And now the low welcome to the low post podcast Monday morning. I'm back from Vegas. Vegas

is still in my bloodstream somewhere and it's time to take stock of the offseason for

a few different teams and fittingly wearing a Philadelphia Phillies hat are Los Angeles

Lakers insider Dave McMahon. How are you?

I'm doing well, Zach. I can't believe we were completely ships passing in the night

in Vegas. So we had one kind of drive by as I was checking in to Thomas and back through

the security and you were headed the way out. I probably to meet your room or to a cab

to some parts unknown to meet one of your many insider sources around the league. But I'm

glad we can catch up now.

Yeah, there were some late nights in Vegas. So misbehavior, but we are we are back. We

are on the home front and we have to start. We're supposed to talk about the Lakers, but

we have to start with Joel and bead. One of the rare instances in which a player makes

a comment several days ago at the uninterrupted sports film festival being interviewed by Maverick

Carter and Joel and bead said in response to a kind of a vague question about like what

do we need to look for from Joel and bead going forward said I just want to win a championship

whatever it takes. I don't know where that's going to be the whether it's in Philly or

anywhere else. I just want to have a chance to accomplish that. Whoa. That's a record

scratch. I don't know where that's going to be whether it's in Philly or anywhere else.

And if you paying attention to paying attention rather that that should not surprise you.

I've said for more than a year that this is a simmering situation in Philly and then

the harden stalemate which remains a stalemate on July 17th has only sort of I as soon

as the harden news dropped from Wode that he was opting in and had quote according to Wode's

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