Welcome to what's burning for this week look we're in a studio together. I'm feeling the love

Feeling the love Matt Barnes, Jalani McCoy

Good to see y'all I want to talk about Russell Westbrook guys right out of the gate because we have a situation

Brewing with one of who's still one of the biggest names in the game, right?

So shipped out of the Lakers a lot of reports of bad feelings kind of on both sides in the final week or two right

Goes to Utah. He says he's taking a little bit of time to sort of sort out what he wants to do

The jazves have said hey, you can stay if you want

Please report if you want to they'll pay him his full salary, but they've made it really clear

They can't guarantee him any minutes or anything because they want to play the young players if they do do a buyout situation

Billy Donovan has sort of made it clear that he wants to reunite with him in Chicago, but also

We got a clippers situation here as well. I mean would be crazy if he just switched doors

You've I mean you've done that Matt a lot of rooms what like 10 feet away 20 feet the doors are

Before we get there. I just want to kind of address the slander

Like it's just I mean, I I felt like we got this with mello when mello was trying to make his way back in the first time

And all the disrespect mello got you know considering everything he's done for this game and

The caliber of player he was

Uh, and then just the slander that just just I

Know the former players frustrating just to hear and being in the media now and just how media take pride and like

Dog and people not realizing the

Bigger kind of ripple effect and you saw his wife speak to it about how they have children and you know kind of just the negative

Backlash they get from simple-minded reporting. So I just wish that would

It's weird because I think this is a phase we're in and I don't know if it's going anywhere

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