Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm Chris Vernon, typically on Tuesdays. Kevin O'Connor

from the Ringer.com joins us. He's going to join us on Friday this week. We'll talk to

him about his article, which I do want you to go check out at the Ringer.com about what

the Lakers are doing and whether or not they should engage in the process that the Philadelphia

76ers once did. So Kevin's going to join us later this week today and all star joining

us. Sam Amick from USA today is joining us on the line. What's up, Sam? Mr. Vernon,

good morning to you. How are you, sir? Well, I was I was not expecting what I woke up

to this morning, but when I wake up and I I do what everybody else does, right? I pull

up Twitter and I'm seeing what's going on in the world, finding out what happened. I

stayed up late watching the Grizzlies and the Suns last night, the last TNT game. And then

I crashed and then I woke up this morning and I'm flipping through and it says LeBron

says Charles Barkley is quote a hater and I was like, oh, this is going to be good. And

then I go and get your popcorn indeed. So I read the article at LeBron Rips, Charles

Barkley. And for those of you that have not seen it, which I can't imagine if you were

listening to an NBA podcast you haven't LeBron started by saying he's a hater. He said

after the calves lost to the Dallas Mavericks, what makes what he says credible because he's

on TV. And then LeBron went on to then really throw down the gauntlet. I'm not going to let

him disrespect my legacy. I'm not the one that threw somebody through a window. I never

spit on a kid. I never had an unpaid dead in Vegas. I never said I'm not a role model.

I never showed up to all star weekend on a Sunday because I was in Vegas all weekend

party. All of them, my entire career is represent the NBA the right way. 14 years never got

in trouble. Respected the game. Print that. Okay. I'm going to go through all of these

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