Oh my goodness, it's only preseason, but I'm high billed fuck, Jimmy James Bucket, Jim Bucket's, oh my goodness, give me the hot sauce, billed fuck, give me the hot sauce.

What are you doing, Dragon? Did you not get the memo? There it goes, can't go upstairs.

Oh my goodness, the back and kiss myself.

Welcome into a brand new edition of the Gimme the Hot Sauce podcast, Mark Shunowski, Tim Kelly, standing by in our beautiful Sriracha studios here in Palatine, Illinois.

Stacey is joining us from his home and we're kind of in the middle of a lot of different seasons that are passing by Tim.

We've got summer league wrapped up for the bulls NFL training camps are open. We got the British open this week.

Baseball is going strong and everybody's kind of waiting for the next big thing, you know, to happen in sports.

Which what Brian's going to probably tell us this week. Hey, we're lucky.

We're just we're all just lucky that today's not the day he's retiring.

We are lucky. That's what he said in the SP show. I say you enjoy that speech and the most humble man on the planet, LeBron James.

Listen, man, LeBron just makes it so hard not to like you.

You know, I mean, the some of the stuff that he says is like so cringey and it's like, you don't have to go that route to prove your greatness.

You know, that that SP award, I keep going back to the SP award where listen, you want to give him a lifetime achievement award for, you know, his great career and all that.

I'm all for that, you know, bring the family up there. That was a really cool moment, you know.

But then you just kind of just do a wet blanket on the moment by saying, yeah, I'm coming back.

It was like the decision too. I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

I'm a staying LA and play another year, which we already knew because you've already made it clear that you want to play with your son.

So he just makes it hard. You just don't hear the great players doing those kind of things, drawing more attention to themselves.

It'll be interesting to see how they work out this year. You know, they really upgraded the roster mark.

They got a good team. They got a really good team better than I think they had last year.

But I don't still don't think they have enough to dethrone the Denver nuggets. I just don't.

Yeah, when you look at what the Lakers have done in free agency this year, they stole Gabe Vincent to his outstanding in the career.

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