Hour 3: 49ers’ Brutal Travel Schedule, plus ESPN’s Dave McMenamin Talks LeBron & Lakers’ Next Steps

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0:48Coming up, ESPN NBA reporter Dave McMenamin. Plus, your phone calls, latest news, and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen.

1:01Rich Eisen:Wow, lots to discuss here on this program off of the last two hours. Ramona Shelburne just walked out of our studio. Dave McMiniman's about to walk in. A lot of drama going on down the street at the home of the Los Angeles Lakers. Our neighbors across the way. Our neighbors across the way in the other spot in El Segundo, California. The Los Angeles Chargers, they love this show because I had them second in my way, way, way too early power rankings that started the show two hours ago. Yeah, I did a power rankings today because I have nothing better to do with my time. Here on Disney +, the ESPN app, ESPN radio, and also Sirius XM channel 80.

1:36Rich Eisen:We had a great chat with Ramona last hour about the Lakers as well as the WNBA, the Giannis trade market. If you missed anything, there's our podcast all three hours. There's our Disney Plus page. You can hit the button to watch back anything that you might have missed every single day. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial on the program. Terzo and I all rise one of our longtime favorites. What's up, Terzo? How are you, sir? Doing well, Rich. What's up, fellas? What's going on? Terzo, what up, man? Hey, Rich. Back to yesterday's conversation. Creme brulee, top notch. I've been to several great restaurants all around, and I always judge a restaurant if they have a great creme brulee, man.

2:20Like one of my top desserts. You can't beat it. Like you said, when you get great vanilla bean, oh, my God.

2:27Rich Eisen:It's just fantastic. It's all about the beans, just like Mocha Joe's coffee. Terzo, it's all about the beans. What's on your mind? Exactly. Well, so, Rich, real quick, I got to go to your power rankings here. I do believe that the Niners are above both the Cowgirls and the Eagles. But I do got to say this about the international game, especially the one in Australia. You know, the reason I'm kind of upset about it, because either way that you cut it, we're losing a home game for that game. No matter what, we're losing a home game, whether it's in Santa Clara or there in SoFi. We're losing a home game.

3:11So that's kind of my issue there. A little upset that they have us going to Mexico City. Yeah, you lost two home games. You're right. That's just a lot of travel.

3:19Rich Eisen:Look at you. Look at you trolling Rams fans. Look at you, Troll and Rams fans. You lost two home games. Okay. No, listen, you willingly gave up a home date in Santa Clara to go to perform in Mexico City. But I think most teams are going to be asked to do that now. All teams are being asked to do that now. And everyone takes one for the team on that front. and then the team does, I do believe, see some form or fashion of a bump in a fan base that gets to see their team physically there in Mexico City. I think that's going to be a large contingent. I will push back and say that would be a heck of a home game for the 49ers in Mexico City.

4:09Yeah, I think that that's going to be great. I think that we have a ton of fans down in Mexico City. My only gripe is since we're going to Melbourne, I just didn't know that we really needed another one in Mexico City this year. I would have been fine if we did it next year. It just seemed like a lot of traveling for this Niner team that seems to always have injury issues, and so I'm always a little hesitant whenever we're having to do extra stuff out of the norm. But I guess get us away from the power station and we might be all right.

4:38Rich Eisen:Terzo in Iowa, thank you for the call. Greatly appreciate it. Appreciate you guys. You got it. There he goes. They did. So the International Series game, it starts in Melbourne, Australia, 49ers and Rams. And then it ends in Mexico City between the Vikings and the 49ers. Two trips abroad out of the country for the San Francisco 49ers. and they already, if you just take a look at their schedule and where they're flying this year, they're already going to be traveling a lot. And now you're going to make them go to Melbourne and Mexico City. We have the grand total. This is making the rounds today with the International Series games out there and the Jaguars play too, but they're right there in London.

5:34Rich Eisen:They stay in the same spot. The Vikings, if you put up the International Series game one more time, if you don't mind taking a look at it, the Vikings are going to Mexico City. But that's it. I mean, and they went to London last year. I'm just taking a look at the games. There's only one, two teams that are playing multiple International Series games. And it's Jacksonville and it's San Francisco. So this was made making the rounds. Did you see the grand total number of air miles, TJ Jefferson? I heard Chris mention it. Okay. Otherwise, I would ask you to price is right. Well, wait a minute. You mean for all the teams or just?

6:15Rich Eisen:No, just for the San Francisco 49. I think I heard him this morning say it was something. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's 38 ,105 air miles. That's a lot. That's a lot indeed. So, do we have a total for all the teams? We do, actually. Adam Schefter tweeted out a chart. The Cowboys are fourth. Yeah. A hair under 28 ,000 miles. Rams, 35 ,000. Texans, 28 ,000. So the Rams aren't too far off. Rams are not too far off. Okay. Well, with the 49ers having the most air miles coming, I've got a top five for them. We're trying to help them out here. top five tv shows and movies the 49ers should binge while traveling

7:11Rich Eisen:this is hilarious thank you very much wheels up everybody this is presented by hyundai it's fitting that this top five about traveling is presented by uh by hyundai everybody love it all right top five shows and well you could put the music up anyway if you want top five shows and movies the 49ers should binge while traveling. All right, number five. We just learned here in Los Angeles that take care of your stars, right? Take care of your stars. You're seeing this story with the Lakers that you never know when somebody might be feeling left out or feeling like you're not appreciating them, being taken for granted.

7:50Rich Eisen:You got to take care of your stars. I'm not saying that he's thinking thinking that he's being left out or being taken for granted, but you never know. So what would be better than having the 49ers binge watch the Culpo sisters? Right? Olivia and her sisters had a show back in 2022. One season, it's a reality show, binge watch it. Was Christian on it in 2022? I don't know. Didn't watch it at the time, but maybe I will. The Copo Sisters is my first time hearing it. It's a good watch. The 49ers. Hey, just watch it. Number four on the list. Another person that you're going to try and help out here, right?

8:38Rich Eisen:Okay. Why wouldn't you help out George Kittle? Wow. Why wouldn't you just say, hey, George, we see you? George today tweeted out the following. This is funny. At 4 a.m. this morning, as I laid in a deep slumber, I was called to action by my wife who had discovered a spider the size of a half dollar in the bathroom. Without hesitation, I arose to combat the intruder. Claire handed me the slant board I've been using for rehab, and I immediately knew the spider had no chance. It took but one attempt to strike down my opponent. I received hugs and kisses for my bravery and fell back asleep with confidence.

9:18Rich Eisen:Have a day, gentlemen, and then a spider emoji. by the way glad it was the the the board not the rich eyes and show pillow oh right it would have been your face is not what i expected mother the the spider yeah so in honor of of george why not binge the 1990 film arachnophobia perfect okay right we're timely perfect we're helping out Yeah. Remember that movie? 1990? I do. Nightmare Fuel. Yes. Yeah, right? It was not fun for people who had problems with spiders. I'm one of them. Okay. Are you really? Yeah, I hate spiders. Number three on the list. That's good. Let's just hit the whole quarterback room.

10:03Rich Eisen:And it's a classic. You know that movie that Paul Rudd would always, you know, troll Conan O 'Brien with when he showed up? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. About an alien trying to escape from NASA and he's befriended by a boy in a wheelchair. Funny movie. The 1988 hit. Mac and Me. Binge watch Mac and Me. I have to show this to Kay. Brock Purdy can give a speech at the front of the cabin. Let's binge it. Let's watch it. Let's spend some time. Mac and Me. Mac Jones. How great is this segment? Oh, this movie is great. That is weird looking. Number two on the list. What's the most famous movie about getting out of San Francisco?

10:46Rich Eisen:Oh. The 1979 hit, Clint Eastwood starring Escape from Alcatraz. Great movie. Okay. Great movie. Great movie, and then it'll lead to a debate afterwards if the prisoners survived. That's always a debate. We always talk about it whenever we're in San Francisco with the kids. Seen Alcatraz? Did they survive it? The shark-infested waters? It's a great movie. Cold water. Escape from Alcatraz. And then number one, it's very simple. A 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. How the West was won. That's it. Look at all the stars in this film. A massive hit movie. How the West was won. San Francisco 49ers. There you go.

11:34Rich Eisen:There you go. I got that for you. All right. All right. We'll get one more. Wait, can we go over this cast real quick? Yeah, go for it. John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda. Oh, yeah. Debbie Reynolds. Hey, it just shows you, hey, our roster has stars. Wow. This movie has stars, and it's the same goal, to win the West. Win the West. Okay. See where I'm going on this? I see what you did there. And one more. One more, just in case Brandon Ayuk's on the team still. Uh-oh. There, put it up. In case, speed. Here we go. What? It's about going fast in California. Oh, I see. You know what I mean? I see what you mean.

12:12Rich Eisen:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Picking up on it? I am. See what I'm putting down? I pick it up. What are you putting down? I don't know. Nick Bosa might be saying, let's watch Melania. Yep. It's a long flight. It's a long flight. A lot of good San Francisco movies. You know what? I almost went for Australia and Mexico, Mad Max and Desperado, a doubleheader. Right? Love that. Double feature. Pardon me. I went baseball on you right there. The Rock, Bullet, Mrs. Doubtfire. You can do that. Oh, wow. But they're getting away from San Francisco. I know, but they - They're leaving San Francisco. That's why I want to escape from Alcatraz.

12:56Rich Eisen:They're homesick, you know. But if you're going to Mexico, wouldn't you want to give them something to - To see once they get there so they can get ready for, you know, again, Mad Max, probably not the film I should - But I also don't want to go - Crocodile Dundee. Yeah. That's a slow hanging fruit. But they made like three of those. But Crocodile Dundee was leaving Australia. He's the fish out of water in New York. Didn't Hugh Jackman do a movie called Australia? Look it up. Where does Deadpool live? That's my go-to. What do you mean? Yeah, 2008, Australia. Okay. Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman.

13:29Rich Eisen:Very good. Okay. My top five is brought to you by the all-new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid. Learn how it makes everyday epic at HyundaiUSA.com. Let's go to Daniel in Long Beach, California, before we take a break and bring out Dave McMenamin. What's up, Daniel? Daniel, my brother. What's up? Hey, first off, TJ, love the pod. Just want to give a shout out. Hey! Appreciate you, baby. Who's on later? Who's on later? Well, we have comedian Brad Williams. Oh! Nice. He's going to stop by. Is he coming here? He's coming here. He'll be in the studio. We'll chop it up with him about wrestling and stand up. Is O'Shea coming?

14:05Rich Eisen:O'Shea, he's on his way. Oh! O'Shea's on his way. Let me tweet him. He's still with Ariel. They're posting a lot of clips. That's great. Good for him. I'm glad that he's giving somebody else some pop. Well, the thing is, he will. He could come here and talk about what's going on with the Lakers looking like a fire. Or the Dodgers losing four in a row. But no, he doesn't want any of that smoke. He will mention you. He will mention this show. He will mention those. That I have no doubt. So, yeah, he'll do a good job of getting the word out. I'm sorry, Daniel. I didn't mean to side-launch you here.

14:32Rich Eisen:What's on your mind? Obviously, I know what's going on. So, look, this whole situation, man. And I get it. We all like to choose sides and everything. But at this point, I just feel like the friend who's just in the middle of a toxic relationship between his two best friends. And it's like both sides think either one is wrong. But you got to look at the whole context of this whole thing. From the beginning, this has honestly just been kind of not normal, right? What? First off, what are we talking about? The whole situation with LeBron and the Lakers. Those are your two friends that you feel like you're in the middle of?

15:04Yeah. I mean, let's start off with the point. Magic's the one who recruited LeBron, right? And so if I'm LeBron, I'm thinking, okay, well, during this whole situation, if I don't want to deal with the organization, deal with Rob, there's a legend here that's going to take maybe my side. Magic Leaves out of nowhere, right? So that's already something that from the beginning was, okay, this isn't the situation we thought it was. Then Lakers feel like we've got to do something. We've got to do something to make sure that we're winning because the truth was the young kids that we had drafted weren't panning out.

15:31So we go get AD. Great. We win a championship, and even though it was in the bubble, it was great. But one thing about that bubble shit a lot of people forget, Bron was great during that run, but that was AD's run. That was the year he really showcased himself as being the star the Lakers needed to be next to Bron. And if you ask any Lakers fan, the one moment we remember from that bubble the most is the buzzer beater. The buzzer beater that AD hit similar to the way Kobe would do all the time. And so as we keep going on, it hasn't paned out after that year, right? It's just the reality of it.

16:02The best thing we got was what? The Western Conference Finals with Darvin Hamm? And so I just feel like both sides have been trying to do different things to try to appease each other. Lakers try to build a team. Doesn't work. All right, well, LeBron, what do you want to do? Let's go get Russ. Doesn't work. And the reality is it hasn't worked out for both sides. We haven't been getting to the finals. We haven't been winning. And so now it's a whole thing of you're not appreciating me. Yes, we are. No, you're not. And it gets to a point where it's like each side is just not getting what they want from this.

16:31And so I think the biggest thing you guys talked about, Ramona, is the truth, is that that Luka deal is basically what started this fraction that is now the biggest thing we're talking about, which is, you know, what's going to happen next. When in reality, the thing we should be talking about is who are we going to sign next year? Because there's a lot of people on our team that still are not on contract, including Rui. That was a big, big part of this run we had that was short, but it was still a run we had in the playoffs. And so I just feel like we've gotten to a point where now it's like either shut up and make up or just end it.

17:06Rich Eisen:Daniel in Long Beach, California, right there. That's like that Seinfeld line. Just take one dip and end it. They're double dipping with Luka and LeBron. Just take one chip and end it. End it. He has a good point about magic. I've been reading someone else's story about that. Like that's who we expected to deal with. But you know who wasn't there? Let's bring out Dave McMenamin. He's got a lot of answers for Daniel and so much more. 844-204-RICH also being the number to dial here on the Rich Eisen Show. Running a small business means every hire matters. A bad hire, well, that costs time and money, but the right one helps your business grow.

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19:56Rich Eisen:And he walked right out. Walks out. By the way, Dave McMenamin here on the Rich Eisen Show talking about his piece that's on ESPN.com that's kind of burning up the entire NBA community and certainly here in Los Angeles, California, live on the Rich Eisen Show. So LeBron James walked out with bags of ice on his knees? or took those off and left? Do we know that? No, no, no. I mean, I saw it with my own two eyes. The bags of ice are still on his knees. And so this is like... He's just out. So to be clear, this isn't because he doesn't think J.J. Redick is deserving of a moment. It's not about that at all.

20:32Yes. He has a great relationship with J.J. Redick.

20:34Rich Eisen:And it was a beautiful moment. The video of his children saying, congratulations, Dad. You know, beautiful moment. It was taken by LeBron to be another example of the Lakers not appreciating him in everything that he does. Where does that come from? I think it's from an eight-year relationship that has had a lot of stuff build up. Now, I asked LeBron after game four against the Thunder. He's making the same route out of the arena. This time he's wearing regular clothes. He's wearing the same clothes he arrived in. Right, right. and I said is there in order for you to come back to play for the Lakers I understand you're going to have to figure out whether you want to play I understand you're going to have to figure both sides will have to figure out the money but that aside is there any static that needs to be cleared up in order for this to move forward and he said there's no static from me and so I saw that that was one of the second to last quotes of your piece so I would say that perhaps that means that even though he had this moment that was a real moment of indignation is what he felt yeah it's not something he can't get over in order to keep playing for the lakers right but the lakers you know you're dealing with one of the best players of all time where he goes on the list that's up for debate but ninth if you saw first take the other day but okay keep going yeah yeah and also someone who has now worked for you for eight years been the face of the franchise delivered a championship all of those things are you ever going to make the guy feel like you want him i mean 50 million bucks he's the highest paid guy on the team so that's what the money is for are you're don draper is that how you work with john ham yeah that's what the money is for like that is in many ways in many metrics in in sports for sure the biggest respect you can get is is your paycheck that's number one i understand um is any of this born out of the fact is how he found out about the luka trade uh i haven't been told that specifically okay um you know lebron has on the record said that of course if that trade comes across your desk you make it right he understands it as close as he is with Anthony Davis and is to this day no I don't really think it's more about once the trade occurred the way the Lakers went about their business would it have been in any way shape or form possible if you could wave a wand that not only do they have multiple game balls but Rob Palenka goes to LeBron and says hey congrats on tonight that's pretty cool and part of this to get to this milestone on a night like tonight for JJ is because of what you've done over the last few weeks hold on a minute and we've got some videos from his kids to give him this game ball how would it be if you gave him the game ball that sounds like a wonderful what if you LeBron, you take center stage here and you give him the game ball.

23:51Rich Eisen:I think it might mean a lot to him. It might mean a lot to the group. But they don't have that relationship, clearly. It doesn't seem to be that they do. And I think that would be a wonderful idea, right? Sounds like that's management. That's how you manage a room. You generally manage. Does Rob not have this chip? Does he not care? I mean, to be putting a fine point on it. I mean, because how does something like this happen? You know? It seems like a self-inflicted wound. It seems like it. Or you could say, hey, LeBron, you've got a million accolades. What do you care? I understand. Yeah, I was talking to Ramona Shelburne.

24:30I was on earlier. Yeah, she was just saying that. And we were just talking in the green room. And she made the point to me. Like, well, can they know which are the accolades that matter and which don't? I'm like, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe, but this one, the most wins in all time, that seems to be like one that you might want to underline.

24:51Rich Eisen:And you get it against the Cavs. And against the Cavs. Where you have the team of your youth and the one you started for. All right, so this is good drama. It's great. Definitely conversations to be had on a day like today. Dave McMenamin here on the Rich Eisen Show. What happens now? Like, what's the orders of business here for Rob Palenka and the Lakers since you say that whatever did happen on that night is something that can be bridged for LeBron to still play here? Well, number one is the Lakers are going to give LeBron the time that he needs to decompress from the season. And I've heard where Rob said that yesterday.

25:34And determine whether he wants to play or not. Yes. my inclination and also kind of the way he managed the other night is that he will want to come back and play i mean the the tone that lebron was giving after game four against okc was not you just saw me play my last nba basketball i didn't get that sense either so so that part okay let's assume now we can't assume because you got to allow him to have his process but like our hunch would be that he's going to come back and then you have to figure out it's not necessarily just the numbers. The number matters. The number matters based on the value that he brings.