Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in Trevor Lane here for Lakersnation.com. You're home for everything Lakers.

This is the Lakersnation.com podcast. All-Star weekend edition. I am going to talk a little bit about the all-star game, but most of this show is going to be devoted to the current situation with LeBron James.

I had Ron Gutterman from Lakers Nation.com. Join me to talk a little bit about everything that's going on with the LeBron James

situation in terms of his relationship with the Lakers, clutch sports, them reportedly being

a little bit upset with GM Rob Polinka for not pulling the trigger on a deal that would

have sent Russell Westbrook and the 2027 first round pick to the Houston Rocket

in exchange for John Wall, who just so happens to be a clutch sports client.

Braun and I spent a lot of time breaking that down as well as what it means for the

Lakers moving forward, how they have to approach this LeBron situation from here, knowing

that he has one more year under contract after this one. So we get into that. So I'm going to throw to that in a little bit. But first, we do need to talk about the All-Star game. And the All-Star game was excellent. And I say that as a guy who's not a fan of the All-Star game in general. I tend to not pay much attention to it because for most of the game, and this is mostly what we saw during this one, too,

you don't really see. general. I tend to not pay much attention to it because for most of the game, and this is

mostly what we saw during this one too, you don't really see defense being played. It's just

players getting out of each other's way so they can dunk and do things like that. And some of

them can be exciting, sure, but I like it when we see some actual competition. And I will say

that this whole Elam ending thing, the target score,

if you want to put it at that, it has been absolutely fantastic because it's taken me,

who again, doesn't really enjoy the All-Star game all that much. And it's become something

that now I'm looking forward to. And this one was an absolute blast. I'm sure part of that

was Steph Curry going berserk 16 threes. Like, are you kidding me? 50 points. That was incredible.

He wound up being the MVP for team LeBron. He was absolutely fantastic. So that was fun to watch.

But then you add in this Elam ending where you tack on 24 points to the score of the winning team or of the leading team, I should

say, after three quarters, and you make that the target score. So it became 163 was the total.

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