Welcome to the Athletic NBA Show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.

And welcome back.

It's another edition of Hoopes adjacent on the Athletic NBA show.

I'm David Aldridge in DC, where the Wizards made

a big trade last week. We'll talk about that in a bit. In LA, they made no trades. But LeBron is all

salty about what Kyrie said about him was,

Lambray, what's up, what's up, ma'am?

I watched the clip.

He's very upset.

You know, I follow Ali on Twitter.

Yeah, he did the road tripping with our friend Ali Clifton,

and he's very upset about what Kyrie said about him.

I enjoyed it because, you know, oftentimes athletes go the other way and being

man you know that shit they phase me blah blah blah blah I don't get damn I'm

Teplon blah that's true that's true I appreciate the vulnerability of like that hurt my feelings.

No that's true was we do we do say you know keep it real and he kept it real he said

that that bothered him a little bit it's interesting that that bothered him a little bit. It's interesting that that bothered him from

Kyrie, but okay, you know, like, okay. And it was also interesting, I think this was during

his presser yesterday, where he talked about how

surprised he was that the clippers who talk so much shit couldn't wind up in the conference

finals, you know, and that's his quote, not mine.

And he was surprised that they weren't there at the conference finals

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