JP reacts to the uninspiring debut of Luka Doncic in a Laker uniform. BMitch believes Doncic will become a great Laker star eventually.
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00:00I feel like the Lakers over the years have had more star power than any NBA franchise.
00:07The Lakers are on par to the Yankees to me like that. I mean, you go back in time, they
00:12spend Kareem, Jerry West, Will Chamberlain, magic Colby shack.
00:16Well, let's just think about it. They have more stars around the damn, uh, right in front
00:20row. Right. And that brings them some, uh, luster to it as well. So I just, I was blown
00:27away by, I get, it was Luca's first game. Yeah. And Luca had a team in the finals last
00:34year. Prior to that, correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think there's been a ton of playoff
00:39success. He fills it up. He's a great scorer undeniably, but the level above a bond celebration
00:48of Lucas arrival for a team in the LA Lakers that have won, I don't know, 14 titles.
00:57They, I think how they had the most until Boston came back at the end, the last two,
01:00either one, either one of them. Right. I mean, this is the Lakers and B you would have thought
01:07it was the queen of England coming to town. Like that's how they got to do it. They got
01:11to promote it though. You gotta make everybody like it. I think you have, like, I get celebrating
01:17the guy you just traded for you on the trade was like a week ago, 10 days ago. And this
01:21was the first time he played. And apparently he's been fully healthy. Is that not an alarm
01:26bell about what, maybe some of the problems that night. And then like a lot, a lot of
01:30it took a few days before they play, but nobody ever plays in that league. So it's, it's its
01:34own issue, but I just was beat. They had a 77 towel on every seat in the arena. As I
01:43told you previously, this is not just about team champions. This is not just about today.
01:52LeBron will not be the star maybe next year or the following year. They have to start
01:57building up Luca. Now he's your next guy. And, and they're hoping that LeBron can, can
02:04have something, give him something or he will have something rubs off on him because that's
02:08just what it is, man. You know, you gotta, in the NBA, we always got, we got to the point
02:14of the big three. You still gotta have a big one, somebody to promote the whole damn thing
02:20about. And that's what the league and the Lakers are doing with LeBron. Now they know
02:25that it's coming to an end.
02:26Speaker 3 11 I maybe, man, I was just blown away by it.
02:31Luca's first basket was a step back three. It's it's got, he did have a really, I mean,
02:35I watched the first quarter, so I'm not going to give you a whole lot of analysis. But the
02:42one thing I think it was Legler and Dave passion. They do a good job. They're saying like, oh,
02:46you know, this team's going to have to figure out kind of primary ball handling duties with
02:50Luca likes ball and LeBron likes the ball. I very much believe LeBron is such a great
02:59player. He'll, he'll make it work. I don't think that's going to be of great concern.
03:03Those two figuring it out, right?