“Bron’s Bron, obviously it’s that time of the year, shooting the ball extremely well, been in attack mode finding guys, he’s been locking in defensively,” Anthony Davis said, via Dave McMenamin of ESPN. “It’s that time of year. Especially for us, where every game is a playoff game. So around this time of year, we get a chance to really lock in and get the job done.”

LeBron James has shot 25-for-37 in the last two games for the Lakers. This win over the Hawks was key for Los Angeles after losing the last game against the Golden State Warriors, who are one game back of the Lakers in the Western Conference standings. The two teams hold the last two spots in the play-in tournament as things currently stand.

The statement was not pointed at anyone or any certain team, but James mentioned how there have been selections of players towards the middle of the draft or after that join winning teams and truly make an impact besides their development. James himself was a No. 1 overall pick in the 2003 draft selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers straight out of high school so it is interesting to see him have this opinion.

“Our league has been feast off potential, guys with potential. They come in and say this guy has potential, we have to, if it’s not year one, maybe year two, or not year three, or maybe year four, are we going to pick up his option in year four,” James said. “It’s been grasped on potential like that has been, that’s the whole thing of the lottery. The whole thing of the lottery pick 1 through 13 or 14 I don’t even know what it is now when it cuts off like you’ve been a lottery pick, but it makes sense why those guys that’s like 16 to 30, 16 to 42 why those guys be on real contending teams making impacts.”

James would respond to Reddick’s series of questions with the idea that he will own a team at some point in his life and it will hire people who draft well. However, he is still active as a player at 39-years old with the Lakers and excelling in his 21st season in the association as he is averaging 25.5 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 8.1 assists per game while shooting 53.2 percent from the field.

“I’ll tell you what when I get my team, the teams that draft well, those guys will be working for me for sure,” James said.

Reddick would humorously say that James will just “offer them a bag.” With the Los Angeles multi-positional player responding with “for sure, OKC [Thunder] does an unbelievable job with that.”