Welcome to the favorites, the podcast from the action network I am Chad Millman and I am joined

the warning only one of my favorite people in the world even when he's not being nice to me which I

know he doesn't feel like doing today. Black Jack Fletcher. Hi my beautiful

brother. Now like you're just being short and normally this is the point where like you'd be mean to me and I'd be like why and but we're not going to get into that today you know why?

No. We're not going to get into that today, you know why?

No.

We're not going to get into that because Baxter Holmes of E-SPN

wrote a great story about the Los Angeles Lakers dysfunction that posted today and it just so happened

at the NBA finals are starting on Thursday and Brian Winhorse who is one of the premier

NBA insiders reporters and analysts in all of America was

already scheduled to come in the podcast today so we got him on and he

obviously has written multiple books on LeBron James so he knows

LeBron his camp and what's happening in the Lakers intimately.

So he could speak eloquently to the scenario in LA and also to Baxter's story.

And he could talk to us about the finals,

for which we had a lot of questions,

sort of handicapped the finals a little bit for us.

Sounds good.

So instead of you giving me one word answers, that was two. We're just

going to go into Brian Winhorse right now. So let's listen to the interview we

just did with Brian Winhorse. As promised, joining the

favorites podcast. Listen, this was one of my favorite colleagues at ESPN because

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