Zach Lowe

And no one on the record, off the record, privately, publicly has come out and said, no, no, it actually wasn't Kevin Durant, which I don't know what else to conclude from that other than it seems like it was Kevin Durant.

And they had also, there was also lines in the story that were, were like the whole team came together and agreed to just like squash it, keep it in house.

We're not talking about it.

Like the whole thing in the, in the athletic story, which I've also heard similar, like meetings took place was just like, it was what, it was a huge issue, whatever it was, it was a big issue.

I mean, Luca comes back, plus Jalen Williams remains out, would have been a roadmap towards an interesting series.

Yeah.

It doesn't seem like... I mean, the latest updates on Luca is he's still a bit away.

Um, and I just don't know that even with, even if J Dub, who's, I mean, when's the last time they played at this point a week ago, if they had a week off now?

Um, you know, I, I just don't see a roadmap for the Lakers without Luca to really make it a competitive series.

There'll be some competitive games.

They'll slow it down and play their old man basketball and like whatever.

But, um,

you know, it's still, you're still asking a lot of Marcus Martin, Rui Hachimura and Jake LaRavia and guys that are just like the Thunder have just better guys than that.

Well, it's like it's like the father time.

Father time is like the whole metaphor is just this series.

Father time versus LeBron.

Here's team father time, like a bunch of guys who are 25 and younger and awesome at basketball.

You are 41 and just have at it.

Okay.

Oh, sure.