Report: Lakers' pitch to George plays on his L.A. roots
The Los Angeles Lakers' expected free-agency pitch to Paul George may include a video presentation voiced by a Hollywood heavyweight.
Sports Illustrated's Robin Lundberg says a Hollywood source provided him with the script for a voiceover the Lakers plan to use for a video they want to record this week.
The reported script, entitled "Two Dreams," reads:
When you were just a kid
In your room
Dreaming from PalmdaleWe were dreaming too.
While you dreamt, we built - built for your arrival
And while we dreamt, you built too
Becoming one of the world's greatest.Life's most powerful dream are the one we realize ourselves.
The ones that turn us into legends.
That kid from Palmdale always knew it
Now the world will, too
The script includes instructions that the narrator be "less Morgan Freeman/Denzel Washington, and more Jamie Foxx," with "a bit more edge, an attitude to their voice, and a bit less aspirational."
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George, who was born and raised in the Los Angeles County community of Palmdale, is expected to opt out of the final year of his Oklahoma City Thunder contract this week to test free agency.
Under NBA rules, teams cannot have contact with free agents until midnight ET on July 1.