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The talk around Luca Donchich, we've seen before, but we've never seen it to this level, I don't think, of the national media talking about Luca Dantzich, the complaining about the complaining, about the effort from Luca, the shots at the rim, how his game has changed, how he's hunting fouls, he's leading in the league in free throws now because he actually gets a whistle because he's playing for the Lakers and they actually get a whistle, which is just confounding to everybody. And you're seeing now in real time, if you're a Mabs fan and you probably, you're listening, you probably still have some connection to Luca, like, emotionally or whatever. You're seeing this conversation happening around him.

And you're like, dang, well, one, I wish I could defend my guy.

Maybe you are still out there defending your guy.

The other one is, this happens to every star, pretty much, in some way, shape, or form.

Unless you go out there and you win, and even if you do,

it's happened to Janus, where guys all of a sudden picking apart his game, picking apart how

he's doing his trade request or not. It's happened to LeBron. The decision obviously was

huge for that, but then not winning in 2011 was awesome. But then also, that was a thing. Like, if you don't perform at the highest level over and over again, and even if you do, LeBron, all-time leading score, four-time champion, like beat the, like won a title in Cleveland. Like, did so many things. People are still going to pick apart your game. They're going to come at you. They're going to complain about what, you know, what you're doing. And we're seeing it now with Luca, just at such an expanded high level, because he's on

the Lakers, he's playing with LeBron. It's an incredibly, like, visible market and team and all that.

And the conspiracy around the NBA giving Luca to the Lakers, you know, all that is still in play.

Yeah, it's crazy because I see all the, you know, obviously there's so much talk around him right now,

the complaining and, you know, some of the conditioning stuff again.

And it's like there's kind of like two sides of it for me because one of of them I look at it and I do feel like the spotlight is brighter I mean it's

LA all right back in the day me and Nick and had an argument over if Kyle

Kuzman's a star or not I was like Kyle Kuzma is not a star and Nick was like no he is

a star because he's on LA and he's you

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