@Connor Martin You obviously dont know who Mad Dog is because he spent 19 years on the biggest sport talk radio show in history talking everything from sports to movies. Now Mad Dog doesnt always say the brightest things but that makes him no different than Skip
Yeah I guess Lakers and Bron fans forget how trash the team was when LeBron got there first year lmao. In no way was that an upgrade over the 2018 Cavs team
No mistake at all! The problem is they dismantled a championship team, and the replacement players have been inferior. Additionally James and Davis have had injuries, coupled with the fact Westbrook doesn’t have the skillset to be compatible with this roster.
@@marcosxfern he is compatible on a mediocre team where he is focal point and he can go 12 of 28 from the field and get triple doubles and just squeeze by. There is a reason KD and PG didn’t want to stay with him in OKC. Russ=0 Rings.
@@dg.seymour855 Westbrook is a good player with bad decision making. Let's not blame the KD move on Russ. KD wanted an easy ring that's why he left. If the reason was just with Russ he could've just went to another team, not with the warriors. And let's not forget about the fact that they both choked on their 3-1 loss against the warriors. It's not all about russ
Even Kobe Bryant said it before, the greatest Laker really is JERRY WEST. Look it up. None of this happens without THE ARCHITECT. The greatest GM in team sports history.
6:07 - "He was in the FINALS EVERY YEAR JERRY WEST..." That ending with Mad Dog took me to out 😂😂😂 It's like seeing SAS vs Skip Bayless all over again. Can we make a petition to par these two up full time?!
The best part is when SAS mentioned how many championships he won, Mad Dog smirked knowing he took the bait and was going to hit him with that when his time came 😂
Mad Dog told the truth. LeBron can run from team to team for the easy road to rings but he'll never be embraced like a Kobe or those other players Mad Dog mentioned.
@@usamaazam4865 not anymore kid, conversation for lebron now is for 2nd goat, mj will always be the undisputed goat... LeBron getting further and further away from goat mj now that he's collecting L 's 🤣
I agree with Russo on the fact that if he wanted to build a legacy of being the best player in a franchise's history, he needed to stay in Cleveland. However, winning the Ring with the Lakers in 2020 does mean that the move to LA was worth it, because he won a title during his 2nd year with the team
He couldn't stay in Cleveland. He wasn't going to win another championship there. No superstar was going to Cleveland anyway. Lebron was cheated out of winning more titles because he was not drafted to a large market team. Cleveland is a joke of a sports city.
I couldn´t agree more with Mad Dog Russo. LeBron James will never be on par with Kobe, Magic or Kareem as a Laker and he's leaving the Lakers soon. Please keep Mad Dog on the show permanently.
Steven A and any other delusional “sports analyst” need to stop the “He’s playing like an MVP” BS!🤣😂 Lebron playing NO defense and walking around the court blaming his own teammates every time he gets burned or looses his own man🤣😂
bro he is the soul reason the lakers arent at the bottom of the west rn and hes averagint 29 7 and 7 off extreme consistency. if youve watched any game youll also notice lebron is guarding the best player on the opposing team every single time and plays great defense. also, his teamates are all a bunch of old fucks that slack and dont have the energy to run down the court. he is putting up mvp stats and is getting destroyed by his own team
@@chay770 and how is that lebrons fault? So because other teams “didn’t want to be there” he gets discredited for winning a championship? Y’all come up with any excuse lmao 😂
@@michaelmyers9174 it’s not lebrons fault he even said he wanted to leave. You can say whatever you want but facts is that season was an anonally, healthy AD? lmao, and most fans don’t respect that season. Not lebrons fault but that’s just facts
I mean he won a championship, he’d probably still only have 3 if he stayed. No way Cleveland would have gotten the talent they have now through the draft.
Stephen A makes a good point when you consider Mad Dog's reasoning about what "team" these legends will be remembered as and the fact that Wayne Gretzky has a statue outside Crypto and of course will be forever known as an Oiler first and foremost. From Mad Dog's reasoning, it makes sense that LeBron would end up with a statue, actually.
This guy said what everyone else is afraid of saying...yes he won a chip after 5 months off and no crowd pressure and after that it has been what it would've been if the bubble didnt happen. No bubble no chip.
Dude they LOST home court advantage because of the bubble. Other teams had the same time to get healthy. The lakers were one of the teams that voted to END the bubble. Get off Twitter it’s ruining your brain
Except he won his fourth ring for his third different franchise, a storied franchise used to winning. That right there should end this nonsensical debate. And being in LA compared to Cleveland given LeBron's production company and Hollywood plans? C'mon.
@@keefriff99 To this day, I don't get why it was necessary to play in LA to be in show business. Jordan playing in Chicago and DC did not stop him from being big in entertainment business in a non-Internet era. Jordan did not even have a summer home in Southern Cal.
@@sjsupa I dunno, Jordan did ONE movie. LeBron has a production company. Yeah, you can definitely do your business over video calls nowadays, but if you wanna be in the entertainment industry, there’s no substitute for face to face meetings.
@@keefriff99 Jordan did ONE movie，but tons of commercials. face to face meetings is not hard either. Lebron spends his off-season there. And during the season, it does not take much time for someone to visit him with a private jet.
Totally disagree with Mad Dog and agree with Stephen A. LeBron brought a championship to LA, tying the Boston Celtics for most won championships, making LA the most successful team in NBA history by also having more playoff wins than any other team.
A. The championship didn't even happen in the building. B. The other years have been DISASTERS. If you had even at least another long playoff run where it occured IN The building I'd buy it. Crypto/Staples got to host 4 playoff games in 3 years and that's me including the play in win over Golden State. That's not good
Great chemistry love to here the knowledge of them both.I like the way he makes Stephen have to think and he can’t over talk him also. I would be good to see them often…
Stephan A. Does too much 99% of the time but this take he’s completely right, there’s only a handful of laker legends that won multiple rings to say lebron made a mistake leaving the cavs just completely disrespects the 2020 Championship they won yeah I know now they’re struggling but the end goal is to win the ring and lebron already added another ring to a legendary franchise and the door isn’t closed.
1 ring in 3 years of being there? Not making the playoffs to championship that year then First round exit last year and you talk bout the greatest or legacy or whatever 🤣 he shouldn't had stayed but trading their future for a street clothed AD and a none factor in Westbrook who doesn't seem to want to win a championship that much Ingram Lonzo Ball J Hart Caruso and Zubac were young but hungry
@@ArtecWolf007 you want him to win 3 years in a row ? 😭that’s rare but anyway they traded away their future for a championship and it worked 🤷🏽♂️the end goal is always win the ring and he did it regretting trading for ad just means u regret that championship that came with him
@@meechwalker7667 anything is possible in the nba if ad doesn’t get hurt lakers would be 2x champions right now even in other scenarios like if kawhi didn’t get hurt in playoffs clippers would’ve got passed by the suns and would’ve beat the bucks easily in the finals even with the nets if kyrie/harden didn’t get hurt or even if kd shoe size was a inch smaller they would be champions rn you never know what’s to come so yes lebron window of winning champions in L.A isn’t over
This is BS, you can argue LeBron should have not went to LA but he made the right decision to leave Cleveland. I honestly believe he should have forced his way to Houston in 2018. Bron with Harden/CP3 & Capela would have won 2019,2020 & 2021 finals healthy
That would of been impossible… those contract wouldn’t allow that to happen.. Rockets was already strapped with CP3, Harden and Capela. That’s why that team didn’t last longer then what they did. Ran out of cap space to continue to build
@@WorldWideWeasel Houston didn’t last longer b/c Harden gave up on CP3, Rockets had 3 bad contracts on that team that added up to LeBrons max deal. Ryan Anderson made 19, Eric Gordon make like 14 & Ariza made around like 12. Thats 45ms that Houston could have flipped for Bron in a sign & trade
SAS has one wheelhouse, and one wheelhouse only: the NBA. MD is knowledgeable across a wide spectrum of sports, and he took SAS to school at the close of this segment! Christopher is the first amongst equals on First Take.
All I know is this: it's so much more meaningful for your jersey to be associated and retired with one franchise (in Bryant's case, TWO jerseys) than be some mercenary-like prima donna who had the influence to stack your team in three arenas and still lose more Finals than won. Plain and simple, no way around it.
From 2014-2019, Lakers had an identical record to the Knicks! Then we mocked LeBron last year for leaving the game before time ran out. Then we are mocking him again this year. That's 8 laughing years for Laker haters and 1 ✳️ year for Laker fans.
"From the standpoint of legacy....who's his team?" I could listen to Christopher Mad Dog Russo all day. Great decision to bring him in to debate issues with Stephen A. Remember kiddies....there is no sports talk radio without Mike and Chris. It was the success of WFAN sports talk radio that led to the careers of all these guys you're watching and listening to now on ESPN, FS1 and your local affiliates. Like them or not...Mike and Chris were the pioneers. Shout out to the late Art Rust Jr. who had a sports talk show on WABC in the early 80's as well.
LeBron being LeBron paid off in Cleveland until it didn't. Then it paid off in Miami until it didn't. It just didn't last that long in LA and now it's done. And going to the Lakers is a commitment to excellence and one championship in a bubble isn't excellence. It's nice but not enough.
The bubble "championship" should definitely have a few ***********. Most of the key players on each team were sitting out due to "Covid Clearance Protocols." 🤔
@@49ersganggang54 Someone had to win the 2020 NBA Finals, but since it's the Lakers it "doesn't count" or "it's fake." LeBron Haters don't know basketball.
Is this even a question? He won a championship! LeBron's legacy is cemented no matter how you look at it. And people don't understand that saying someone is the goat is literally a personal opinion. You know why? Because there will never be a greatest of all time of anything as long as the human race doesn't go extinct. As it stands now LeBron James is one of the greatest people of all time who played and plays basketball. He is not the greatest of all time no one is lol. Back to the Lakers and Cavs thing. Want a championship!
Since 2014, Lakers are 284-412 (.408). Since LeBron came to LA in 2018, they're 158-128 (.552). LeBron has played in 286 as a Laker and has missed 85 of them. That's actually more than AD although he's been with the Lakers longer.
Giving the Cavs all this credit.... stop it. They will be home after a round in the playoffs and back mediocrity next season. They went from irrelevant to Title contenders in the eyes of ESPN. The worst sports network in the world
SAS wanted Skip so bad he went to Great Value and got himself a GV Version lol nobody, NOBODY can't tell me that wasn't the case and Mad Dog now acts like Skip, the look, the eyes, the outlandish crazy talk, being loud for the sake of it.
Media and their fans think Lakers be winning championships every year. They didn't from 1989-1999. They got smoked in 2004 as huge favorites. Lost by 39 in Boston. Got swept in 2011. Since Jerry Buss' death, constant failures.
Lebron made a ride with Wade and Bosh at Miami to win a title. Now AD and Westbrook did the same thing for him but backfired. Everyone is pointing fingers up to the management when everything falls apart. But for me this are just people getting what they want from each other and not putting an effort.
I dont think this dude appreciates how much a championship is valued. I'd take 3 years of not making the playoffs and winning it once during a 4 year period than being a perennial playoff team that always gets bounced
Lakers only beat heat cuz of injury and refs fouled out jokic in 1st qtr of last 2 games of wcf. League gave it to lakers for Kobe. Lebron didnt deliver it
We’re comparing someone who joined the Lakers at 34 with one championship getting compared to players who played with other HOFers and had the majority or their whole career to win multiple 🙄
Didn’t anyone watch The Last Dance? Winning has a price. They won the champion. They suck now by dismantling the team. That’s the price the Lakers had to pay and guess what? As a non Lakers fan it still shows in the history book them winning a title. 100% worth it
The bubble championship was not harder , lebron is older and ad is injury prone and they both got months off to rest to go through the playoffs. If they would of gone straight to the playoffs it would be a different story
It was harder for everybody playing in those playoffs series. You got world wide pandemic, social issues going on in the street, u gotta go to work and not be near your family to play in this play offs, and the change of not having no fans. A lot going on but u gotta sho up and do your job. And the best team one like any other championship. Gotta give respect to these brothas.
That was the best decision. Their mistakes was losing that team after they won the championship. Even though that team was nowhere near comparable to the Warriors or Houston with cp3
Bro he even makes the same face as Skip. Stephen A. found his guy.
Ramyzee He didnt find him SAS works for him LOL
😂😂😂😂😂
agreed. id def watch more FT if this guy was perm
Mad Dog has his own Sirius channel he's never doing First Take Full time.
@@RoDiggity3743 which one do you think pays more if he was offered?
Mad Dog has been the best co-host for this show since Skip. Steven A has immediate chemistry with him. Two legends!
Even though this was a stupid take?
Because it's easy to debate stupid.
JJ has been the best co-host(I guess he’d actually be an NBA contributor) IMO.
Lol what? Stop making these clown comments
@Connor Martin You obviously dont know who Mad Dog is because he spent 19 years on the biggest sport talk radio show in history talking everything from sports to movies. Now Mad Dog doesnt always say the brightest things but that makes him no different than Skip
Does Russo realize none of the Cavs core like Garland, Mobley, & Allen would be there if LeBron stayed there? Lol
Yeah no kidding. Him leaving actually did the cavs good for once.
Yeah I guess Lakers and Bron fans forget how trash the team was when LeBron got there first year lmao. In no way was that an upgrade over the 2018 Cavs team
@@Okaysowhat12 both times. They got Kyrie when he left the first time.
@@austinlavigne3977 Ah yeah true.
Agreed this young core would have been traded away for experience. Lebron doesn’t sit through rebuilding projects.
No mistake at all! The problem is they dismantled a championship team, and the replacement players have been inferior. Additionally James and Davis have had injuries, coupled with the fact Westbrook doesn’t have the skillset to be compatible with this roster.
He’s not compatible with any roster
U on point
@@marcosxfern he is compatible on a mediocre team where he is focal point and he can go 12 of 28 from the field and get triple doubles and just squeeze by. There is a reason KD and PG didn’t want to stay with him in OKC. Russ=0 Rings.
@@dg.seymour855 Westbrook is a good player with bad decision making. Let's not blame the KD move on Russ. KD wanted an easy ring that's why he left. If the reason was just with Russ he could've just went to another team, not with the warriors. And let's not forget about the fact that they both choked on their 3-1 loss against the warriors. It's not all about russ
All the key players that they lost came back this year and they’re even worse lol gimme a break
This is hilarious. This dude is legit skip 2.0 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol 🤣😂
No, Skip is Mad Dog 2.0
He even looks like him🤣
No Mad dog makes a little more sense and yeah they have the same energy when talking sports I will say that
@@mfjosh6422 I’m dead🤣🤣🤣
Standing ovation for Mad Dog! Bravo 👏🏽
Give us Stephen A. and Mad Dog every weekday as long as they both are able to speak.
Mad Dog and Stephen A. Just works. This is Duo the show needs.
Even Kobe Bryant said it before, the greatest Laker really is JERRY WEST. Look it up. None of this happens without THE ARCHITECT. The greatest GM in team sports history.
6:07 - "He was in the FINALS EVERY YEAR JERRY WEST..." That ending with Mad Dog took me to out 😂😂😂
It's like seeing SAS vs Skip Bayless all over again. Can we make a petition to par these two up full time?!
The best part is when SAS mentioned how many championships he won, Mad Dog smirked knowing he took the bait and was going to hit him with that when his time came 😂
😂😂😂😂
"He was in the finals EVERY YEAR!!!" even Stephen was about to crack up 🤣🤣🤣
Mad Dog told the truth.
LeBron can run from team to team for the easy road to rings but he'll never be embraced like a Kobe or those other players Mad Dog mentioned.
It’s never easy to win a ring in the NBA.
Who cares
He already is embraced like “Kobe or those other players Mad Dog mentioned” 🧂🧂
He is in the Goat conversation while still playing in the NBA, so I think he is embraced enough.
@@usamaazam4865 not anymore kid, conversation for lebron now is for 2nd goat, mj will always be the undisputed goat... LeBron getting further and further away from goat mj now that he's collecting L 's 🤣
I agree with Russo on the fact that if he wanted to build a legacy of being the best player in a franchise's history, he needed to stay in Cleveland. However, winning the Ring with the Lakers in 2020 does mean that the move to LA was worth it, because he won a title during his 2nd year with the team
He couldn't stay in Cleveland. He wasn't going to win another championship there. No superstar was going to Cleveland anyway. Lebron was cheated out of winning more titles because he was not drafted to a large market team. Cleveland is a joke of a sports city.
He would have go to finals three years straight over raptors , heat & bucks though for sure
Maybe he wins even two
bro he doesnt need to play another day in that shitty cavs uniform and hes the greatest player to touch that jersey and hes done the most with
He was the best player in the franchise history by the time he left the first time.
I couldn´t agree more with Mad Dog Russo.
LeBron James will never be on par with Kobe, Magic or Kareem as a Laker and he's leaving the Lakers soon.
Please keep Mad Dog on the show permanently.
Bron could careless about that lmaooo ohjo is his home and cavs nation loves him
Steven A and any other delusional “sports analyst” need to stop the “He’s playing like an MVP” BS!🤣😂 Lebron playing NO defense and walking around the court blaming his own teammates every time he gets burned or looses his own man🤣😂
bro he is the soul reason the lakers arent at the bottom of the west rn and hes averagint 29 7 and 7 off extreme consistency. if youve watched any game youll also notice lebron is guarding the best player on the opposing team every single time and plays great defense. also, his teamates are all a bunch of old fucks that slack and dont have the energy to run down the court. he is putting up mvp stats and is getting destroyed by his own team
@@gingyboys8259 that would be a negative
“When he won in the bubble they was coming off a 5 month layover” lmao I guess the lakers was the only team to come off a 5 month layover
most teams didnt want to be there lmao
@@chay770 and how is that lebrons fault? So because other teams “didn’t want to be there” he gets discredited for winning a championship? Y’all come up with any excuse lmao 😂
@Trentor15 exactly!
@@chay770 the lakers voted to end the season 😂 he didn’t wanna be there
@@michaelmyers9174 it’s not lebrons fault he even said he wanted to leave. You can say whatever you want but facts is that season was an anonally, healthy AD? lmao, and most fans don’t respect that season. Not lebrons fault but that’s just facts
Give mad dog a full time spot. He's veryyyy entertaining him and Stephen a fit perfectly together their personalities are similar
Stephan A is wrong. Bron only deserve statue and Jersey retirement in Cleveland
He should have his jersey retired in Cleveland and Miami. But he'd need at least another championship and FMVP to have his jersey retired in LA.
No all 3 arenas will retire his jersey, but he’s only getting a statue in Cleveland 🤷🏼♂️
I mean he won a championship, he’d probably still only have 3 if he stayed. No way Cleveland would have gotten the talent they have now through the draft.
Exactly. what a nonsensical "debate".
Has he won a real championship with lakers? Please tell me when has lebron gotten passed the first round outside of Disneyland?
@@818ValleyGeez A championship is a championship
@@818ValleyGeez this is the definition of a “Mickey Mouse” take 😂 gtfo
@@dogmd7 lmaoo okay
6:07 Mad Dog Russo !!!! Love it.
Stephen A makes a good point when you consider Mad Dog's reasoning about what "team" these legends will be remembered as and the fact that Wayne Gretzky has a statue outside Crypto and of course will be forever known as an Oiler first and foremost. From Mad Dog's reasoning, it makes sense that LeBron would end up with a statue, actually.
Skip "Mad Dog Bayless" Russo 😂😂😂
Russo looks like a younger Skip
His twin lol
This guy said what everyone else is afraid of saying...yes he won a chip after 5 months off and no crowd pressure and after that it has been what it would've been if the bubble didnt happen. No bubble no chip.
They would of won it regardless they were the best team in the league
Dude they LOST home court advantage because of the bubble. Other teams had the same time to get healthy. The lakers were one of the teams that voted to END the bubble. Get off Twitter it’s ruining your brain
Except he won his fourth ring for his third different franchise, a storied franchise used to winning.
That right there should end this nonsensical debate. And being in LA compared to Cleveland given LeBron's production company and Hollywood plans? C'mon.
So Lebron went to LA not for basketball reasons. That in itself cannot be a Hollywood ending.
@@sjsupa
Never said that, but his basketball and business interests aligned in this case. Playing for the Lakers has always been a big deal.
@@keefriff99 To this day, I don't get why it was necessary to play in LA to be in show business. Jordan playing in Chicago and DC did not stop him from being big in entertainment business in a non-Internet era. Jordan did not even have a summer home in Southern Cal.
@@sjsupa
I dunno, Jordan did ONE movie. LeBron has a production company.
Yeah, you can definitely do your business over video calls nowadays, but if you wanna be in the entertainment industry, there’s no substitute for face to face meetings.
@@keefriff99 Jordan did ONE movie，but tons of commercials.
face to face meetings is not hard either. Lebron spends his off-season there. And during the season, it does not take much time for someone to visit him with a private jet.
Mad Dog is really growing on me because he reminds me so much of Skip Bayless. Say what you want, but Skip and Stephen A were a power duo
Oh Sure That Not everyone think when people Watch Undisputed and it your opinion.
Keep Mad Dog as the permanent co-host with Stephen A. He has chemistry and knowledge and experience. He is also very entertaining. Mad Dog forever!
Facts 👌🏽 I’m happy he left cause we got Mobley & DG but he should just come home and build on his legacy with The Cavs 💯
Not a mistake. The mistakes were made after that Championship.
The mistake is that they aren’t Mickey Mouse world
Totally disagree with Mad Dog and agree with Stephen A. LeBron brought a championship to LA, tying the Boston Celtics for most won championships, making LA the most successful team in NBA history by also having more playoff wins than any other team.
A. The championship didn't even happen in the building. B. The other years have been DISASTERS. If you had even at least another long playoff run where it occured IN The building I'd buy it. Crypto/Staples got to host 4 playoff games in 3 years and that's me including the play in win over Golden State. That's not good
@@RoDiggity3743 a championship is a championship stop being stupid.
Great chemistry love to here the knowledge of them both.I like the way he makes Stephen have to think and he can’t over talk him also. I would be good to see them often…
Stephan A. Does too much 99% of the time but this take he’s completely right, there’s only a handful of laker legends that won multiple rings to say lebron made a mistake leaving the cavs just completely disrespects the 2020 Championship they won yeah I know now they’re struggling but the end goal is to win the ring and lebron already added another ring to a legendary franchise and the door isn’t closed.
Door isn't closed as in? Another championship with the Lakers? Jw
1 ring in 3 years of being there? Not making the playoffs to championship that year then First round exit last year and you talk bout the greatest or legacy or whatever 🤣 he shouldn't had stayed but trading their future for a street clothed AD and a none factor in Westbrook who doesn't seem to want to win a championship that much Ingram Lonzo Ball J Hart Caruso and Zubac were young but hungry
@@ArtecWolf007 has KD won a ring since 2018?
@@ArtecWolf007 you want him to win 3 years in a row ? 😭that’s rare but anyway they traded away their future for a championship and it worked 🤷🏽♂️the end goal is always win the ring and he did it regretting trading for ad just means u regret that championship that came with him
@@meechwalker7667 anything is possible in the nba if ad doesn’t get hurt lakers would be 2x champions right now even in other scenarios like if kawhi didn’t get hurt in playoffs clippers would’ve got passed by the suns and would’ve beat the bucks easily in the finals even with the nets if kyrie/harden didn’t get hurt or even if kd shoe size was a inch smaller they would be champions rn you never know what’s to come so yes lebron window of winning champions in L.A isn’t over
When I see a mad dog comment I liked give this man a permanent spot on the show
This is BS, you can argue LeBron should have not went to LA but he made the right decision to leave Cleveland.
I honestly believe he should have forced his way to Houston in 2018. Bron with Harden/CP3 & Capela would have won 2019,2020 & 2021 finals healthy
That would of been impossible… those contract wouldn’t allow that to happen.. Rockets was already strapped with CP3, Harden and Capela. That’s why that team didn’t last longer then what they did. Ran out of cap space to continue to build
@@WorldWideWeasel Houston didn’t last longer b/c Harden gave up on CP3, Rockets had 3 bad contracts on that team that added up to LeBrons max deal. Ryan Anderson made 19, Eric Gordon make like 14 & Ariza made around like 12. Thats 45ms that Houston could have flipped for Bron in a sign & trade
SAS has one wheelhouse, and one wheelhouse only: the NBA. MD is knowledgeable across a wide spectrum of sports, and he took SAS to school at the close of this segment! Christopher is the first amongst equals on First Take.
Why did y'all put skip Bayless little brother on first take? This guy said Jerry west was a better player than Bron😮😯🤯.
King of the Boomers
Good points, Mad Dog!
All I know is this: it's so much more meaningful for your jersey to be associated and retired with one franchise (in Bryant's case, TWO jerseys) than be some mercenary-like prima donna who had the influence to stack your team in three arenas and still lose more Finals than won. Plain and simple, no way around it.
From 2014-2019, Lakers had an identical record to the Knicks! Then we mocked LeBron last year for leaving the game before time ran out. Then we are mocking him again this year. That's 8 laughing years for Laker haters and 1 ✳️ year for Laker fans.
Bruh chicks in your country put out the best
@@BlkHueHef youre weak..stooping down to that level...if u didnt know where he was from youd be quiet AS FUC...
I like you how say it’s an asterisk year even though everyone had the same chance to win in the bubble 🤣.
@@benitojuarez999 😂😂😂
@@tuankhoinguyen9198 yeah if any other team won it would have an asterisk as well lol
Don’t he look a lot like Skip 😂😂
Say it with me. 1...2...3...Cancuuun 😂😂😂
"From the standpoint of legacy....who's his team?" I could listen to Christopher Mad Dog Russo all day. Great decision to bring him in to debate issues with Stephen A. Remember kiddies....there is no sports talk radio without Mike and Chris. It was the success of WFAN sports talk radio that led to the careers of all these guys you're watching and listening to now on ESPN, FS1 and your local affiliates. Like them or not...Mike and Chris were the pioneers. Shout out to the late Art Rust Jr. who had a sports talk show on WABC in the early 80's as well.
I love how Mad Dog slowly turns into Seinfeld's dad in every debate with SAS
LeBron being LeBron paid off in Cleveland until it didn't. Then it paid off in Miami until it didn't. It just didn't last that long in LA and now it's done. And going to the Lakers is a commitment to excellence and one championship in a bubble isn't excellence. It's nice but not enough.
Mad Dog is great on this show. SAS definitely recommending to management a new guest host is needed ASAP.
The bubble "championship" should definitely have a few ***********. Most of the key players on each team were sitting out due to "Covid Clearance Protocols." 🤔
Nice seeing Skip back on ESPN
Lol
The segments are never about the games it always some conjured up narrative
Ayoooo Mad Dog legit! Love his energy!!
Lebron won a title with the lakers. Why would you regret that? He has plenty of money and being in Cali while rich is better than Ohio.
Lol 😂 it was a bubblegum title
@@brooklynblack9015 better than not winning it at all
It was a fake championship
@@Rilzars lol 😂 if that makes u feel better
@@49ersganggang54 Someone had to win the 2020 NBA Finals, but since it's the Lakers it "doesn't count" or "it's fake." LeBron Haters don't know basketball.
He won a championship in LA. Did people forget.
Bubble ring
Lmaooo. Lebron statue in Miami will never happen
He’s getting it in Cleveland
Man I like this dude good take
FIRST TAKE IS BACK!!! KEEP THIS MAN ON ESPN!
Is this even a question? He won a championship! LeBron's legacy is cemented no matter how you look at it. And people don't understand that saying someone is the goat is literally a personal opinion. You know why? Because there will never be a greatest of all time of anything as long as the human race doesn't go extinct. As it stands now LeBron James is one of the greatest people of all time who played and plays basketball. He is not the greatest of all time no one is lol. Back to the Lakers and Cavs thing. Want a championship!
I loooooove this guy. He says as it is. So refreshing.
Love this Mad Dog guy! He is making too much sense for this show!
The second coming of Skip Bayless is good. Need to keep Mad Dog every day. The rotating hosts is not working.
He looks and sounds like Judge Judy lol
The golden state warriors may get the LeBron James
Gonna have to make mad dog a regular lol first time i could listen to Stephen A in a long tome
Since 2014, Lakers are 284-412 (.408). Since LeBron came to LA in 2018, they're 158-128 (.552). LeBron has played in 286 as a Laker and has missed 85 of them. That's actually more than AD although he's been with the Lakers longer.
LeBron came to LA in summer of 2018. AD didn't come until summer 2019.
Mad dog is on point
Mad Dog is making a the wrong argument . Lebron didnt make the mistake it was the Lakers that made the mistake.
Funny that folks should recognize Mad Dog started sports radio with 'Mike and the Mad Dog'. He's not "skip prt 2" lol.
Giving the Cavs all this credit.... stop it. They will be home after a round in the playoffs and back mediocrity next season. They went from irrelevant to Title contenders in the eyes of ESPN. The worst sports network in the world
We need Mad Dog vs. SAS every single day!
I agree. I love it.
We finally got a guy with logic .
Stephan A is setting up for a Lebron retirement interview
This dude seems like a watered down skip lol
SAS wanted Skip so bad he went to Great Value and got himself a GV Version lol nobody, NOBODY can't tell me that wasn't the case and Mad Dog now acts like Skip, the look, the eyes, the outlandish crazy talk, being loud for the sake of it.
Media and their fans think Lakers be winning championships every year. They didn't from 1989-1999. They got smoked in 2004 as huge favorites. Lost by 39 in Boston. Got swept in 2011. Since Jerry Buss' death, constant failures.
THANK YOU Mad Dog!!!! I'v BEEN saying that!!!
It's hard to call it a mistake when he won a chip. Besides all the other reasons (business, family, etc.) for being in LA.
Skip is aging backwards
Stephen a got him here
Lebron is trying to catch Micheal B Jordan
Bron, Bosh AND Wade should get a statue in Miami, not just Bron
Lmao . I love it when lebron angers the comment section . Secret fans
Lebron made a ride with Wade and Bosh at Miami to win a title. Now AD and Westbrook did the same thing for him but backfired. Everyone is pointing fingers up to the management when everything falls apart. But for me this are just people getting what they want from each other and not putting an effort.
Mad Dog Russo is fantastic!
Like Skip but normal, not a hater.
Mad Dogggg!!! I loved him on mike and Mad dog years ago when he used to troll us Mets fans daily
I dont think this dude appreciates how much a championship is valued. I'd take 3 years of not making the playoffs and winning it once during a 4 year period than being a perennial playoff team that always gets bounced
If you're Lebron (the supposed GOAT) with AD, the expectation is more than one ring. At the very least you should reach the conference finals twice.
Usually I'm rollin woth Mad Dog but Stephen A. got him on this one.
If he stayed in Cleveland. No Garland, No Mobeley, too many games won. So j stop
Lakers only beat heat cuz of injury and refs fouled out jokic in 1st qtr of last 2 games of wcf. League gave it to lakers for Kobe. Lebron didnt deliver it
We’re comparing someone who joined the Lakers at 34 with one championship getting compared to players who played with other HOFers and had the majority or their whole career to win multiple 🙄
Space jam was definitely a mistake
I agree even the G.O.A.T debate series too which is Also a Been know to be Called The Space Jam Show.(in Reality)
Didn’t anyone watch The Last Dance? Winning has a price. They won the champion. They suck now by dismantling the team. That’s the price the Lakers had to pay and guess what? As a non Lakers fan it still shows in the history book them winning a title. 100% worth it
Did skip's plastic surgeon botch the operation on skip's face? Skip looking a bit more delusional than usual
“ That’s not Fair “; “THAT’S NOT FAIR “!
Everyone is bringing attention to loving Mad-Dog....but Ignoring that Stephen A fact checked him on the Rings point 🤦🏾♂
That Bubble Chip was the easiest championship of Brons Career
The bubble championship was not harder , lebron is older and ad is injury prone and they both got months off to rest to go through the playoffs. If they would of gone straight to the playoffs it would be a different story
It was harder for everybody playing in those playoffs series. You got world wide pandemic, social issues going on in the street, u gotta go to work and not be near your family to play in this play offs, and the change of not having no fans. A lot going on but u gotta sho up and do your job. And the best team one like any other championship. Gotta give respect to these brothas.
Statues.....it's all about golden calves now, the Lakers are flat out an embarrassment, no way around it.
Please the Bubble chip was the easiest in history. Stop boosting it up. All them rich and was catered to
That was the best decision. Their mistakes was losing that team after they won the championship. Even though that team was nowhere near comparable to the Warriors or Houston with cp3
I love Mad Dog!
This is the first time in months I’ve heard SAS not sound like an idiot. Better keep mad dog instead of JJ, he actually makes him look good.
Especially now that Cleveland has Spida