Yaron Weitzman

Goes to get Palenka, brings Palenka in.

And sorry, goes to get Palenka and Will Smith, brings them in.

And Will Smith does the whole, I'll use it as a spiel message, Mike.

choose would say but just a whole you know talks about movies whatever all that stuff is new movie emancipation and uh at the end any questions and one hand goes up again and again and again and again and it's lebron's hand he's asking a ton ton of questions and the way it's described to me is like teammates and people in the room could just see their russ is sitting there picking it i love this detail picking out a bowl of fruit just like angrily and you can like see the steam rising out of his ears

And he says to a teammate, they do a team photo on the way to team photo.

He says to a teammate, like, I hate that fake bleep, right?

And the best part is the team photo was posted, right?

And at the time, like, the Lakers posted the team photo of the group.

At the time, it had gotten a little pickup.

Like, I remember a little bit like, hey, look at Russ.

But, like, he's scowling, and it's clearly for a reason, right?

So that part's wild.

The part, I'm going to add this as, like, an epilogue.

What I found so interesting, and I kind of hinted this at the first, is, like, this story got picked up, and I'm here looking at all the,

you

reactions and mentions to on it and stuff and like it's so interesting and so telling how so many of them are yeah lebron's a phony go get him team ross team ross lebron's a phony it's like okay fine i'm repeating again the idea that like anyone but russell westbrook is responsible for i mean the trade was bad but anyone but russell westbrook is responsible for how poorly that went is ridiculous and we have proof of now i don't know maybe 16 teams that westbrook has been on since since okc where it hasn't gone well and it just was so telling it's so telling to me about like how people

feel about Lakers fans and NBA people in general feel about LeBron that like even anyone that would latch on to like team Russ on that.

And it kind of summarizes the whole thing where you get it.

It summarizes the issues there for sure, but it doesn't make Russ right.

Yeah.