What did Pelinka say or do that needed covering?

His bread is buttered everywhere and has been for years, have you seen Klutch’s client list?

he dating adele bro he isn’t even the main bread winner he’s sorted

yeah or maybe by being the agent of Ingram, Garland, Fox, Murray, Draymond, Van Vleet and Maxey as well

This 👆

The reality is if he wasn’t friends with LeBron in high school dude would be a car salesman.

Connections is literally how 90 % of these guys end up in their position, that aint unique to Rich Paul.

Honestly, he isn’t any more lucky than most guys in these positions. The vast majority got their start through some connection and worked their way though with connections. He could very easily have coasted, but he built a big agency instead. Credit to him.

Most dudes like him would have a fun story about meeting LeBron James at the airport - Rich Paul made an empire out of it and is coming home to Adele waiting every day.

He was lucky to get that chance, but he was also ready to get 2000% out of that luck. LeBron passed him the ball, but he made the tough bucket.

They weren’t friends in high school

That’s not unique to him. A lot of people get their money through similar luck

Na any dude with that level of ambition was going to be fairly successful. He might have worked his way up a different ladder but y’all act like he sits in his ass all day and got lucky.

Haters ball nominee here lol. Rich Paul sucks but at least get the facts right. He wasnt one of lebrons boys in high school. He was the random jersey dealer lebron met at the airport. Also as much as everyone wants to pretend he doesnt work, he shadowed/worked for leon rose for many years and bagged fucking Adele so there is most definitely a work horse in there as well. Hating is fine but u gotta get your facts right, otherwise youre just as bad

To be fair you can say Rich Paul 100% only got this gig because he knew LeBron, but he definitely did work hard in turning Klutch into the empire that it is today. It’s still nepotism but in the case of the person actually maximizing the opportunity given to him

Why couldn’t he have been a doctor or lawyer?

LeBron and ar have been teammates for 5 years. I’d imagine are already heard that the rich shit ain’t from him

LeBron can like Reaves and still be open to, maybe even outright desire, him being traded for the theoretical betterment of the team. Not sure why people act like these have to be mutually exclusive. Rich Paul quite literally mentioned how it was an “unemotional” analysis of the team. LeBron’s not stupid; he realizes that the Lakers aren’t going to be legitimate contenders with both him and AR on the roster because the collective fit of the Lakers’ big 3 is flawed and simultaneously limits role player talent around them.

It’s a simple conflict of interest. LeBron knows his best shot at a title is AR being traded and the Lakers seemingly believe it’s reshaping the team around Luka/AR in the offseason with the space generated by all their expiring contracts, including LeBron. He’s been indirectly getting his desires across through Rich Paul since the literal day he opted into his deal this summer. It hasn’t been subtle.

It’s dumb that LeBron had to outright say this. LeGM ain’t that strong bruh another grown man can give a separate take or opinion from LeBron.

I agree it’s a problem, but Rich Paul isn’t checking in with LeBron to talk about something on a podcast. If anything I think Rich Paul is trying to establish himself as more than just LeBrons agent because his career is almost over

Rich Paul is not LeBron’s spokesperson. He’s an agent with his own incentives, doing media for attention and relevance. That’s it. People keep assuming LeBron has both control and responsibility over Rich Paul’s public commentary lol.

If we treated every agent quote as an actionable demand, half the league would be in a crisis every week. This only feels bigger because Rich Paul has more media access than any other agent. That’s the difference.

The dude wants attention and easy engagement and it’s clearly working. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s just noise. Stop overreacting to it.

If he has the balls to

LeBron doesn’t have that kind of sway anymore, this is Luka’s team now. Luka is the one that went out and got Ayton and Smart to sign to the Lakers, and they have clearly been pivoting to be on his timeline. I’m sure the FO would still take recommendations from LeBron, but they’re not getting rid of a core piece of the roster because he said so. The Lakers front office has been clear that Austin is untradeable. And LeBron knows that and loves AR, this absolutely is a baseless conspiracy theory

But why have Rich Paul say it publicly on a podcast? That’s such a weird and roundabout way of trying to push for a trade

Rich was estimated at 120 mil a year ago and Adele at 200+. At that point I don’t think there’s much of a difference, maybe you have to get a smaller yacht or something

You pulling that from at most like 20 games, when Luka and AR were both scorching hot and averaging 30, deciding they work on 20 games is hilarious and this does not even include the fact that in the playoffs Austin is likely not getting that much calls.

Mate Paul has a shit ton of money and he is engaged to Adele and has plenty other clients than Bron, some of you all love to talk about stuff without any info about it.

and Rich & co’s meddling

your agent milking every drop out of your presence alone.

What do you think that meant?

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