BASKETBALL ILLUMINATI - Shadow Puppet Regime

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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As LeBron James closes in on Kareem Abdul Jabbar's scoring record, the Illuminati assess the validity of his latest insinuations of collusion by officials against the Lakers. News reports emerging from the Atlanta Hawks organization indicate a growing state of unrest due to the nepotistic shadow puppet regime pulling the strings. CJ McCollum offers up a cryptic comment about the Toronto Raptors on his podcast, euro-stepping around potential tampering, so we break his code. Subscribe to Basketball Illuminati! On Apple or Spotify Merch: Shirts - Hat 1 - Hat 2 Email us: basketballilluminati@gmail.com Twitter: @bballilluminati Instagram: @basketballilluminati Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you know that you're very Smith was just so excited to get on the floor just so that he could call LeBron old.
0:05.0	You play against my dad first your first NBA game ever real Sacramento.
0:11.0	You feel old don't you?
0:14.0	You know my favorite part of that is the bar. We probably had this thing circled on his calendar. We play the Lakers and LeBron. I'm gonna tell him and all that.
0:22.0	Yeah, but of course the internet will not allow anyone to have long lasting joy because I don't know if you guys saw this but Twitter did its own research and they pulled up the box score from LeBron's first career game against Sacramento.
0:34.0	Tell me he didn't play.
0:35.0	The bar is with was a Sacramento King, but he registered a DNP CD.
0:40.0	Wow.
0:41.0	The caption from the tweet was and I quote pops ain't tell him the full story though.
0:47.0	So cold blooded man. It was a nice moment for the kids and whatever. I also did think of surprising when you watched the video LeBron is clearly perplexed and LeBron has as we all know this amazing memory.
1:02.0	So how could LeBron have forgotten who was on the floor? Maybe maybe he's getting old and he's forgetting. Nope.
1:08.0	It's because my man was never on the floor.
1:10.0	LeBron's taking acting classes because he's got to learn how to flop. I mean, remember.
1:14.0	No, that's right. Yeah. And he's trying to get into the acting school there in Hollywood. He did seem pretty convincing.
1:19.0	He didn't know about that stat. I just looked it up.
1:22.0	Jabari Smith, his dad played against LeBron. That is true that there are a few games after that the following year he played against LeBron James.
1:31.0	But there was a really cool Reddit post about how there's nine father, son duos who have played against LeBron in their careers.
1:40.0	So Jabari Smith is one Gary Peyton, Samaki Walker and his son Glenn Robinson.
1:47.0	Tim Hardaway apparently senior did not play against LeBron. He was out. But there are nine players.
1:53.0	AJ Griffin and Adrian Griffin. That's right. Yeah.
1:56.0	Jalen Brunson, Rick Brunson. Wow. Rick Brunson. That's an upset.
2:00.0	That Rick Brunson was still playing when LeBron came along.
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