A Championship Season under Quarantine Lakers Jared Dudley revealed his team was primed for the battle for L.

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Because of Paul George, saying quote, We hear some of the guys talking about how they're the team to be in L.

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It's fine.

If Kawhi Leonard says stuff like that, he's defending a championship.

But we think it's disrespectful for Paul George, who hasn't won to put himself on the level of LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

This kind of stuff motivates us last night.

Paul George, with the killing with kindness, approach God bless him.

God bless you, Jared Dudley.

Um, I don't know what it ISS dudes loved on my name and stuff, but God bless you, Jared.

Mhm, Stephen A.

Do you believe?

Deadly?

No, I don't.

I don't believe him at all.

Um, I respect Jared Dudley.

I think he's a really good guy.

Really smart guy.

And I'm not trying to throw any shade on him, but I don't believe him.

And I say that respectfully because I definitely believe it was more about CO I Lenin.

Let me say this.

Paul George is averaging 27 against the Lakers.

He did average 26 last year against the Lakers.

Paul George is an All Star caliber player.

He is not a scrub, and he happens to be one of the nicest people you'd ever meet.

To be quite honest with you, incredibly respectful.

He's a professional.

He's a good dude.

You might have had differences with certain players, like a Montreal's arrow or somebody but Paul George is a good guy.

Um, let's be very, very clear about that.

He's not one of those guys that says That's an a hole and he motivates you to really, really come at him night and day because of your disdain for him, You run across the N B A.

You don't find guys that feel that way about Paul George.

Now they might feel something along the lines, like Hawaii is a champion and you're not.

But it's not like they look at Paul George like he's some scrub and you know what?

Let's let's let's go and give it to him because it ain't that it ain't gonna be that easy.

The brother can play, but the reason I bring up Kawai is because once again, we've got yet another person that's trying to downplay or shove aside the significance of what Kawhi Leonard did.

What call while then it could do.

Let's focus on what he did.

He won the championship in Toronto, signed on with New Balance even before that actually come to L.

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Got the commercial for New Balance, driving the convertible down the highway in L.

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He was coming for LeBron because LeBron wasn't a champion.

He waas And he was like, I'm the reigning defending champion now and I'm coming to your town.

And by the way, I'm not coming to you.

I'm coming to come at you as Max as Max Kellerman has so a slightly highlighted in the past.

That's what Kawhi Leonard was doing.

And if you LeBron James, you knew everybody and their mama was waiting for that confrontation.

Yes, Lakers Clippers.

Yes, Paul George Witco against Anthony Davis and LeBron knows.

But they were waiting for LeBron versus CO y and anybody who tries to deny that I ain't even trying to listen to them.

I'm not even trying to listen to them because everybody was waiting for that confrontation.

And that's why we still ticked off that the Clippers did come through.

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