Yaron Weitzman
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I just figured I'd share that, you know.
okay uh now dan this is number five this is gonna help an old take of yours age pretty well i think okay so and this was a once controversial take but when magic was the team president i'm gonna read this the sounds of daytime tv shows like judge mathis the andy griffith show spin-off mayberry rfd and everyone's favorite family feud were often heard coming from inside his office during the day
He didn't work very hard.
He did not.
Okay, we talked about Rob Palenka, so his reputation.
So when Luke Walton was the head coach, he became so untrustworthy of Palenka, thinking that they would agree to things and then Palenka would say something else in another meeting, that any time he met with Palenka, he would insist that a third person would come to make sure that there was basically a witness.
Someone told me, a member of the coaching staff, quote, he kept feeling like he and Rob would discuss something and agree, and then Rob would go off in a completely different direction.
I'm going to add two more quickly on Palenka here.
Once he misquoted the Bible, he likes to think of himself as a Bible quoter.
He would say, you know, this hits my, if you see my name, you'll know my background, but he talks about Mata coming down from heaven.
He quotes it from the book of Genesis, except there is no Mata in the book of Genesis.
There's about three or four other books, but not in that one.
And Frank Vogel found out he was fired via a Woj tweet after a game they were sitting, that final game where he gets fired, he's sitting around, he looks at his phone and goes, well, Woj just tweeted that I don't have a bleeping job anymore.
So that's all.
Rob Polenka.
Number three, Lakers party habits.
Okay, so when Lakers players would go out to the clubs, Rajon Rondo would bring his iPad and watch film in a booth out there.
Connected, LeBron, when he would run a party, guests were required to sign NDAs.
Also connected, Jared Dudley, who sort of would organize the parties, was known for being able to get hundreds of women to show up.
And one player, Troy Daniels, told me a story that he went out once with Kyle Kuzma.