RICH PAUL IS OUTTA CONTROL! – Stephen A. makes a case for LeBron to Knicks! 🍿 | First Take

RICH PAUL IS OUTTA CONTROL! – Stephen A. makes a case for LeBron to Knicks! 🍿 | First Take

They put up a fight Jaylen Brunson dropping 36 but we’re without Julius Randall o anobi and a bunch of other guys but it wasn’t enough so uh Stephen A we heard you were dreaming for the king in orange and blue but Rich Paul said no dice telling our guy Wendy

LeBron won’t be traded and we aren’t asking to be Paul said this in reaction to some growing speculation about James’s future ahead of of course next week’s the trade deadline okay I’ll start with you Stephen A should LeBron ever leave tell y yeah but let me say this okay and I could say

This I really hate saying this over National TV because he doesn’t deserve it but to Know Rich Paul is to love him I mean I love the guy I really really do he get on my damn nerves when do you know that he gets on my damn nerves you

Said so he thinks he’s watching you guys interact you could sell admission watching you interact but I love him I I love him to death I I really do I love him to death but I don’t like his ass I’m gonna tell you why doggy Wendy Molly

Especially you let me tell you what this dude would Rich Paul is out of control one minute he’s sitting up there lecturing me on the game of basketball always in favor of LeBron by the way always always right another minute he’s walking in the middle of my podcast

While I’m taping it in Las Vegas and just taking over the damn show okay another minute he’s coming on first take and then after he leaves First Take he goes out and he smoothes with my sister kman you think she’s got meals for you doggy you think she’s got stuff for you

Molly I mean my God I mean this dude kmen what does Rich want what does Rich want he just oh he gets oh he really gets on my nerves with this stuff but having said all of that okay he can’t get around this reality Mr Clutch Sports listen up because he’s watching right

Now I can assure you of that Mr Clutch Sports I know that LeBron is not leaving La I mean how good is I in Southern California baby I understand I truly truly do but here’s the deal if he wants a better shot at a championship I would say it is something

He strongly should consider now wge and Wendy earlier last week have both reminded me of something I already knew that obviously because of salary cap issues and what have you in order for the Knicks to get him Julius Randy would have to be out and I don’t want to lose

That Workhorse that is Julius Randy but when I think about the garden the mecca New York City you understand and I’m thinking about what I’m seeing from Jaylen brunon and let me not give fail to give love to Dante de venzo the Wildcat back court and I’m seeing what

I’m seeing with OG and anobi and being the number one rank defense and defensive efficiency I’m loving what I’m seeing here and the only thing that’s missing only thing that’s missing from the New York Knicks right now is a star a super Superstar we got a star in

Jaylen Brunson I’m talking about a superstar see our definition of a superstar and you’ll appreciate this doggy is Patrick euan that’s the best we’ve had Melo was beyond you know approaching past this Prime and plus LeBron was in Miami with dwade okay and Jaylen Brunson right now here’s all you

Need to know it’s the greatest point guard we’ve had in New York since Walt Clyde frasia that is a fact and that’s throwing the Great Stefon Marberry into consideration who average 20 and8 in his career Jaylen Brunson is the best point guard New York has had since Walt Clyde Frasier in

1973 so I’m saying the mecca New York Gotham City they got four first round picks this year two first round picks next year 11 first round picks to play with over the next seven years and who’s the franchise in desperate need of draft Capital it would be the Los Angeles

Lakers I know it’s not going to happen but damn it if I’m Leon Rose worldwide West gersan Ro H who knows who the hell else I guess what I’m making a call of Rob pinka and Genie bus and by the way to the New York Knicks if you need help

I’m offering my services for free desperate times call for desperate measures I would love for King James to be in New York City I would love it I would love even the Knicks aren’t desperate that’s why you were there in your orange and blue suit the other

Night that you’ve been saving for God knows many years all right okay when it comes to LeBron there’s something I know there’s something I believe and there’s something I don’t know what I know is LeBron’s playing for $50 million next year any you he’s got an option in his

Contract with the Lakers for $51 million anybody who’s out there dreaming that he’s going to opt out of that contract and come to you for something less than that I just don’t I don’t think so I know he’s playing for 50 million two I believe it’s going to be with the Lakers

Because LeBron wants to be a Laker he wanted to be in La when he left Cleveland in 2018 he had definite better options of places where he could go and win more championships he wanted to be in La he came here he won one his children are still in school here his

Son Bryce will be a senior in high school next year I believe LeBron’s going to be in La what I don’t know is how Bron figures in all of that and whether or not the desire to play with bronnie or if bronnie will be ready to enter the league or what that’ll happen

Could affect and whether LeBron could use his option as a leveraging point either to force somebody to draft him whether that’s the Lakers or somebody else or force a trade or something like that I don’t know but those are the things I would say I would say the most

Interesting thing that happened for the Knicks that involved Rich Paul in the last few days was the meeting that he had with Leon rose on Friday this while everybody was focusing on LeBron and his Social Media stuff and wearing the Nicks tow which was grade A LeBron passive

Aggressive stuff gr a wearing the knck tow walking off at MSG what he does perfect uh but Rich Paul and Leon Rose is as far as I know had not spoken at any length since Leon became the president of the Knicks I’m not even sure they’d even sat at the same table

In the last decade but definitely had had no interactions and on Friday while Rich was in New York with LeBron for that big game they met and I don’t know what was said at the meeting but I do know that it was a major step forward in chilling the ice

Between clutch Sports and their stable of tremendous Stars yes LeBron is one of them and future stars that they will have and the Knicks the Knicks and clutch Sports have been like this for as long as Leon has been there so what that is an indication of is that the Knicks

Know that they’re going to have to potentially do business with clutch Sports and the clutch Sports client the Lakers are negotiating with teams for NE for uh trades and LeBron is negotiating with the Lakers trying to force them into giving up everything they can to improve their

Team go well I got a few things to say about LeBron F first off I get the average fan gets so tired of the LeBron drama we’re reading The Hourglass thing that he posted on the Emoji I mean come on H please you’ve been on a million

Teams and go look at all the great players in the history of the league they all play for the same team Russ play for the same team Bird play for the same team Jordan play for the same team magic play for the same they all play

For the same team he’s been on Cleveland Miami Cleveland and the Lakers now he wants to go play for a fifth team I mean I think that hurts his legacy that’s number one number two how could the Lakers with LeBron and Anthony Davis be a 500 basketball team that’s a good

Point can somebody explain you know they’re going to be in a playing they’re going to be in the playing again they’re not going to be the six seed they’re four games back back of Phoenix they are going to be in a plan this is a team that last week lost the Rockets with

LeBron and Anthony Davis on the team that is those are two top 10 obviously LeBron one of the alltime greats two of the top 10 players still now in the NBA he loses the freaking rockets and then Atlanta I know Davis didn’t play against that that’s ridiculous that they are 26

And 25 that’s number two and number three I know Stevie now is all reved up on the Knicks has he seen Julius Randle be playoff scenario he stinks in a postseason Atlanta killed him two years Miami last year buried Rand had Nick fans calling me left and right get him

Off the team Brunson he’s 100% right I love Brunson now Steve’s making it sound like that the Knicks have had 10 Bob Koozies since W Frasier the Knicks haven’t had a point guarder at Michael Ray Richardson for a year so the I dear now that were supposed to jump through

Hoops because jayen they haven’t had anybody out loud And

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo and Brian Windhorst join Molly Qerim to discuss whether LeBron James should leave the Los Angeles Lakers. Stephen A. sounds off on Rich Paul before then making a plot for LeBron to join his New York Knicks.
0:00 Stephen A.’s response to Rich Paul
3:00 See you in New York?
7:40 LeBron hurting his legacy?

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