It is September of 2021 and Rob Pelinka is sitting in his office with DeAndre Jordan. Both are there so Jordan can put pen-to-paper and make his free agent signing with the Lakers official. Pelinka, always fond of telling a story, sits with his newly minted big man and reveals a part of a conversation he’d just had with a more, shall we say, high-profile Lakers front court player.
“So, Anthony Davis just said thank you”, Rob relayed. “I said ‘thank you for what?’ And he said, ‘less minutes at the 5 for me’.