Sam Amick

Our buddy, Law Murray, who

obviously covers the Clippers and other things for the athletic.

He made a point when we chatted last night that, like, James has an amazing knack when times are not good in his current situation.

Oh, yeah.

He finds that blood in the water.

Yeah, like, you know, it's like you don't apply leverage to your current place until you have something somewhere else.

So to your point, it does feel like there's some grease having been put on that situation in Cleveland a little bit.

uh yeah i mean we'll have to find out that one you know um love you dave but that's one of those where it's like once we get anything there that'll be on the website you don't yeah yeah that's right what i mean it'll be after all-star before we know anything but

Yeah, for sure.

But I do think, you know, at minimum, you can share that like people around the league are wondering about that question.

You know, even related to Joe Varden and I had broken the news that Lawrence Frank, the head of the Clippers front office, got an extension recently.

And we didn't write the number, but the numbers you hear are pretty significant.

So that's another one where it's like, you know, is that a deal for the future?

Is that a

you know, thanks for the time in case you're in trouble type thing.

That's the backdrop and the mystery going forward here.

Yeah, I think they are, and they're just in this – nobody is in the type of hole that they are in terms of being limited because they're the only second-apron team in the league.

My understanding is that the DeAndre Hunter deal, the three-team deal,

trade with the Kings and the Bulls.

Essentially, the amount that they need to cut to get out of the apron and to be able to do some of this stuff, that cut off about a third of it, and they still have a ways to go.