LeBron Bends The Knee, Latest All-Star Votes & Trae Young Trade Ideas
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Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Wednesday, January 7th, 2026. I'm J.E. Skeets here in the good old classic factory and alongside me as always, Tass Mellis. Podcast listeners, this is for you. Next to him is my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Ayo. Ayo. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer J.D. Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hello, podcast listeners. Feels good to be out of the box. Breathing the air. Man, you saw me when I came out of that thing yesterday. I was soaked. It was like a hillbilly sauna, I realized. I was drenched. I've run marathons and not sweat that much. It's hot in that box, but it looked like people enjoyed the pick and pay off, JD, so good work on that.
Yeah.
Did you buy a sauna yesterday? No, no, no. Because it seems like, not a box sauna, but like cheap saunas are for sale. Are they? People are buying saunas these days. Yeah, yeah. You get into a teeny tiny one for a few hundred bucks. Just get a box. Yeah, just get a box and breathe. Yeah, it works.
All right, we got a fun one for you today. Later in today's show, we're going to grade some hypothetical Trae Young trades. We're going to trade this guy to like five or six teams. Oh, yeah. He's going to the Wizards. He's going to the Wolves. He's even going to our Raptors. Is he? No way. We'll grade that trade when it comes to Trae Young trades. But first, we did have some basketball last night. Let's talk about a few of the games. Let's start with Luka Doncic and LeBron James, each dropping 30 in the Lakers win versus the Pelicans. And after the game, after both guys played really well. LeBron James reiterated tasks, the pecking order, so to speak, when it comes to the L.A. Lakers. He said, quote, Luca is our franchise for this ball club.
He don't need to bend his game. It's up to us to bend our game around him and figure it out. That was LeBron, LA won their third game in a row here without two starters in Austin Reeves and Rui Hachimura. But what did you think of this one?
A lot of respect from LeBron. That's right. Somewhat bending the knee to Luka for the first time in his career to another guy. I think that was cool. I think his 38-8 performance for LeBron was also very cool. Vintage LeBron stuff. Good stuff. Amazing. And watching Luka was fun in this game. How controlled his body is. He always is. you know with the modern day NBA and all the travels happening because he is so slow I sometimes I watch that tape is he traveling nah nah he's just he's just that pace and he always will be uh he was so good that mid post move on pool even surprised himself where he was able to score and that slow-mo move and then he pulls the uh the classic European gesture to me anyways it's a
Yeah, that was not bad.
That was pretty good. You know, that... And then obviously with two minutes left, he hits that monstrous three... A ridiculous three. A ridiculous three.
That was cool, man. You're talking about the one where he used LeBron as a pick at the hash mark, basically, and then just threw it up.
Fell into a kid's lap. It was like it was his son or something like that, the way they were celebrating together.
That was awesome. It was really cool. So those two guys did it, and that's what the Lakers are right now. I mean, they are so... Top heavy. They're so good between him and LeBron and Austin Reeves when he comes back. And that's why they're climbing the standings here, because they have enough guys to beat the bad teams. Against the sub-500 teams, they're rolling. This season, they're 12-3 against sub-500 teams. At the beginning of January, eight of their first nine games are against sub-500 teams. And that's why they're climbing, combined with the Spurs loss that we'll get to. They're near second place in the Western Conference, sitting in third. So the other guys, the support guys did enough, like Ravia, Smart, Aiton.
We're seeing more Jared Vanderbilt. Even LeBron in his interview talked about Dalton Connect, how they're trying to get Dalton.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:37
2
How did LeBron publicly defer to Luka after the Lakers-Pelicans game?
4:37–18:31
3
What are the Lakers’ clutch stats and should we trust their 13-0 record?
18:31–34:10
4
Why did Victor Wembanyama sit in crunch time and did the Spurs pay for it?
34:10–43:01
5
When does NBA All-Star fan voting end and what happens next?
43:01–43:46
6
How will the All‑Star starters and Saturday events be revealed and covered?
43:46–44:52
7
What realistic Trae Young trade packages are being proposed and graded?
44:52–48:13
8
Which specific Trae Young trade scenarios (Wizards, AD three‑team, Raptors, Bucks, Wolves) do hosts prefer and why?
48:13–1:24:41
Speakers
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