Wemby, VJ, and the Mafia + Yaron Weitzman on the LeBron Lakers
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the insane first few days of the NBA season, the Good, the Bad, and the WHAT?? and then the boys are joined by Yaron Weitzman to discuss his new book: A Hollywood Ending: The Dreams and Drama of the LeBron Lakers. They discuss why there was pushback from the Lakers about the book, how the PG trade was almost to Cleveland, drafting Lonzo, and a hilarious Westbrook story. Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Yaron Weitzman
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily, brought to you by eBay. |
| 0:13.6 | On today's show, Alex and I are going to give you our good, our bad, and the what of the week? |
| 0:24.7 | We talked to your own whitesman, the author of a Hollywood ending, The Dreams and Drama of the LeBron Lakers, but his amazing book, and I promise, |
| 0:30.8 | there's so many good little nuggets from this book that we discuss that aren't just Lakers. |
| 0:38.6 | Maybe you're a Lakers fan, you want to hear Lakers. So maybe you're a Lakers fan. |
| 0:42.3 | You want to hear about it. Maybe you're not a Lakers fan. There are so many things in this book that kind of affect the NBA in general that you're going to want to listen to the interview. |
| 0:46.1 | It's great. And then we're going to do some trivia. But before we do all of them, Alex, |
| 0:52.0 | tell me what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 0:55.0 | Andrew, the NBA is back. |
| 0:57.8 | And we've had a couple of days of real basketball to enjoy. |
| 1:01.4 | And while the basketball has been fun when it comes to the top story this week, |
| 1:05.2 | it's going to be hard for Vijay Edgecombe to top current head coach arrested in connection |
| 1:10.4 | with years-long illegal poker scheme |
| 1:12.7 | involving the mafia. |
| 1:14.1 | That's right, folks. |
| 1:15.4 | It's only week one of the NBA, and we've got Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey |
| 1:20.0 | Billups being arrested and indicted on charges of wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering |
| 1:25.7 | conspiracy. |
| 1:26.8 | What was going on is Billups was acting as bait to lure wealthy people into poker games |
| 1:31.7 | where they can play alongside famous athletes while losing all of their money because everything was rigged. |
| 1:38.2 | Now that sounds bad, but there's more. |
| 1:40.9 | In a separate investigation, which led to the arrest of Heathguard Terry Rozier, |
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