 But he did realize after, all right. So LeBron James is Sam Amick. This is on the roster plans. Y'all know what the F should be happening. This is the thing though, because then Sam had the whole article and here's his wording more here on his waning patience and how his greatness is forcing the conversation. So of course LeBron takes to Twitter to clarify that. Hey Sam, actually my patience isn't waning. You make it sound like I'm frustrated when I'm really not. I told you over and over, my job is focused on the guys in the locker room. My job isn't the roster. No, we'll get to that. Shams, the realities of the Lakers and what they have as far as trade options is what? We've been talking about the trade front with the Lakers like every single day. I think the reality has been the reality which we've spoken about over the last several weeks. They only have two first round picks that are eligible to be traded as of right now for the rest of the decade. Now they're gonna have more picks open up as the years go on, but right now they have two first round assets and their position, and I think one that other teams have felt is one of being cautious with those picks and really being careful in terms of deciding what trade they wanna make. You don't wanna burn those picks. The few valuable assets that you have, you don't wanna burn them on a trade that's barely gonna move the needle, especially with the uncertainty of Anthony Davis' health status. When exactly he's gonna be back? I do think he's making a level of progress. They're still not sure when exactly it'll be. We're already nearing the mid month period that's gonna mark the one month mark of his absence. As we spoke about, it could be even longer than that when he comes back, but I don't think there's an expectation that the Lakers are going to do much that's of significance in this trade market just because of the uncertainty of the season because you don't wanna burn those picks and it's not gonna move the needle for where you're really expecting to go. I do think there are people on this roster that do understand that predicament this team is in. Not a great predicament at all Eddie. So as far as the influence that LeBron has on this roster and the building of this roster, how much does he have? I mean, look, it's been widely reported. They call him LeGM for a reason. They, he called himself that jokingly. Like he, we understand the implication. We understand the idea that if we make a big move, we're gonna talk to LeBron. This is a partnership. The Lakers have called it that over and over and over since they've signed him Magic Johnson at his house at midnight on the deadline day. Like, let's be honest. And so that's what I don't understand about these quotes here. And it's just about LeBron in general. There's a little bit of a lack of accountability here. It's been widely reported that him and AD are the ones who pushed for Russell Westbrook and that trade that has essentially gutted the rest of their future assets and put them in a weird place. You can play all that for Anthony Davis and you eventually get a title, but then to break up that gang to get Russ, a little bit of looking in the mirror there as well for LeBron and for AD, the reports are true. The thing I don't understand about this and then the recant later is, yo, you did say this. Like, it doesn't matter how we read that, what's own. Yo, you saying mid-five game streak, we know what we need to do with this roster, cussword, cussword, whatever, that's clear. There's no mixing that up. There's no like, yo, I was sitting there with a smile on my face. However you said it, you're telling the world and your general manager that yo, something needs to happen. You're also telling your teammates that, it's not the first time you've told your teammates that. So it's, you know, look, there's a lot going on here. And the fact that you said this after the fifth game and a fifth five game win streak is hilarious. So when you run the Twitter to then clarify what you said, you know you stepped in it and look, it is what it is. This is LeBron, this is a LeBron experience. He can't be traded this year and we're already talking about him. Can he be traded this summer? Will he be traded? Will he ask out, what is he going to do? Who knows? It's LeBron. You got to do what LeBron says or you got to send them to Brooklyn maybe and let them win a title there. Oh God, you want that? Hey, wait, you would want that? Hold on. Yeah, I like the idea of point four LeBron with Kyrie, KD, big clags and playing defense. I can see it. Look at Charlie's nodding. He can see. I is nodding. He can see the remnants of that team. Anyways, is he nodding good or bad? I can't tell. He can tell you guys something. First of all, LeBron would be unbelievable on the net. When I was the second and third year player in Houston, I had juice with Daryl Maury. They would ask players, top one, top two, top three players, do you like this guy? Do you think he meshed well? Same thing happened then in Dallas with Cuban and with Carl out. I had juice. If you don't think for a second, LeBron James has. At least going bouncing ideas off him. And that's what's so confusing to me is, is he frustrated? Yes, he should be. He's having an unbelievable season. He's not getting much help. But if you think that he didn't okay these moves in the off season to put them in this situation, you're out of your goddamn mind. Rich Paul controls that team. LeBron James controls Rich Paul. There is no way that he wasn't okay with these moves. And yeah, they're not working out and the team's probably gonna miss the playoffs. And that's a tough break. But to sit here and say this and act like you're clueless about the team and the design of the team, that's not, that can't be true. Because if Chandler Parsons got access and juice with the GMs and the owners when he was playing, LeBron James definitely does. So it's frustrating for him. They're losing, the team's not working, but it's hard for me to believe that he didn't okay these moves in this off season. So that's the problem, right? For those of us who do not care for LeBron James antics, this is a very prime, passive aggressive example of why we get so irritated. It's cause on the one hand, we know how things went down or we know how big a role you had. And by the way, I don't argue with that. If I have LeBron James on my team, I'm 100% going to him about everything, right? But I can't have you with the same breath, turn around and then feign stupidity as far as like, I don't really know what's going on back here. Like that's the problem. I don't, you can't do both. It's weird to say, you know what the fuck should be happening and then try and be, sorry for cursing, and then try and be politically correct on your own social platform and kind of ease the pain a little bit of what you just said. So that's where it gets a little confusing and it's obvious that LeBron James is the best player probably of all time. Why wouldn't they ask him? Why wouldn't it get his blessing? Why wouldn't they say, would you want to play with this guy? You have to make him happy. You have to make Joellen Mead happy and Philly. I guarantee you there's not a trade this deadline. Well, it doesn't okay. That's just how it works. No doubt LeBron. I love LeBron. I think he's the goat. I think, you know, he's smarter than he's pretending he is on Twitter because he knows who Sam Amick is. He knows what that court means. Of course he does. He knows what it means when he sits down with the other network and has to sit down with them on a night they don't even have a game. I don't know why he's sitting down talking to them having a one-on-one. But whatever, he knows exactly what he's doing. This is LeBron, like the basketball IQs out the chart. He has an agency and kept it all above ground because somehow it makes sense. It's cool. I love LeBron. He's running the game. He's running the team. He knows exactly what he's doing and how to do it. And if he's playing his passive aggressive, don't fit out, fit in game and whatever. He's done it before. Trust me, that team is made in the image of LeBron. I'm talking if they want to wear blue uniforms tomorrow and he wants to wear purple. What color do you think the Lakers will be wearing when they try down on that court? It just is what it is. So LeBron is hilarious. I get what he's doing. I guess he's putting public pressure on Rob Polinka to make some move. I don't know what that move is. Like Shyam's already said himself. I don't know what he's expecting. I would hold my breath. I would not hold my breath on a Lakers move. But listen, this is my thing. It's like you ask any player in the NBA, especially a top player, of course they're gonna say I want moves made. Like, yeah, I guess you caught LeBron in this moment. But like you ask any of these top players, whoever it is, yeah, of course you want upgrades made to the team. But again, the reality of this situation, and I'm here only for the reality, is that there's not, as of right now, the Lakers aren't in the marketplace to make a significant trade because of those two first round picks, the uncertainty about anti-Davis health status. And just that star player isn't available on the marketplace. And they're not just gonna make moves on the margins for a team that even if you add a player like that, you don't know where you're going. So that's the reality situation. That's all you know I'm gonna speak on. And you know that we're gonna get a lot more passive aggression, and it's gonna be awesome. And we're here for every single bit of it. I'll take a quick break when we come back. Shams has the latest on the dunk contest. And speaking of dunks, the latest addition of that man has a family when run it back for turns.