For all the consternation about roster moves, who came and who went for the Lakers this offseason, it was widely assumed for at least the first portion of the summer that the team would bring Jared Dudley back for another season serving as the official glue of the locker room. That presumption began to crumble last week with reports the Lakers were working out players to fill a couple empty roster spots, while also planning to keep a third one open... which would squeeze Duds out. Maybe they'd open a spot on the coaching staff?

Nope, they didn't. But Jason Kidd made room (on the front of the bench, no less) for Dudley on his new staff in Dallas, and with that, the Jared Dudley Era is over. There was at least a little angst on the part of fans, some of whom wanted him back for as little as it would have cost the Lakers, and in the media (a scathing column from Bill Plaschke at the LA Times) that the Lakers would so casually let a player who meant so much to team chemistry walk.

Are they making a mistake? If nothing else, LeBron James expressed some disappointment. But what does it mean for the Lakers if they miss Dudley too much this season?

Then, it's time for a new segment... What If? Taking hypotheticals tossed out by listeners/viewers, and play out the scenarios on the pod. One popular one submitted by a few people: What if the Lakers HAD traded Andrew Bynum for Jason Kidd back in 2007? The downstream implications to this one are significant.

HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky

SEGMENT 1: Jared Dudley is gone... should it matter that much?

SEGMENT 2: LeBron hit social media to react to Dudley leaving. Should anyone worry that he seemed kinda down? Then it's hypothetical time! What if Kidd had become a Laker in '07? Does Pau Gasol ever join the team? What happens to the Dwight Howard 1.0 Era, short as it was. Do the Lakers lose out on one Gasol, but eventually build around another, because they never actually trade Marc?

SEGMENT 3: More on (pretend) Kidd-to-LA... so if the Lakers make the trade, the Summer of '07, with the parking lot video and the radio tour and all the craziness, never happens, right? To what end?

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