"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."
Adrian Wojnarowski reports the analyst and podcaster met with Lakers owner Jeanie Buss and vice president and general manager Rob Pelinka over the weekend and talks continued until the job was offered and accepted this morning.
"I try my very best when I put the headset on – and there’s so many things that are going on – that you have to do your job not just for you, but for your partners; for everybody in the truck to do a professional job."
The network’s execs got burned on this one, but they’ll jump right back into the fire next time and chase down the biggest star power they can wrangle.
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."