Demarcus Cousins goes down with an ACL! What does this mean for Boogie moving forward? What should the Lakers do now? In other sad news Sebastian Telfair receives three and a half years from a gun case, what happened to this promising player who was once a NYC prodigy?

BallNerd host, Bugsey Mogues explains the constant "Jedi Mind Trick" that the sports media uses to help propel their story lines.  This episode "warm's you up" to the concept and exposes one of these tricks being used by Lebron James.  As an ongoing run of future 'Jedi Mind Trick episodes' this is part of the 'Critical Warm Up' series.

Dubbed "The Critical Warm-up" , listen to the informative trailer for the warm up.

With Steve Ballmer and the Los Angeles Clippers getting their chance at a new arena, why would James Dolan be mad about this?  Listen to the pod to find out. Is the timing of this with the Kawhi Leonard aka Lex Luthor signing a bigger tell tale of "The Claw's gangsterism?  Oh yea, and James Dolan gets his nickname!