Would you go the Lakers or the field?

I'm rolling with the Lakers.

I'm willing.

With the Lakers.

I think the Lakers have a chance to three peat, not just repeat three peat.

I think right now, as this season is presently constructed, it's the Lakers, and everyone else is a distant second.

Coming into this season, LeBron is obviously 36.

By that time, he'll be 37 going on 8 38 and I think that's where to run.

Ultimately ends with a three peat.

I think it's entirely possible that the Lakers three peat I'm not going to say a guarantee because of injuries and all of that other stuff, But I'm a pretty close as I can get to a guarantee that the Lakers were winning the title again this year.

That's how distant I consider them to be from everybody else.

Unless James Harden Lance in Brooklyn.

I think the Onley shot that exists in the field for anybody to knock off the Lakers is if James Harden ends up joining K D and Kyrie in Brooklyn.

Outside of that, I don't think anybody has a chance and knocking off the Lakers this year.

I'm going with the Lakers over the field.

Well, I agree with you.

The Lakers over the field this year, Stephen A.

And believe it or not, when I handed in my Knicks fan card when I moved to L.

A to do afternoon drive there, I lived there for six years when you between the thing.

I always wanted to be my whole life.

That's right.

A Lakers fan.

No, I didn't betray New York.

I'm holding it down for New York, leading by example that was trained.

That's what Brooks did.

You trade your next trader?

That's right.

If if the Brooklyn Nets would have been in would have been around back then.

I'd have been a Nets fan anyway.

The point is this.

I'm rooting for them toe happen for that to happen, and I think they do win it this year.

But I can't pick him against the field for the next three years, and this is why LeBron James would be 36 turning 37 b 37 turning 38 year after and what you just said, Stephen A.

Is the problem when you up the ante.

Other teams reload, right?

So we all think that Steph is probably not done winning a championship.

If he and Clay can get back together and the Warriors have enough assets to make something happen if Wiseman himself doesn't become ah, star and all that stuff, right?

So you have the Warriors.

When are they gonna do this?

Sometime in the next three years.

One would think, Right, you say if Harden goes to the Nets, Well, that could happen.

But a lot of things can happen.

Where does Yanis wind up?

Because if you are honest leaves, Milwaukee ain't going to some run of the mill team.

He's going to join the team that has other stars, and that team, like if it's Miami, for example, is gonna be a whole lot.

So I agree.

The Lakers win this year, you know, knock wood.

Unless something that I think the Lakers are the best team again.

And that's too.

But then, by year three, like it's just hard to win a championship by year three.

LeBron's 38 years old.

Most of the cat money is going to LeBron and a D, and you got wherever hardened winds up wherever Yanis winds up Steph and Clay and whatever moves they make Ascending Nuggets team and like descending Dallas team, who knows who they acquire?

I think it's too much toe.

Ask that the Lakers beat the field over the next three years.

I do think they win this year.

Well, Max, let me tell you why you're wrong.

First of all, the Lakers are the NBA champions.

With that being said, I would think all the other 29 teams will act aggressively in free agency and win the battle.

But guess who won the battle in free agency?

The Los Angeles Lakers?

They got they upgrade.

They got rid of salary and upgraded at different positions.

They got really Danny Green.

And when got Wesley Matthews, By the way, Danny Green.

I love him to death, who was making 15 a year and you signed Wesley Matthews at 3.6 million.

And then you go on.

Still, Mantra is Harold, which I said time and time again from the Clippers, the sixth Man of the Year candidate and then you trade and you get to see the run up for the sixth man in candidate of the year and Dennis Schroder.

And what I'm saying is, yes, you have LeBron James.

Yes, you have Anthony Davis.

But guess what?

We're leaving out one particular name, and that's Rob Pelinka.

I have full trust and Rob Pelinka, and he hasn't steered me wrong yet just because of what he did in this free agency, he went in there with a Mamba mentality.

He went in the aggressive, he said, We're not satisfied.

So with that being said, at the rate that he's going, if he continued to do this year after year and free agency, I could see the Lakers going on the three p like Stephen A.

Smith said.

Because guess what, and a couple of years is gonna be bigger free agents that come up on the market and right now, what made me realize this is that mantra as Harold went to the Lakers.

So what, that tells me is that the Los Angeles Lakers or eye candy to the rest of the NBA and guys are willing to come get starting up.

Toby is Toby in Los Angeles and to go and have a chance at winning the title perk, let me get this straight because I agree with everything you said about Pelinka.

He's done a great job, and I was.

I had my eyebrows raised like Pelinka.

Really Kobe's guy like that sign.

It seems to me like Kobe wants to buy the Lakers, maybe, or something like that or Kobe's went winning the kind of chess game with Magic and LeBron, who's going to control the team, You know, and and and But Pelinka did a great job like the Mamba mentality is right, a great job in the off season.

But let me ask you this next three years, If the Lakers win two, that means they beat the field.

So there's only one championship now for everyone else to go around.

That includes the Warriors.

When Clay gets back and everything they might do that includes wherever James Harden goes, including probably Brooklyn.

Stephen A.

That includes Philadelphia with Simmons and beat.

Or what if Harden winds up in Phillips?

Call me What happened with Daryl Morey is GM that includes wherever Yanis goes, including Miami.

You see Pat Riley with this team sitting around for the next three years, not sniffing championship.

I'm just saying let me read a lot.

Well, let me respond.

First of all, you almost shouldn't be allowed to talk about this.

Number one.

You didn't mention one word about Coney Island.

You didn't mention one word about your best player in the world.

Didn't mention what worried about him.

You want a hard for the camera?

Get Max.

You feel free to me.

One hot hot from the camera again, like he did yesterday.

You could, Max.

You could cause you ain't mention Kawai.

Not one time.

That's number one.

That's Paul Church issue.

You number two, You don't get to talk about hard and either because you've lamented the fact that Kyrie Irving is on the team and proclaimed that Kyrie Irving is a problem for any team that he's on.

So that gets washed out of the mix.

Obviously, you lamented and you want to record once saying that Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid didn't need to be on the same team, so you don't get to bring bring them up.

And when you bring up Dallas damn, it can pour Ziggo.

Stay healthy first, please.

Can he do that?

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