FIRST TAKE | Trade him now – Stephen A. takes dig at LeBron, Anthony Davis after Lakers beat Celtics

FIRST TAKE | Trade him now – Stephen A. takes dig at LeBron, Anthony Davis after Lakers beat Celtics

I love everybody everybody I see my man Wendy in the screen you see Miss time right there go ahead get it going em get it going em you know why I’m feeling this way did you notice the blue that I’m wearing is orange and blue skies baby

Orange and blue skies the New York Knicks nine straight nine straight okay we coming y’all I’m here I’m here here you I was trying to slow it but I can’t help it I’m getting excited right now I’m getting Julius ran a stay away get yourself ready keep those legs fresh get

Yourself healthy get the Shoulder right you going be all right okay I know we got LeBron to talk about I know we got the Boston Celtics to talk about I know Eminem and Wendy got a lot to Brak to the table we’ll get it to some Super

Bowl talk as well but damn it that ain’t the priority it’s blue sky come here R come here Russ come here right here y’all see this sweater right here you see this sweater right here go New York go New York go New York go New York go

Go New York go New York go yeah W let’s go the Lakers rolling into Boston without LeBron James and Anthony Davis re three got it re right by J re has got a fire oh God just saying Reeves over and over again it’s cool pretty much the

Whole game was Austin re LeBron and AD are fired up the Boston Cel Los in a shocker to the under Los Angeles Lakers the best asset the Lakers have to trade is LeBron James if you can bring back a couple of first round picks and a couple of complimentary pieces why wouldn’t you

Explore that possibility well well well is it a Feelgood Friday or what nine straight Stephen A I don’t know I might have to go Saturday night we might have to bring Ross to the Lakers next game Brian wior is always good to see you Monica MCN a

Red sunshine thank you good to see you red Sunshine what’s up mem you want to borrow my glasses why would I do that because no no that’s for Le let’s Le rock those they look they would look fine but you got on a black top

With the white stuff on you know what I’m saying if you I know you got blue be quicker than you L BL no no all you talk about is Yukon you ain’t never talk about the New York Knicks tell you got to the game the other day you ain’t

Never talk about New York we don’t need you we don’t need you stay in stores stay in stores Connecticut hold up since I went to the game how’s that win streak looking y you want this Good Karma right here you want this Good Karma they might L we’re going to the Lakers game

Saturday night Stephen A is doing countdown from there I’m going to work on tickets right after this it’s orange and blue skies baby it’s orange and blue skies this a good time in the city feel it what do you guys do you guys want to talk about sports today let’s go let’s

Go we are talk about sports what the hell are the New York construction workers we’re talking about Sports Talk wanted me to order like some omelets a short stack and we were just going to chop it up all right uh with no LeBron James and Anthony Davis it was the

Lakers role players who stepped up in a 114 105 upset in Boston the loss was just the third at home for the Celtics following a 22-2 start at TD Garden James sat with ankle soreness while Davis deals with an Achilles issue and hip spasm here are and get up with an

Interesting take on King James let’s it up y’all what do the Lakers have to offer in a trade what would you do what would I do I would start Fielding offers for LeBron James because that’s the best thing you have it’s the most valuable piece tradable commodity that you have

And of course it’s not going to happen Twitter so don’t bother responding to me the Lakers don’t have assets they don’t have enough to build a championship team for a 39-year-old superstar who’s still giving you 257 and seven shooting 50% he still can play at a superstar level but

It’s not going to be enough whatever you do to get another championship okay to be clear Han wasn’t saying that the Lakers should trade LeBron however Stephen A should LeBron want to be traded I think it’s something he should entertain at some point I mean when I look at the Weston conference and

I look at the Los Angeles Lakers and I look at the way they play last night not withstanding the Lakers have been a subpar team throughout this year uh it was nice to see Austin Reeves get loose last night it’s very touching very touching good to happy you showed up

Okay very touching okay and D’Angelo Russell since we inserted into the starting lineup he’s looked fabulous for the most part we get all of that if they continue to look the way that they’ve looked last night without their two superstars imagine if Anthony Davis by

The way Anthony Davis that was a fly I like the outfit that was pretty fly my brother with the shades and the and the turtleneck and the jack jaet I got to admit so if you see me rocking something like that in the future I’ll give you

Credit I got it from you CU I really like the look but having said all of that let me say this to you if you’re LeBron James now far be it for me to go this far because we all know how much I love Southern California the weather is

Just fabulous the town is beautiful uh oh whole they got some issues politically they need to address but the bottom line is it’s it’s La it’s la la we get that right so we understand it but when you look at the team the Clippers are better the Denver Nuggets

Are better the Minnesota Timberwolves and Oklahoma City Thunder are not going anywhere the Sacramento King some would argue is better and so when you look at it and you’re talking about five or six teams within your conference that are better than you okay and then you look

To the Future what about when Clark and Stephen Adams come back in Memphis and John Morant comes back healthy how am I to look at your squad the future for so many other teams look bright in the Western Conference not so so much for LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers

And so when I take it from that perspective and I think about the fact that you’re willing to leave anyway because anywhere that bronny ends up going is where you want to be because you want to play with your son which is what he’s been on the record as saying

Assuming he’s going to be good enough to be on the NBA level and I root for that kid I really really do and I hope that all his aspirations and all his dreams come true for him and his wonderful family at the end of the day I’m just

Looking at it from the standpoint that where are the Lakers going unless they show me that they can make a run like they did last year to the Western Conference Finals I’m just not sold on what I’m seeing from them as it pertains to their future and as a result of that

LeBron James with in 39 and his 21st season in the league still being spectacular I want to see that brother in meaningful games and I don’t know if the Lakers can give it to them in the future so I think it’s something they should never consider letting them goz

Cuz he’s a box office and it’s Tinsel Town and you need that box office allowance attra and attraction but if I’m LeBron James um I might want to consider it in a short run in in in a short period of time instead of the long run go ahead

Wendy Oh I thought it was Monica um okay I’m gonna tell you what um what LeBron wants and it’s actually kind of been the same thing that he’s wanted since he was a teenager what LeBron wants is to maximize the opportunity to maximize his career to maximize his earnings to

Maximize his power to maximize what he can run what he can raise for charity to maximize the lives he can impact and to maximize what his team can do in an individual season and that has really been you know what he has wanted when you look at the way he has operated

Year-over-year he knows he’s extremely aware he knows exactly where the Lakers are he knows that they’re not fake favorites but what he wants is the Lakers to have the gas pedal down the same level as he did he wanted the same from the Cavs he wanted the same from

The Heat and so you know I agree with you Stephen A this team is not a team that you fear but they’re a confounding team because they win the inseason tournament where they’re the most dominant team they go in they win in Boston they win in Oklahoma City they

Beat the Clippers a couple of weeks ago they have that impressive win over the Warriors I understand the Warriors are not that great but to go into that environment on a night when Steph was playing like that and win so you see that it’s not like he’s playing for the

Pistons here he sees that they have the opportunity to potentially put something together and so what he wants is the Lakers to gas themselves like he gasses himself and that is what this you know passive aggressive stuff that he’s already doing is about he’s done the

Same thing in the past when he wanted the calves or the heat to do it and he’s gotten generally it’s taken some turns and it’s taken some grief and it’s taken some upset stomachs but he’s generally gotten what he’s wanted and for the most part you can find you can quibble with

Me on this for the most part he has maximized most of his Seasons so I do not think he wants to be traded now I will say this it is also a longstanding tenant of the Laker organization started by Dr bus totally followed on by his daughter jeie that the most important

Thing in La is to treat the Stars well because you because you’re not only operating with the Stars that you have today you’re always recruiting the stars of tomorrow that is the Laker way and they they did it with Kobe and they will do it with LeBron I do not think they’re

Headed down this path but one more thing guys and then I’ll let you go I will just point out LeBron has been a Laker for six years okay he has never once in those six years ever been in position to be a free agent after the season this is

Just a statement of fact it is not an implication of anything it is not sources said is just a statement of fact when he was in Cleveland before he was there for four years okay he was he put himself to be a free agent after three of those he constantly left himself

Options because he wasn’t sure about being in Cleveland and eventually he left he has never done that in La he has signed three contracts but now he does have an option so it is so while I back up everything I just said I will also say that he has an option in his

Contract and his son is very likely going to be in the draft those are two things that just need to be said and then before you go two things one number one let me make sure everybody knows I was just throwing out Stephen Adams because I was just throwing out a name

For Memphis but I’m fully aware that W fored last night that he’s going to get traded to the Rockets which I think is a plus for the Houston Rockets by the way number two I think the most important thing to peel from Wendy is that stars need to be treated special that’s

Applicable Beyond I do need to I do applicable Beyond basetball after that latest ratings announcement I was thinking of making a call foro and just telling them your paycheck and I need to at least be at 10% I mean when we got take care of STS I mean

Stars should be treated special I mean that I was think Ste steephen I appreciate you saying that speaking me I’m just bring it back to the LeBron part of it all but you guys both shine very very brightly uh in our ecosphere here at ESPN Wendy this would be my

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FIRST TAKE | “Trade him now” – Stephen A. takes dig at LeBron, Anthony Davis after Lakers beat Celtics