Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com live podcast. I'm Trevor Lane.

We've got a lot to talk about here. And today we're going to be taking a look at what happens if LeBron James should walk away.

What if he leaves the Lakers, then what does L.A. do? What does the future look like in that point?

What options would they have out there

in free agency on the trade market and more? Joining me tonight, it's editor extraordinary

Daniel Stark and Daniel, good to see you. Thanks for jumping on here. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for

having me, as always. Before we get into Lakers stuff, though, we just watch a hell of a game one of the NBA finals,

the Knicks, taken down the San Antonio Spurs, taking home court.

That was a great way to kick off the finals, I thought.

For sure.

I think it's going to be a great series.

I picked the Spurs in six, but I'm rethinking that a little after tonight. It is only

one game, but the Knicks, that's 12 straight for them and pretty much all in dominating

fashion. So credit to them. Yeah, I thought that the Knicks were simply better down the stretch in

the fourth quarter. Jalen Brunson outplayed Wemby down the stretch. But how about former Laker Josh Hart?

What a contribution.

For a guy who only scored three points,

15 boards, six assists, four steals, and a block.

He made a major impact on the game without really scoring the basketball.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I know Laker fans know what Josh Hart is all about. And even going back to that AD trade, he was kind of, I guess you could call it a throwing in that trade, but us Laker fans knew like, hey, we'd rather keep Josh Hart, to be honest. But unfortunately, they couldn't do that. And he's made quite a career for himself. Obviously obviously we know he could rebound at his size 15 tonight though is insane how did does tonight's outcome change your series prediction at all like do you are you now thinking that the nicks take it i think it does honestly um you know we'll see it's only one game things could you know change but the way the nicks

are playing um i kind of expected them you know to be uh you know a little rusty just because they had

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