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Lakers' summer league players try to stay focused in wake of LeBron James news

“Shoutout to Shams and Woj,” he joked, referring to the Twitter accounts of Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania and ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

But when the subject turned to new teammate LeBron James, he took on a more serious tone. The second-year guard out of Villanova emphasized two things that seem to be common among his summer league teammates, who are in Sacramento this week for the California Classic.

“I didn’t really know what to say,” he said of finding out James was going to play for the Lakers. “I was kinda in shock. I was just like, ‘Wow.