Hoops Tonight - Reaction to Lakers FIRING Buss brothers, LeBron & Luka impact + LaMelo Ball & Jonathan Kuminga sagas
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🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Jason reacts to the Los Angeles Lakers firing Joey and Jesse Buss from their front office, leaving it to Jeanie, Rob Pelinka, and new owner Mark Walter. He breaks down why this happened, what it means for the future of the roster, how it impacts JJ Redick, LeBron James, Luka Doncic, and more. Then he discusses the reports that LaMelo Ball wants to be traded from the Charlotte Hornets and that Jonathan Kuminga feels like the scapegoat for the Golden State Warriors as Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler, and the team are off to a 9-8 start to the NBA season.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.3 | The Volume. |
| 0:19.7 | All right, welcome to Hips tonight here at the volume. |
| 0:21.7 | Happy Friday, everybody. |
| 0:22.7 | Hope all of you guys had an incredible week. |
| 0:24.7 | Well, it is mailbag day, but we got a bunch of NBA news yesterday. |
| 0:28.8 | So we're going to be hitting on three stories at first. |
| 0:32.5 | Then we're going to do a mini mailbag at the tail end of the show. |
| 0:35.5 | The Lakers began the revamping of their front office |
| 0:38.4 | yesterday with the firing of Joey and Jesse Bus. At first, it looked like Mark Walter coming |
| 0:43.8 | into Clean House. And now it's judging by an interview by Dan Wojke of the athletic with Jesse |
| 0:50.4 | bus. Seems like it might be a little bit more family drama. |
| 0:55.9 | So I want to dig into that a little bit. |
| 1:01.8 | After that, Lamello Ball, Kelly Iko from Yahoo Sports, who covers the NBA, |
| 1:07.5 | he ended up reporting that Lamello Ball is looking to potentially be traded away from Charlotte. |
| 1:11.6 | We've, in his writing, he also said that the Hornets themselves have become somewhat disillusioned with Lamello. So kind of want to dig into that concept a little bit. |
| 1:15.7 | And then I have three potential Lamello trades just for fun to get us started today. There's a bunch |
| 1:20.4 | of different options there, but I wanted to dig into three potential options. After that, |
| 1:25.8 | Anthony Slater from ESPN reported that Jonathan Kaminga feels like he's being scapegoated by the Warriors. And so it took all of about a month for us to end up back in the same boat that we were in over the summer. I want to talk about that briefly. And then again, we have about a half dozen questions that we'll get through quickly at the tail end of the show. You guys know the joke before we started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our |
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