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Welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having a great week. Well, we thought LeBron would decide his team yesterday. He did not. I want to talk a little bit about that. At the tail end of the show, I want to talk about the LeBron James relationship with the Lakers, which soured at some point over the course the last several years. And I just think it's really unfortunate, especially in light of the obvious trouble LeBron's having making his decision at this point. You guys know the joke before we started. Subscribe to Hoops Tonight YouTube channels. You don't miss any more of our videos. We still have a goal to get to 150,000 subs. We need about 8,000 more. If you guys don't mind hitting that subscribe button,

that would help us a lot. If you're already subscribed, like this video, sign up for post notifications. That helps us a lot. All right, let's talk some basketball. So just real quickly, in terms of the plan and how this is all going to go, obviously, whenever LeBron signs will react to it. At this point, your guess is as good as mine.

We'll dig into that a little bit more in a second.

Still plan on doing a mailbag on Friday, but it'll probably be around the entire league. So keep dropping questions in this video or other full episodes on YouTube. We'll do a mailbag on Friday. I did say we were going to start player rankings on Monday, but I forgot something with my travel schedule. So I'm leaving on Thursday this week to go to Houston

for my little brother's wedding, the last one of my siblings that needs to get married. So

one last 10th wedding, heading out to Houston. I don't get back till Monday, like in the middle of the

day. So obviously, I'll have something pre-recorded to run on Monday. I don't get back till Monday, like in the middle of the day. So obviously,

I'll have something pre-recorded to run on Monday. I don't know what it'll be yet. I'm

coming up with some ideas, but we won't actually start our player ranking sequence until a week

from today this coming, uh, uh, next Wednesday because of the travel day on Monday. So just give

you guys a quick scheduling update.

And again, we'll react to the LeBron news whenever it happens. A couple other things too.

Like I'm sure there will be a follow-up LeBron episode after we all sleep on it and kind of think about all the ramifications.

Not just for him, but for the other teams that didn't get him.

There's also like, I want to do another contender rankings. I'd love to do it like a post-Lebron signing. Okay, now we have a general idea of what the field looks like. Obviously, we could change our mind as we get closer to the season, but what are my initial impressions on contender rankings? So we might have breaks in our player ranking series as we kind of drop in for the LeBron news and drop in for contender rankings, things along those lines. So there's your little scheduling update. But the LeBron

saga continues. I really did think it would happen yesterday. Again, like I said, I figured

there was a little chart going around yesterday on Twitter that kind of showed the different

number of days that LeBron had taken to make his decision in each of his previous three

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