Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

I could have started three or four different ways but I'm going to go with the LA

Lakers. A couple of Lakers stories actually today I want to start with the

positive one and not the horrible one. Ever since the LA Lakers won that NBA championship,

they have fallen on hard times.

I mean, it's almost impossible for me to fathom the fact

that they won an NBA championship less than 24 months ago and yet

they've fallen into complete and utter disrepair since then. I've been saying for a

while now their only relevant is a side show, a freak show, and they've got

no chance to compete for anything that matters anytime soon.

That's been my take. I've stood by that take. However, that was then and this is now because I'm

here to tell you the Lakers are back baby. The Lakers are back.

Get out your car flags.

Plan that parade. The Lakers are back, baby.

They just pulled off the biggest move of the entire NBA off season and the

franchises. In fact the franchise's biggest move since they loaded up the

trucks in Minneapolis decades ago.

Because according to various reports, the LA Lakers are sending

Taylin Horton Tucker and Stanley Johnson are sending T

Taylin Horton Tucker and Stanley Johnson to the Utah Jazz 4,

wait for this.

You go ahead and you wait a little longer.

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