So Wo Ramona Shelburne bombshell report very well done.
Warriors seeking to trade for lebron. My biggest takeaway
after it all sunk in yet another sneaky diva move
by lebron, I guess in the end, they
either duped Draymond Green into doing this or they put
him up to doing this. Draymond, a clutch
client lebron runs clutch with his buddy Rich Paul.
And it was clear to me from the start that
Draymond encouraged his owner Joe Lacob to contact Jeanie Buss
to see if she would be interested in trading lebron
to Golden State. Also Darryl Morey requested for the
Sixers, but the main thrust of this was Golden
State, Steph and Dre want lebron and yet Janie
says I don't want to trade him, but if
he wants to be traded, we'll see what we
can do. So she redirected Joe Lake to check
with Rich Paul clutch sports and then said, no
, no, no. Lebron is not interested in
being traded. So what did all this accomplish?
Maybe some added leverage for lebron with the Lakers.
See, look how many people want me. Maybe
a little added mystique, a little aura, a
little more power to a man who can be just
a, a little oversensitive occasionally, a little insecure
about his power. And my final biggest takeaway from
this little episode was Michael Jordan. Never did anything
like this. Trust me. I was there.
I got to know him. I covered him.
Never anything like this. Michael Jordan just played basketball
. He played all 82 games nine times. Another
season, he played 81 games, another season,
he played 80 games, he just played and he
tried to stay out of the politics and once the
politics overwhelmed him. Once the two, Jerry in
Chicago, the, the owner and the general manager
, once they decided that was enough of Phil Jackson
, even though Jerry Reinsdorf has even fairly recently told
me that was Phil's doing. Phil wanted it out
because he felt like the, his that roster was
on its last legs. But Michael didn't think that
Michael thought they just wanted Phil gone so they could
go young so they could regain control of the franchise
. Tim Floyd out of Iowa State. Michael Jordan
just said, you push my coach out the back
door. I'm out, I'm gone. I'm retiring
and he did on principle, Michael just quit at
age 34. He just said, I'm out,
I'm talking about backbone, talk about loyal to a
fault. Michael was all about his coach, Phil
. And once the two juries warned about Phil,
Michael wasn't about the Bulls anymore. That's principle.
That's character. That's not lebron.