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You're the one that said yes to Kawhi, because we already know that you got caught years ago for circumventing the salary cap in the first place.

So what the NBA has found is not only did you not listen to the first penalty, you then, when we have evidence that the Toronto Raptors ownership group and the Lakers ownership group, when Kawhi Leonard and his party asked for more impermissible benefit, they all said no.

But the reason you got Kawhi is because you said yes.

So what I'm, I'm trying to understand is that what are you sorry for exactly if you're not willing to acknowledge that you are the direct cause for why the Clippers organization is in shambles, why there's a $30 million fine, why there's five first round picks that are no longer gonna be on your ledger in the future.

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this is why when people cheat at this level, like, the next thing is to Mark Walt- Walton.

That, the, that investigation that the DOJ has into him right now, where the reason why Mark Walter sold the Lakers, reportedly, and the theory is because he has $16 to $21 billion, Danny, that he has frauded the American consumers out of, that he had reinvested in his own business.

Absurd.

Could that role include starting? That's next.

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We are creeping, Andy, just slowly creeping towards when the real basketball will start again.

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Dr. Jason Snipes is one of LA's top orthopedic surgeons.

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That first year they won a series against Orlando, even though they looked halfway decent against the Bulls the year before.

If you wanted to do that for this team, you can, and I have a time for that, but they also have an unfair advantage in that the in-season tournament exists now in a way that it didn't for the PG era and the Reggie era because for me personally, the breakout of success was for the current era of the Pacers was their in-season tournament run in 2023 that was actually amazingly because he's such a key figure in all of the success that this current team has had they did not even have Pascal Siakam for that right and those games they played in Vegas against the Bucks and against the Lakers Bruce Brown Buddy Heald were starting Obi Toppin was starting right that was before they even changed their starting five they were putting up like a 140 points, not routinely, but like with some amount of frequency that was not more than just like a blip on the radar.

And they just steamrolled through their group.

And then to me, the game that was like, oh, wow, this is legit.

Like, every...

Championship, you can point to, as we discuss all these teams, Toronto, Lakers.

There's a stroke of luck that happened to help these teams along the way.

And I think with the Bucs, they also got very lucky that the whole league didn't care about Brook Lopez and that no one was more aggressive for Drew Holiday.

At last? Yeah, they'll keep him.

I just wanted to bring up that scenario.

My last question for Denver is that I did originally have them at 24 ahead of the Lakers and the Bucs.

Then the Watson trade happened.

Divisions really mean squat.

The fact that the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers are in the same division doesn't mean anything.

No one considers, oh,

Clippers, Lakers.

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I don't think anyone out there had obsession in their top 10.

You can find him in front of the camera, behind the camera, whatever articles he's writing.

He not only works for the Los Angeles Dodgers, but he also does work for Bleacher Report with the Los Angeles Lakers.

And who knows where this young man's career is gonna take him, but it's gonna take him to the stratosphere and beyond.

We're very lucky that he was able to sit down and have a word with us.

All right, we're gonna transition to the first LA team that I loved, and that's only because the day I was born, they won the title.

Yeah.

The Los Angeles Lakers.

Oh, wow.

Well, I think if you work with family members, often it's a big, big challenge.

We hear now, look at the Laker family.

They're going down the

tubes already.