 What's the word y'all welcome back to Kenny for real we talk about basketball around here and today We're talking about the Lakers any time the Lakers tight a name is in the title or Lakers players in the thumbnail These videos do numbers, but I promise I'm not doing this because of the numbers I'm doing it because the Lakers have been so active, and I I don't understand how the rich keep getting richer All right. Usually we have a floating shoe right here, but that LeBron This is LeBron. This is one of LeBron shoe first of all. It's not a very good shoe. It's super super heavy I'm in it. I'm gonna spoil the technology behind the floating shoe. It's magnets Mostly I probably knew that but the magnets that are attached to these the sneaker and then the stand aren't strong enough to keep up That LeBron shoe literally could keep up any other shoe in my collection is separate LeBron I don't know why he tends to create shoes for people that are six four and above, but he does But I buy him Yeah, just buy him. I don't know why so yeah, no floating shoe But we'll keep it on the shelf because it's Lakers related. All right. Let's talk about this Lakers team, man I am so Impressed how things are going be sure to leave a like and subscribe if you're new We talked about basketball around here exclusively and I don't want to spoil anything, but I'm in a good mood Things are going to blossom here on Kenny for real some more these sit-down videos with me and a microphone The camera will never go away, but we're blossoming into a little bit more and my managers will probably be really mad for me for saying that But it's already out there in the universe So expect Kenny for real to grow and be even better All right, so we have to talk about the Lakers before this offseason started me and my boys My boy Mike is a die-hard Lakers fan and my main question to him was you just want to championship Obviously, that is that is beautiful. But what now? Right, we expect the teams not just in the Western Conference But team in a league in general to continue to get better and better. So I asked Mike How do you? Right, because if you just ran it back that same exact roster sure it is still obviously good enough to get 10 for a Championship, but the path will be a little bit harder this year. We have teams getting better like that I mean the Warriors did did it like they were gonna be back to contention then clay Thompson towards Achilles But every single team looked like they were gonna be in a position to get even better though the Clippers may be losing some pieces In Montres hero, they got another year on their belt and the chemistry should be better Every team looked like they were going to be better and the Lakers won a position where they were pretty much capped out Had to pay Anthony Davis And they didn't have any Assets because all the assets they had they traded for Anthony Davis and they would do that trade again a hundred time out of 100 Because it ended in a championship But they didn't want to be in a position and this is me talking about my boy Mike to only win one with LeBron and Anthony Davis So what do you do to get this team better and his answer to me was I will figure it out And I was like bro That's so easy for you to say but like give me real moves He didn't have to give me real moves because Rob Lincoln was the one with the ideas and it started off with of course It didn't shoot a trade and we already talked about this that on this channel But what a beautiful trade that turned out to be trading away a late first round pick and Danny Green who is The butt of a lot of jokes still a decent NBA player But they wasn't necessarily a need for them and get back another ball handle another facilitator in the guy coming off a Career year and then the shooter was a W of a trade, but we were like, okay, so now what that's it That's obviously an upgrade. What about the rest of this roster? We knew that Rhondo was going to leave because the way he played in the bubble and played in the playoffs I mean, there are gonna be teams out there willing to pay him and that ended up being the Atlanta Hawks We talked about in yesterday's video if you did not see it So what else could you do and out of nowhere? somehow Mattress Harrow said I love LA But this clip was like a room is ass So I wouldn't be a Laker bro Mattress Harrow signed into the Lakers might be the most surprising thing to happen It's offseason for me. Honestly, it just might be because you think about what Mattress Harrow was Let's say three months ago He's coming off or we knew that he was going to be a contention for six man of the year again I gave it to dinner shooter, but he ended up winning Yeah, I can't complain about that and his value was at an all-time high We're talking about a spark plug center that could come in and give you energy for 20 plus minutes Play solid defense like we we say his defense is bad, but his defense is attached to his his energy So if he's tired, he's not gonna play defense but when he adds that energy defensively he was okay and We thought that he was about to get a bag now I didn't know what size of a bag but there were teams out there There was already rumored to be interested in like the Charlotte Hornets people speculate the Detroit Pistons a lot of teams that had money We thought we're going to throw this money at Mattress Harrow and he was gonna get a payday But so to see that he signed for what was it two years 19 million with the Lakers Was a huge huge surprise and a great grab for the LA Lakers Now people are asking me Kenny. How does he fit with the Lakers? I don't think that matters too much and this is why I'm saying that this is a Lakers team I just won a championship where they were playing players like Dwight Howard They're playing players like Javail McGee who are both gone now But they usually run a traditional big until is down to the nitty gritty and do you move Anthony Davis over to the five They don't need to play Montrez Harrow minutes down the stretch That was something Doc Rivers did and it didn't work out Montrez Harrow in this role with the Lakers I'm expecting him to come into the game give 20 to 25 minutes and don't close out unless he's absolutely high There's no reason to have him on the court The line-ups that won a lot of games in the bubble and one of my championships was when Anthony Davis was running the five You best believe they're not gonna switch this up because Montrez Harrow is in town And I hope that that was something they bled out to him when they signed don't expect yourself to get 35 minutes and close our games brother. It's just not gonna happen It just won't and if long as he's playing that role Well magnificent of assigning Montrez Harrow is a spark plug big man that can't get buckets with the best big man He's only like he's really like six eight. Let's keep it a buck. Okay, so that move happy You're like that is a huge huge W another upgrade And if even if this is what the team looked like going into the season you'd be happy But no they brought in Wesley Matthews and Wesley Matthews has been on us Maybe a little slower decline throughout the course of his career But um Milwaukee was super happy with the way he was performing like let me let me look at the Milwaukee Bucks and how he performed last season for them because I remember Wesley Matthews hitting some some pretty Timely big shots for them and though at the age of 34, he may not be a swift on his feet He's used to be he's still a solid defender. He just came off a season where he shot 36% from three that's about league average, you know, you'll take that you'll take that and then again We thought at least I thought that KCP was not gonna resign because he played so well in the finals That I thought for sure a team is gonna offer him a contract and he resigned So basically what you did was swapped Danny green with with Wesley Matthews and at the end of the day those are two similar similar players But they were not done There's room with that Marcus all like about a month ago There came out that Marcus all was thinking about going to play overseas to finish out his career And I was kind of sad because Marcus all is a guy that I really like and I was so happy when he won a championship with He's Toronto Raptors. It made me use one of those guys, you know Like Chris Paul Russell Westbrook Mike Hanley guys that I just want to see win a championship Marcus all was on that list and he finally got one and he was like man. I'm going to play overseas. I was like, oh, that's trash But there are some suitors out there There are some teams that wanted to bring him in and I forget who the Lakers are battling with I saw Oh, I saw that Dallas was a late team that was in there Basically, there was a little bidding war for for Marcus all and we didn't know at least I didn't know how the heck they were gonna get able to be able to get Marcus all because again They just spent a lot of money and they don't have much and then they did the move Just proven to the world that the NBA is a business and nothing more Javier McGee gets traded after picking up his player option And I know he is sick to his stomach But at the end of the day, this is one of those things that really showed that is a business You know, it is a business and I think 30 GM's out of 30 would rather have Marcus all in their roster than Javier McGee There's no knock to Javier McGee as a person, but as a basketball player even in his old age and Marcus all He is such a quality NBA player, you know, and then they sign him So now you turn a team that just won a championship with no cap space and little to no assets And they get better on paper now I always say on paper when it comes to free agency and the off-season because you never really know how things are gonna jail But looking at the players that they brought in these aren't guys. It's gonna cause problems Montress here. I don't I don't know much about Montress here on the locker room He was a part of that Clippers team had a lot of problems and he was on the bench laughing when things went down on the playoff So I don't know about that. But like when you were your team is Anthony Davis and LeBron James The rest can just be molded into whatever you want. You get what I'm saying Like the fit may not be perfect. It may not be perfect But if you have Anthony Davis and LeBron James, it is going to work out I'm interested to see how Wesley Matthews plays and if he turns into that Danny green punching bag Because again, he shot 36 percent from three this season. He's always gonna take three That's just that's been his whole game that the course of his career He's always gonna take threes and at 36% like his fans may not be too happy with some of the stuff They do but ma'am. I bet LeBron and Anthony Davis delay sign by the way. Yeah, I'm saying ain't signs is yeah You know, he might be coming back to Chicago But I know they are super happy with the way this off-season went and Lakers fans should be too, man in In a league where everybody has continuously got better you somehow found a way to do so as well Like I said in the beginning of the video the rich continue to get richer. That's just the way it is You know, this is something that we talked about before I was like if you're coming off a championship or you were just this close to winning championship They're going to be players willing to play for your team Because at the end of the day the goal as a basketball player as an NBA player is to win a ring and They had a formula last year, you know, I could come in his mark of Saul I'll play what 15 minutes a game. Maybe give me another ring and play crucial minutes when they need me to I'll do that Wesley Matthews been trying to get his ring. He went to Milwaukee. He didn't work out in Milwaukee So it's like I'm gonna go to the other team, you know, I'm saying the other number one seed in the playoffs And maybe it works out this time, you know, maybe works out this time Everybody's continuously getting better in the league And you love to see that and that's that's so crazy because according to my draft experts out there the 2021 draft class is ridiculously talented. Somebody told me The top seven people in this year's draft in 2021 draft if any of them were in the 2020 draft They would have all got taken number one. If it's that much talent out there. I May well my bull is the tank G. I'm just gonna say it, bro. All right, I'm exaggerated, but like it 2003 are we 1996 type draft class and everybody in the league wants to be competitive right now Hey, it's gonna be rough. Be sure to leave a like on the video. I'll be back talking about my next team Will it be Philly? I'm excited to talk about Philly. Maybe it'll be Philly. I'll see y'all tomorrow