00:00Is this just part of the learning process for that young team
00:02and for Wem and Yaba?
00:04I think that's a key thing.
00:06It's not just Wem, it's the entire team.
00:08They lost this series because, honestly, their immaturity
00:13and their inexperience, and the only way you get more mature
00:17and more experience, Big Sills, is to go through it.
00:20The Knicks have been up the climb.
00:22The Knicks went to the Eastern Conference semifinals
00:24and they got blown out in Game 7 at home a couple of years ago
00:27by Indiana where their whole team was decimated.
00:28Then they get to the Eastern Conference Finals.
00:30Then they get to the NBA Finals.
00:32Folks, San Antonio didn't even make the playoffs last year.
00:34It's Mr. Johnson's first year, full year.
00:37Like, to me, they had to learn on the fly, and they'll be better.
00:42They'll be experienced, and when they figure it out, be somewhere else.
00:46But that's the thing, Big Sills, they have to figure it out.
00:48I thought the Knicks did, if you think about boxing as a reference,
00:53I looked at Ali Foreman.
00:56I think the Knicks just rope-a-doped them.
00:58I think they rope-a-doped them.
01:00They let them get out to that big lead early,
01:02and then the Knicks just worked their way back.
01:06And when the moment got big, they had the best player in basketball
01:10on record to closing games and had Jalen Brunson.
01:13They'll be better at San Antonio.
01:16Wembe will do better at making foul shots.
01:18But they've got to make a decision on what they're going into next year
01:21because De'Aaron Fox was absolutely dreadful, not only in Game 5,
01:26but every fourth quarter.
01:28Dylan Harper was spectacular.
01:30What are they going to do in San Antonio when ready?
01:33De'Aaron Fox's contract extension, starting at, I think, $50 million,
01:38starts this year.
01:40And they've got a young kid, Dylan Harper, who I think deserves to start.
01:44Let me ask you some NBA questions, and I want to get to the WNBA here.
01:49So the obvious, like, you know, story in the room here now is LeBron James.
01:54What does LeBron James do?
01:56Could Detroit be a sneak team there to look at for him?
02:00Could there be somebody else in the Eastern Conference
02:03that maybe you look at and where he might land?
02:06Or do you think he stays with the Los Angeles Lakers?
02:09Reports are that, you know, they're still talking, Rob Palenka and those guys,
02:13on trying to work out some type of deal to keep him in Los Angeles.
02:17Coach, what do you think he does this coming season?
02:20I think he probably ends up back in L.A. and trying to run it back one more time.
02:24Plus, Bronny's on the roster.
02:26You know, there are teams that really need experience
02:29and then guys to get them over the hump.
02:31We just, no one talks about San Antonio.
02:34San Antonio could use LeBron.
02:35They need an adult in the room.
02:37They need a veteran in the room to calm things down.
02:40Detroit needs an adult in the room, someone to calm things down.
02:44Cleveland needs someone that's going to make Jared Allen
02:47and Evan Mobley want to rebound better
02:49or guys to play better defense.
02:51Maybe going back home will be it.
02:52You thought it could have been New York, but New York won the title,
02:55so now he's not needed in New York now.
02:57So there's plays for LeBron.
03:00The question is, is he willing to go for a mid-level exception?
03:03Probably not.
03:04So now that means sign and trade.
03:06A lot more difficult for a guy that's 41 than a guy that's 25.
03:09LeBron most likely heads back to the Lakers
03:12unless he decides to go play with his buddy Stephen Draymond
03:15and go to Golden State.
