Wilbon AIRS FRUSTRATION over Lakers Nation's excitement for re-signing LeBron James | PTI
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- On Pardon The Interruption, Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon discuss what LeBron James' 2-yr/$104M max deal with the Los Angeles Lakers means for the organization from a competitive standpoint.
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What is he talking about? Lakers fans aren’t jumping up and down today because Lebron signed the max. They’re all upset the lakers haven’t done anything in free agency after Lebron offered to take less.
Found the fake lakers fan. Real lakers fan knows they got the steals of the entire draft with Knech, and Bronny.
Nope like i said Wilbon is like a scorned ex, ever since his buidy got fired he's been la slick laker (and lbj) hater.
@@chan13153🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
This.
What exactly have the Lakers accomplished star player wise in free agency other than getting Lebron in the last 10 years? I really wanna hear this one 😂
I would be a millionare if i get paid every time ESPN posts something about bron and the lakers 😂
Normally I'd agree but he's earned it this week you made LA pay you the max draft your son and hire a mediocre ex player you podcast with as the head coach he's had a busy week
Fact!
They can’t keep the GOATS name out of their mouths… ESPN worried about what’s in this man’s wallet… Pathetic.
@@rillaaa5740you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about lol…. LeBron didn’t make the Lakers give him the max lol… The Lakers came out on record and said that they will give LeBron whatever contract he wants.
@@ike.o6944Shut up troll. Only the loud minority say LeBron is the GOAT. No poll or survey ever got LeBron at the top.
That is fact. I don't see LeBron winning any championship at Lakers after this extension
Already did.
@@viktorstagnetti7491The in Season tournament and the Disney Classic pandemic tournament doesn't count.
@@viktorstagnetti7491he meant any more chips
@@osurocks24 It counts to the Lakers that’s why they have paid him 😂. People think their opinions pay Lebron when they don’t lol
@@tommytexter4054 yea. That's what I meant
LeGM used the rest of the salary cap on himself with Derozan still available
Exactly. Barely anybody pointing this out in the comments
@@jimlevell3800you two niggas are losers lol
Do you really think he fits when he can spread the floor past midrange come on now. It’s a reason he don’t move the needle in the playoffs. They don’t need another guy Lebron sent home quick multiple times.
@@datsapaddlin I disagree he’s 34 averaging 24 points on over 46 percent shooting. The Lakers need more scoring and a third option. He fits that bill to me
@@jimlevell3800 once he heard klay wasn’t coming he basically said screw adding another piece. If JJ fails as a coach and gets fired at season end I’m blaming LeGM. He’s rich already he needs to sacrifice for the fifth ring. I thought he learned that when Wade took a pay cut to get bosh and him to come the heat
As a laker fan and knowing laker fan no one is happy about him resigning trash
U not a laker fan. Stick to warriors who can’t make playoffs. U can’t name 10 better players than Lebron and he’s 40. Don’t give me the luka crap when he is getting picked on and gameplan on defense. Bron is 40 and teams would never try that 😭 they attack reeves and dlo
No way you’re a laker fan quit faking 😂
You are not a lakers fan stop the cap cause if he leaves who do we get nobody there’s no stars to sign out there just hush
Don’t know where I said he isn’t a good player but yeah someone is on Lebron jock. I don’t need to prove to you or anyone that I’m a Laker fan. You must be a drake fan 😂😂😂. Go follow Toronto
@@dubz661hernandez3 brother man ain’t no real laker fan complaining about lebron signing back. Just stop
so weird to me that a billionaire at age 40 still takes a max contract rather than trying to make the team better, tells me what his priorities are
Exactly! Lebron could sign go $1 and they could fill that roster out with the best players available..
It’s gonna make sense to you when you realize Bron is gonna own the Las Vegas expansion team in a few years. Catch up 😅
The very second they drafted his son, that should've told you his priorities and the teams.
@@Bobby_Digital37 $1? Are u clueless. Must be borderline Autistic
Respect for Tom Brady 10 mil salary @ Tampa
The Lakers at this point are more interested in making LeBron happy at all costs than they are getting to the playoffs/winning championships.
He was originally going to take a 20 Million Dollar pay cut but Pelinka missed out on every free agent so Lebron decided to take the max
I don't think much of Laker Nation is too pleased really.
Lakers so screwed.
21 videos posted by ESPN in 24 hours, 20 are Basketball, 8 lebron, 5 WNBA, 3 about Catlin Clarke. Are they even a sport channel?
By your metrics yes😁 those are all sports or famous athletes stories. Dodo
@@blackdynamite5016😂😂
Should they be talking about your mom ?
Lakers and warriors are both sinking ships with no relief in site
Lebron and Steph had a good run but it’s pretty much over. Happens to the best of them
@@datsapaddlin6449 agreed
Play ball till age 67.You gonna get full social security.
Pathetic!
lol
Wilbon always been a real one. PTI remember watching as a pre teen. going on 27 this year
Watched pti since I was in highschool now 37 💪🏻
For real. I'm 27 too. Been watchin PTI since I was small kid everyday coming home from school cuz my dad has always watched followed it too. Low-key the best and most consistent sports commentary show there is
Not one true Laker fan is happy about Lebron resigning. That dude and Klutch need to leave.
These mf just be hating on this man
You right bro! How dare this man have his own opinion. He's a straight hater for telling the truth
They’re Laker haters bro
@@allenguzman721theyre right about the Lakers every season. Thats not hating, thats just common sense
We have to call it “hating” when it’s not lies but hurtful .. 😂the man has 3 normal season rings in 2 decades, it’s not even good if he “gets one” next 2 seasons from a math standpoint .. but then he eats up the salary like he’s enough .. how dare they?! 😂
Lebron is trash now. Let's all admit it. Lakers are slower with him and have no sense of identity. Now it's all about making money .
So LeBron opts out his contract, says he will take a cut to sign veterans that can help, then the front office proceeds to sign absolutely no one at all, and you all are blaming LeBron for signing his max deal. After seeing the Lakers do absolutely nothing this off-season. Yep brain dead
LeBron basically bet 20 million that Rob pollenca wasn't going to get the job done😂
@@tyreemilon9022He won that bet with flying colors cause Rob did nothing. If the reports are true he really thought DeRozan was going to take a $12mill minimum coming off $82mill.
Did it ever cross your mind star free agents don't want to play for the Lakers? And if Rob did find someone theyre going to want to be paid which interfere with LeBrons contract? If you want to win avoid Lakers because when they lose you'll be on the chopping block
Not only that The sports world eats off his name and now he should take less??? FOH!!!!
@@usp3p12 no one cares to play with him. 40yr old as your center peice. Yea why wouldn't anyone want to join
What is this narrative that Lebron is supposed to win every single year like how many years did Kobe play an he has 5 an your not going to win every year it’s just that simple
I believe that coward did it to himself
2 years for 102 million dollars 😮😮
LeBron James needs to become a GM one day
he’s trying to become the owner of the vegas expansion team
I mean he brings in more than that in ticket sales, jersey sales, endorsements, making lakers games nationally televised. Lebron has significantly increased the worth of every team he's been on
@@artandarchitecture6399 Lol your just wrong. Bron made them relevant again
Paul George making 211 for for 4 years and will still find a way to not win a thing but everyone mad at Lebron 😂. He’s literally gotten paid the bag to fail every year and no one cares.
He already is lol
Kyrie Irving chose Dallas over LA.
Klay Thompson chose Dallas over LA.
LeBron tried to recruit both Kyrie and Klay to LA, but there’s one common denominator: stars don’t want to play with LeBron James.
@@pg13pacernation30 No the Lakers ain’t wanna do the trade the Nets wanted for Kyrie get your facts right. Getting Klay would have been a bad because his legs was cooked by April that’s why he shot so bad against the Lakers in 2023 and in the play in against the Kings this year.
You're right. The only star that willing came to play with him is AD and that's because he's a klutch puppet. Stars don't f with lebron
@@AggravatedMan365 Kyrie literally said he wanted to go there. The Lakers front office is trash. It was trash before Lebron even got there. It’s been bad since after Jerry Buss passed. He woulda got Kyrie.
@@datsapaddlinDon’t nobody care what Kyrie said. Actions speak louder than words. No star wants to play with LeBron.
@@la_nomercy They wasn’t trying to give up what the Nets wanted and it’s documented but you want to make up a narrative lol. Lebron was mad they ain’t make the move. Kyrie had no control on not going to the Lakers. Blame the front offices actions. That’s been the problem here. It’s the people that don’t know basketball like yourself that are the real the problem 😂.
Wow someone throwing actual facts out on espn 👏
Haha what’s the point of having a time limit if they spoke another 90 seconds after the bell?! 😂
Lebron made ESPN rich
No that was Jordan 😅
That’s Jordan 😂
Lakers said we need one more hybrid wing defender, Lebron you know any draft picks shorter than 6-2? 😂😂😳😳
He give them time to find something better. They didn't make ant moves that warranted him taking the cut. Get yo money big dawg 💪🏿 😂
And keep losing. The Lakers are the laughingstock of the NBA.
We all know in 2026 Lakers fans will be blaming Pelinka and JJ for all these moves as if they were actually calling the shots😂😂😂
It's a marketing move. This is the way life is going. They're making the most money without having to secure the chip
Gotta play the games Wilbon. I’m not sure anyone had Mavs in the Finals or Wolves beating the Nuggets.
Lakers team can play with any team, the problem is super stars fall short of hitting big shots vs denver to win games
Finally someone with some sense
We all knew this when we hired Redick & drafted Bronny. I never thought for a second he was taking a significant pay cut either.
The absolute inability of the front office to aquire a top tier coach, free agent, or trade partner is inexcusable to us fans. Lebron was willing to take less money and this front office laid an egg.
Maybe nobody wants to be part of the LeBron circus.
Nobody wants to destroy his career playing with Lebron. It's not the front office fault
50 million is insane
Anthony Davis and Lebron James are now both mediocre Davis more so than James 😢😢.
AD is definitely not mediocre. You see what he did last year?
Lebron averaged almost a triple double last year- 26, 7, 8. You call those number mediocre? lol 😂 mediocre would be like 15, 5, 5 average. It’s one thing to hate but facts are facts.
I mean they was balling in the playoffs Denver just be refusing to lose to them 😂 I think they could at the very least take on any other team in the West and possibly upset the other higher seeds if Lebron and AD was playing like that.
You must be blind. Davis had his best season in years
You don't know basketball
Maybe if everybody on the Lakers stay healthy they can finish top 5 in the west as long as everything goes well
Let's call him ironclad James, and he said yessssss to
You can’t mention lakers and cowboys in the same sentence, fans or not when cowboys haven’t won a thing since the 90s and lakers have 6 titles in the same span
he was talking about the FANS not the teams
What’s crazy is I strongly believe Lakers could beat all those teams except Denver when healthy in the playoffs but ppl want to think all these teams can whoop them lol
The second apron is no joke. The penalties changes the way teams have to deal with contracts and trades. Once you see how restrictive the second apron is, you can finally understand why my Clippers let Paul George walk for nothing. Even if we got players back, that means it’s still adding salary. Second apron is basically like a hard cap and it’s going to be in full effect this upcoming season.
Look at Klay. Warriors only got back 2nd round picks. You don’t want salary to keep coming back. LeBron and Lakers fans don’t really understand all this. They just buy Kobe or LeBron jerseys and are quite clueless about how everything else works. Read up what Lucas Hann wrote about that second apron last summer. Once teams reaches that second apron, that franchise becomes handcuffed and it can be for years. It’s not like before.
Second apron is actually helping poorer owners like Jeanie Buss and stopping richer owners like Steve Ballmer and Joe Lacob from overspending. The problem is, LeBron isn’t exactly helping Jeanie here by taking a max deal. He doesn’t get how the new CBA works. To him, it’s just pay him and his son and then play victim when his team fails again because he didn’t have enough help.
You are so wrong its a 1+1 deal 1 yr for 52 mil with a player option which he will opt out again like he did this yr. Rob is not doing his job period
This is pure comedy at this point and coming from a die hard lakers fan I find it’s not about winning but setting records and making history 2 years can’t come fast enough hurry up and leave so we can become “Showtime” again.
Wait forget the fact that they won a championship in 2020 and also, most laker fans are not happy with the organization
That was a Mickey Mouse and ESPN championship. That doesn't count. 😂
@@otownmusic2409 if players and reporters say it's was the hardest championship to win then idk
LeGm resigns himself to a two year max on his own team*
What it means for competition is they can’t afford to be competitive
If my team signed someone old as Noah, paid him 100 mil over two years and he’ll take every other game off, hired a stiff for a coach, I’d be excited too!!
The way the media trash the lakers like they the wizards or charlotte is crazy ,,, I get yall need lebron to pay the bills but relax with the hate
Lakers are trash just cope
@@Bornclutch62 it’s a smear campaign man Lebron literally got criticized when he had help and criticism when he can’t get more help now 😂. If he got help they would be saying he had enough to win already lol
@@datsapaddlin how much more help does he freaking need? My goodness.
Yall have ran he hasn't had enough help for 21 years now. Yall aren't tired of using that same lame excuse?
@@atlien1988 shut up we all know you're gonna say that stop blinding yourself
@@atlien1988facts
Absolutely love that EVERY SINGLE MEDIA PERSON forgot about the Grizz out West. Can’t wait till the 2024-2025 season.
But how will the affect Dak Prescott’s contract?
Remind me what was the lakers record before he got there?
It really confuses me how non Lakers fans have the audacity to be angry at Lakersnation for being excited about the team we love. If you hate the Lakers you should be happy if their screwing up
I agree
LeBron is sticking around too long. If he had retired after winning in the bubble, no one would've blamed him.
Anyone know who is a free agent next season? This deal actually shows me they will try again next year and if Bronny develops, they could compete for a championship again. Worst case a mid-season trade is still possible in both years.
🤪
This team's biggest problem is the owner and supporting staff.
Memphis is coming. The Lakers lovers are going spend another year dreaming up trades to make that team better.
Y’all fail to realize lakers was 18-6 when they used their best line up with dlo, Austin,bron,and rui that’s part of the reason Darvin got fired because he waited to put his best lineup out their and if we used that lineup to begin with we would have be a top 5 seed easily but let the media tell it the lakers not good enough
Winning in Lakerland is a joke.
Let's just address him as GM Lebum
They don't need more help. That got Knecht and Bronny.
I'm not even a Lakers fan but those are two very good prospects. Why do they need to have an all NBA player at every position?
Look at the Knicks, T Wolves, Orlando, Kings and OKC.
Team chemistry is more important.
I’ll co-sign on this AFTER next years trade deadline. ALOT can happen, including injuries
Wilbouns sudden disdain for LeBron leads me to believe he's good friends with Darvin Ham
💯and it looks like it is personal
He is good friends with D.Ham who can not coach where was this energy when griffin was fired stay mad
Lavine would be a fun shakeup. I hope they make that move.
True Lakers Fans know it already
No one exited for lebron signing messing up the cap space
What exactly where the lakers suppose to do? They missed out on Klay Thompson and that’s it. Everything else they have done has been great this offseason.
Not compared to other teams...
How old is that photo of LeBron James? He hasn't had that much hair in a long time.
Yall didn’t asked Micheal Jordan take a paycut ho, hum!
Because Mike was underpaid for years...his last 2 years and championships with Chicago is where he made 30 and 33 million. Go look up mikes salary for the first 4 championship's
He took a pay cut in Washington
He took one himself
@@nickjones3860 Why ain’t no one join him then 😂. You see the bias here. MJ the GOAT couldn’t get any stars to follow him to DC even though he took a pay cut and got no criticism for it. Ima MJ fan too but the bias is insane. No one said if you are the GOAT you make it work and get a star to join you.
When was he not winning?
0:46 You say the Lakers have been mediocre over the last twelve years but they won the championship in 2020. 🤔
1 year.
Ebron’s new deal makes the Lakers a play in exit
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Yeah it does, he is gonna opt out again next year and see who they can sign....he waited until after the lakers tried to get klay to sign
7 or 8 place in west
The most influential and the most opportunistic 🤨
Lakers fans have high expectations but they aren’t delusional like Cowboys fans.
It’s means nothing for competition. I guess that’s ok
It’s about attention not winning. That’s why the Cowboys are on top of revenue goals. Stephen A must be getting kick backs from Jerry
Lebron's work ethic and longevity is one of the wonders of the world.
LeBron could have signed a $1m per year deal--which means that a Max spot would have been available (cough PG-13). If they couldn't land him, they could have used that $49m to make offers to BOTH harden and klay !
Why does he think we're happy after LeBron didn't take a pay cut
Just replay that 3 pointer he bricked at the end of Game 2…. That’s YOUR goat.
Lebrons value is only high because the media can’t shut up about LeB and the Lakers as terrible as they are. The Lakers have really fallen and no one sees it.
They won't my the play in! 😂
They are ok with being mediocre, they no longer matter
I mean lakers nation is definitely not happy today, him signing the max mean we can only offer vet mins to free agents. Which means we can only improve through trade, other gms know that so they’ll likely try to fleece us
Wilbon been going hard ever since his best friend got fired from the lakers.
Gets what he wants….. and that’s why no other players want to go there.
The only people going through those turnstiles are the celebrities with nothing better to do and dont know anything about basketball but has heard of a Lebron James
This is going to be a clown show and LBJ fans have front row seats 😅 i love it
Lebron should’ve went to Knicks
Hey, Wilbon, 🤫. Let them find out for themselves.
Cause MJ signing to Wizards was a winning move .
ESPN wanting LeBron to retire asap
Nobody said it did mean something to winning 😂
Laker fans are not unreasonable, they are just used to winning chips
Its funny how these analysts forget this is a Job/Business bron did win! He gettin tht money nd got his son
The Lakers were a play in team.....stop the madness.
Ever since the Lakers fired Darvin Ham, Wilbon has been on a personal missing to disparage the Lakers. Similar to SAS when Magic quit and Richard Jerfferson when his boy Luke got fired. Only SAS has moved on. These journalist need to stop talking about a fan base that they aren’t apart of. Ain’t no way Laker fans are rejoicing about this. The front office failed.
Wilbon asking Bron to take less still, even after pelinka wasted the opportunity. And this Wilbon fck won't even do what Bron did if they switch shoes.
Lakers Nation are frustrated we haven’t traded Lebron away yet . Most of lakers nation are biding time watching the clippers until he leaves.
Why are we acting like the Lakers even care about winning at this point? And why are we acting like LeBron actually makes enough difference for anyone to win? The dude is a stat sheet player and on his last leg 😂
I guarantee if the Lakers played the Rockets in the playoffs Wilbur is not taking the Rockets “STOP THE CAP”🤣😂🤣😂
Wlbon’s feelings are still hurt with the firing of his best friend coach Ham.😂😂😂😂