Eric is it tough to reflect on?
What fundamental disagreement you guys were
at this franchise was a year and a half ago was it.
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I mean first,
congratulations to
the Laker organization.
It was great to share the stage with them and congratulations on the championship.
They earned it in this series,
that we can't thank
the NBA enough for this whole experience.
This has just been extraordinary.
This bubble, this campus safety protocols
and just the whole organization of everything to be able to be
a part of something historic like this to continue our season.
We feel so honored and grateful that we were able to be a part of this and
edit took a big time collaboration between the league, their vision,
the Players Association, leadership of the Players Association and organizations.
Organizations to make this happen.
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It's just really been incredible to be a part of this.
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And obviously, I wanna thank everybody in the mind aid organization,
this has been a such an unprecedented year that's taken everybody
to be able to just go all in and support.
The small traveling party that came here to the bubble, but like Rob and a bunch of
people working behind the scenes, that nobody gets to see, we thank you.
And then obviously,
the staff and the players actually in this
environment, we didn't get the final result that we wanted.
But even when I mentioned that to the guys,
these are going to be lifetime memories that we have together.
This locker room has, regardless of whatever happens in the future,
we're going to remember this year, this season, this experience and
that locker room brotherhood for the rest of our lives.
You're in this business to be able to be around people like this,
when I can go on and on but the guy said, competed and
played in this series, we had several guys.
They're we're not even close to being 100% probably shouldn't have been playing,
but that's how this this group was, they wanted to do it for each other.
And I just, I'm really bummed,
that we couldn't find a way to to get over the hump and then,
finish the season with a win, but that is taking nothing away from the Lakers.
They play great, particularly tonight, and
I do not think anybody want any one of us were prepared.
For this, it took me, a few minutes just to gather myself to be able
to even figure out what to say to the team.
None of us had anticipated guys
are pretty down you as you can imagine.
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What a wonderful group to be around Really just amazing people.
These memories that we'll have, again,
that transcends even the game,
as disappointing as this loss was, those moments and memories in between.
And this whole experience will be something that we can all take with us for
the rest of our careers and the rest of our lives.
>> Rob, we'll take two more and then, go to you.
>> Yeah, one more thing too.
I cannot be, Just I wanna thank all the families.
And this has been incredibly challenging for
everybody that's been involved in this bubble.
The wives, the families, the kids, everybody that's made sacrifices.
People that say, it's not that big of a deal to be away from your family for
that long, it's easy to say that when you're not in it.
I know, a lot of families had to make big time sacrifices to hold them for
while we're chasing our basketball dreams.
So, I wanna definitely shout out to my wife Nikki and
all the families, the mothers, dads,
wives, kids and everybody that stuck with it,
all these we're able to do all this.
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