Yaron Weitzman
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They were able to leverage his power.
During the AD negotiations, so Rob Palenka messed up the salary cap, and basically they messed up the sequencing.
They had to convince AD to waive his trade kicker, is the short of it.
And in order to do that, clutched and said, you know what, we're going to negotiate with you.
If we're going to waive the trade kicker, we want to guarantee that you sign Contavious Caldwell Pope.
So that's not necessarily LeBron forcing him to do things.
That's more leveraging the power that they had.
So I got to give Pablo.
I was not.
Pablo nailed it down.
I could not.
It was one of these things where we all assumed and we all kind of knew.
And I actually was at a point where, like, I was just going to kind of leave it ambiguous.
Pablo nailed it.
I was not able to.
So no more than what Pablo said.
No cooperation, but I would say a less aggressive lack of cooperation, if that makes sense.
Right.
I think they're just at the point where like they don't I mean, LeBron doesn't really do long form interviews of any kind anymore.
And I have no issue with that.