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It's like, "No, y'all playing with me now." I said this in June.
We went to a baseball game at Oreo Stadium and had a good time and we talked like men and we figured it out and like, "All right, I understand where you at. I understand where you at. Let's make this happen. Here's the teams. Chicago, the deal was done with the Lakers. Me and Na Ne for Lamar old men."
>> That deal was done. >> I never thought about New York.
delay. >> But then when they turned that deal down, when >> George had that deal and turned that deal down, >> that didn't happen, >> right? They turned that down. Now it's like, "Oh, y'all don't want me in the West. You going to send me to the East?"
>> Yeah. >> Get out the West. >> Give me to New York.
The deal never was with New York. The deal was with New Jersey Nets. So when we was Allstar weekend, the deal was with the New Jersey Nets. George Carl had a deal with Utah behind the scenes for a young boy Derek Favors.
>> Oh, Derek Favors. Yeah, >> cuz he wanted Derek Favors. He was liking Derek Favors out of Georgia Tech and he thought that was a power forward that he was a na na type power forward. So that was like going to he wanted him to be the next na na.
>> So you got to go. >> Got to go. >> So you ended up in New York. >> Ended up in New York.
That deal was wasn't supposed to happen though. We we need another podcast, another hour to tell that story. We'll do a part two York.