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Lakers Nation Podcast

Do Stars Have Too Much Power?, Lakers Summer Of Decisions, Signings & More

Lakers Nation Podcast

Medium Large LLC

Sports, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We discuss whether or not stars in the NBA currently have too much power and what that means for the LeBron James-led Lakers. What kind of pull will LeBron have after the Westbrook trade last summer? Could we be looking at an impasse between LeBron and the Lakers? Plus we discuss free-agent targets, trade scenarios, and what it looks like if Westbrook declines his player option... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello

0:02.0

It's 4.3 in the win.

0:06.8

Oh, it's got.

0:07.8

2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

0:12.0

Go me, love me, love me, love me, love me. Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in. Trevor Lane here for Lakers Nation.com. You're home for

0:27.9

everything. Lakers. This is the Lakersnation.com podcast. If you're joining me live coming in from YouTube,

0:33.1

from Facebook, from Twitter. Welcome in. Let's talk some Lakers basketball. If you are listening to the

0:38.0

podcast version on Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever it is that you listen to podcast, make sure you do

0:42.6

rate, review, and subscribe. We've gotten some really kind ratings lately or reviews, I guess I should

0:48.2

say, that have been coming in, really appreciated going through and reading those over on Apple Podcast.

0:52.7

Great way to help out the show. So if you guys don't mind, drop a little five-star rating and a review. We'd certainly appreciate that over on Apple Podcasts. We've got a lot to talk about right now. As we're doing this show, again, 9 o'clock Pacific time on a Wednesday, the Nuggets and Warriors are battling. The Warriors trying to end their series. They're up

1:11.5

three to one. But right now, as of this moment, the Nuggets have an 83-79 lead with about

1:17.4

eight minutes to play in the fourth quarter. So we'll be keeping some tabs on that. But I want

1:21.7

to remind everybody of our schedule for the summer for the off season. This will change just a little

1:26.8

bit. Nothing will be taken away, but will be changed just a little bit when we get into trade season, the draft, all that sort of stuff. We do have shows Monday night at 9 o'clock, Wednesday nights at 9 o'clock. That's Pacific Time. And then Friday, 2 p.m. Pacific time. We kick off the weekend with our afternoon show Fridays. We have fun Fridays, 2 o'clock Pacific time. So again, 9 o'clock on Mondays, 9 o'clock on Wednesdays, 2 o'clock on Fridays. And then tomorrow we're going to do a Twitter spaces as well. I think we're going to have that right around to be about 1.30 or so Pacific time. We're going to do a Twitter spaces. So if you're on Twitter, I'm going to have

2:03.8

the Lakers Nation crew joining me and we'll come and talk and you can come on stage and talk then.

2:09.0

I do have a number of things that I want to talk about. There's some rumblings going on around

2:15.3

the NBA about whether or not we have now jumped the shark,

2:19.5

so to speak. Have we gotten to ridiculous levels of star power in the NBA? And I don't mean

2:25.6

star in terms of star power as far as, you know, how much pull they've got in Hollywood and that

2:31.1

sort of thing. I'm talking about within organizations, do superstars control teams too much?

2:35.7

And I think LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers,

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