Greg Cody

You've got to win more than this if you're going to behave this way always with reporters.

Listen to what Mick Cronin had to do, what he did to a reporter who asked him about teams traveling out west as opposed to UCLA traveling somewhere else.

I don't think I ever got that many roses in my whole life.

Certainly not from your lovely grandfather, God.

May his soul rest in peace.

Fourth time through the lineup, right.

Juju has the poles.

We usually do that at the end of the show.

Stab it with a 10-foot pole because here's the deal as I gingerly put this thing down.

All right, number one, winning championships is hard.

We see it every year.

People get hurt.

People get suspended.

People...

Lose the motivation to play hard, apparently.

Coaches mess up.

So just the act of winning a championship is never a given in the NBA.

Number two, Luka Doncic has not historically been a durable guy.

No, I'm not doing a let's support Nico Harrison's BS trade thing, but there was a kernel of truth in, like, how do we know this guy is going to stay durable?

Number three, he plays in the Western Conference, and as we see every day, the Western Conference is cutthroat.