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Joining me this week, fresh off our weekend in the desert. We watch two exhilarating Lakers exhibition games.

Mark Medina, Sporting Tribune, Sports Kita, and Mark, you're still there, right right like you decided not to drive back to the Los Angeles area after the game on Sunday night correct that is correct I mean look

Chris when you're witnessing this historical moment with LeBron and

Brody James making their MBA debut together, you've got to put in the work and stay up late.

Yes, I'm actually, we're going to get into that. I'm actually a bit surprised that

they played together in an exhibition game. I kind of thought going in that J.J. Reddick would save that moment for a real game, right? Like at home. And look, it'll still be meaningful because the exhibition season doesn't count for anything and

when they finally do step on the floor in a regular season game will be the first time

father and son step on the floor but I was a little bit surprised to see the

start of that second quarter to see

J. J. Reddick put them both out there were you? I was really torn in on the fence.

Part of me thought that they wanted to save the moment because the Lakers like to

you know make the most of attention it's it's

one of their Hollywood ways of doing things of waiting till they're at crypto.com to your

point wait for a regular season game where the moment means a lot more but J.J. Reddick you know

stress that he wasn't going to try to do anything gimmicky is going to be

within the flow of the game. Now before the game he left it open-ended whether he was going to do it or not, but Bronney shared

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