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Stephen A. isn’t concerned the Lakers haven’t made an offer to LeBron 👀 | First Take
Stephen A. isn’t concerned the Lakers haven’t made an offer to LeBron 👀 | First Take
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Lakers signed Austin Reaves to a 4-year,
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$185 million max contract to keep him LA
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and restrict him from becoming a free agent.
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So, AR will stay in LA with Luka.
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But, as for LeBron James, who is an unrestricted free agent,
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Shams Charania says there's been not much movement.
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Listen to this.
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>> My understanding is there hasn't been an offer out to LeBron James yet
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as far as his free agency.
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We'll see how that develops over the next four
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or five days when free agency starts.
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But, a lot of it is like how much can we upgrade the roster
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and then potentially go back to LeBron
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or do you take care of LeBron first
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and then figure out any type of potential roster move?
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>> All right.
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So, no offer yet for LeBron James.
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Stephen A, is it at all concerning
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that the Lakers have yet to offer LeBron
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when they've already taken care of Austin Reaves?
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>> Not at all.
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Not at all.
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The priority was to make sure you took care of Austin Reaves cuz he's
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got value around the league
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because of his youth.
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And as a result of that,
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you can sign him and deal with other stuff later.
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You still got Rui Hachimura, you got Luke Kennard, you got Jackson Hayes,
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you got these people along with LeBron James.
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You can exercise bird rights and keep those guys.
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You know that.
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So, that's a reality.
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Uh, but most importantly, here's the thing that's not being said.
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LeBron James has graduated to a point in the NBA in his career where
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he could essentially choose where he wants to go for the most part.
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Like if LeBron James It's a money issue where we're concerned in terms of
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us talking about how the Lakers >> >> ain't going to give him 52
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million and all of this other stuff.
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I got that part.
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But, if LeBron James, money aside, sat up there and said,
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"I want to be on your basketball team."
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Who's telling him no?
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Anybody telling him no?
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I mean, you you might have one or two teams that might say no.
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But, for the most part, 95% of the league is going to be like,
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"Hell, yeah.
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Let's make this happen."
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Especially if money is not a factor.
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With him, it could be respect.
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He understands the business of the NBA,
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but he's graduated to
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that point where essentially he can dictate what he wants to do.
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If he wants to stay in LA, they ain't telling him to go home.
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If he wants to depart and say,
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"I want to go back to Cleveland." they ain't telling him no.
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If you If he called Pat Riley and said, "Listen,
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I want to join I want to come back
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and join Giannis and Bam in LA." you think Riley's going to tell him
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no?
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He ain't going to tell him no.
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So, that's what we have to understand.
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It's not really concerning to me because it's LeBron and that is his reality.
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A reality, by the way, that he has earned.
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>> All right.
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>> I'm a little concerned cuz because normally it's two things.
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A, this is a relationship business.
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This is a respect business.
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And when you are LeBron James,
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think of all the times
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that LeBron has been an unrestricted free agent at any point in his career.
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Not only was he his incumbent's team top priority,
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he was the league's top priority.
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This is the first time where he's not even a top priority on his
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own team.
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I wonder how that makes him feel.
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Now, if the Lakers have come to LeBron and said, "LeBron,
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we're going to take care of Austin Reaves first
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and then we're going to go
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and try to make these other moves
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and then we're going to present to you a roster
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and tell you how much money we have left."
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That's one thing.
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But, if you haven't had any contact with him, if you haven't said,
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"This is our plan
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and then we're going to come back to you." it sounds like you're a
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plan B.
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And if I'm LeBron James >> >> and Rich Paul and we know how they move,
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they move in terms of leverage, they move in terms of power,
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this probably doesn't make them feel very good.
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If you talk to an agent of an incumbent team
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and you have this window after the NBA finals
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and before June 30th where you can talk to your own free agents,
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where you can agree to your own deals, look around the league, y'all.
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Nobody hits free agency anymore.
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Free agency comes in the in the form of you being traded
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or you signing your contract before you even hit June 30th.
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None of those things have happened.
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I'm not saying that the Lakers don't consider LeBron James a priority.
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I'm not saying that these two sides aren't going to come to an agreement,
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but I'm not going to pretend
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that this is a positive sign
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or this is a sign of a partnership
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because when you have LeBron James,
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you are in partnership with LeBron James. 40 years old, 25 years old,
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you are in partnership until he says otherwise.
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This is a change in the paradigm.
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>> Perk.
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>> The The Lakers are dead birds tall grass.
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Straight up.
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Straight up.
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And and and I never want to come on here
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because I'm always a big person that's going to advocate for guys getting their
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money,
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but the Lakers just showed us
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that their their two franchise guys
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that they believe in is Luka Dončić
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and Austin Reaves.
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And I'mma say this again.
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They're They can't be thinking championships
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because you can't have both of your franchise guys be defensive liabilities.
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And that's what Luka is and that's what Austin Reaves is.
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Let's keep it a buck.
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LeBron James is should have been prioritized before Austin Reaves.
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LeBron James is the second most important player on
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that was on that Laker roster behind Luka Dončić.
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And if I'm Bron, I definitely feel some type of way.
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But if I'm Bron, I'm also sitting back and I'm saying, "Okay, Rob.
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Okay, front office.
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What else are y'all going to do?"
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Because Luka said he has come out publicly
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or the reports have come out
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that he wants a A-list center.
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Well, what A-list centers out there?
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Right?
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What A-list center are you going to get?
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You're not going to go get a Jalen Duren.
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Jalen Duren, excuse me.
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Who else is out there?
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You're going to go get a Karl-Anthony Towns?
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You can't get him.
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So, my thing is the reason
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that Luka wants a A-list center is
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because his offensive package meaning live threat at the basket
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but secondly he's trying to get a list center to cover up for what
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they lack on perimeter defense.
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This is a problem.
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>> I can't believe you too.
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I can't believe you too.
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First of all First of all Just to just to put y'all out there
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in first street.
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Ladies and gentlemen Kendrick Perkins is 41 years old.
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Ladies and gentlemen Vincent Goodwill is 38 years old.
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>> I'm 41.
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Don't don't do that.
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I'm 41 too. >> see you 41 you 41 you 41 you 41 you
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41 you were born in 1987 my brother.
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You're 38 years old okay.
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All right and you were and you're 41.
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Here's the deal y'all.
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If I asked y'all what y'all were 10 years ago compared to what you
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are now.
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You understand what I'm saying?
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Stuff changes.
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LeBron is 41.
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This is business.
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What happens is is that Austin Reaves who can play is 28.
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Of course you're going to sit up there
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and sign him because from a business perspective he has tremendous value down the
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pipe.
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You lock him up and then you can do what you want with him.
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You know I don't know trade clause.
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You lock him up just like you locked Luka up at age 27.
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You got those two as cornerstones of your franchises because guess what?
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They're going to be around for the next decade
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and you could do some things with them.
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You go to LeBron James because he's 41.
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He's talking about potentially retiring within the next year or two.
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You solidify that.
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You're not the Oklahoma City Thunder where you already got a squad plus you
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got 13 first round picks
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and 16 second round picks over the next six years.
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It's not like that.
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A Rui Hachimura, a Luke Kennard, a Jackson Hayes and some other pieces.
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You can't go out there and get but so much.
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So if you got a young asset,
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you lock him up just to make sure you have the potential maneuverability to
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do what you want to do knowing
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that your fallback is this dude who's a billionaire who's a year
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or two away from retirement who who who obviously is incredibly valuable.
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We all know that LeBron James is your second most valuable piece on the
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franchise.
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But, in terms of the market moving forward
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and what you want to do years ahead,
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that's why you make the move with Austin Reaves.
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That's all it is.
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We all understand that.
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Why y'all acting like y'all don't know that?
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The man 41.
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>> No, we uh You lucky we got to go.
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>> We do.
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>> Yeah, you lucky.
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You lucky.
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>> You lucky.
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You scaring somebody.
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Nobody scared of you.
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>> He's whispering under his breath.
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He's making faces.
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Okay.
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>> 38.
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>> WE'LL DO WE'LL DO THIS later on.
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Yeah, we'll do this later on.
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Everyone's confused.
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>>
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