L.A. Live

But, you know, 6-5, who can beat that? I mean, I think it was a good game, honestly, on what the Kings did.

And before I go, I was telling somebody, I said, you know what? I said, if I were back in L.A., If I were back home in California at Tom's or at LA Live watching this, I would have been watching this out here.

I wouldn't be in Boise calling you guys.

But you know what? It's my honor to call you, Samboni.

Why? Well, it's more convenient in Chavez Ravine.

And the Lakers, I got to schlep downtown to LA Live.

I don't want to do that.

It's just funny, isn't it? All of these people who own teams think they can just get one over on you.

They're doing it.

Oh, at LA Live.

I saw that.

Yeah.

We were there and, uh, for a couple of years and then left there because what it turned out to be wasn't what it was promised.

And then we went down to LA live.

We were at LA live for eight years, um, and had a space there.

And, um, Then I slowly closed all of those and Beverly Hills was the last one.

And I left after 20 years, you know, it was seven days a week, three meals a day.

Would you mind? And I'm like, mind what? What's going on? They wanted me to take a picture.

of them standing in front of the kobe mural i took the picture thank you thank you thank you we're from tokyo we're from tokyo i'm like oh okay and we just we we're here and we took a picture of the kobe statue la live and uh as we were walking we saw um the kobe mural and we just wanted i'm like okay cool cool cool you know we just chopped it up for a little bit and um It just kind of hit me because the past couple of years, you've had some people kind of speaking in a negative tone about Kobe and his legacy.

And sometimes it's to boost up, you know, their favorite player or other great players.

And sometimes it's just, they're just saying whatever, just to say whatever.

And it just made me kind of appreciate Kobe a little more.

Because I've seen it plenty of times.

People gather around the Kobe statue at LA Live.

And it's almost like they're making a pilgrimage.

We're talking to business owners who are striking out after counting on World Series customers the past couple of years.

And tonight, LA Live is Lakers Live.

Jason here is trying to prove these new-look Lakers, let's see what you got, are a good team.

Oh, boy, that was sweet.