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Made it to a Thursday, Gang's All fired up. I don't think we have any NFL coming up this afternoon

or tonight. But it's early. Welcome to the program. Got breaking news here. The Anthony Davis

situation with the Lakers is being finalized, five year 190 million dollar max contract to stay

with the L.A. Lakers. This a day after LeBron James signed a two year extension. He's locked in

at around $41 million. But now this will preclude the Lakers from bringing in the Greek freak.

I think that there was the possibility they had that door open that maybe, depending on what LeBron

was going to sign for, Anthony Davis was going to sign for maybe the Greek freak would be

available for the Lakers. But that's not happening, not happening with these two contracts here with

LeBron James. And I think there was a curiosity. Does LeBron take less? Because he wants to be able

to add more players to the roster. Make sure that an advanced age of 36, 37, 38. He's still able to

be a big contributor, but have some younger legs there. That's not the case. Although I look at LeBron

as a bargain. If you said I can have LeBron at $41 million, and I look around and see some of

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