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Where the Wizards made a big trade last week. We'll talk about that in a bit. In L.A., they made no trades.

But LeBron is all salty about what Kyrie said about him was. Lambray, what's up? What's up, man?

I watched the clip. He's very upset. You know, I follow Ali on. 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 be like, man, you know that shit ain't faze me, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't get a damn. I'm teplong, blah, blah, blah. That's true. I appreciate the vulnerability of like, that hurt my feelings.

No, that's true, Wals.

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 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 talked 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 because they were kind of

expecting him and you know Phil Handy had told us that right was that um you know they thought

they'd see the clippers because the clippers thought they would see the lakers and were saying so all

year and um that everybody was surprised at the end of the day that the Clippers couldn't

make it happen.

One of the great mysteries of our time, but maybe not because Jovan Buha's story last week

kind of laid out how dysfunctional everything was out there last year.

Yeah, I mean, you know, it's been a story ever since last season started.

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