Best of The Doug Gottlieb Show: 07/02/2018
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🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Doug gives his thoughts on LeBron James signing with the Lakers, Paul George staying with the Thunder, and why they are overcompensating for things they have done in the past. 5-time NBA Champion and Lakers legend Kobe Bryant joins the show to talk about his role in recruiting LeBron James to Los Angeles. And Doug talks to #1 overall pick for the Phoenix Suns Deandre Ayton about being a traditional big man in today's NBA.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.7 | This is the best of the Doug Gottlieb show on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:10.4 | Boom! What up, America? |
| 0:11.8 | Doug Gottlieb show, Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:15.3 | Coming to you from the sunny city of Los Angeles. |
| 0:19.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.7 | Yeah, new home of LeBron James. Listen, I did not create the rules, |
| 0:27.3 | but this has happened before. It will happen again. Sometimes your stars, your teams will flee to |
| 0:35.2 | bigger markets, to better places, to place to which if you have money, you're like, why wouldn't you? |
| 0:41.2 | We'll get to whether or not it makes sense from a basketball perspective, from a lifestyle perspective. |
| 0:47.6 | But I really think that there's a word that best describes this weekend and even the reaction to this weekend in the NBA. |
| 0:59.3 | You want to know what that word is? The word is to overcompensate. To overcompensate is to take an |
| 1:05.2 | excessive measure or measures, an attempt to correct an amends for an error or weakness or a problem, |
| 1:10.4 | especially one that occurred in the past. |
| 1:13.2 | And I kind of feel like that's what a lot of folks did, including LeBron James. |
| 1:20.6 | Think about how business-like, how matter of fact, how efficiently he chose, |
| 1:26.4 | not just to pick the Lakers, |
| 1:28.1 | but to announce that he had chosen the Lakers. |
| 1:31.5 | Gets off a plane on Saturday to much fanfare, |
| 1:35.7 | doesn't have a tour, doesn't have open meetings, |
| 1:39.5 | collects his thoughts, collects his things, goes to his house. |
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