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Zach Randolph: How was playing alongside Kobe Bryant? Lou Williams: It was cool. It was an eye-opening experience. Because he showed me that everybody don't take basketball as seriously as I thought they did. Cuz he was dead serious about hoop. Like, he was militant with his approach to basketball. Like the way that he saw the game, the way that he broke it down in the lens that he saw it from. Like he was breaking down the game in five minute increments to him like in this five minutes this what the game supposed to look like and then for the next three minutes this what it's supposed to look like. Like he was breaking the game down different and I wish I was with him at a different time in my career and a different time in his career because his body started breaking down on him. His body wasn't giving him what he what he needed.
Lou Williams: What's the difference between the Clippers and the Lakers? The Clippers is the hood. Make no mistake about it, and the Lakers is Hollywood. Make no mistake about it. We’re not confused about our identity at all. Like if you play for the Clippers, you embrace the idea of being, hey, you little brother, but you the gangster though.
There’s no clear basketball reason for LeBron James to stop. “He’s going to pass a lot of marks,” Lue said. “First of all, he’s great. One of the greatest players to ever play the game. And then two, just the longevity. The more you play, the more records you’re going to break. But for him, like I said, it’s all about his mental space, about how he wants to put work into his body, how he ate every single day, every single night. And it’s a tough regimen. It’s a tough discipline to be able to do that. To be able to eat great every single day, to be able to work out every single day, to do your correctives every single day. It’s a hard process. So for him to be able to do that, just shows you what type of player he is.”
"It's not an accident that teams like the Lakers, Clippers, Heat and Warriors all have lined up to have cap space in 2027 when Giannis can be a free agent," one NBA executive told ESPN. "A player like Giannis can tilt the balance of power in the league for years to come. "What nobody knows yet is whether they'll really trade him before he gets to free agency -- and how they're making that decision."
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Disjointed or error-prone basketball could be forgiven on a night like Thursday – and Redick started with a perceived truth as he attempted to rally the troops during an early-game timeout “I know y’all are tired,” Redick said, according to guard Austin Reaves, who shared the internal dynamics of a Lakers huddle after the game Thursday night. “I’m not tired,” James fired back.
“I was like, ‘I’m not tired either,’” Reaves recalled. “Follow the leader; that goes along with the belief that we’re talking about. “It’s a beautiful thing to have (James) as one of the leaders of this team, because if there’s anybody in the world that could take games off, mentally not be there in a film session, practice, whatever it might be, it could be him, and that’s not how he’s wired. So, yeah, I think he’s insane.”
Solomon Hill: unfortunate play. no intent there at all, respect to Bron.
You robbed us of another Bron MVP 😭😭😭
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Luka Doncic is calling a technical foul on his ex-fiancée, essentially telling the court she should consult a map before filing legal docs over their 2 children ... TMZ Sports has learned. The Lakers superstar filed docs Friday asking an L.A. County judge to dismiss Anamaria Goltes' request for child support and attorneys fees, because she filed it in California ... when she knows the kids live in Slovenia.
In the docs, obtained by TMZ Sports, Luka and his attorney Laura Wasser point out he is not a California resident, and neither are their daughters. He says he's been trying for months to get Anamaria to move to Cali with their kids, but she's refused, since moving back to Slovenia last May. As we reported, that distance is exactly why he says he pulled the plug on their engagement.
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“But you’ll never hear an OKC fan complain about my free throws. You’ll never hear a Denver fan complain about Jokić’s free throws. You’ll never hear a Lakers fan complain about Luka’s free throws. It’s just part of the business. But I love it, it creates buzz around the game. It creates rivalries. It creates energy. It’s what makes the NBA so fun. Honestly, the fact that they care so much is great, because they care, they watch it on TV, the TV deals grow, I get more money. It’s how it goes. That’s honestly how I see it. So I love it. It’s amazing. It makes the games more fun.”
None of it is surprising, he insists. Gilgeous-Alexander counts Chris Paul as one of his earliest mentors. In his first season in Oklahoma City, Paul told him: You know you are starting to do things when you go to other arenas and they boo you. “That’s very true,” says Gilgeous-Alexander. Let the crowds complain. Let the talking heads gripe. To Gilgeous-Alexander, it’s just evidence he’s doing something right. “Everybody in the history of the NBA has an arc where everyone loves them, and then everyone hates them,” says Gilgeous-Alexander. “LeBron James was hated, and look what he’s done for the game? It’s part of the game. I love it. It’s stuff I dreamed about as a kid.”
Danny Green: If he gets one, if he even gets one championship with the Lakers because nobody's nobody's banking on them winning a championship. That's not possible. If he gets it done with one and gets a Finals MVP win, him getting it done, I'll put him above Michael Jordan. (…) Mind you, again we're talking about the Lakers win a championship. (…) Paul Pierce: I’m going to tell you what LeBron has done. He's made being the GOAT unattainable now. Because like when you look at it, he put a wall in front of Jordan. Because to like be the GOAT, that means you have to be better than LeBron. Nobody's going to be better. It's just hard to mention it. If Wenby won six championships, you going to be like, well, he's not better than Bron because Bron statistically he’s just so much better than everybody.