Vivek Ranadivé

He ended up having to be wheeled off of the court in a wheelchair by EMTs, and Anthony Slater reported, that he was helped out of the wheelchair and into crutches by members of the Kings training staff.

Vivek Ranadive was there and had a few words with him and gave him a hug.

But things do not look good for Maxime Reynaud.

I'm hoping it's just something minor, like maybe a... just a contusion or a hyperextension or something like that.

If there's any base behind Doug Christie not playing them and them not being available to play.

Friday, the other big story that was going on is this whole roast of the Kings, whether it was a motivational speech or a roast of the players, the staff, the executives at the training camp kickoff dinner by Vivek Ranadive.

We have not.

And this is I put this on X and this is the bottom line.

I don't know.

I have not talked to the people behind the podcast since it was recorded.

But when I say perception is reality, sending others out to put out your fires is is prototypical Vivek Ranadive 101.

And what Scott said about how the media portrays Vivek Ranadive, what's inspirational about that? Everybody can't be wrong.

Mm-hmm

... and the fact that owner, uh, Vivek Ranadive, I hope I pronounced that correctly, basically hosted a roast.

Let's hear this clip.

I think it's two parts.

They went out to a fancy train- uh, dinner, t- the whole team, the staff, everything.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, at the dinner, Vivek Ranadive spoke.

Um, and he kind of turned the dinner into a roast of lots of people in the room- Um, telling them all the ways in which they have been failing as players, coaches, executives, whatever.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, at the dinner, Vivek Ranadive spoke.

Um, and he kind of turned the dinner into a roast of lots of people in the room.

Um-

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some people were alarmed, [laughs] um, and, and were like, "This is not going over the way you intended." Some people thought, "I get what he's doing.

He's using the fact that we've become a media punchline to, like, motivate us." Like, he was not saying, "I, Vivek Ranadive, believe these things about you, but here's-"

That's good

WowYeah.

Well, you're speaking to someone Vivek Ranadive, he, he switches coaches faster than the Portland Trail Blazers switch announcers.

Yeah.

[laughs] There you go.

Mm-hmm.

Can we just see the man play, please? Mm-hmm.

But with that being said, Whitey, it would be very Kings-y and it would be very Vivek Ranadive-y to make sure he play...

I know it's pre-season- Yeah ...

The whole team, the staff, everything.

And at the dinner, Vivek Ranadive spoke.

And he kind of turned the dinner into a roast of lots of people in the room telling them all the ways in which they have been failing as players, coaches, executives, whatever.

And I checked with the Kings and they said, they confirmed the gist of that, I would say.

Some people thought, I get what he's doing.

He's using the fact that we've become a media punchline to motivate us.

He was not saying, I, Vivek Ranadive, but believe these things about you but here's what people say about you prove us wrong but it was described to me as a prolonged roast that landed with some of the audience and not some of the and some of the audience not as much so like the kings are the kings okay a couple more

Okay, he did not say, he didn't qualify it.

He's incredibly connected and very well respected among NBA circles.

And he reported that Vivek Ranadive spoke at the Kings dinner the night of media day.

And in Vivek...

Fashion, and I say fashion.

All right, Drapes, we appreciate it.

By the way, before we let you go, any thoughts on, um, Vivek Ranadive apparently having a roast for team employees at, uh-

[laughs] No comment.

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