You know, one of the position that I've taken was that Magic Johnson is an overseer.

People below you're supposed to support.

And this is supposed to pound the pavement you info.

And then you are the decision maker because that obviously was what was lacking for years before you arrived.

Ric Bucher goes on fs one weeks are days rather after your resignation.

And he said that there was some critical e mails about you that were exchanged between Rob Pelinka and owner Jeannie Buss.

And eventually you got wind of that.

First of all, I want to know Is there any truth to that?

And number two And more importantly, the emails.

What was said in the emails, Stephen, I don't know if e mails were sent because I didn't see those emails.

Okay.

And, uh, I only heard about it after Rick wrote that story.

I didn't ask Jeanie or anybody about him because, you know, now it didn't matter.

Even today.

It doesn't matter.

Um, I'm not a guy who hold grudges and and I don't want to see, hear, and, um, just say everything in Laker land is bad because it's not you still have LeBron, you still have.

Ah, great young core.

Brandon Ingram is special.

Kyle Kuzma special.

We have a chance to Really?

If we stick to the game plan that I had built right and say we signed a free agent this summer, the Lakers will be right back in the hunt.

And so so I don't know about the emails.

Um, but again, if it's true, these are things that also bother me, right?

Legacy of Magic Johnson.

We know what a champion you have been, but you walked away from the Lakers job, his family.

You walked away from the Lakers job, concerned at all about how you're viewed because of your willingness toe walk away or not concerned it up.

Not concerned because, you know, I gave everything I had to get the Lakers going in the right direction, and I still feel we're headed in the right direction.

If we score this summer, Um, well, you can't judge a man unless you walk in that man shoes.

It's hard to do that, you know, I'm strong, super strong, just like my father.

I'm strong, have the personality of my mother, but even myself is only so much I'm going to take and deal with.

I'm always loved Jeannie.

That's my sister.

I'm always be a Laker.

If Laker fans or other people thought that hey, it was bad the way I made the decision or the decision to leave, that's up to them.

But I am a happy person right now.

I gave up a lot to take that Laker job, right.

I gave up weekends with my wife.

We go out every weekend, and so Friday, Now I couldn't go out Sunday.

I couldn't go take her to the movies anymore.

The things that I had to give up to take that job and I was willing to do that for three years, I was willing to do that.

So, um, I'm Listen, I'm just gonna be a happy band.

I'm running my business.

I'm extremely happy.

And again, I'm gonna support the Lakers.

But let let's dissect this before I go back to Max and Mollie.

You love Jeanie Buss, but she emotional.

She's emotional, according to you, and as a result, she loves the people that are within the Lakers organization.

So she's, she's she's emotional in that regard.

You've got a genius that essentially, you said, is backstab.

If you are the Los Angeles that you got Tim Harris on the business side, that's infiltrate the basketball sign.

With all that being said, why should LeBron James want to stay in that lake?

Because he has a chance to turn it around.

This is the young core special, the young core special.

And if you put I don't care who the free agent ISS, one of those creation hiree.

Why I don't care who it is.

One of those guys, You could see him all now you weigh.

I can see them all.

Just get one of those guys with LeBron and then you use the mid level to get a shooter.

The Lakers are right back in it because there's one specialty that's Golden State.

Everybody else is about even, and they're not special that there's one special team, and that's Golden State Warriors.