Dan Woike

Um, to, to slot along, like, so players of that talent level, if that's, do you sacrifice the chance at that for some immediate gratification?

I don't know the answer to this.

If I was a Lakers fan, I wouldn't say that.

I'd be giving me the finger right now and saying there's 50 games left.

You're telling me that every time there's a team that wants to drive to the basket, I have to watch them drive to the basket?

Well, see, I think they've got those guys weirdly enough, too.

But it's like it's not in like the it's like more like bored out of frustration than it is like object toughness.

And it's funny, I like hesitate to talk about toughness in any of these ways.

Like, I mean, you ask my wife, like, you know, I'm a mild second degree burn from a hot pan and I'm ready to go to urgent care.

But I think like,

yeah i i think like the reality of this is is that it took dallas a really long time to build a perfect team around luka dacic who plays a very specific way um the lakers have just started this process just started um but they're doing so at a time when their talent particularly their top end talent suggests that like they should be competitive now

so what do you do that's right the urgency of it yeah like what do you do I mean look there's never been a more win now player I said this last year which is even more true now than LeBron James at 41 years old right yeah like this is like this is a close second this is now is now gets yeah right right no way he's getting traded right

There's no trade clause.

I mean, well, he could ask for one, right?

He could ask.

I don't, if he wanted, if he didn't want to be on the Lakers, he wouldn't have opted it.

That's that was my assumption.

Yeah.

So look, I don't think that's happening again.

Also like there's, let's even pretend that it would like moving around $58 million or whatever money, like to a team that's, you know, like, like a whisker away from the first apron and,