins, who the Lakers can use I'm not I will never believe that LeBron is going to take any type of six million dollars contract until I see it. But thirty million dollars When you're trading Andrew Wiggin's salary for LeBron LeBron will take thirty million and it becomes very attractive Dan for the Lakers when Wiggins salary next year to seven It' It's one thing with Wiggins though, but what I'm telling you about how these architects do things Ellisberurg more than anybody. okay The honest thing is a single piece and once that's locked in, they have a splayed out plan around him that is immediate. It's not to look Pat Riley's in his eighties man and he is notoriously impatient. This is not a person who has much tolerance and at very many points in his career has played with the young people he played with with the last couple of years who netted him nothing in the way of real results. He does not trust young players. He didn't trust them as a coach. He does not trust them as a general manager and president. He wants to win with old veterans who have seen a little bit of everything. and I'm telling you Bron to Miami is real and it's at least in part Because there aren't a lot of other real competitors. Why would he go to Minnesota Why would he go play with Lonzo Why would he go play with Lonzo Ball and Anthony Edwards. I'm sorry, Lameello Ball Why would he go do that and play in Minnesota and live in Minnesota? Dan. It was literally just what three weeks ago when the NBA finals are going on and we're talking about, okay. everyvery free agent or every player that wants a trade is going to leave the Western conference. And it's not just about Wenbanyama, it's also about Oklahoma City. So LeBron LeBron smart man. He knows what a good basketball team looks like. LeBron thinks that going to Golden State and teaming up with Steph Curry who played just forty games this past year and Draymon Green and Jimmy Butler was not available until March that that team is beating Oklahoma City or San. No but more to the point, Okaykay What he has just seen and learned at the end of his career in Los Angeles with Luca Donchic at his side is Defense is really important and where do you get it here? This this is where you get defense and he won't have to play it. Like with those two guys behind him. He will not have to be the one playing the defense. He just learned the last couple of years with the Likers. No matter how good Luca is. I could be by his side. We're terrible defensively. We do not have a chance against the two teams. We keep talking about the sppurs being young and OkayC and the Spurs being young. Yes, they are That's one reason to fear them. The greater reason to fear them Both of those teams top five in defense. Their front court is amazing defensively. They're unique in that they can come out to the perimeter, but Miami presently on their Ross are very capable perimeter defenders as well. And LeBron can still defend, but he doesn't have to do it night in and night out. LeBron. hates playing down hates having to use the body, especially at this this age with Miami doesn't have to play big. their two big stars are big. He will not have to play big if he signs in Miami. There's no question that Janis and Bam make Miami a great destination, particularly for for LeBron but don't Discount Cleveland a homecoming with Cleveland, which is second in the betting odds behind Golden State because I don't know at this point If LeBron is obsessed with one more championship. He's a multiple champions in a couple of different spots. If he's looking to play one more year and make it a homecoming, I wouldn't discount Cleveland. Rich Paul his agent put at the top of the list in a happiness bucket that he said had ten or twelve things making sure to be competitive. He's not going to go all of the teams that are going to be in play for LeBron, every single one of them is going to be competitive. He's not going to Utah. The options are limited like he does not have the kinds of options that you would think that he would have because not a lot of people have the kind of money that he's going to need and the warriors are among the teams that at the moment don't have the money. And the warriors, notot only that, the Cleveland Cavaliers, you want him to play with James Harden? Also for the twilight of his career being like all right, let me figure out how to get James Harden over the hump There's a lot there if they even keep James Harden, right? Like if they ship him out for an incoming trade with Leron, then of suden you're looking around saying All right, I got Sidy Mitell. I got Evan Mobby and Jared Allen. All right, good luck. Like is that competitive in the East? Thank you for this segment. 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Terms at dkNG d. co slash audio Down Lebatar Can't trade Marino. Tight goight Nice That's what he's most known for. It's like I'm holding ono it. Greg Cody. Nice Hine and two. But it's Marino. Nice last time we saw Marino after Greg Cody trade him, he threw for five touchdowns.ight the man on the cover go straight. You can't trade Marino. Nice head, assle. This is the Lvatar show Let's go up to the whiteboard where Jeremy Tashet is the white person Go ahead, Jeremy. Hi. I have money here for all of these teams. So you have the cavaliers The warriors and the Miami Heat. I've written down where things stand at the present moment, but there's maneuverability with all of these teams. So presently, the warriors have the non tax mid level exemption open in full. That's fifteen point one million dollars. But the only reason that's the case is because Drayond Green is presently unsigned He opted out of a twenty seven point seven million dollars deal. So to be able to sign LeBron James outright and sign Draymond back if LeBron was at that number, Draymon would be taking over a ten million dollars pay cut for this season They would then have to squeeze the rest of their players into the margins, it probably would end up being less than seventeen million dollars for Draymond. So that doesn't seem to be right. The guy they could be trying to move right now is Moses Moody to potentially clear up space. He makes twelve point five million dollars. When you look at the cavaliers, the Jalen Brown idea was floated You would need to be basically breaking up the team that you have. you have James Harden presently opted out. But the only thing at the moment that the cavs can offer is the veteran minimum. They're over the salary cap. So they're trying to move guys reportedly like Dennis Schrouder and Max Stres guys who are making fourteen point eight and sixteen million dollars respectively And then you look over at the Miami Heat. Now at the moment, after the Tim Hardaway junior signing, the heat have six point five million dollars left in their mid level exemption U, but that fifteen point one can become available on the MLE If You move a Bobby Portis who technically has not been traded to the heat yet and ship him somewhere else. If you're able to move Nikola Yovich and as Zaz brought up, that Andrew Wiggins contract is most interesting right now. having him opt in and then create what is going to be one of the better contracts in the league next year. thirty two year old Andrew Wiggins at seventeen million dollars player option is going to be one of the better deals. So whether that's still on the heat or moved elsewhere like potentially those Lakers. there are all sorts of routes for the heat to open up money. But the question becomes, could a team like the Timberwolves jump in or even Duanne Wadees, Utah jazz? Those are the questions we have to ask. We don't have to ask that. I can answer both of those for you. No. you don't have to take Minnesota or Utah seriously Lron. That would be so funny Hey, I'm leaving family. I'm gonna to go to Utah Yeah. so Bronnie got his money guaranteed by the Lakers yesterday. Yeah good dad LeBron. Draymon is trying. Draymon is trying and has been trying for a while to figure out how to play with LeBron. Draymon represented by the same management team as LeBron. so is Anthony Davis. The wizards are saying Anthony Davis is not on the market in any way, shape or form, it is interesting to know that Draymond and LeBron have the same management team because the maneuvering around the Yonest stuff, both in Miami, where I am assuring you that the Wiggins contract is not a success Andrew Wiggins is here for all three of the years. They did that. to have the flexibility to move him because that is a that is a valuable asset. He has been good for them, but they made a cheap easy signing in Tim Hardaway Junior. and I'm telling you, the league is paying attention. Wait a minute. Yanis is going to go eat at the rim and I can just shoot three. So Tim Hardaway' got a one year deal and he's saying no, no, I was really good in Denver I've become a really good three point shooter. I'll never wear my father's number in Miami because he's already told Eudonis Haslam and Mike Miller that his kid ain't wearing his number. Would you like to see your son in the heat jersey? Do you think it happens before he retires? I've been trying to get him in a heat jersey and he will not be wearing my number He gets on the heat team. He will not be wearing my number. Do you understand that number is never coming down You are not going to wear my jersey. I agree. seeee how I walk now. first one I jery That's why my jery You are not going to wear my jersey. Then my wife' be like, well, why not? Because he's not That is not a dad of honor It's just not a dad of honor. What do you think of that? You're a selfish dad, Greg? Sure I am. What are your thoughts on holding back your sons's Like it would be great if they took the number out of the rafters and draed Tim Hardaway junior in the giant jersey. I love Tim's attitude and Tim Sror is who I mean. He's being truthful. He earned that number. He earned the rafters, his son His son's had a nice career. He's played in the league like twelve years. He's a good sixth man. I think he's a good signing for the heat, particularly if they lose Portis, good three point shooter, but he's not Tim Hardaway, the dad. and I love the fact that he's not just playing nice and saying, Yeahah, I'd love them to have my number. No, noody's going to get my number because way up there. I hate when players they ask the retired jersey guy. can I have your number No It's retired. That's what that means. Yes. All right, put it on the poll at Lebotard showow. If your jersey were retired, would you let your son wear it Yes or no is the question. I just posed a question to the Dad of honor last night. Las Rosas has a big semiiannual award where they give a dad of honor his honors for being a dad. and here you see a shocked and altered Zazlo out very late at five PM and out past their bedtime. you in the Bue manan group? What is this? died you blew in there And that trophy is very small. The Dad of honor trophy is it doesn't seem like it's very large. Do you have it No, no, I left it there I left it there because I want everybody who shows up to loserhosis to remember, you know, what happened that night and that that was me giving that that award. It'sd It's on proud display. Yeah, That's right. All of you are with Tim Hardaway, sr. on this. This is a funny repeat question we used to always ask on highly questionable We would ask NBA players, when did your dad stop playing basketball against you? And all of them said every one of them, it was a consensus as soon as I got very close to beating him for the first time. Like that's when the foul started and that's where the aggressive play started and I became bloodied and he knew I was I was going to be better than him And that's when he retired. And so there is a weird thing here with dads and competitiveness. I think it would be a great honor if if they unretired the number exclusively just so his son could wear it and then would re retire it when his when his son was done playing for it. absolutely That's the key for me. If it's going back up in the rafters after, then I would let my son wear it. Absolutely. This smirches the haallllowed number. It really does. Plus it's so ceremonial if you do it like that. come on. There's no caveat where retiring your number unless you wantna take it down one day and give it to someone. No, no Not someone. Yeah, someone. Not someone. someomeone who is literally a piece of you. someone The only someone who can be a piece of you are the are the children. Now these numbers aren't retired, but they are honored by the Miami Heat. Numbers twenty three and six. Crect. So we're going to have to do something like that once LeBron gets here, which I am now certain is going to happen. You're now certain Yeah, you guys laid out the perfect argument It's just enticing is what I'm telling you and it's a legitimate option. It's real and the heat think it is something that can happen because I did not realize I had not realized until last night because I just I've not been chasing this story because I know right now that they're not happy with me. And as it relates to some of the things that we do around here, we don't trade the access for favor I'm going to try and do you know, the job the way that is responsible to the audience. And so my information on Janis has been very limited. But the fact that in one voice, what's coming back to me is I'll tell you how happy I am july sixth when I'm saying, hey, congratulations on getting Yanis. and there's not it's not just Yanis. The plan is the plan, the utopia is not just Yanis. that Tim Hardaway junior knows what the plan is. If someone asked Tim Hardaway junior what he just decided to do for a year at six million dollars with this particular time in his career because he could have gotten more than that up for me, please. I don't know if this is public or not, but I've heard Tim Hardaway talk about it senior. so I don't think I don't think that he would mind me telling the story. I'm pretty sure that while I don't have the facts, that Tim Hardaway srior went into some financial difficulties involving his house and the heat helped him out with his home. this is public knowledge At the time. And so it's an unusual relationship, I would say that the Miami Heat cultivates and it's a rare thing to have the same people in charge for thirty years. It's not normal in sports. The whole thing is transient, okay When the Miami talk about the loyalty and the lifers that they have, Tim Hardaway senior is someone they regard that way so much that when he hits financial trouble after he played for them, this is not something that that happened when he played for them after he played for them They helped bail him out with his home Tim Hardaway Junior was in Michigan. So this isn't a tampering thing. thank God. We had already graduated because we played against each other in twenty ten. He was already in Michigan in twenty eleven. Business Insider headline from twenty eleven, Miami Heat buys two million dollars mansion to rescue Tim Hardaway from tax debt. So Tim Hardaway junior now comes to Miami, and he was very good in Denver last year, serviceable player like just is very good at shooting three. Yeahes, good good bench player Rhaped his career because when he was with Dallas, it was looking like he was done And so you have Wigs and you have Portis again, old team, but you do have shooters around what is going to be the core defensively and we always ignore this side of the ball, but the reason that Bam has not been tradeable is because they love his defense because they're always they fell apart late last season, But since Bam's been there, they're always great at defense. It does not matter who the players are. you add Yonis to that Obviously, you're doing things with length that are gonna to be enticing to LeBron James. So let me present it to you another way. Why wouldn't you do Miami if you're LeBron James? Like is it because you think Golden State is that enticing? Because playing with Steph is absolutely enticing. I would love to watch that and they would love to do it. They would have a great deal of fun playing basketball together That is an enticement that I believe the Miami Heat cannot provide him, but what they can provide him is that basketball will be easier for him here than there because they're going to play defense and he's not going to have to be the one playing it. A lot easier. I'll go back I'll go back to what I said earlier. He he understands what a championship caliber team looks like And I'm sorry, you cannot make the case that that Golden state team, especially without Jimmy available until March is a championship caliber team when they have to play in that it to the shot No Golf is a mental game but you can't focus if you're not comfortable Lululeemon Golf gear frees your mind and your swing, with fabrics that breathe, wick sweat and block UV. Streamline cuts, clear distractions from your backswing and your follow through. So whether it's the first tee or the last hole, your mind stays where it matters. On your next great shot, dial in your game this summer with Lululemon Golf gear, available in stores and at lululemon dot com d Youeed a laptop that's built to perform and designed to last all day? Select Windows eleven PCs starting at four dollars ninety nine dollars ny nine cents are now at Best Buy. Learn more at bestestbuy dot comot Best Buy. Imagine that. Down Leatar. Can't wait for thirty nine. Yeah, I can't either. Thty comes first Do you know what forty is yet? Not yet. What are we doing? Greg, did you just laugh? Did you just laugh out loud at something Lewis said in your ear? Greg Cy, Yes I couldn't help it but it was funny. Yeah de. Thanks, Louis We' gangging the goose Of course Choking the frog. I mean, there's a million of of course. Half of them would sound dirty if we keep doing it. This is the Levat S So here is when Horst he is being quoted here. You can hear him on get up. I encourage you not to do that because you need to stay here. Who acted with knowledge? Did the cabs act with knowledge? Did the Heat act with knowledge? Did the Lakers act with knowledge? No. The warriors acted with knowledge. Draymon opted out, That's all I'm going to say. That's not all he's going to say LeBron has made it clear money is not driving this decision. That means he can choose a team that could win a championship immediately. You need to look at teams. he'd feel comfortable playing with. It's only a couple he'd consider. The Miami he just traded for Yianis. He has a history there. They have bam at aayo. If he walked in They'd form a new big three. Heat Nix is so back. I can't believe that in twenty twenty six, we're actually having the conversation that the Kicks don't want any involvement in LeBron. If you ask the Kicks right now, do you want LeBron James? The answer would be no. How about sixteen years later we're doing the summer of LeBron again? Yeah, it's amazing, right? They got him in his prime at twenty five and now he's forty one and they're they're interested again. That's an amazing compliment to LeBron. But let me ask Dan a questions I think he's equipped to answer. When LeBron left the heat earlier than some hoped he would and thought he would It wasn't a great departure. There was some some issues with his relationship with Pat Rilly and all that stuff. Has that mended to the degree? that you're comfortable saying No problem Okay. and When I say it's been mended that way, I've never seen Re crazier than after LeBron left and it was four months. Like it was among the most brutal blows in his career because it was the ego swipe of watching the player take the power in a way that made Riley have to go rerecruit LeBron when Riley's general feeling was, well, didn't we win two championships? I've got to go re reccruit you and the story I've told before of Pat Riley in a room having to wait to meet with LeBron. LeBron what what Phil Jackson would call LeBrone posse because this was a power game between the Phil Jacksons and Pat Rile' getting to control the sport and LeBron and his agent controlling the sport. In the room where he was recruiting them, he had to ask them to turn off the television wasn't it also the World Cup? It was the World Cup. Yeah, he had to ask them to turn off the television because they were distracted while he was doing the recruiting And like all of that ended up being publicly humiliating because we have the pictures of Pat Rilly and Andy Ellisberg at a sad Las Vegas blackjack table waiting to meet with LeBron as everyone's wondering what he's going to do and Wade is flying all around him. It is amazing that we're doing this with the oldest player in the league all these years later also amazing, like it to me, it is crazy that LebBron still dominate a free agent conversation at this age. He loves it. No, I know he loves it, but he's gotten very good at it and the fact that he can do it in the middle of the World Cup and still be of interest. and it feels like Golden State It seemed to me when the news broke LeBron tells Lakers he'll be playing elsewhere next season. It seemed to me that just before that, everyone assumed, well, it's going to be Golden State. The reports are Anthony Davis and LeBron, It's a betting favorite everywhere that LeBron is going to go to Golden State. But once you announce, we'll play elsewhere And once you announce, I'm leaving my free agent options open, that's not just to get the attention. It's to leave the free agent options open. L I know in the past people think that he and Aaron Rogers do some of this stuff for attention and it's fair criticism. I get it But it's not just for that this time. Like he understands his place in the world because the last time with the World Cup, do you remember, he flew from Vegas to Brazil. He still hadn't made a decision. He was like flying to World Cup games. People were following him around from gym to gym, wherever it is that he was. He really changed the way we do all of this. The fact that we talk this much about transactions during basketball is something that he birthed with all of that sixteen years ago. that it's just nuts that this is still in play. Andy fits here. That's the other thing like However it is that you want to concoct these scenarios that have Jayen Brown and James Harden and you know, Donoaman Mitchell, he fits in Golden state where they're not going to play any defense. Draymond Green is a reigning defensive player of the year many times over and old like and he's all they've got defensively. You cannot have a bunch of late thirty year old guys trying to guard Everybody and say what you will about the heat being old. Bam and Yonis are built to runnt right now, right? This is their twenty nine, thirty, thirty one year old. You don't want to be doing this like with Kawaia thirty five in Toronto. You want to be doing it right here in this window and it's not for eighteen months from now. Like it's not you guys keep talking the last couple of days about year two, year to year two. this is the weakest of the Jonest teams. I don't think it's going to be Like I think they're going to get a real ass team around him with the promise of Janish. you want to rebuild your career and your legacy? Will Bum's already forgotten about you. He ain't waiting a year either. Like he he already waited a year. He wasted last year. Last year is totally wasted This about right now. It's not it's about july sixth that he expect to be saying something more than it's just Jonest and hardardaway and portis. I think if he were going to goolden state, Okaykay, why Golden State make that move. I think if he was Drammon. I think if he was going to goolden state If it was a sure thing, it would have happened right away. Remember When he left Cleveland to go to the Lakers There was no free agency Like we all knew throughout the year. he's going to leave Cleveland and go to the Lakers and then one day We just got the report like on the bottom of the crawl on ESPN, LeBron announces he is signing with the Los Angeles Lakers. That was a done thing. He didn't do this whole free agency song and dance. Now, do I believe that he loves the attention and at his age right now, he kind of wants to show everybody, Hey, I still run this league Look at everybody looking at me. I do think there is something to that. But if it was a sureort thing he was go in Golden State, I think it would be done already. The NBA always wins the offseason and the two biggest stories of this off season were Yanis and LeBron. What is their future? And now the Miami Heat might win both of the two biggest stories. Pat Rilly has put up for ten years hearing the games passing by He's too old he can't sign the whale anymore. He can't win the big guy And now he's wonanis if he gets LeBron to Pat Rlly should throw a big middle finger to everybody who's criticizeding the past ten years. Yeahep, totally. if he gets that done. You think LeBronso has the Cckered pattern shirt? Yeah. Beuse that'd be pretty dope. Desid Jim Gray have one more in him? Who should be Whitty? Yeah. We should we should figure out how to how to do some things with that shirt. We should lure him here by seeing if we could get shirts here that just have the show begging all over again for LeBron to come here. I believe the summer of twenty ten is something that ended up building our studios at the Clevelander. like the economy that he brought to Miami was substantive. If I can tell you funny en sixteen years ago That week of NBA free agency. I was filling in For St Gods. That entire week I was doing the show next to you And You did the whole you and Stevenen A. Smith What put your names out there and said, This is happening and I was next to you that whole week and I remember how intense and I I was really young. I was Greg, I was very young. And I remember how intense those shows were because it was like, holy shit, you, Steven A, you're putting your names out there for something that is really, really massive and how exciting was that this was potentially going to happen That's as scared as I've ever been giving a report and it's as scared as Stephen A. Smith has ever been giving a report. And he also said afterward, I will never do that again. He was so scared because the information was lockedown. This organization is really private and there there was a lot of There was just so much misinformation, so many people were getting it wrong and no one thought at any point. reallyally? No one thought because I remember doing this show with Wilbon and Kornheiser and Bill Simmondons and we did like a free agency special and the idea that I was putting Bosch, Wade and LeBron together, they laughed out of the room Like they said it was a stupidity and everyone thought that because they didn't think that any any three stars like that would team up. I don't think in twenty ten, we fully appreciated what we were getting in LeBron. He was just really coming into his prime twenty five and what he would become was greater than what we thought we were getting in twenty ten, I think. But the idea that sixteen years later at forty one, he still commands this kind of interest It's just it's the same we see what age does to other athletes. We just saw what it did to Serena Williams at Wimbledon. And for LeBron at forty one to still be at this level, it's just amazing. Sam Shirania has tweeted free agent Norman Powell agreed to a two year forty five million dollars deal with The Chicago Bulls Well, no now you don't talk. Tell me what this means. now you shut up. What it I mean, you got me all hunting and ready for LeBron again. What does it mean, Jeremy I mean, it means they moved on from Norman Powell. They couldn't get a sign and trade done, but also probably at this point didn't want to make a sign and trade. Right. It's not in their. It's No what's plan?? You're paying attention? Yeah No no no, no. Does this helper or does itt hur? matter with you. Does it helper or does' it hurt? Can you tell me are we closer? It helps. All right, sweet Norman Norman Powell's options were limited. The bulls are a bit broken and going there allows him to sort of have his own team. He got a little bit used to that here for half a season. He enjoyed it. They were playing a unique offensive basketball around him and before we get too far down the path of who is the next guy through the door. I don't want to dishonor some of the people who are leaving. I thought we did that with Tyler Herro as a show. We'll probably do that with Norman Powell as a show. I mean, he was an all star while he was here, but I don't want to do that to Serge Bobrovsk Serge Bobobk because it's one of the most interesting careers we've ever had in South Florida. I remember this show being very loud about not wanting him around for many years and then he became a two time champion goalteender And someone you trusted in the playoffs to be great backack when hot goaltender is how we were doing much of the math in the playoffs with underman teams. Sergei Babrovski ends up being one of the great free agent signings in the history of this market. E though for half of it, all of you were calling him a bum. I kicked him out of this city several times in the first few years of his seven year seventy million dollars deal And now I will tell you, he is the greatest free agent signing in the history of the Florida Panthers. It's it's an unbelievable run or turnaround, if you will that he had. Im I'm sad that it is officially over now. That guy is my dog. I'm not upset with him at all. I love you Sergey Bobrovsky and I look forward to his number going up in the rafters. Me too. He's a legend I think you're right. Most impactful free agent signing ever. But when Dan says you guys wanted him out of here Not just us. Remember how this run started withith their first Eastern confonference championship of this score as an eight seed? It started because Alex Lyion got them to the playoffs. He was benched He was the worst free agent signing arguably ever. and then what a turnaround for his story.'s crazy. becomes a two time champion has one of the most iconic saves all history of the sport. It's awes with the bobbery and forever a champion, forever a leegend, a haall of famamer. deffinitely going to have that seventy two retired. Yeah. I think he's going to, I think he has left as one of the most popular players in franchise history, a monumentally awful quote in the post game when you went to him after the best game possible, you get the same stop. Yeah, bad interview. Just awful Roy, Roy did one of those with him. Oh my God. Greg. Most important number seventy two in the history of South Florida sports, Richmond Webb Perfect team or Sergey Bobrovsky. I'm old school. you got to go the perfect team, but I think Bob and Webb would be right up. When you think of the back to back Stany Cups, what player do you go to first? probablyroably Barkoff and Bob, right I mean, those two. I love that you answered that question seriously, Greg. I did Richmond Webb seventy two. Serge Bobrovsky or the only perfect team in the history of professional Awesome. Richmond Webb was number seventy eight. Oh he, you know, he's trying to trick me over here this guy