NBA Summer League

Lakers need to take one of their two-way slots and find a center.

Like... today like they just they do and i i have no uh i don't think they have any dead weight on their two ways we had we did a show about this over the summer like they all kind of make sense in one way or another um you know i i chris manion is a you know potentially ever developed even an ounce of offense is such a good plus defender that he's worth Um, keeping around Arthur Columa earned a shot at this with a great summer league and AKA care.

Okay.

Is somebody who kind of fits the mold because he is a role player.

He is an excellent defender.

You know, Columa has that athleticism and looks like he could be kind of a dynamic player.

Again, based on Summer League where he did a lot of really interesting things.

Akerake just is sort of, he was like a role player in the summertime.

I felt like it really re-energized the Pacers, and he deserved the minutes, but I thought also, too, maybe they were using him as more of like a small ball five because with Zoo out, he can play that.

He played it some in Summer League.

He played it some last year with the Boom because they don't really have centers in the G League very well.

So he was kind of playing the five there for them and then played it a little bit in preseason as well.

Yeah, it was tough.

I bumped into him at Las Vegas Summer League.

I don't know him at all, but you see those guys walking through, and some of them, they carry themselves a certain way.

They're there to be seen, and he just didn't carry himself that way at all.

Man, I'm so excited to have you on.

And just to kind of I like to share with the audience like some things that go on behind the scenes during Summer League.

You know, I was at Summer League.

I saw that you had been like messaging about the games and stuff.

And we had been talking since then about wanting to bring you on, waiting for the right time.

Coming off the bench, if we down 40.

This is Summer League.

He'll drop 20 in the Summer League.

You see what I'm saying? You hear

me? 28 and 5.

This was a game where when I watched it, I'm looking at the guys on the floor, and I'm looking at Kansas' roster, and I'm like, what are we doing here? What are we doing here? Melvin Council, seventh year of eligibility.

Did he play summer league?

For the Pelicans.

All right.

too.

But I'm looking at this exhibition, and I'm like...

What are we doing here? Why are there two guys that played in Summer League on the floor?

We got chaperones out here, man.

We were...

So for those that do not know, at Summer League, after they beat...

And this was so regarding Cam Boozer, right? Because he was our guy, and he's the guy that he resents, you know, for being National Player of the Year and all this stuff.

He was like...

Some people, they got tight buttholes.

Some people are built for it, and some people aren't.

That's what he said after they won Summer League.

And it was so directed at him.

Yeah, with LA it was great.

I mean, I got drafted, I got to play in the Summer League, so I was lucky enough to play with Kobe Bryant, which was pretty cool.

Then I got an offer to go and play in Madrid, in Spain, so I went to Real Madrid.

I always sort of regret that a little bit, that I didn't hang around and try and go to vet camp at the Lakers and try and make the team, but I got another opportunity to go over and spend some time with Toronto, so I spent a season with them, and that was Vince Carter and Trace McGrady's first year there so it was awesome it was great to be part of it great to sit on the bench and travel to all the games but not being able to play because I was injured kind of yeah that was took a lot of the shine off it I suppose so obviously feel a lot more sort of proud of what I was able to do with the Wildcats and stuff so