Rumors

Those are numbers are impressive and bode well for L.A.’s chances of potentially making a deep postseason run with James playing like that, accompanied by Doncic. However, actor Jason Sudeikis shared a story where he got the best of the Lakers star and scored on him while rehearsing for Saturday Night Live, via New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce: There is a sketch that we did, characters Bill and I did a couple of times. Where I play a stagehand, who is kind of a dick to people. We did it to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, we did it with Paul Rudd and we did it with LeBron and I challenged him to one-on-one in the sketch. In rehearsal, I did go by him and then went up and he didn’t know I was going to do a reverse layup. And I did score on him on an 8-foot goal. Oh yeah, he was 100% [trying]. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he was definitely trying, you can’t turn that off. It was funny because Don Roy King, who was our director at the time, who I just saw at the 50th [SNL special] came up and literally brought it up. He goes, ‘If you ever need someone to vouch for this, I know it happened.’ Like thank you, it sucks being the one telling this, you know keeping this apocryphal story alive. You know, I’d prefer it to be someone else, but so be it.”

Lakers Nation

Sorry, Paul Rudd, but I’ve got a new favorite “Conan” guest now. I’m sure he understands, but Dirk straight crushing this nicknames bit last night is just impossible to beat. It was a nice run while it lasted, Rudd. There’s a new Herr in town.

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