Yaron Weitzman

Thanks for having me.

I'm glad that Stephen A. detail gets glanced over too frequently, and I'm glad you grabbed onto that.

um yeah no that was the one you know when you do this you kind of you report and you kind of you get different details and that was the one when i got that i remember i was sitting on my on my couch and kind of told my wife after being like oh i think we got the excerpt here like i think this is it i just because it has the personalities and i feel like sportsbooks should have some silliness to them too and the will smith being involved there just six months after the slap just makes it perfect so that was i was pretty happy with that one

So not the beginning.

So that is true.

So I'll go behind the scenes here.

You know, when I started this, I reached out to the principals, reached out to Jeannie Buss.

Told her I was going to do this book.

We met a few times off the record.

And I'm only sharing that because she has referenced, quote, the writer who's doing a book on me, on us, in multiple interviews or an interview.

So I guess I figured we were clear there and then just talk about it.

And at some point, I don't know what changed.

To this day, I don't.

But I remember the day of the Dan Hurley news, right?

The day it was game one of the, I think it was 2024 NBA Finals.

The Lakers, that's the day that Woj broke that Dan Hurley story.

And that evening, I get an email from the desk of Marty Singer, and I have to Google him after, and he's a famous defamation lawyer.

And he says that the Lakers, he's basically representing the Lakers.

I've described it as like,

It wasn't quite a cease and desist, but a we're watching you.