Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What insights does Dave McMenamin share about LeBron James?
Is that what Dabo's saying? Telling the boosters, we've got to spend more money. But my response would be, well, wait a minute, you're beating all those teams. How much money do you need? The problem is you were beating those teams a while ago. You were 7-6 last year. Now, has he done a great job? He did a great job at Clemson. Is he doing a great job? No, not now.
But blame this on your boosters. Like, why would you single out Notre Dame or Ohio State? They're taking advantage of the rules. And there aren't many rules, but they're taking advantage of everything that you can take advantage of.
Chapter 3: How did the Lakers perform in their recent games?
And Ohio State is as well. But if you're going to brag about beating, if you weren't beating these teams, now you got my attention where you go, look, we can't keep up with them. We need more money. I want to compete for national titles again. I can't do that with the budget that we have. Yes, Marvin.
Yeah, now you see schools like Alabama and Clemson that were meeting for the national championship year in and year out. Like, oh, it's different now when the playing field is all evened out. You can't stockpile. I always go back to Alabama. Alvin Kamara had to transfer because he was the fifth string running back on Alabama. They were stockpiling guys. And guess what? Now everyone can do it.
Everyone has money.
So you can't dominate like you once did. Yeah, Dylan. I mean, when you just look at the SEC's dominance over the last two seasons, it is a shadow of what it was when the time Davos was talking about, like the Alabamas and Auburns of the world. I mean, Alabama lost to Vanderbilt last year. Yes, Todd.
Why can't Coach have that conversation behind closed doors with school heads and potential boosters? Because then it looks like whining and it doesn't come across well at all that you would say those things publicly.
If you need to raise more money or you don't have enough of a budget to get the best players, why does that have to be shared with the world unless you're making an excuse ahead of the next season?
Well, I can pretty much guarantee he's had these conversations. Pretty much. Probably didn't go well. That's why he's going public and letting everybody know, hey, we used to beat these teams. Well, you used to beat them, so what changed? You weren't embracing the transfer portal to begin with.
I don't know what kind of resources you have, but I can't blame Notre Dame for doing what Notre Dame is doing or Texas is doing or USC is doing or Michigan is doing or Ohio State is doing. You're the one being left behind. We said that with the transfer portal. We said that about NIL. Dabo didn't want any part of that. And I'm thinking, you are a dinosaur, man.
And we know what happens with dinosaurs, certainly in the college ranks. But now he's easing back in because he knows that he needs to. But if you have nine guys drafted, you win seven games. I would look inside. I wouldn't be looking at other programs and saying, well, that's not fair. Notre Dame gets to print money. Okay. Well, that's not fair. Ohio State gets to... Okay.
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Chapter 4: What unfair advantages do wealthy schools have in college sports?
I mean, if you watch last year's playoffs, you saw Denver take them to seven. You saw Indiana take them to seven. So certainly they are. And right now, Jen Williams is out of the lineup. You would say that that's by their second or third best player. So they're more vulnerable now.
But then you watch the game last night and you see guys like AJ Mitchell, you see the other Jalen Williams, you see Jared McCain come in and make plays. You see the bench outscore the lakers bench 34-15 and you're like man if they can do this on a night where shea literally has his worst scoring game in two years they do seem uh like in a class of their own right now
You hear athletes at the end of their careers say, well, I don't want to go out like this. But you can't decide what's going to happen by, oh, I don't want to go out this way.
Chapter 5: What are Dabo Swinney's thoughts on Clemson's resources?
I'll come back next year. There's no guarantee next year is better than this year. But is there a scenario you see for LeBron where this is how he wants to go out or this is how he will go out? There was a time this year where I really believed it was this last season.
And it was early December after he had made his comeback and he's doing things like scoring 12 points on the road in the fourth quarter against Philadelphia 76ers and afterwards waxing poetic about how much it meant to him to soak in the road crowd because that's a place he's always appreciated. That kind of narrative
coming from him changed around the all-star break and i would be pretty shocked at this point if this was his last season uh he's his game is still elite and not what it was in his prime but it's still all-star caliber he has found a way to play winning basketball with this team they went 16-2 with him taking a kind of a supporting role through march and early april
And if they make some adjustments to this roster, they should be right there up with the top echelon of the Western Conference. So to me, it doesn't make sense because he still loves the game for him to walk away from the game. And quite frankly, it doesn't really make sense for him to look for another team to play for.
I think the Lakers offer him pretty much everything he'd want at this stage of his career. Does he ever talk, and this is probably not the way to phrase it, but just padding his stats. Like he may not win another title, but the longevity that he's showing, like he's doing something that nobody has done at this level. I don't know how important those things are.
If you say you're not going to win another title in the next two years, but you're still going to be able to play and contribute, how much does he care about the final numbers of his career? In the stat, I can tell you that he cares about his... He has two assists to Bronny James thus far in his career. He wants to add to that, and he's had one assist he's received from Bronny James.
That's certainly a counting stat that he wants. But it's about doing all the things he does to keep his body and mind sharp, to still be doing the same thing he's been doing all these years later with the context of winning. If there was not a chance to contend, I'd really believe he would walk away. He doesn't need it.
But so long as that sliver of a window is open, and truly, I've been told by people within the organization when they were putting together that run in the second half of the season, he really believed. He bought in on everything. You saw the best version of LeBron James. If he can stay in that mode, why would you walk away?
Because that's the type of stuff that's going to gnaw at you and eat at you when you only have golf as your outlet for years to come. You'll think back that, you know, I almost squeezed everything out of that, but there was a little bit more juice left to be squeezed.
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Chapter 6: How does Dabo's record compare against powerhouse teams?
Explain to the audience that you had an opportunity to ask LeBron 23 questions, questions you've never asked him before. Yeah. So the idea was, and I was talking to you briefly before, I thought this was going to be the last year. It was kind of feeling that way and kind of the same deal. I wanted to squeeze all the juice out of it as well.
And so I approached him after his season debut in Utah, after he missed the first 14 games with sciatica. And I was like, I've been kind of thrown around this idea in my head. I just love to kind of empty the notebook of the stuff that, uh, I didn't ask you because it was kind of a one-off throwaway question. Like, why does he wear the same quarters every game that Nike came out with in 2021?
And he doesn't wear the new warm-ups? I just always wanted to ask him that. To, like, way more... basketball-centric like what-haves and antagonistic players like Lance Stevenson and Dylan Brooks meant to your career. He said, let's try it.
And so over the course of the season, it would be mostly always a postgame window more often on the road because we're not trying to get home to our families. And, you know, you can linger a little bit longer in the locker room. And yeah, it's just kind of, peppered him with these questions. And to his credit, he played ball.
Like there wasn't one of them that he said, no, I'm not going to answer that. And for the most part, I think there was some insightful answers. What surprised you the most? I think that when I asked him about guys that I know he respects, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Richard Jefferson, guys, Tracy McGrady, his peers in the game, several of his teammates, and have gone on to broadcasting careers.
When I was asking, does he look to them as an example of how you fill your time in retirement? He's like, F no. He's like, it's not because it has anything to do with them or broadcasting. I just don't look at my life that way. I have my own journey.
And I just found, I think if I was in his shoes, I would probably look to my friends and my peers as they did XX and X, and I'm going to try to do XX and X as a way to kind of have what we all know to be a really
awkward and difficult time of your life you know athletes suffer two deaths when they retire and when they expire that would be something i would do to try to like maybe have a little bit of a head start on it and he flatly rejected that he puts his mind what through what they're going through at all i thought that was pretty revealing when do you think that not everybody turned on him but when do you think there was this um
I don't know if it was fatigue that people had with him, social media. Mike didn't go through social media. So it just felt like, was there a time where this went from a feel-good story, local kid, without a dad, leads, you know, goes with the Cavaliers, does everything they possibly can, And then I didn't know if it was when he went to Miami that all of a sudden it's like, oh, okay.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Dabo Swinney face in the current college football landscape?
They don't do that to Jerry West. Jerry, I think, was 1-9. And your nickname is Mr. Clutch, and you're the logo. And look, Jerry was one of my favorite players. But it feels like... Getting there 10 times to play for 10 titles, you have to give credit to that. I know Mike was 6-0. I know Montana was 4-0. But damn, Brady got there even if you lose. LeBron got there.
I mean, you can't win it if you don't get there. And I always thought that that was a shame, that it was viewed as a negative. Oh, he can't win the big one. Jerry West, as great as he was, only won one title. And you're a golf guy, right? And he's becoming a golf. We look at all the second-place finishes for guys like Tiger and Arnold. Jack had 19 second-place finishes. There you go, right?
That's something that should be celebrated. The fact that you were playing on Sunday was something to play for. LeBron's been playing in June was something to play for. And I don't think we'll see another player – That to me is as important of any step that he was able to kind of accomplish at this time. Thanks for spending time. We appreciate it. Thanks for the insights, Dave. You got it, Dan.
Anytime. Dave McMenamin. He's covering the Lakers in OKC. Game two coming up tomorrow night. And the Lakers are 15 and a half point underdogs. We'll take a break. Last call for phone calls, what we learn, what's in store tomorrow. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsportsradio.com. And within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to listen live.
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