Bleacher reports Howard Beck our guest on the Thursday edition of locked on

NBA by the way locked on fantasy basketball if you're one of those players

great show today with the mock

snake draft it's really funny if you're not a fancy player,

it's fun to see how that plays out.

Josh does a great job with that.

Howard Beck, Bleacher Report.

Thank you very much for taking the time on Lockdown, MBA.

My pleasure, David.

Thanks for having me. You wrote an interesting piece a while back about LeBron signing proves the Laker exceptionalism wasn't done and that'll be the number one story is LeBron in LA.

But I feel like it permeates much more than just the Lakers.

The whole Jimmy Butler thing we're watching every second right now, I feel like is partially

LeBron.

And Antideavas switching to clutch sports is even another angle of LeBron. The impact that LeBron is having in every aspect of this league, I really as I kind of think of the history of the game to me seems entirely unprecedented and I have no idea how long the ripple effect goes.

I think you're exactly right and I've written about this twice actually in the past year.

Story I had back in June, I think it was right before free agency about, you know,

is anybody really going to to flip out this time if

LeBron leaves Cleveland again? The point being that we are now all accustomed to,

conditioned to a new reality that LeBron himself created back in 2010 when he left Cleveland the first time.

Now back then of course nobody thought of that as the new norm.

Everybody in fact did freak out about it, but that was 2010 and since that time we've had

Kevin Durant of course going Oklahoma to Oakland we've had Kyrie Irving forcing

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