I just want you to tell people about the conversation.

You have a rich Paul and K D that.

He said he would never let LeBron play with the injury like that.

Curious what?

Your take is on this now, considering it's happening to another client and Anthony Davis.

Well, first of all, man Good morning, Thio.

Your brothers.

Man, I appreciate you having me on, and I just wanted to tell you how proud I am and you guys for the wonderful show y'all got.

But you know, the Lakers gotta make sure the Lakers gotta make sure that they go about this the white way and they need to go back and look at what happened to Kevin Durant and, you know, and and go about it that way.

And J is right.

Listen, you cannot watch Anthony Davis back, especially dealing with, you know, a cast quote, unquote kapstream, flash, Achilles, you know, injury, anything that's dealing with that area.

We witnessed Kevin Durant come back to Seoul and we saw the end result of that.

And so with that being said, you know, I spoke with Rich Paul during that time and I asked him.

I said, you know, Hey, Rich, if it was born, would you would have told you what advice?

You?

The game, we would have said I would have told you, had to sit out.

You know, there's no way I would have no way I would allowed him or we would allow him to go onto the basketball court because again, it's about his longevity.

And we all know that, you know, nine times out of 10 guys don't come back from Achilles injury, especially if they get worse than you come back too soon.

And you tell your Achilles now Kevin Durant and John Wall is just doing some special, but they still have yet to make it through the whole entire season.

So if I'm in Anthony Davis camp, which Rich Paul is, they're gonna make sure they give him the right advice and look out for him.

Long term KP.

Let's go from one story franchise to another.

Let's go to the East Coast in the Boston Celtics.

What is going on with this team?

You know Stephen A.

Was on the other day talking about is Danny aims?

I'm like, No, this is Brad Stevens it is.

It is.

It is.

And you know, Ah, lot of people don't criticized Brad, and I think he's done a great job since he's been there.

But right now, you know so many lineup changes and and and not having the right structure, not having the right identity for us with their culture.

And we're used to seeing.

We used to see in the Boston Celtic team that plays with a certain type of tenacity on the defense event, a Boston Celtic team that knows their role.

And right now, when you watch this team, they don't know their rose.

We all know that Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum is one A and one B.

Right now, however, you wanna flip.

Kemba Walker now has become their tickets last third option guy to Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum, and he has yet to find his role or, you know, find his niche in the system.

And when you look at what Brad is doing, sometimes I'm watching the Celtics game and he's going 10 11 guys deep into the rotation.

You can't do that as a basketball player, and even as a football player key and Jay, I could relate.

You could go out there and perform better when, you know, would you?

Would you expect when you know your role when you know how many minutes you're going to get?

What you know when you are going to come into the game.

So when you look at the Celtics lineup, one minute shimmy Ojha layers in the lineup and he's starting and he's playing 30 minutes the next minute.

Next game, he may get a D m P, and it's just you can't get a rhythm and a you can't get a great field playing that way.

And J you right man Brad Stevens Need to take a lot of this blame for the way that the Celtics are playing right now.

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