LeBron’s Lakers Decision Looms, Kobe Hot Takes Gone TOO FAR, WNBA Expansion

All The Smoke

The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Matt Barnes reacts to LeBron James exercising the final year of his Lakers contract and how it impacts Los Angeles’ decisions moving forward with Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and potential free agents, including Deandre Ayton. Plus, Matt and Geno Davis discuss recent headlines surrounding Kobe Bryant, federal investigation into Malik Beasley’s alleged gambling involvement, WNBA’s expansion and the NBA’s worst General Manager situations.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
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0:10.0	From Will I Am and the Black Eyed Peas, Ty Dalai, YG, and Fergie.
0:14.9	Here's a sneak peek.
0:16.6	Are you so hard on yourself?
0:18.0	That's the way I was raised.
0:19.6	And the people that were hard on me are not here no more, so I'm hard of myself.
0:23.8	You're going to make me cry.
0:25.0	Listen to You versus You on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.3	Welcome back to another edition of Unplugged.
0:37.3	The NBA season has come to an end.
0:40.4	Again, shout out to OKC.
0:42.5	Man, we've had the draft since we last sat down.
0:45.9	Free agency is on the way.
0:47.7	So the one thing I love about the NBA, and I think what's helped its growth over the last
0:52.9	handful of years, it's almost like, and I said, it's almost like a reality TV show once the season ends.
0:57.5	There's so much movement and talk, and we still steal headlines from other sports that the fun has just begun.
1:04.6	I know there's going to be a lot of movement already KD to the Rockets.
1:08.6	Love it.
1:09.4	There's going to be more explosive movement, as Shom said a couple weeks ago.
1:16.0	But I'm excited for that.
1:18.1	Free agency officially starts.
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